St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-09-13
Impeach D!ent.

II - !IIOAC imam u '''.NpIN ttiAb "a NCii
.rc>s WAS in session nov, Andrew John
son wouli be impeachcd, Ii lac contin-
ucS on in the way he is now GOING until
Congress assemblies. the probabilities are
that lie viii then be impcachcd. Ii lie
should be impeachcd. every Indication
from the White House now points 10 a
lprciblc resistance This is contingent
" not pleasant 10 contemplate. but nev-
crthcl,>- probable. In an article on this
subject in Iitrper's Weekly, the writer
urges upon tie country the Importance
of comprchending the danger and being
prepared to meet it, in the following par
a.raph>:
Nothing can he done toward a real
reconstruction durin@ the presidency of
Mr. johnson, lie necessarily dymoral-
izcs every effort at the South, AMI it Is
lie who makes New Orleans ma>Sacrcs
possible, and he who really inspires the
speeches OF Perry. Hill, and llcr>chcl V
johnson. The tenacious rebel element
ciing- 10 him as lis hope. 1t believes
that something may vet happen. ltSces
johnson resisting Congress, and rcmov-
ing Stanton and Sheridan, and ii reads
/ in the New York World that there Is a
great reaction, and in tie Albany Argus
that tie democrats will probably carry
New York. and in the New York Her
aid that the people are rallying TO the
President against Niger supremacy"
Upon such pulls of east wind the rebel
hope feeds, and Is able TO keep lis section
in state of >u!lcnnc,> and agitation. and
to defer actual submission TO the will OF
Congress unit. it sees President who
means to execute that will
Meanwhile the President has no COM
rrchcn>ion of the principle which elected
him no sympathy with the popular pur-
pose, and il, pcrpetualiy pirates about the
Constitution az il Congress and the peo-
pie did not know tie Constitution and lis
spirit quite rs we'll as he Whatever he
designs to do will he done under the name
OF the Constitution. When the rebel
+. Senators withdrew. it will he remember
cd, they told lis that the Constitution
! forbade Us 10 resist James buchanan,
the President, told Us that they spoke the
truth. that there was no Constitutional
authority for the coercion of States. 1t
was the alleged authority of the Consti-
tuition that the Constitution was to he
Overthrown. And we NAV be very sure
that il the President attempts mischief it
will &c attempted, he will inform u>, to
save the constitution.
Great exgiencies are not aycrted by
denying that they exist Andrew John
son will 90 just as far As he dares. and
his daring will be limited only by infex-
Idle opposition. We presume nobody
SuppoSe> be would not use violence if he
could. Let him therefore be watched.
Let him learn 10y the plainest expression
that every act of defiance OF what he
knows to be the loyal popular will of the
country, however it may be technically
authorized. is an act which reconcile.
hundreds OF thousands to his impeacn-
ment who had always thought it inexpe-
dent Let him know that much OF the
deposition to impeachment >prang from
the feeling that he had not deliberately
st himself to defeat the will of Congress.
and that those who opposed it until that
intention was clear would earnestly adj
vocate it when that intention was beyond
doubt. His puerile plot to implicate
Judge Holt and other Radical men with
a wretched conspiracy has ridiculously
failed. He has done more than seemed
possible for any man to do to increase
sympathy with the extreme Radical ten
dency. He is a desperate man, and des-
| DcratlOn dares anvihinUn