The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-09-20
AVE We to Have q Conn De'etat q

friend of the President, and has the entire
of tire White House, writes that Mr.. John
son has been often advised and urged by
the peace Democrats to perform some grand
coup de'etat, by which the people would be
at once awestruck and delighted, and thus
save himself from the disgrace Of causeless
impeachment and removal, without resis-
lance. It was even suggested that he
should dispense Congress last July, but he
was not then up to the mark. There was
no stuff in the whole Cabinet for any ener-
getic movement. Besides, says the CORES
pondent, the President does not always
act upon the theories which he adopts.
He may, however, if supported by those
around him, announce in a proclamation,
at an early day, or before the meeting Of
Congress, that i: is in his constitutional
right and duty to see that the Constitution,
as the supreme law of the land, shall be
preserved inviolate, and that as the acts of
Congress are unconstitutional they are null
and void, and shall not be further execu;-
ed. An Issue will thus be made between
the President, who stands on the Constitu-
! ton, and Congress, which body is chang
ing on the verge" of the Constitution, and
| claims, in fact, to act outside of the Consti-
| tuition. The President must, of course,
have an adviser and advocate, a bold,
strong man, before he can thus set Con-
! gress at defiance. Mr.. Seward would OPP
pose his new position, but Judge Black is
said to be quite ready to support it with
the utmost ardor and ability. The Stats
Department will be offered to Judge Black.
and he will accept It with the utmost con-
fdence'' in the justice, and also of the sue
cess of his views. If Judge Blacks adj
vice is really adopted and acted upon, it
may be that the President, in some crisis
of the consequent struggle with Congress,
will become impatient or hesitate, and that
| the Judge will have occasion to reyeat the
exclamation imputed to Stafford, when he
found that Charles had deserted him. In
connection with this, the NeaOs correspon-
dent states, that the johnson men at Wash
! ington assert that he has resolved upon
sending TO Congress, on the day they as
semble, message, the purport of which
will be his late proclamation of civil su-
premacy.
In the meantime, the Radical journals
are starting all sorts of stories as to the
violent things the President intends to do
this coming winter,-5tories manifestly con
cocted to subserve the impeachment con-
spiracy. The Times, as if disposed to en-
courage the conspirators, tells US, that
MEMS minds are becoming familiar
with revolutionary sohemes-schemes of
violence and strife-as possible incidents
Ofhis (the President's) future pretensions.
We do not propose to hold him RESPONSE
bic for the sensational speculations of news
paper correspondents, but it is unfortunate
ly notorious that the persons who share
his confidence and inspire not few Of his
ideas, are favorable to armed resistance to
Congress If 1t proceeds aVith impeachment"
The Herald, too, seems to fall in with
this idea, when it employs language like
this:
at is the Presidents declared purpose,
in the event ofan attempt by Congress to
remove him, to attempt the removal of Con-
gross. This brings the contending parties
to close quarters and to the consideration
OF the main question, viz-on which side is
the heaviest artillery Assuming that
with the reassembling of Congress in the
! last week of November, the House of Re-
representatives. will in the capacity of a.
Grand Jury, pass resolutions requiring the
Senate, as the high court of impeachment,
to try Andrew Johnson for certain 'high
crimes and misdemeadors," what viii be
the next step in this case If Mr.. John
son be next declared suspended in his Of
fetal capacity and Benjamin F. Wade,
President Of the Senate, be declared Presi-
dent of the United States for the time be-
ing, what then
It,strikes US that there the conflict must
end, for the Constitution provides no ap-
peal against the removal of President by
Congress. All orders from Mr.. Johnson,
after he shall have been declared superse-
ed by Congress, will be so much waste pa
per, and will be SO regarded by all officials
subject to the Presidents authority. Mr..
johnson must not permit Congress to pro-
coed the extremely of his removal or sus-
pension, or ne is gone. But he will anti
cipate this result and prevent it by pro-
roguing Congress. The two houses, how
ever. will disregard this order; and what
then The example of Cromwell, in dis
persing the Long Parliament by squad of
soldiers, will then be the only alternative
left to the President in pursuing bis line of
resistance against Congress" -Banner.