The New York herald., 1867-07-03
The Impeachment Question and tho Presi-
dency.

The Impeachment Question and tho Presi.
dency.
There are wheels within wheels q curious
complication, upon the impeachment question,
as ii appears For instance, it is given out that
a majority OF the republicans on the Judiciary
Committee of the House of Representatives are
preparing a report with tho opinion that the
evidence taken is sufficient to call for the i'm
peachment and removal of President johnson,
and that to this end they will ask for an Octo-
Der session of Congress- Next it appears that
a minority of the republicans on this commit
tee, three out of the seven, will content ihe.n-
dent 1t further appears, from one of our
special correspondents. tina. sod Thad
Stevens" ii no one else will, intends to bring
the House TO the direct test on square and
unqualified Impeachment resolution.
We may, therefore, expect at this July ses-
sion an intensely interesting and momentous
conflict among the republican cliques and fac
tons upon this question of impeachment or no
impeachment. "Old Ben Wade" President of
the Senate, has his supporters behind him who
desire to put him in the White House chair
now occupied by "Andy John-on," either 10
keep il warm for Chief Ju stice Chase or to us,
its advantages directly in behalf of the nomi-
nation of '.Old Ben" himself by the Republican
Convention of 1868. The conservative repub
licans who are in favor of General Grant, on
the other hand, DESIRE if possible, TO hold Presi
dent johnson where he is and President Wade
where b. is, q, least till af,er the Republican
Presidential Convention of next spring. Mr..
Johnson, as the dispenser of the spols of the
administration, if he is not working for thcm is
not working against the Gran. men but "Old
Ben Wade'' in the White House, il is feared,
would measure every Office holders and every
office seekers corn in his own half-bushel, or
in the bushel of Chief Justice Chase. Here,
then, is the split in the republican camp upon
the impeachment question, and the result will
most probably be the defeat of the impeach-
ment faction and the success OF the Grant
republicans in the retention of Andrew Johnson
in his Office to the eud of his term, prov ded
always that he tries no more experiments against
the manifest purposes of Congress in any quib-
bling construction of the laws.
| If the radicals are wise they will not attempt
| the removal Of President Johnson. which would
| be killing the goose that lays their golden
| eggs. but they will let well enough alone. II
they must impcach somebody, let them take up
Attorney General Stanbery for the "high
crimes" or 'misdemeanors'' of avowing before
| the supreme Court, as the government advo-
cate against the Mississippi petition of Sharkcy
and Walker, that politically on the questions at
| issue his sympathes were with the enemies OF
the Union, and for volunteering his legal
opinions as excuses for President johnson in
unfaithfuly executing the laws OF Congress;
or let them haul up the Secretary of State for
his warning on that famous Chicago pilgrimage
| that we must take Andrew johnson "as Pres-
dent or King" and for parading 1t on his late
! trip to Boston, as a great virtue on the part o
his Excellcncy, that he had maCnanimously
refrained from pushing his conflict with Con-
| gress to Oliver Cromwell's settlement; or they
might arraign Postmaster General Randall for
the demoralizing declaration that "they who
eat the Presidents bread and butter must sup.
port his measures" which is making "Andy
johnson" "every inch a king" They might
eveh catch old grandfather Welles under the
jibboom, If they would only look into the log
Of the old shippers tacking and backine Z
during the last two years. In any event, Ia
this matter of impeachment, let not Congress
repeat the folly Of the fool in the fable who
killed the goose that laid his golden eggs.
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