The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-05
THE POLITICAL STTU1TYON.
Views OF Senators Summer ana vViAson
and General Butler,

and General Butler.
a correspondent Of the Boston Advertiser has
visited the above public men at their residences,
and gathered their views on the topics of the
day. According 70 this ohronicler Senator sum
ner, IN speaking OF General Grant as Secretary
of War, snid "there could be no military oblf-
cation on 2. general TO assume a civil office.
Grant might have refused and thrilled the
country TO the confusion of the President and
the Rebels. But while at the War De-
d nh Ul1ns aii, isi Ia Ger, am sense, wnat
gag. He at least prevents a Rebel from being
thrust into the Office" In regard to General
Grant aiming for the Presidency, Mr.. Sumner
said "he did not know. Things looked that
way. His friend, Mr.. Washburne, who has Just
returned from Europe, speaks of him as a can
didate." But Mr., Sumner had been insisting
on irreversible guarantees. Our next President
must be in himself an 'irreversible guaranteep
son, Summer said:-"With a person of ordinary
sense and with heart, reconstruction would
and brutal His talent, such as il is, comes
from pugnaCity. or course he is q us drper and
tyrant The wonder is that Congress aid not
tated in its duty towards the President as IL has
in everything else: | have never doubted that
the President would be impeached."
Senator Wilson said:-"The great mass of the
Republican party believe that the President
will be tmpeached, and that he deserves i'm
peachment." In regard to Grant, Wilson stated
his opinion that he had taken his Office of
Secretary Of War for the sole purpose of trying
the President, he said he "would 90 by fts and
starts in carrying out any policy. In fact, he
acts like fellow on bust, who goes to sleep
and wakes up, breaks things, and then goes to
sleep again, and so on till he is sober. In my
idea he is foolish man, governed by gusts of
passion and temper; and he is a disappointed
man, because he really believed he was going to
succeed. This has made him vindictive."
General Butler said johnson lacks courage
and capacity, and that impeachment is sure to
come. General Butler said the danger lest he
should be influenced In Judgment by dislike to
the man, for which he said he had so much
cause, precluded him from forming an opiniJn
about Grant.
Wendell Phillips on the Probable Re-
sIstance OF the President to Impeach-
ment.
From The Anti. Slavery Standard of this week.
President Johnson has issued another procla-
nation. He affects to see "impediments," in
the Carolinas He does not specify, that we
may know precisely what they are. Nor are
there good reasons apparent for any proclama-
tion at all at the present time. The greatest
''impedimenC' is Mr.. Johnson himself We
suspect this special parade of concern on his
part about the Constitution" 1.-THE authority
Of law" and the INTEGRITY of the national
Union" is intended, as the cry of ''stop thief ~
That Johnson intends serious mischief we have
no doubt. We are advised through trustworthy
sources that he and his coterie are taking pre-.
cautionary measures to so strengthen his posi-
tion as to enable him to enter upon the ex-
pertinent OF resistance if Congress shall
attempt to impeach and depose him from Office.
The conviction that Impeachment Is necessary,
as we have urged for many months, is rapidly
gaining ground. Senators who have hitherto
been reticent on the subject now speak of it
freely in private as both desirable and inevita.
BILE. We hear. from gentlemen eminent in otfi-
c1al position and most advau tageously situated
for observation of Johnsons movements at
Washington, that an open warfare between the
President and Congress in the near future is by
no means improbable. 1t is as q blind, the bet
ter to shield himself from close scrutiny, while
maturing his reasonable schemes, we have no
doubt, that the wordy proclamation just issued
was put forth. Change a few indefinite lines
about the Carolinas, and the same "whereases"
and the body Of the proclamation would suffice
for his use a little later to either prevent the
assembling of Congress, or for its dispersion, If
1t proceed 10 impeachment, unconstitu-
tional body. He shifts from vetoes to procla-
nations Another proclamation, extending q
general amnesty to red-handed Rebels, 1T is
said, is soon to be issued. No one understands
better than the reckless usurper OF the White
House that this will be in defiance of the loyal
people OF the country. But one defiant step
paveS the way for another.
Thus far in his new departure" commencing
with Stanton's removal, Johnson has 9aine6
an easy victory over Grant, who was to be the
peoples hope in the absence OF Congress. How
far the Lieutenant General will allow himself
to serve as subordinate instrument of q trea-
sonable usurpatton remains to be seen.
The period for choosing O successor to the
Presidency is, in the regular course of events
rapidly approaching. But a prior question is
the deposition of the Desotted tyraAt now in
ofhce Both the Thirty. ninth and the Fortieth
Congresses betrayed their trusts in their failure
70 remove him many months ago Let the press,
the pulpit, and popular conventions. with one
voice, loudly demand of Congress that the i'm.
peachment and immediate deposition of John
son from Office be its first business on reas-