The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-17

servati yea, to save themselves, will be COM
PEELED to go with the current or politically
they win fall like the Girondists. And why
Because such Is the drift OF this revolution
and it will run its course.
The House, as a grand jury, will impcsot
Andrew Johnson of certain thigh crimes and
mlsdemeanors," and the Senate, upon this in
diclment, rs q high court, Chief Justice Chase
presiding. viii try him, condemn him and re-
move him. Before the close Of the presens
Congress the impeachment will be made be-
fore the Senate, and with the new republican
accessions to the body which will come In
with the new Congress in March the Senate
will proceed to business. The first step will
be the election Of President Of the body,
who, under an existing law, will become
President Of the United States in the event Of
s'the death, resignation, removal or disability"
Of Andrew Johnson. Senators Wade, Trum-
bull and Fessenden are each named as likely
to secure this position; but, as Mr.. Fessenden
is intellectually and as practical statesman
the first man In the Senate, he will probably
be chosen. Next, with the opening Of his
trial, President johnson will be suspended as
disabled, and the President of the Senate will
be assigned pro tenn. to his place. After Mr..
Johnson's conviction this new Executive will
hold his position until President shall have
been regularly elected by and returned from
the people.
1t is probable that with the removal of the
present incumbent call for a special election
will be issued-say before the end OF May
and that General Grant and Admiral Farragut
will be the republican ticket. They will, II SO
placed before the people, be elected by accla-
nation, and in the meantime thrce-fourths Of
the loyal States now constituting the govern
ment OF the United States, having ratified the
pending constitutional amendment, it will
before September next be proclaimed as part
and parcel of the federal constitution to all
intents and purposes. Then, having an
Executive chosen upon this platform, he
will apply it to the outside States as
the supreme law, adopted without reducing
them to the test Of dish0nor as they call it, of
condemning themselves, their associates and
their leaders in the rebellion, and leaving them
free to choose whether they will give the suf-
frage to their negroes and count them in count
ing their people for Congress, or lose some
twenty odd representatives by limiting the bal
lot box to the whites. Then the Supreme Court
will be reconstructed from fresh materials; so
that we shall have no more expositions Of the
law according to the constitution as 1t was be-
fore the deluge.
Thus the essential demands Of this great
revolution will be met, the government in all
its parts win respond to the voice Of the people
AZ represented in Congress, and the States
wrested from the late rebellion will be recon
structed and reinstated upon the pending con.
stituhonal amendment The nre-eaters Of the
South and their allies Of the North will be
thrown ont and win disappear with the dead
issues Of the past; the rump Of the old demo
cratic party win be buried with the old whie
party, and the political parties Of the country
viii be reorgsnised upon the new issues Of tn:
new Epoch which will begin 10 dawn upor
the country with the removal Of Presiden
johnson. srsrv r8.s-t''tT,