The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-30
Correspondence of he Baltimore Gazette.
The Impeachment of President Johnson
Senatorial Speeches-The Presidents
n0lOgiSts. 81


Senatorial Speeches-The Presidents
ApolOgists.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-That it is the
firm purpose of the destructives in Congress
to drag Andrew johnson from the Executive
chair, can no longer be doubted by sensible
men, The Government cannot be otherwise
overthrown-exceptt through the means the
Supreme Court cannot be reached-neither
can the existing State governments at the
South be in any other way substituted by
satraps appointed by Congress. To enable
the revolutionists to accomplish their ends,
such movement is indispensable. The inn
parchment and trial, as is plainly indicated,
will he the merest mockcry. l believe it was
Legepdre, who in reply to question as to
the justice of condemning Danton, asked, in
turn, if the .Jacobins could afford to lose
Robespierre. and upon being responded to,
that the bloody work marked out by the re-
volutionists could not be accomplished with
out the aid of the latter. cooly told his ques
TONER that he had answered his own inferno
gatory g 1t is matter" said he, with
which neither law nor justice has anything
to do. 1t is purely political question OF
State necessity"
Although this is precisely the case with
the impending impeachment, the managers,
l learn, will not dispense with their accus-
toned .jugglery The plan is, through the
Judiciary Committee, to collect from witnes-
ses of the type of COnOver mass of calum-
MES against the President, and spread them
broadcast over the country in report to be
drawn up by Boutwell, after the fashion Of
his infamous array of falsehoods and distort-
{ ed facts in the case of Davis. This is to pre-
pare the way by operating upon the creduli-
ty of the public for the advent of Butler on
the 9Th of March, who will predicate his
, promised articles of impeachment upon the
; evidence thus elected No doubt seems to
exist but that through the accessions to the
i destructive element by the late changes In
members of Senate, and from the reinforce
. ment OF four additional Senators of the right
, stripe from Nebraska and Colorado, that that
, body will then be in proper condition to
proceed to the trial and fully prepared
, promptly to render the required judgment
From what is daily transporting no one
e need doubt that the case is already prejudg
ed The speech of Sumner last week afford:
positive proof of this, and the subdued tont
of those who essayed to answer him gives
: melancholy evidence of a timidity wholly
. unsuited to the momentous stake at issue
e Indeed, the President is truly unfortunate ii
= his defenders at this great crisis. Instead o
: manfully repelling the aggressions of bat
!, men who openly avow revolutionary purpo
I ses, and thus carrying " the war into Africa,
its legitimate theatre, gentlemen seem con
tented to palliate acts which not only neet
no defence. but for which the President will
c finally receive the undying gratitude of ever.
: lover of constitutional law and public lib
erty.
: We give the above without endorsing an.
0 part of it, to keep our readers posted as t.
e the feeling in Washington.