Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-01-17

bers by night and his meditations by day.
With that Honorable man." Casslus, to
his accessories in crime, he may say, in
his enumeration Of the "high crimes and
misdemeanors" Of the President:
"Why. man, he doth bestride the narrow world,
Like Colossus and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep ABOUT
To find ourselves dishonprable graves.
Men at some time are masters Of their fates
The fault, de.r Brutns, is NOT in our stars,
But ID ourselves that we are undcrfings."
And would apply the remedy, not by fair
and open dealing, but by magnlfying the
pretended offences Of the President in a
manner at once ridiculous and absurd:
= = "And, since The quarrel
VIII bear no coior for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus that what he is, augmented,
Would run 10 these and these ext.emities
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg,
Which. hatch'd, would. as Ills kind, erow mis-
And kill him in the she'll chiavous;
Mr.. Ashley, patriotic soul! tells US that
it was his painful duty" to impeach the
President, and that he had tried in vain
to shift the responsibility upon some older
and more experienced Of the radical tribe.
His conscience, if he has any, came near
making a coward Of him; and he ul,; : M y !,
with the virtuous and tender-hcarted Bru-
tuS
-Since Gassius first did whet lie against Caesar,
lhave not Slept.
Between the acting of dreadful thing,
4 nd fhpf iccS Ill IT,.
Like phantasma, or hideous dream,
The genius, and the mortal instruments
Are then IN council; ard the state of man,
bike to a little Kingdom. suffers then
The nature OF an instruction.
In our very t'heart Of heart" we pity
poor Ashley !--'tis pitiful, It's wondrous
pitiful, to witness his excruciatius "pains'
worse than the ''dry gripes" in the
wlnter-and all on account of the perfor-
nance Of an obvious and patriotic duty |!
Seriously, we have fallen upon evil days,
when the President of the United States is
threatened with impeachment for his m-
herence to the constitution and the princi.-
pies OF the government as previously un-
derstood and interpreted b. his predeces-
sors, and especially as construed by the
late President Lincoln and the radical
Congress up to the time of the surrender
Of the Confedrate armies. It is true, the
immortal Bolts made an attempt to ..head
Captain Tyler because he refused TO
obey the mandate. Of Congress; but the
ridiculous affair ended in newspaper con-
troversy between the defeated, chatting
Bison and the victorious. Captain.
But In the present case, the articles of
Impeachment, with numerous specifications,
have been made out in solemn and impo-
sing form, and referred to committee,
supposed to embody the legal learning and
craftsmanship of the House
This conspiracy against the President
has created considerable alarm among the
more sober and rejecting of the radical
leaders; in fact it is too strong dose fos
such men as Greedy Of the Tribune, Bry-
ant of the Evening Post, and Representa-
tive Raymond Of the Times. They have
good sense enough to foresee the re-
suit of this Quixotic enterprise, that it
must fail, and prove disastrous to the fu-
tire prospects of "the party"
Meanwhile, with true Jacksonian firm
ness and calmness, Andrew johnson looks
uDterri6ed, undismayod,> returning their
bills, SO. fraught with. mischief t. the in
terests Of the country, with his objections,
and standing like = ''Stonewal" in de-
fence of the only feasible plan of restoring
the Southern States to the Union They
overcome his sound arguments and pun
gent reasoning by the exercise of brute
fores--tlat is, passing their bills by a
swo-thirds majority, Notwithstanding the
Presidents veto.
So far~as we are concerned, we ardently
desire to see this impeachment farce car
zied TO it's consammat;oa. We want the
Solons of the Judiciary Committee to find
ANDREW johnson, Vice President and
acting. President Of the United States"
guilty Of all and singular the "high crimes
and naisdemeanors' alleged against him
notthat we believe him guilty ofany one Of
shein--bHs that the maIignity and duplici--
ty Of the radical majority i'll Congress may
be ial.e manifest to the world We want