Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-15

whole crop of the United States would
not reduce the aggregate crop OF the
world more than one eighth, and would
not, probably, increase the price more
than two cents. And the falling oil Of
our crop one.half will scarcely make a
perceptiblo difference in prices. The
public and individual interest calls for
the same thing.
B6-we have, by telegraph from Wash
ington, some intimatiou Of the ultra
Radical programme for the Congress to
meet in November as blocked out by
Thaddsus Stevens, and prefgured in
private letters to his bosom friends at
the national capital. Item first, accord
ing td5stevens' plan, will be the prompt
passage of a general impeachment law,
defining, in strict accordance with Rad
ical views, the offense or offenses upon
which On officer may be impeached, and
explicitly declaring that no officer shall
continue to exercise the powers Of his
Office during his trial. No undue per-
spicuity is requisite to enable one to see
from this that Stevens simply means to
have Mr.. johnson impeached, and whether
the charges preferred against him are
sustained or not, to have him removed
from Office during his trial, however pro-
tracted his prosecutors may choose to
render this. Evidently the one obstacle
of all others which those bent on i'm
peachment have encountered heretofore
has been to discover the sufficient and
tangible ground upon which to bring an
action and conduct the prosecution, A
very serious difficulty this, to be sure,
but Mr.. Stevens has at last hit upon
method for surmounting it. He simply
proposes by an er post fdcto law to pre-
scribe grounds upon which impeachment
may be brought about, to have Congress
define when and wherein an officer shall
have violated his obligations or trans
cended his authority according to the
peculiar views which Congress entertains
as to the sacredness of obligations and
the bounds of any authority except
its own. In brief Mr.. Stevens
proposes to fix up plan by
which Mr. johnson, the present
eyesore of the Radical party, shall be
effectually disposed of upon the assem-
bling of the Rump in November De-
fning the offenses upon which an officer
may be impeached means no more nor
less than defining or manufacturing
some ofense upon which Andrew John
lon must be impeached, and, being
mpeached, gotten rid Of, guilty or not
,uilty being of the most trivial conse.
luence.
But to proceed to item number tive.
dr. Stevens next proposes, after having
disposed of Mr.. Johnson, the passage of
bill which shall in effect provide that
10 State shall have power to prohibit
itizens of the United States, whatever
heir race, color or religion, from voting.
n carrying out this latter measure Mr..
teyens may have TO encounter, instead |
ia single individual in the person of
Ugh official, the mass OF the American
eople; consequently we can see
lore difficulty attending its execution
han would be likely to grow out of the
impeachment, or even the ejectment Of
Ir. Johnson. But there is species of
.irness and equal dealing in this latter
leasure, which commends it to our adj
liration. Mr.. Stevens evidently holds
the opinion that what is sauce for the
pose is sauce for the gander, and hence
roposes to fix up reconstruction
,heme, which shall apply to Ohio as
ell as Alabama, and operate in Penn
ylvania as well as Louisiana. He is
emit on universal negro suffrage, and if
lie loyal States won't adopt it volun-
.rily, like the South, they must be made
adopt it. Very just and equitable
lis, in Mr. Stevens. Would that more
his party we're half as honest, and
stead of backing down from the real
sue before them, would meet it boldly
I'd squarely, as he has done or proposes
do. Every vote of the $4,000 then
olled in Ohio and the 10000 in Penn
-lvanie against negro suffrage would
I'VE been cast against the Radical
lrty and its nominees. In 1868 we
ay expect even this if Stevens sue
eds in bringing his eo.laborers in the
adical vineyard up to his own advanced
,sition in the mean time, as he has
,nerally succeeded in doing in the past.
In Mr.. Stevens programme we can see
,thing to awaken fear or misgivings.
e is perhaps the most prominent indi-
dual representative of the party which
a living exemplifcation Of the old
'overb: Quem Uult deus perdere pri-
US dementdnt. We can only foresee
the pursuance by the Radicals Of
evens' plans as preGgured in the above
e cheerful inevitability of that destruc-
IN to which the party is so rapidly
lifting in the North. The applica- ,
IN for single year of the pc Icy
the North which has been pursued to.
ard the South. and Radicalism could