The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-30

nall score OF tnOse cards INTO the chemical
affinity silt" and you might hear the report
from Peoria to Philadelphia, or, peradvcnture,
further.
Removal of the Deadlock.
from the Herald
When two muleteers meet on one of those dan
gerous shelves of the cloud-piercing Andes
where only one can pass at a time, it sometimes
happens, when neither party will back out, that
the weaker mule and driver are hurled to
destruction among the rocks thousands of feet
below In such pass President johnson and
Congress now stand confronting each other;
and here, too, if neither party will give way the
weaker will be displaced to- clear the track
After putting down by force of arms the most
gigantic, formidable and tenacious rebellion in
the history of any people, the victorious loyal
States have made known their utimatum for
the restoration of the subiugated Rebel States.
This ultmatum is bod ed IN the pending Con-
stitutOnal amendment. II is fair and ltJeral in
its terms, il is demanded by the new situation of
things, it Is calculated TO re-establsh harmony
between the North and South, and confidence
and enterprise for the present everywhere; and
it gives US in behalf of the peace of the Union
and the national debt, Treasury aud cuTTency,
ample securities for the future. This amend
ment, then, Is an ultimatum from which the
loyal States and their representatives in
CONGRESS cannot recede. 1t must 90
through, and the Instructions which block the
way must be removed, because the North has
so deCreed, and has the strength against all
opposition from every quarter and in any shape
10 AIRY through its great designs.
What, then, are these distractions which for
the time arrest the adoption Of the amendment?
Strangely enough, the chief impediment is
President johnson, whose special duty Is to
"sce that the laws are faithfully executed
Concedlng IL he outset the sovereign DO Wer of
Congress over yhe question of Southern recon-
q mn atnL IN
departing from TINS initial landmark This
was over twelve months ago, and since that
day-frst in assuming the exclusive po 8ers OF
congress, then IN his denunclatiOn OF and in
his resistance to the general policy of Con-
Gress, good measures, bad or indifferent. and
then after appealing to the people, and getting
Their verdict upon his course-he has, in his
utter disregard OF the popular voice, gone
downward from bad to worse, until he is
menaced with the worst OF consequences, his
impeachment and removal.
This penalty he may escape, If be is not too
late, by backing out from his false position.
Otherwise he must resign, or, as an intoerable
obstruction, be will surely be removed. There
are other distractions, such as the old, iutrac-
table, and still defiant ruling pro-slaVery oil
garchy OF the South and tier old hide bound
party cOntederates of the North, and Northern
negro-Worshlpping fanatics; such obstructlOns
as Massachusetts and South Carolina walking
arm III arm against the amendment as in the
Philadelphia Johnson Convention; such obsta-
Giles as the inCurable fire eaters OF the South and
Northern visionary philosophers and refOImers
who will have nothing but the programme OF
the first French republic or the millennium on
the plan OF FOunerlte phaanX. But all these
obsuuctons and some others, are dependent
upon President Johnson, and with his recanta-
ton, resignation, or removal, they will all dis
appear or cease to block the way. In a word
hr. johnson Is the deadlock against Southern
U.UuslrUCtiOn and restoration, aud if he will
... turn the key aud open the door, it will be
uu.u.d hy taking Oft the lock with The screw
driver OF Impeachment,
The present Congress is evidently fnessng
with the Territorial bill OF Mr.. Stevens. 1t
masks the battery which lies behind all these
passing debates. The new Congress, elected on
the platform OF the pending Constitutional
amendment, will assemble March 4, duly quail
hed and prepared for decisive work. II not so
/ proclaimed by law meantime, probably one of
the hrst acts Of the new Congress will be 10 pro-
claim the amendment in question part OF the
Constitution in being duly rauded by the Legls-
iaIGles o lhreeiourths OF the STATES represented
IN Congress, and constituting, de tdctO and de
JTe, the Government of tue United States This
done, the supreme law OF the land must be en-
. forced by the President over ali the Rebel
1 oIales OF upon TINS issue alone there Will be
/ 4InplG SIouhuI LOT ms lmpeacnmenta and removal
! n anticipation Of his removal at all events it
/ Is given out from Washington that a IaW will
probably be passed by Congress providing tenn
I porarily for the promotion of General Grant TO
the White House as acting President-a man
whose very name carries with 1t the prestige of
/ pubic confidence and success
. WIN HcneIdl GfanJ IN the Executive chair,
/ we know that the present unreasonable. impla-
caOle, and denant Rebel States would speedily
, reaille lhelr true situatIOn; that thev would be
/ Wllhout dlmculty reorganized on the basis of
we amendment; and that with, il not before,
me return OF December. they would all be rein
/ slateu IN Congress and harmoniously co-operat-
ing with the North to carry on the great work
! oI tne new Union. We are sure that the SOuth
would mus fall IN with the new ideas and ne "
constitution OF this new epoch, casting out all
Ihe remaining dregs and dry bones of that old,
loInuown taollc whose cornerstone like that
OF the deiunct JEFF Davis confederacy. was Airi-
can slavery. wa" A'-'
The Rebellion was movement to pernetuate.
| OUTSIDE or the Union, that system of slavery
established IN the old Constitution hnt which
! the Union mad outgrown. Hence our old oro-
/ slavery Constitution in the war for the Union
! Went down with the Rebellion. and with IL
must go down all the adjupcts OF slaverv such
as Calhoun,s State rights and the civil and noIi-
neal disabilities attached to the African and the
! slightest infusion of African blood The mend.
ing amendment covers all this ground and will
| give us tnat new constitution and that new dis.
! pensatlon for which the price has been maid of
! three hundred thousand Union soldiers lvinG i'm
their or ayes and three thousand miIi}nns of
money in the shape of national debt
The results gained by these great sscri6ces
will be fixed in the Constellation Wboro thev
| will stand President johnson must no Ionuer
resist this great movement he mnst give wa y
or resign, or be will be removed The advance
ment OF General Grant to his Office viii make
| the impeachment perfectly satisfactorv to the
| loyal States, and decisive to the Rebel States