The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-05


is applicable to the Carolinas and the whole
South ?'
If Mr.. Johnson intends to follow this ex-
preston of general views with direct and ex-
plicit instructions in harmony with their spirit,
we must anticipate further complications and
conflicts before the 21st of November. After
that date Buckley will sink once more into
obscurity and Mr.. Johnson will find the OPT
Mons and proclamatiOns which are now manu-
factured to order, rudely treated as so much
waste paper.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES for President
The Reported Scheme.
From the ~. Y Herald ..
We have some very curious and suggestive
information from Washington, touching a re-
ported radical scheme embracing the impeach-
ment and removal of President Johnson, and
the advancement pro tempOre of Mr.. Stanton,
the displaced Secretary of War, to the White
House. The programme contemplated is said
to be this:-Mr. Stanton will first resign as
Secretary of War, and next Mr.. Cameron, of
the same State-Pennsylvania resign his
seat in the Senate, in order that Governor
Geary may fill this vacancy by the appoint
ment of Mr.. Stanton. Mr.. Wade is then to
resign as President of the Senate, in order that
Mr.. Stanton may be put into his place. Next,
President Johnson is to be impeached and de-
posed, and then, under the existing law of
Congress, under the authority of the Constitu-
tion Mr.. Stanton, as President of the Senate,
will take the place of ''the man at the other
end of the avenue" Mr.. Wade will then be
reelected President of the Senate, and Mr..
Cameron, to fill the vacancy left by Mr.. Stan
ton, will be restored to the Senate.
Now, like the famous quarrel contrived by
Sir Lucius O'Trigger, this is a very pretty
frosr o1S Nd IL Sc oil a1oitxy 20
spoil it. As compromise among the Repub
lican Presidential aspirants and ciques, it is
sufficiently plausible to justify the suspicion
that there is something in it. Recent events
have so far strengthened the impeachment
faction that the removal of Mr.. Johnson seems
now to be regarded as necessity and as the
common purpose of all shades of the Repubi-
can party. But the alternative of "Old Ben
Wade'' is a serious difficulty among those
Congressional managers who have other axes
to grind. The ultra radical and intractable
Wade in the White House, like bull in a
China shop, may smash up their crockery,
and spoil their calculations. Assuming, how
ever, that Mr.. Wade is, after ALL only sort
of good man Friday to Chief Justice Chase,
and that Chase for the next Presidency is the
real object of all these nice arrangements,
the case becomes very simple and easy of ex-
! planation. .....
The suspended Secretary of War, as a
martyr in the cause of Congress, must have
his reward. His wounds must be healed, and
his claims cannot safely be disregarded. A
few months in the White House, under the
scheme proposed, will doubtless satisfy him,
and get him nicely out of the way in reference
to the main contest of the succession.
In the next place, neither Cameron nor
Wade will lose anything in playing their part
in this beautiful game; for, with its consum-
nation, each will be, as he was before, in the
Senate, with the addition of frst-class claim,
first upon the party, and next upon Mr.. Chase,
in the event of his nomination and election
to the Presidency next fall. For example, Mr.
Cameron, with Mr.. Chase and Mr.. Seward,
after having failed as competitors against
Abraham Lincoln in the Republican Conven
tion of 1860, were, after his election, the first
among his Cabinet appointments. Failing
again in 1864, as a candidate against Lincoln
Chase was rewarded for his services with tht
Office of Chief Justice. So, then, Cameron
Wade and halfa-dozen other Presidential
rivals may be cOnciliated in view of the con
templated settlement of the approaching con
test. This whole plan, therefore, involving
Johnson's impeachment and Stanton's promo
tion temporarily to his place, if we rest i
upon the main idea of Chase for the succession
becomes a beautiful and feasible plan from the
beginning to the end.
There is, however, this unfortunate weak
ness hanging to 1t. The partles IN TINS scheme
assuming that such a scheme has been pro
jected, have been reckoning without their host
They are playing Hamlet with the part o
Hamlet left out. We dare say, too, that th,
leading radical managers in the interest of the
Chief Justice are flattering themselves tina
General Grant has so far committed himself a
to be entirely subject to their good will anC
pleasure. We will venture to say, however
that General Grants superior claims to tn
Presidential succession will not be so easil.
set aside or postponed, but that in all proba
bility, from the developments of Southern re
construction, and of the approaching election
in Pennsy lvania, New York, and elsewhere
west of Vermont, all the radical schemes an
schemers against Grant will be upset b.
the meeting of Congress. President johnson
himself, in working harmoniously with Grant
may still flank the impeachment faction, an
a utterly defeat all their plans and expectation
! dependent upon his removal from office. Fo
Z the present we are inclined to believe that hoy
; they are to get rid of Wade as a substitute 70
Johnson is the first and leading question wit
the Republican managers at Washington,
tney have not virtually agreed upon th
Aforesaid compromise between him and Star
> ton and Cameron.
heP"0hcan War Upon the Memory q
; From the ~, Y World.