The New York herald., 1867-01-18

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il Otherwise inclined, wili have no 'alternstite,
when the timo comes, but submission to his
Impeachment and removal from Office. What
has he to stake against the three thousand
millions Of money the million of veteran
Union soldiers and the States comprehendipg
twenty millions Of people represented in and
pledged to Congressi Nothing but his pecu-
liar notions Of the constitution, which must
give way to the consttstion Itself and to the
demands Of the great revolution which Is still
b fall blast and which must run its course. !
This copperhead hue and cry Of another civil
war Is, then, nothing but raw head and
bloody bones-a horrible Chinese dragon, .
mere scarecrow. intended 10 frighten Con-
grsss from this impeachment The copper
heads care nothing for Andrew johnson except
as an instrument to be used for their purposes
acat's-paw to rake the chestnuts from the fire.
They, with Mr.. Johnson's continuance in ONCE
to the end Of his term, think, like Mcawber,
that something may turn up" that the dead
lock between Congress and the Executive on
Southern reconstruction, in the interval 70
March 4, 1869, may. perhaps, be broken BY the
Supreme Court In favor Of the administration
and the rebel States just as they stand, and the
Northern democracy Of the Chicago plat
form, thus compelling Congress to, readmit
tho excluded States on their own terms
into both houses and into the Presi
Dental election Of 1868. Mr.. johnson
Is to provide these roasted French chest
nuts and the Northern peace democracy
In war and war democracy In peace are to eat
them with their old Southern masters The
Union is to be as it was under Buchanan; the
doctrine Of State rights is to be applied ip the
reputation Of the war debt of the United States
as an equivalent for the reputation of the
debt Of the late so-called Confederate States;
the war for the Union is to be considered
blunder, and things are to be ds they were,
slavery and all, as each of the States for itself
may elect.
This, so far as we can comprehend it, is the
programme which the Northern copperheads
expect from Mr.. johnson, If permitted to re-
main undisturbed to the end Of his regular
term. He win then be at liberty to retire and
compare notes with Millard Fillmore, poor
Pierce and Buchanan. The democracy win
have no further use for him. He may go.
Meantime, az the conflict between Congress
and the Executive has passed beyond the last
hope of compromise, the weaker belligerent
must 60 down. The constitution gives to one
branch Of Congress the power to impeach the
President for "bribery. corruption and other
high crimes and misdemeanors," and to the
other branch the power, as judge aud jury, TO
try him, convict him and remove him Mr..
Johnson's removal in this way, therefore, under
the express authority Of the constipation, ,swlA
be the end Of this conflict With the verdict sf
the Senate against him, which in such cases
stands above the Supreme Court, be becomes
private citizen again. and, 80 far from there
being any disturbance on the subject tho vic-
tim will gracefully submit, and, as an orange
that has been sucked dry, his present copper
head admirers will cast him aside. There is
only one man Of all the prominent Union
leaders against the late rebellion who, by .
mistaken policy, lost an equal chance to that
of Andrew johnson for the Presidency In his
own right and that man is General Mcclellan.
The soldier failed In attempting too little; the
civilian has failed In attempting too much;
and SO the great revelation which brought him
into power will move him out t