The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-15
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, September 15. 1857.

Sunday Morning, September 15, 1857.
1mpeaChment--Wha Will Follow.
The Cincinnati Commercial, rather
conservative Republican paper, and
heretofore opposed to the impeach-
ment of the President, states that it
is now a foregone conclusion. This
remark of the Commercial, as well as
other Indications from this same class
OF moderate journals, induce the be-
lief that the moderate branch of the
Republican party, which hes hereto
fore opposed impeachment, is now
getting ripe for it, and that the only
remaining question seems to be, who
shall be the successor of the Presi-
dent. The Commercial says:
sThere is an impediment to i'm
peachment in the shape of the pre-
siding officer of the Senate, Mr..
Wade, who would become the acting
President, in case MIR. johnson was
removed. Mr.. Wade's wild words in
Kansas, which he has not undertaken
to explain to the people of Ohio,
though he has been before them on
several occasions, and his fury of
speech at Marietta and Portsmouth,
have greatly impaired public conf
denoe in his Judgment"
The New York Herald has informa-
ton that the scheme of supplanting
Wade with Stanton, and then i'm
peaching the President, to clear the
way to the Presidency, is assuming
definite shape. 1t will thus be per-
ceived that power and place ore ex-
clusively the governing principles of
the party now in power, that the vel
fare of the country is totally ignor-
ed, that negro suffrage and negro
supremacy are mere working tools,
to enable them to wall up the strength
they now see threatened, from divi-
sions within and popular opposition
without. The veal or woe of the
country depends upon the descent or
continued triumph of the party in
power. The indications made clear
ly manifest in the recent State cleo
tions, cannot be misunderstood; and
the Republican leaders are trembling
in their shoes at these evidences of
the returning good sense and con-
seryatism of the American people,
from the slopes Of the Pacific to
Maine; their political fabric, founded
upon fanaticism, and reared upon
sectional prejudice, is tottering to its
foundation; for the people so will it,
and the reign of terrorism, under the
rule of the conspirators Wade, Ste
vens. Sumner and Phillips-is about
to close, consigning its principal sup
porters to oblivion, except as their
misdeeds may be handed down on the
records of infamy.
As to impeachment, these sapient
politicians and journalists, who are
busying themselves in selecting
successor to President johnson, we
imagine, are counting their chickens
before they are hatched. 1t is true,
that for months-nay, for two years
past-the President eeems to have
been paralyzed, either from the fear
of party plots and conspiracies. or,
what is moro likely, from sincere
desire to unite the country, by con-
ciliation and forbearance. But it is
evident that he has Mt last awakened,
either from his supposed stupor or
lethargy, or seeing that the best in
terests of his country and the main
tenance Of the Constitution admitted
of no further delay, and demanded
vigorous action, re has launched one
vigorous blow after another, in the
defence of tho Constitution and the
rights of the people, and evidently has
determined to bear up the pillars of
republican liberty, and defend the
Constitution he has sworn to main
tain, OF perish in the attempt. The
American people will come to his