The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-11


the whole balinoral.
A Bid for the Pest Once.
We greatly fear that our friend on
Quincy street is signing for the flesh
pots, the mortal taste" of whose con-
tents has been denied him since his Off
rla. decapitation. We are sadly mis-
taken if lie is not casting longing looks
toward the old familiar place, tho Post
Office and the plunder thereof, which,
IN these days of summary Senatorial
dealing with incumbents, seem to send
forth au invocation loud as "the Mace
Iouian cry" and far more tempting,
Gone over and help yourself" The
very gentle, very insinuating, aud very
characteristic manner in which the In
teliigeneer of Saturday hints it's opposi-
tion to IN important feature of the I'M
parchment programme is touchiugly sig
niticant of the fact that 'BARkIs is will
lin" TO compromise on the basis OF the
Post Office. In view of the efforts
nov being made to have the President
in the event of the Senate's failure to
confirm tho present incumbents, re-
instate such officers rs were displaced
for political reasons, how delicate and
vet how palpable is the bid for Presi-
Dental favor contained i'll our neigh
hors article on the suspension question,
and especially in the following SEN
trncc:
But why this extraordinary attempt
to establish the right of Congress to
suspend the President from office while
on trial, while as yet there is no appa-
rent justification for putting him on
trial at all"
Ii our neighbor will permit us we will
tell him why" This extraordinary
attempt" is merely part of the pro-
sramme for carrying into effect the
measures of impeachment which he,
following in the footsteps of his more
progressive brethren, indirectly advo-
Gated in the last campaign. Upon the
9,th day of October. lS66, the editor
who. now affects to see "no apparent
justification for putting him (the Presi-
drut) ON trial at ALL" delivered himself
OF 4 list Of specifications against the
President, from which We extract the
following:
IL is fact that this Government was
saved during the late war in spite of the
persons who are now engaged on the
side of Andrew Johnson.
Ii is fact that he has not made trea-
son odiOus nor punished traitors.
Ii is fact that his policy is applaud
ed bv all who were in rebellion at the
time of his election, and by all who
sympathized with them.
1t is fact his policy has warmed into
life the spirit of the rebellion, and that
the New Orleans rioters and Memphis
assassins felt themselves encouraged to
their deeds by his known hostility to
the Union element of the country.
II is fact that Mr.. johnson, by rea-
son of his vicious prejudices. intense
bitterness, and abandoned habits, is u
dangerous man.
1t is fact that his late declarations
concerning Congress, his terribly yitu'
prrative language, his reckless and re-
voting appeals, have alarmed and dis
gusted the moral sentiment of the coun-
Try.
it is fact that the present Congress
IL hated by all rebels and rebel sympa'
,hizers, because of its fidelity to the
principles and professions betrayed by
Andrew Johnson.
1t is fact that if the people were now
20 desert Congress nothing would stand
between them and the installation OF
the rebellion i'll power. 1t is our only
shield
IL is u fact that Alexander II. Ste,
phens, the late Vice President of the
rebellion, and present Senator elec,
from the State of Georgia, has applied
for n seat i'll Congress.
1t is fact that President johnson
desired his admission.
IL is fact that majority Of thos'
elected to Congress from the rebel State
were prominent officers either in th'
rebel army or civil service.
IL is fact that none of them hav.
professed to alter their views in regard
TO their treason.
1t is fact that the admission Of sucl
men into Congress would jeopardize th'
existence Of the government.
In the above paragraphs are contained
the substance Of the charges whicl
ASHLEY expects to establish against tn
President and through which he hope
his removal may be effected. For on
neighbor to pretend not to see an
apparent Justification" for try
ing the President, after havin
declared as plainly as he dared
in favor of impeachment, is T.
presume rather too much on the 70
g,tfulness of his readers. We are no
surprised that the prospect Of his sue
eessors rejection should have led on
friend into some indiscretion. His pal
tiality for Post Office proceeds woul'
naturally betray him into some impru
dence, and it is not astonishing that
prospective vacancy in his old position
should render him oblivious TO pas
declarations, and prompt him to repe
tition of his old exploits in the dirt eat
ing line.
A terrible hurricane on February IL