The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-16
The President and COngress-VVhRt ts
the Prospect for President JOhmsOng

the prospect for President JOhnsOns
From the ~. y Herald.
The special dispatches which we published
from Washington, disclosing the views and
purposes of President Johnson in the further
prosecution of his fight with Congress, have
created in this metropolis, and will create
throughout the country, profound sensation.
Satisfied that the programme thus disclosed
has been resolved upon by the President
because everything that he has DONE begin
ming with the removal of Stanton, points in
this direction-the questions recur, What is
the prospect for Mr.. Johnson Will the issue
be to him the triumph of Cromwell or the
failure of Charles the First?
He proposes to reopen the registration
offices in the Rebel States, in order that the
Rebels embraced in his last amnesty procla-
tion may be admitted to the ballot boxes in
the work of Southern recOnstruction and this
he proposes in defiance of the reconstruction
laws of Congress- 1t is his declared purpose
in the event of an attempt by Congress to re-
move him, to attempt the removal of Congress-
This brings the cOntending parties to close
quarters and to the consideration of the main
question, viz.-On which side is the heaviest
artillery Assuming that with the reassem-
bling of Congress in the last week of November
the House of Representatives will, in the
capacity of grand jury, pass resolutions re-
quirlng the Senate, as the high court of i'm
peachment, to try Andrew Johnson for certain
nigh crimes and misdemeanors, +" what will
be the next step in this case If Mr.. john
son be next declared suspended in his official
capacity, and Benjamin f. Wade, President of
the Senate, be declared President of the United
States for the time being, what then
IL strikes us that there the conflict must
end, for the Constitution provides no appeal
against the removal of a President by Con-
gress. All orders from Mr.. Johnson, after he
shall have been declared superseded by Con-
gress, VIII be so much waste paper, and will
6e so regarded by all officials subject to the
rIesiuents authority. Mr.. johnson must not
permit congress to proceed to the extremity
0i VI nis removal or suspension, or he is gone.
but he Will anticipate this result and prevent
II by proroguing Congress. The two Houses,
however, will disregard this order; and what
then Inc example of Cromwell, in dispensing
the Long Parliament by squad of soldiers,
VIII then be the only alternative left to the
rresluent In pursuing his line of resistance
against Congress But will Mr. Johnson take
inns hazardous step2 We think that, with
an the plumbers he has committed, and with
an the inducements and arguments that have
Peen OF may be presented in favor of it by
YeIIy Dlack ana the Blair family, he will be
~ 10 WISE 10 venture upon such a blunder as
this. We dare saw that this warIiIxe pro-
sIaInme, which he has fOreshadowed for cir
ouIa'i0n among the newspapers, is mere Chi
hese e thunder, intended to frighten the radi-
soais' ana that this new radical hue and cry of
tnPeachment H is probably more intended to
Hlghten Johnson than for anything else.
the PRESIDENT We're really serious in these
fearful designs, he would hardly blazon them
ABROAD TO the world in advance OF the time fOr
@ouOn' IL he were in earnest, the word and