The New York herald., 1867-02-07
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON IMPEACHMENT AGAIN.
(Frem the Anti-slavery Standard.

from the Anti-Slavery Standard
The only thing that looks like argument against
doubt . 10 No doubt impsachIne the President is
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any man caa show NJ . pashsto safety which has
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- ont on the bloody path y Richmond But was
hsncs Grant moved toward Richmond General
Mcclellan y the only commander We ever heard
step incurred no risk before he would take IL We hope
Cougs0 wt not tight this battle Mcclellan prinoi-
pss me A. soldier for Mcclellan e lead was snak-
that't killed people The opponents Of impeachment
% dangerous measure ought TO BE- mustered into
When oar fas6srs put the power 70 impsaoh the
President into the constitution does any man sup
s. dangsroasi 'Did history show them any sovereign
poseSs TSsy knew wsll that IN Po.sd 10 every se
Council But no noble darsd 70 exercise The light til Sc
had mounted the nestsst horse money would buy and
ng out The hated word be pus spur to Bis horse ana
nsd q bis utmost speed cur Impeachment is Ike
No sane man would adopt or pevssvsrs in policy
without adherenta or course, therefore, In sup
possible case impeachment Of President must always
In the very nature Of our government To talk Of its
danger, therefore, is like talking 70 nck Of tho
bitterness Of his medicine. II 10 less bitter than his
disease, and therefore he takes It,
All the great powers Of governments arc dangerous:
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dangerous powers. Lancets are dangerous Instruments
The OF surgeons is that whom lancets needed,
such men know how TO use them safely So with
swords and the other high powers or government. II
Congress TO avoid the Of any power that may do
wise and hEete ask not which s the safe path but
which Is the safer In the simple unity Of despotism
there s. but one danger, wssh the es.
victims Avoid that and the OF the government
Is always smooth Despotsm is like the course OF .
Of republics is like billiard ball. bounding and rebound
ing at the bidding Of many forces Freedom is the
and balance. The whole merit OF such governments Is
their ability 70 use dangerous powers with safety The
power Of impeaching Judges Presidents and Senator'S
they saw IL 70 be necessary No man has shown
thai the use Of Il to-day against this President
possible use Of IL IN every possible case wouldd
incur. To yield TO such bugbear 10 To say
there ought 70 be mo no such power IN the constitution
gress and says-in fitting case use IT, Docs any
deny that this Is fitting case Docs any maintain
II this man ought be mpeached you imagine
q case which would demand that remedy Can you
imagine an hour or mood In which could be
more safely tried than At this hour and this mood
The case thcn anticipated In the constitution has
CURED. Whoever oits 70 use the remedy prescribed
in that instrument bound to show that any OF It,
any time risks the nations safety TO such extent
that practically speaking the American people have
Dental chair rhey must always submit to four years
OF ruin and trust their surviving II 70 the possibility or
change for the better after four years and to the recu
perative powers OF the nation. IT. 1851, Buchanan
had had three years instead OF three months to rule
must have submitted 70 be ruined rho risk Of opposi-
ton would have been too great The adm sson Of such
a principle e the first step TO desposm. Whoever
maintains 10 only the asant courier OF another Louis
Bonaparie. WENDELL PHILLIPS
A LITTLE GrRL UscLAsrKp The louisville Ky.) Cns-
rr Of the I'd inst says that Clergyman Just returned
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there euiarkaby interesting and beautiful, who is
without doubt considered dead by her relations The
why does not come FOR her. and perhaps there
bcreaved hearts that have listened In vain for her own
childish accents and recalled the vision Of her infant
beauty with the sad thought that will be seen no
The history Of this lovely waf s indeed touch
ing story separated from home and friends and left,
like some tender flower untimely plucked from the pa
rent stem, TO wither in the worlds cold charity. We
therefore make public what have learned OF this
hi tory in the hope that may lead to her recognition
bv the Survivors Of family which seems TO have be
ourdcned with sorrow BY war and other calamits
rnere are indications that while both Of the cbd's
who. IL they knew The facts, would joyfuly declare
themselves the natural protectors of the little orphan
steamboat accidents on the Mississippi In one OF these
below vicksburg some drew out OF the water the
appsrenty iieless form Of little girl An officer of the
federal army was attracted by the beauty Of the little
Guild, aud applied the usual restorative expedients with
success. But no one could give any clue 70 the parent
vain. He therefore took his little prottge with him to
the North Her name as nearly as IL could be ascer-
SON." her dress betokened family In good circum-
stances which was further confirmed by illusions her
childish prn,tie 70 'the carriage" &C. She was TOO
young 70 tel the name Of her parents but her illusions
TO pa and ina and TO the killing Of the former sue
gestcd the Inference that her isther was Confederate
ocer who was killed In the war; and that her mother
one Of tho victims Of the steamboat Disaster The
federal ocer who saved the little girls life gave her to
lain in the army and took great fancy the child. ne
took her 70 his home in Palmyra where she ID treated
with much kindness and anecton Our Informant thinks
that the good mans attachment is strong that he
made no great effort 70 nnd . person Who would Be
likely 70 take her from him.
A PxnascUrsD MAr.-In Indiana, recsntly, MIA May
Jane seeey OF New Albany brought suit against N v.
Evans set up the defence that he was pursued BY mob