The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-01-30

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niOnd's Views this Week. ( d:
The impeachment of the President cx-
cites good deal Of inte est through the
country, but not more than i deserves.
here Is general dispusirion to regurd IL
less serious than 1t really Is. The people
md 1t difficult to believe that the project of
impeachment and removal from office is Sc
rlouslly entertained by responsible leaders of
the Republlcan party, OF that the iEass of
that party In Congress can be- brought to
support it, We see, therefore, that it is
widely assumed that the irquir will be suf-
ierred to sleep IN the committee which has
It IN charge, at least through the remain
der OF the present session, and that pruba
by nothing more will ever be heard Of it,
We think this a mistake and that the com.
Try mlH JaA Mto serious error If 1t rests on
this Jtticf.
THE PRESIDENT TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE
HE Is IN THE WAY.
Those who have brought forward this
prQrct are not only serious, but they are
zealons and resolute in pressing it to execu
ton; not on Its own account; not merely or
manly to punish the President for alleged
misconduct, but because It as ubSolutelv es-
scnt'at to the accomplishment Of their poEt-
'cdt purposes. The removal Of Andrew
johnson from Office is sought as mems,
not as an md
THE PROMINENT IMpEAcHERs.
Wendell Phillips, who is the author of
the scheme, denounced the President. more
| than a year ago. not as criminal to be
punished, hut as an 'obstacle to be ren,oy-
cd. de was IN the way of the Phillips
policy he bad not then done any of the
acts Tor which Mr.. Phillips now arraigns
him; he had vetoed no bllls, andnade no re
movals from office; he had neither swung
round the circle, nor anded Colonel For
ney as u dead duck. Yet Mr.. Phillips
demand for this impeachment and removal
was just as imperative as it is to-day. Gen
crai l'utl-r, who came somewhat later imo
| the field, and who now consideles himself
| The leader OF the Impeachment movement,
Is not quite so open in his avowal of mo
tives; but none who knew his character and
ambition can believe that disinterestod
and holy Indignation against official miycon.
| duct has alone inspired the fervor which he
| displays. Governor Boutwell,, a member
OF Ct ngress, and also member of the Ju
| dlcla'y C nmattre, which has this matter
under consideration, sad in recent ad-
dress, alter enumeiatiDg the difficulties III
/ the way Of reconstruction.
MR.. JOHNSON is IN BOUTWELL, 6 WAY.
Il see no possible way out of these diff
eulties tchite the present Chif lNagistrate Is
at the head Of tie government. Congress is
strong, but it is powerless TO execute. It
has no hand by which it can WELD the vast
| powers 0T this government. During these
two years, from ihe 4th OF March next II
| ". Johns6a ,c0ntiaaty 10 be PesfFsnt lJ he
| Lmttd States during that pe,tod, | do not
know how long the restoration rf this gov
etDment wi ie delayed. ] MAKE 10 pre-
dlctions as 10 what the future has in store
tor us with reference to the President in Of
ice; but | OF y say that If he continues in
cDice during these faro gears to come. know
OF no means ly which human life eau be
protected, by which human rights shall be
IT garded as sacred, or by which any efficient
means can he taken for the restoration Of
these ten States to their ancient place in
Il e government fthe country"
THE IMpEACnERs AMOUNT TO AN INDEFIN.
ITE NUMBER.
These declarations from leaders of the
impeachment movement might be nultipli
ed indefinitely; but we have given enough
to show that his removal from Office is
deemed absolutely essential to tie success
of their political programme, and that they
are therefore profoundly aid resolutely in
earnest in pushing it forward to consunIa-
ton.
FAILURE OF THE PLOT WOULD END THE
RADICAL PARTY.
IF they abandon that. they abandon their
whole scheme o: reconstruction. They must
give up their attempt TO reduce the South
ern States to a territorial condition, OF to
abolish their present State Governments
and substitute others in their stead, or to
impose universal suffrage upon them, unless
they can remove the President, who, while
in office, is an invincible Obstacle to all
their schemes. Are they likely thus to
abandon all their cherished plans? II they
do, their career is ended. They have gone
too far to retreat or to halt. fheir failure
is the Presidents success.
RECONSTRUCTION MEANS THE OVERTHROW
OF STATE GOVERNMENTS.
Useless they reconstruct the Southern
State governments stand as they are; and
every day they so stand adds to their
strength, and increase the difficulty Of orer-
urormg them.
RAYMOND ON PARTY DRIVING.
But will the great body of the Republi-
can party follow them? Not willingly per-
haps-but the past shows what we mnv ex-
pect in this regard for the futnre. The er-
tren,e men haze nerer get failed to bring or
t1rire the mass Of the party TO Their position;
and this has more than once been done IN
the teeth of their most rigorous protests and
struggles, On this very question a large
majority of the party in caucus decided that
no steps lookir z toward impeachment should
be taken, without preliminary inquiry by q
committee; yet ON the very next day formal
articles of impeachment were presented in
the House, and committee was authorized
to entertain and examine them; and scarcely
half dozen members of the party dared to
60 on record against this proceeding.
tAE TERROR OF THE YEAS AND NAYS.
The '!yeas and nays" have very vague
but potent terror for the statesmen of Con.
gress, and the extreme men, who stake
everything on success, avail themselves of
it with remorscless and unreIenting risor.-
Many members, while voting ior The refer.
| ence, protest that they were only voting Tor
''inquhy'- that they were not 10 be held
committed to the movement; but they are
in the current, and it will be much more
difficult for them to turn back than il would
have been for them to have kept out. At
what point will they stop? Do they ex-
pect to vote that he acts Of which the
committee may accuse the President are
not proved, or that they are not offenses
deserving impeachment They will find
themselves branded as fsitbless to public
morals, as well as to party, if they 70 on
record thus. They have committed them
selves to the movement, and they will be
coerced into carrying il through.
DREADFUL DOOM OF THOSE WHO FALrER.-
THEY MAY BE CALLED copPERHIADs
Until the President is actually impeaoh-
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