The New York herald., 1867-02-13
Senator Chandier's indirssasat Against the
.et President t-AuOthor 6scn.

0ther," said the great Napoleon, In one OF his
crisp little cp'grammatic letters to Josephine.
The same game is now going on at Washing
ton, not only between President and Co ongress,
but between the several parties and factions Of
Congress. They are all trying to deceive each
other. There is sstratcgy in politics as well as in
war, and the report Of the House Committee on
the New Orleans riot on the same day with Mr..
Chandler's Indictment in the Senate against
President Johnson were strategical movements
against the coalition which is man9uvring to
bring together the two ends of Pennsylvania
avenue.
Senator Chandler says that If President
johnson had no legal authority 10 appoint pro-
visional civil Governors over the rebel States,
such appointments or his part render him
liable to impeachment; that if Mr.. Johnson,
without authority in law, has restored to
Southern States and railroad companies the
rolling stock, &C., of any road or roads, the
property of the United States obtained as cap
lures made in war, he ought 10 be impcached
for that: that if he has unlawfully stopped by
his orders tho collection of the district tax
levied upon the rebel States. he ought for that
to be subjected TO imreachment that il he has
retained in or renppointed men 10 Office with
out submitting their names to the Senate, or
after their rejection by the Senate, 1t is matter
for impeachment; and in regard TO the Presi-
dents plan of Southern restoration, says Mr..
Chandler, she hrs no more right 10 plan
than my horse" Finally, he says that the re-
moval by impeachment of President who
has. violated tue constitution "would pro-
duce about the same amount of excitement
in the country that tho removal of
the Custom House officers in the city
of New York would produce, and no
more" And SO Mr. Chandler hoped that
his resolution proposing an inquiry as to the
legality of those provisional civil Governors OF
Mr.. Johnson would be adopted. Mr.. Fessenden,
however, suggested that as the members of the
Senate might possibly be called upon to act
in the capacity of judges upon charges of
impeachment against Mr. johnson, it was
proper that they should hold themselves free
from any commitment on the subject; and so
the resolution was properly laid on the table,
But for all this the radical Senator from
Michigan gained his point, in q little lift to The
Judiciary Committee of the House, charged
with the duty, in their discretion, of max ng up
a case Of impeachment The report and bill
of Mr.. Eliot, Of Massachusetts, in the House on
the New Orleans riots look TO the saIns Object.
In bOth sases Il . tho ghost sf old Hamlet
reappearing to ysung Hamlet. only to uhet
thy almost blunted purpose" The impeach-
nent party aad II neesssary 10 keep up their
Orr, to reproduce viyidly In both houses tho
sins and transgressicns of Andrew Johnson
and to show how clearly he is a subject for
impeachment, in order TO head of the counter
movement for compromise, whereby, upon
the basis Of the Presidents surrender the inn
parchment may be bridged over by a new bill.
On the other hand the old "King of the
Lobby" Thurlow Weed, finds time to drop for
. moment the negotiations for his lobby per
quisites in the Custom House and Naval Once
in order to join with John G. Green and others
in a petition TO Congress demonstrating against
tie threatened impeachment, and "praying
the adoption Of measures that will promote the
pence and prosperity of the Union," as if any
thing could be adopted better calculated to
secure such measures than the removal of the
deadlock which keeps Congress standing still.
But still the question recurs, why all these
lodges and delays in Congress, when the
Gus, Is SO clear against the Executive,
the authority to impeach him so express
and ample, and when the republicans have
more than two-thirds vote In each
housos Do they fear that If Mr.. Johnson is
pushed to the wall he will try the trek Of
Louis Napoleon with the French National As
scmbly Of 1857 No. But there are several
republican aspirants and Presidential cliques
who want . clear field for q year or so longer
to perfect their plans, and the impeachment
and removal OF Mr.. johnson In precipitating
the Presidential election, might spoil most Of
these plans in the spontaneous. movement of
the people for General Grant and in his cleo
ton.
As the law now stands, with the removal OF
Mr. Johnson The President of the Scnatc would
temporarily take bis place, but The Secretary
OF State would be required 70 eprovide at once
for an election by the people. Now, we sus-
pect that the pipelayers Of Chief justice
Chase and the admirers Of Secretary Stanton,
and the. friends OF several other Presidential
aspirants, lying back in the shade, are not
ready TO meet the contingency of an election
by the people before the regular time. Hence
they are inclined, like Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio,
to patch up truce or treaty Of peace with
President Johnson in order TO gain the time re-
qurcd TO organize their little working commit
tees all over the country in view Of the regu-
lar Republican National Convention. While
everything remains unsettled this man may
have as good chance as that man or the
other man but II you remove President John
son General Grant il brought forward a. once
by sort Of spontaneous combustion, and all
competitors are cast aside.
But still the necessities Of the republican