The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-30
IS Revolutions Never 60 Backwards''--
President JohnsOn's Impeachment IN.
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- Revolutions Never go Backwards,--
President Johnson's impeachment In.
evitable-The Plan.
The revolution which was preciPltated
upon the country by the SoutherH Feoeiiloa
of 1S6tis not yet ended. The struggle u
at;,l poine on with the old Southern oiigar-
cbv and their Northern democratic sympa-
thizers. defeated in the war, and 1t will be
carried through. The great Union move-
ment OF the.war will run its course. The
great issues settled by the war will he estab-
iished in the government. They are under
momentum which cannot be resisted. All
impediments which block the way will be
removed. 1t is the law of all revolutions
This is only history repeating itself. So it
is that no pre-ordained event in human af-
fairs is more certain to come to pass than the
impeachment and removal of President
johnson from Office. This thing will be
done because it has become necessity to the
consummation of this revolution. Congress
has no alternative when the suspension of its
authortyover therebcl States for two years
vet to,come is morally certain under Presi-
dent. johnson.
We are Just now in the position of Eng
land after the war between the Parliament
and King Charles the First, when, from his
refuge among the Scots, he was delivered up
to the Parliament for trial. There were at
T. that time in the Parliamentary cause the in
dependents and the Presbyterians, cores
ponding with our radicals and conservatives
of the present day. We know, however,
that Cromwell and his radicals achieved
their grand design in the condemnation and
beheading of the King, and that the Com
monwealth was next established. This is
one parallel to our present situation; and
there is another equally striking in the his
tory of the great French revolution. So far
as his continuance in Office is concerned the
present position of Mr.. johnson is hardly
better than was that of Louis XVI, when in
his attempted escape from the republican
authorities he was captured at Varennes, one
hundred and fifty miles from Paris, and
brought back to trial, to condemnation, and
, at last to the guillotine, after some stormy
debates between the Jaccobins and Giron-
dists, the radicals and conservatives of the
convention. As it was with that convention
so it is now with Congress-the radicals
hold it, and the conservatives, to save them
6 selves, will be compelled to go with the cur
rent, or politically they willfalllike the Giron-
dists. And why2 Because such is the drift
of this revolution, and it will run its course
The House, as a grand Jury, will impeach
Andrew johnson of certain thigh crimes
and misdemeanors," and the Senate, upon
this indictment, as a high court, Chief JUS
tice Chase presiding, will try him, condemn
him and remove him. Before the close of
the present Congress the impeachment will
be made before the Senate, and with the
new republican accessions to the body which
will come in with the new Congress in March
the Senate will proceed to business. The
first step will be the election of President
of the body, who, under an existing law, will
become President of the United States in
the event of f" the death, resignation, remov-
al or disability" of Andrew johnson Sena-
tors Wade, Trumbull and Fessenden are
each named as likely to secure this position;
but, as Mr. Fessenden is intellectually and as
practical statesman the first man in the
Senate, he viii probably be chosen. Next,
with the opening of his trial, President John
son will be suspended as disabled, and the
President of the Senate will be assigned pro
tenn to this place. After MIR. Jollns0n's con-
viction this new Executive will hold his po-
sition until a President shall have been reg
ularly elected by and returned from the
people.
1t is probable that with the removal of the
present incumbent a call for special cleo
ton will be issued-say before the end of
May-and that General Grant and Admiral
Farragut will be the republican ticket They
will, if so placed before the people, be cleo
ted by reclamation, and in the meantime
three-fourths of the loyal States now consti-
tuting the government of the United States,
having ratified the pending constitutional
amendment, it win before September next be
proclaimed as part and parcel of the federal
constitution to all intents and purposes
Then, having an Executive chosen upon this
platform, he will apply it to the outside
States as the supreme law, adopted without
reducing them to the test of dishonor as
they call it, of condemning themselves, their
associates and their leaders in the rebellion,
and leaving them free to choose whether
they will give the suffrage to their negroes
and count them in counting their people for
Congress, or lose some twenty odd represen-
tatives by limiting the ballot box to the
whites. Then the Supreme Court will be re-
constructed from fresh materials; so that we
shall have no more expositions of the law
according to the constitution as it was before
the deluge.
Thus the essential demands of this great
revolution will be met, the government in all
its parts will respond to the voice of the
people as represented in Congress, and the
States wrested from the late rebellion will be
reconstructed and reiastated upon the pend
ing constitutional amendment The fire.
eaters of the South and their allies of the
North will be thrown out and will disappear
with the dead issues Of the past; the rump
of the old democratic party will be buried
with the old wing party, and the political
parties of the country will be reorganized
upon the new issues of the new epoch which
will begin to dawn upon the country with the
removal of President Johnson.-Nep York
Herald
We give the above speculations from the
Herald for what they are worth, to keep our
readers posted as to the feeling among the
Northern people.