The New York herald., 1867-02-12
Tho Pcriieus Position Of Congrcss-A Rescue
or n ShiDwreck.

The Campbells are coming! Dinna We
hear the slogan ~ spoke the quick-eared Jessie
Brown to the exhausted garrison OF Lucknow,
invested by the swarming Sepoys and despair
ing Of a rescue. So now, applying his eye to
the loophole Of compromise with President
johnson, and peering through the dense fog of
Saturdays sayings and doings in Congress-"
the far-sighted Greeley thinks he sees some
thing like streak Of daylight Thus relieved
OF the hobgoblin Of impeachment, he joyfully
rubs his hands and appeals to the two houses
to take courage and try and do something.
He has been under panic for some time, as if
he had just escaped with his carpet bag from
the terrors of the first Bull Run. He has seen
visions Of . coup de,at and Of another civil
war, with countless thousands of rebels from
the South and copperheads from the North
pouring into Washington, gobbling up Con-
gress and the Freedmen's Bureau, dividing the
spoils Of the Treasury with sandy johnson"
and setting up JEFF Davis in his place under
the Union as it was in the time of Dred Scott
But now, assured that johnson is ready to
strike bargain, more than half way, these
terrors vanish and sRichard is himself again."
The impeachment, then, hangs fire. Tempo
rizing has interviewed. The Presbyterians
have bafi1ed tho independents of Congress-
and o weaker man than Cromwell NAV
manage them. The two houses are all adrift
Every would-be leader has his scheme
of reconstruction, and there is no leader among
them all. Upon the tariff question and upon
the money question, as upon the Southern
question, there are discords and divisions in
the republican camp, all working to the advan-
tage Of Mr.. Johnson. Give him an armistice of
month or two or week or two. and he may
be more successful than was Santa Anna
through the same device with General Scott
The crisis which Is now upon Congress de-
mands bold measures, and that which is bold
est and most comprehensive, authorized by the
constitution, is the best The proposed i'm
peachment covers the whole ground, and, If
carried out, would remove every difficulty
which stands in the way of Congress and its
Southern policy. Greeley's fears upon this
matter are all moonshine. President John
sons impeachment and removal, in settling the
Southern question, instead of bringing on
another war, would be followed by another
political carnival, North and South, something
like that of 1910, in which the shedding of
blood would give way to the shedding of whis-
key, apple jack, hard cider and lager beer. In
this war radicals and copperheads, Yankees
and Southerners, rebel whites and loyal mig
gers, would all be enlisted, and President and
Congress would not be far behind. Union and
rebel soldiers would ciink their glasses and
sing together, and Sambo would chime in with
the chorus
Il must b new DO kingden's coming
And dc pear Of ,ubtie.
This Is the civil war which at this juncture
President Johnson's removal, as provided for
in the constitution, would bring about, in bring
ing about the restoration Of the South upon
the ultimatum Of the North. That would settle
the whole trouble and give us peace, reunion,
harmony, confidence and cotton once more.
Give US this settlement before the end Of
March, and It will perhaps be equal to clear
gain Of hundred millions in gold in the South
ern crops OK the current year. The North has
the capital, the South has the soil and labor.
Touch them all with the magic wand of conf
dence, and cotton, sugar. rice and tobacco will
line our docks again with Southern hogsheads,
tierces, boxes and bales. This is the business
view of the impeachment; but the political view,
in its application to the party in power, is still
more in favor Of this measure. Here is the North
ern ultimatuln backed by intelligent Northern
majorities, rolled up to the grand aggregate Of
half . million. What do they mean! They
mean that the people are far ahead of Congress
They had to drag Abraham Lincoln after them
by main strength all through the war, ready
and anxious as he was TO understand and obey
their will. But the lights for which he waited
are now all ablaze. and Congress has no excuse
for hesitation or delay. The party chosen by
the people to do their work must do il or be
displaced; for the great North Is terribly in
earnest upon this business Is il not true that
the most radical Of the radicals in these late
elections, in reference to President johnson,
was always nearest the policy Of the people'
With the fall Of Brutus and Cassius the
worldwide dominions Of the Roman republic
fell into the hands of the triumvirate of Oc-
tavius, Antony and Lepidus. The last named,
like the fifth wheel to q coach, was soon
shufied of, and then Mark Antony, under
the smiles and wiles Of the fascinating Cleo
patra Of Egypt, began to be factious and
unruly. Octavius, with the gift Of his devoted
sister for wife, FIRST tried to wean of his
colleague from the beautiful but dangerous
Egyptian. The experiment failed and we know
what followed. Antony was impeached and
removed, under the constitutional forms of
that day, and the Augustan era next dawned
upon Rome with the empire. Now, five may
compare JEFF Davis and Alexander II.
Stephens, Of the late Southern confederacy,
with Brutus and Cassius, we may call Congress
at this crisis our Octavius the Supreme Court
our Lepidus and President johnson our Mark
Antony with the South as his fascinating