Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-02-05

We take the following article from the last
number of Harper's Weekly, one of the best
edited periodicals in the country:
"The criminal folly of the friends of the
President who at the Democratic Conven-
| tions and in such papers as the Washington
| Constitutional Union openly threaten armed
resistance if Congress should exercise its
express Constitutional right of impeachment,
has done more to make an impeachment
probable than all other causes together. II
Congress cannot take an undeniably Con
stitutional step but faction in opposition
must invoke civil war, we ought all to know
it. And if it be necessary to impeach the
President in order to prove that fact, by all
means let him be impeached. From 1860 to
the present time the Democratic party has
tried to carry every election and to secure
r ali its measures by threat of civil war;
John Van Buren, at the Cooper Institute, II
1862, and James Brooks at New Haven, ant
/ Edmund Burke (Phebus ApolloO at Con
, cord, in 1867, resort to the same menace. l
should not be disregarded. Such mel
should be taught, whenever they invite tn
d issue, that the people of the United State
are not vet Mexicanized, and that they in
A tend to settle all questions by peaceful metf
DDS until they are openly opposed, and wi
+ then torcibly overcome the opposition this
]. peaceful methods may be resumed.
lie If the evidence laid before the Judiclar
Committee shall show that the President hi
unquestionably attempted TO subvert u
O. Government, directly or indirectly, by usu
40 patton or by corruption, or by inaction,
- will be impeached and tried, and if conyiC
y ed he will be removed from office. Al
en- whoever undertakes to resist by arms Il
ce process or the decision will fare as 9TH
rebels have lately Jared, It is one of tho
great and grave measures which only an
traordinary public emergency can JUST
tits indeed strictly Constitutional, as
war-power is Constitutional. If the @
10 stitutional authority be Extensively deni
sic the country may demand that the issue
use raised. But no sensible man can be int
ferent to the importance OF such action, Q
will therefore neither passionately nor I
lsN PANTY invoke it.
ays This is undoubtedly the attitude OF
country at this moment. Nothing
nall change 1t but the continuous folly OF
49, Presidents party. If they and he are "
u" they will patiently await the action OF
committee. If the committee report
IS & ample grounds for impeachment exist,
Il in state their nature so that the country
clearly comprehend them, the Presiden
mas wisely advised, will abide by the Co
700 tuition and the methods it prescribes I
and that only, will be proof to the cou
of that he sincerely believes in the justic
- his position. That, and that only, vii
'ahs, cline the country to judge dispassionatel.
Hotel evidence and the defense. Mad and
Fate. less as his words and measures have
,icnl. fatally encouraging TO the rebellious
... and destructive OF the hopes of loyal am
e n0e name citizens, his acts are not OF niece
by ,o he Internreted as conceived with al
tent Of overthrowing the Government
obstacle to the loyal and generous pu
Wy nS Of the country he plainly is; but not
this stacle, obviously, to be removed by imp
lished ment. But the moment he reslsts s.
II. He Constitutional process, that momen
;ae cor Judges himself.
lei '"i Ii the Judiciary Committee shall be
eyeral fled that the laws Of Congress passed
i time the Presidents veto are made inoperat
IN tho his inaction, and that in consequence
~ W. inaction the condition of loyal men
having late rebel States is intolerable, upon
After ground can anybody ask the country +
,tenee, two years before such wrongs are rem
If that shall be made plain the impeac
will be carried and unanimously sup
ipshire Nv the country. But if, as the Preside
,tate TO tRe Secretary of State declare, the law
one Ia, ed over the veto are faithfully exeeui
'Ps' though, OF course, not with the hear
Wnere operation Of approval, then the impeaC
i be di- will not hold. This seems to us TO
Irc har- substantial point; and we can kn'
truth not by the rhetoric OF partlsanis,
actual evidence. For that, as we III
years ready said, we must wait. Nor can
/ while us tell whether the President ought
Oxford, impeached until the grounds of the
are revealed in detail"