The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-12

No clOud ehoud gather anu shade should fall;
For lie has called us each to be partaker
OF the Tree table rich y spread for all.
''Let none put out the light that God has granted;
Let none deny &c nurture for the soul;
Let none Withhold the draught for which we've
For lie who willed the thirst prepared the bowl"
My last lecture was delivered in the Academy
of Music at Brooklyn, in February, Immediately
alter the delivery OF President Johnson's inla-
nous speech to the mob of Rebels and Copper
heads assen bled before the White House to
give him their approving yells, on the 22d of
that month. then declared, with all sincerity
and thuughtfulness, that ii l we're a member of
the United States House of Representatives,
would instantly propose the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson, or sundry thigh crimes and
misdemeanors," as a patriotic duty. Since then,
OF what further acts OF official usuTpatlon and
indccency has be not been guilty Was there
ever so dsglacefu and alarming an exhibition
of spirit and design as was made by him as he
'swUng round the circlen last summer from
Washington TO Chicago Ii has no parallel in our
political history-none on the other side of the
Atlantic. / need not recaptulate what was
said and done by him on that humilating tour.
All know il by heart. What has he not essayed
IN order TO leave the millions of emancpated
bOndmen at the South without legal protection
for any of their rights-as sheep given over TO
the custody OF wolves; TO render all the laws of
Congress passed Tor their defense a nullity; to
bring Congress itself into popular contempt,
and make 1t the target OF his pois )ned ariows,
even denying IL to this hour lawful existence
so far as all legislation affecting the South
is concerned; to reklndle the expiring flames
OF The Rebellion, raise The reasonable hopes
and stimulate the murderous passions Of
the entire body OF Southern traitors and
strengthen the hands of their Northern abet
tors; 70 make 1t, according to reliable testi-
mony, 'just as easy 10 get jury in the State OF
New York TO convict person of mansa ughter
Tor shooting mad dog as to get jury OF Rebels
TO find Rebel guilty upon charge of killing
a negro" or even white UnioDist; to render il
lmpracticable, on the basis of universal free
dom ktN pnN .N,NNI
Justice, insule domestic tranquility, provide
Tor the common defense, and promote the
general weliareW Yet no patriot has yet ven
tured 10 stand up in the House of Repfesenta-
tives and demand his impeachment and removal
from othce That should have been the first
motion made alter the organization of the
House at the present session, The honor
the safety OF the country, and the integrity of
the Constitution, impera'ively demand il. Yet
nRtrdlbe dictu! on this point there seems to be
much doubt and besItauCy in the loyal ranks
Even the New York Tribune, which has accused
Andrew johnson of committing 'high crimes
and misdemeanors,p even to the verge Of trea-
son, timidly shTinks from the ISSUE and opposes
the proposition iorimpeachment as unadysable
| II mot preposteious Let the President, it is
pleadcC, do something mere in the same drec-
ton, and worse if he OGra before he is arraipned
at the tribunal OF the SeUate. What more can
he do, what worse is Unnecessary Tor him to do9
Is he not as defiant and implaCable as ever? Will
he not continue to veto every ediCt of Congress
| striDgently bearing upon the yet REASONABLE
! South? Aud II Congress is numerically more
| than match for his veto, what act of theirs
! can be enforced against the hostility of the
| President and the combined powers of rebel
| dom? While he remains in Office, neither Union
men nor uegroes will possess any rights on
Southern soil that the Rebels win be bound TO
| respect. He is publicly committed to do all in
| his poWer-and he can do muCh-tO prevent
freedom and loyalty from exercising mastery in
I any OF the late rebellous States. With the I'M
/ meDse patronage intrusted TO his hands, he will
use 1t unsparlngly to accomplish his nefarious
! ends. He is manilestly as obstinate as he is
unprinCipled, and as selfconceited as he has
proved himself perddious. 1t Is idle to say that
| The result of the recent elections will be to
! sober his judgment and restrain his power.
That result indeed, carries with it a solemn ad-
monltion; but where heart and conscience are
wanting, and the understanding is pas
! sOnalely disordered what ground is there
| for hope? The only fact that the President
! will choose to discern is, that the next Con
! gress will embOdy no more loyal strength,
numerically, than the present one; and if the
| present is branded by him as only "a so-called
! Congress, banging on the verge of the Govern
ment," will he not regard the new Congress in
the same light, and treat it with the same con-
tumey? Surrounded by bad advisers, COR
ruptly vulnerable to any extent through his
passions and vices, and combining in his nature
all that is tyrannlCal in Southern domination,
and all that is low and debasing among the
poor white trash" OF the South his future
course may be as accurately predicted as the
return OF lunar eclipse. What peace or
Cnity can be effected fOr the reOubuc, what
rights secured for loyal men al the south
with Andrew Johnson still in Office? Until his
| removal, his orders as commander-in-Chiefo OF the
army and navy will bind Grant and Farragut
either to abiect compliance or prompt resgna-
| tiOn. according 10 their temper. They are
| legally under his dictatlon, and 10 any Orcible
rupture between him and Congress they can
know only the President, unless they throw up
their commissions. He has a cooperative Cabi-
net if it be not a unit With the purse and the
! sword IN his hands-With his constitutional ad-
Ylsers in perfect agreement with his policy
what may he not vet attamot in his wrath or
madness? He will certainly know no Northn
only the South. All his plans, mis- appoint
ments, his commands will have but one object
the restoration of Southern rule IN the couu-
ellis OF the nation ter the overthrow of the
! Union.
ITepeat-the first thing Congress should have
done, at its present session, was to lmpeach the
! President and to put him tOrthWi upon his
| trial. On Teassenbling after the HOLIDAYS il
| should endeayOr to make up for lost time in
this particular. Ii 1t shrink fiom the discharge
of this high duty, the President will feel that he
IS master of the situation" and the rebellious
snnt OF the South viii grow more and more
| defiant. WW grow? Nay, is it not now as
| staggering, as contumacious, as reasonably
| disposed as II was the hour before Fort Sumter
| was fred upon Read the Southern journals !
| What can be more atrocious in avowal and de-
| sign than their daily diatribes against Congress
and the loyal people of the Moth? Their voice
Is "still fol, war" provided the President will
! try his hand at coup Getdt. They boldly de-
| clare that, though the South has been van.
qushed in the battlefield, she is even more dis
| affected than ever, and will avail herself of
every instrumentality to "rule or rum" Nothing
| is left undone by them to "hTe the Southern
tlons and duties the patriotic performance of
| which alone can make us zone and inseDarableH
| as q nation. What broader ground for his i'm
peachment need be desired than that the Presi-
a. laT1t - in OLE nfii 1fata..