The national Republican., 1867-02-20
A CORRECTION.
WAsHIXoTox, D. c., February

CORRECTION.
wAsTSoToS, D. C., February 10, 1907.
Ny DEAR HASscoM: paragraph In the NE
PUBLICAN this morning says that the New York
Citizen demands the immediate impeachment
and trial Of President johnson" the context
making 1t appear as If this demand were made in q
sense hostile to the President.
Would Il not have been more in accordance with
your usual spirit of fair play to all parties, and
kindness to tho Citisen In particular, to have
stated that the demand either for tho i'm.
peachment and trial Of President johnson by the
dominant majority Of Congress" or that said ma
jority should publicly withdraw the charges made
by many leading members thereof against the
President as libes and ISLANDERS which could not be
sustained nor even produced in court with any
backing Of evidence
Was not the article from which you quote one
line and q half lin manner to convey an idea that
the Ctti:en has gono over to the extreme radcals)
really an article expressing unshaken confidence In
the blamelessness Of President JOhnsons course,
and calling upon his accusers either to appear in
court and substantiate their accusations, or to
suffer the pilory Of libellers who, informally but
publicly have slandered tho Chief Magistrate of
the nation, with no higher motive than to secure
temporary gain in political contest, and with
utter recklessness Of the high position which was
to be sullied by their attacks
In a word, was not the article upon which your
paper of to-day attempts to injure one Of the pro.
prietors of the Citi=sn, who happens to hold a
position under the Federal Government in New
York an article evidently and earnestly intended
in President Johnsons favor, because evidently in
favor of Justice, and because protesting that no
mans character-and least Of all that Of the Pres.
dent of the United States-shOuld be injured by
gross and unsupported accusations, which the ac-
cusers subsequently would be afraid to bring to
the test Of trial before a competent tribunal
Only having arrived here this evening" write In
haste, and regret that have not n copy Of the
Ciii=sn from which to quote in proof of the utter
perversity of the Interpretation which you have
placed on the few words you have quoted from the
article under notice. Pray look over the article
again If you have the paper on file, and believe
you will be the first to acknowledge that your brief
extract of this morning did injustice to the position
Of the New York CHi=m
Very truly yours, CHAs. q. HALPISE
In order that no injustice may be done to
the Citizen, in consequence of our paragraph,
we have placed upon our outside to-day the
editorial from the Citizen to which we al,
luded. We think the reader will agree with
us that, whatever the intention Of the writer
was, the effect ofthe article is to force impeaCh
ment upon the principle on which the lawyer
appealed to the pOpulace not to mob Grim
inal who was about to be released from legal
punishment by jury. The innocent people
caught up the lawyers suggestion-an idea
which had never before entered their minds
fell upon the released man and put him to
death The temper of majority of the
present House of Representatives, in our
judgment, is to impeach ANDREW JOHNSON
with or ,oithom facts, i they dare do it.
They know that their acts will undergo a sCru,
tiny in the Senate-a more cautious and com,
paratively more conservative body-which
would place them in an unenviable, if not a
disgraceful, position before the people of the
country and the world, should they fail ip
their wicked work. With this view of the
subject, only hinted at, we think the editorial
in the Citizen was unwise. To many it is
susceptible of double Interpretation