The Portland daily press., 1867-11-15

eiecttOn. Of lnoSt ct the time i,lnr;,,, Al,
last ten years the Republican party has ,.ad
control Of the Legislature Of New iYo,a<
Durii 6 all that time, according to testimon,
from both sides, legislation has been a mat
ter Of sale. This may account f9r the chang
in that State in part. but we think not b.
any meaps ,ior the whole change; :, ior gen
ever the other party has been ia, power, ,
has been equally corrupt. We think. ther'
hasibeen5 am important cause operating OF
these elections, which has not been named a
eyet, and which, we do not propose to name
now. Still, as alleged before, "if Congress
had set. Aside the rebel State organizations
and conferred suffrage on the blacks and men
OF mixed color in those States and then re-
moved u the he usurper from Office, Is early as
January, 1885, or even in January 1861.
we think the party in, opposition to, them
would not have to make a respectable fight
in any of the Northern States. sssla, nom
10 Yondissenf and say, "Coitanlyqno single
observer is competent to geDeralizeu upon
saeb'a topic'ffom his narrow expefleheeni 1t
aisiceftsinly competent for the writer TO look
fiover the ground and decide for HIMSELF This
is all he, claims, 1t, cannot now be denied,
thatthe patton Is toreceiiye all the advantage
i from conlerring, the rishs of suffrage on the
negroes in the South, which the writer claim
ed In his articles for the Press twenty months
ago, The elections in five st atesa have set
|9tied that9 y5nIohA "a ssjs9aaBs saoiieoiti
elslB 1862, when Benjamin ID. Peck urged the
| Anti slavery men to abandon their organiza-
'tion for the time and vote for DR.. Hubbard {;
when heiasserted that the rum question must
be Settled before the Slavery question = when
| he asserted that BY the vote to be given to
Dr. Hubbard that fall, the rum question
would be so completely settled, that we ney-
er should hear of it as ain; The undersigned re-
piled that the slavery question would be set
tied first; that we should extirpate slavery
utterly; that it would leave neither roots nor
seeds and never grow again; and that it would
be necessary to agitate the rum question
Thousand years aiterwards."on The masses
choose to follow the lead of Mr.. Peck; but we
presume it willnot now be denied that our
view was the correct one iSfiio' 7iH 'i'A"
While others maintained that slavery was
to be perpetual in this country, for more than
| thirty years the undersigned has constantly
maintained that this barbarism would come
to an end, When it was insisted in June, 1860,
after the nomination of Mr.. Lincoln, that ii
he was elected the Southern States would Sc
| cede, org anize new government and main
tain perpetual slavery, the, undersigned re-
piled, that "Mr. Lincoln would be elected;
i that II the Southern States did seeede it
would involve war; and that Slavery would
not last ten years and probably not there.''
The opinions OF the undersigned have thus
| far bsen, sufficient for his own guidance.
| they have never had much weight with the
mass of men. In 1852 and for many years
afterwards they placed more confidence in
4 Benjamin ID. Peck, and followed his lead. No
one should now place more confidence lin the
\ opinions of the writer than he thinks they are
4 entitled to. wsI5o It ,tsi2n,d GoRi5h 1oH
a With regard to the impeachment Of the
President in our Judgment there is no new
cause forit,: There has never been any occa-
sion for a committee to take testimony on
that subject. The crime for which he should
have been impeaehed and removed from Of
flee in January 1865, was the tiagrant, crime
of usurping the whole Legislative power in the
important matter of reorganizing the rebel
States, and the using Of such usurped power,
for placing all the Union men in those Ststes
under the feet of traitors. President john
son is guilty of that crime noic. He was
guilty of it then. There was no need Of
proof 1t was fact OF common notoriety,
Every other crime of which be has been sniI-
! ty since is subordinate to that or Incidental
to that. So there is no new cause, for inn
peaching the President. There is much less
OCCASION to impeaeh him now than there was.
Congress has permitted him to remain in of.
flee and work mischief, aud his rebel govern
ments to stand, fer more than twenty-one
months, since in our Judgment he ought IL
have been removed SO more than onehal
Of the cause for his removal is already gon,
oy lpls' ~, Is .i,ea ~ No one would think d i'm.
peachng him in the last montft ~ ~ ,t.s,,, te,,o
lp lS our Judgment, IT he had been removed il
January, 1866, or even in January, 1867, the
loss which the Union men have suffered IN
the recent elections in the Northern States
would not have oceurTedio But this cannot
be helped.o3IIis removal now could not re.
verse those elections s5asiad 3ou bib aH 1Gr
The eaitor'says :s'He has al last ddisresaid
ed and violated a law et Congress, and We
trust he win be dealt with as he deserved y
We, understand the editor is now desirous
that the. President should be removed from
Office, because he has violated a law of Com
gress. But does not the editor know and ad-
NIT that the President had grossly Disregard
ed and violated the Constitution of the Unit.
ed States, before Congress assembled In 1866 ?
Is any law of Congress more sacred than the
Constitution Of the United States9 If not
then Why should not the President have been
impeached then? We can see no good rea-
son. s7esp Il, s-,.ir 81. ,i-.s-f s,1e7s-5.,
But it Is smanifest that the President Is a
very corrupt and a very dangerous man. II
is not safe to leave him in Office a day when
Congress is not in session. 1t cannot be expect.
ed that Congress will continue constantly in
, session from the 21st of November, 1867 to
J the fourth Of March, 1869. We think there
I fore, even at this late day, the first business
Ut tHc IIOuoc VI REPRESENTATIVES, SnOulu De u
impeach the President unless they find thai
the Conservative Republicans in the Senate
are ready to vote him not guilty, j, c. w,
THE FENIANs AND THE REFORM LEAGUE. :
There is new phase of the Fenian difficulty il
England. Various prominent and active mem
bers of the Reform League have publiel
avowed their sympathy with Fenian princi
i pies. A London letter gives the facts as fol
i Mr.. Beales, the President of the League
; who is spending few weeks at French wa
| tering place, sent a letter to the League, con
demning Fenianistn. Mr.. Lucraft objected tc
) its being published, because he felt that tn,
Irish people were fully justified in using phv
steal force tossedress their wrongs, when the,
had received such fearful provocation Mr.
y Whitford said the Irish people had been Sc
much trodden upon that 1t would be wrong tC
condemn them in this way. Mr.. Cooper, after
! 200 years OF British wrongs, could not blame
the Irish for resorting to force. They might bt
imprudent," but he fully sympathized with
them. Mr.. Odger said the Irish had good rea
son to be displeased with English rule, and j
he was an Hishman he would be a Fenan.-
: ireland would never make an impression Lp
: on her rulers until she knocked some OF then
. down, whether in the way of Hyde Park rail
ings or otherwise he did not know. They bat
as much right to 'sympathize with the Fenial
as with the Roman movement. t2 a1iR hna p
I'll When an organization 50 powerful as tn
9 Reform League refuses to condemn such nj