The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-11-13
HILLsBoRoUGH N. G, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER lS, 1867

duced, and Is producing, on the country its
prosperity and peace. i.
Very little can now be gained by calling
hard names, and the accumulation Of harsh
and, ,reproachiule epithets. Copperhead is now
understood to be fash term, and to mean
one who is not Radical, who thinks the
Constitution still worth restoring and pre-
serving, and Of more binding efficacy than
the most solemn Radical platform. The
buierest and most vehement curses against
those who refuse conformity are now with
out effect. Our Vice President, Mr.. Wade,
tried them 90 the utmost in some of the
Southern counties in Ohio. In Gallia these,
with his exposition Of Radical policy.
brought down the Republican majority from
l,l07 10 IS, and in Washington from COZ
10 81, with like result in Scioto, Meigs,
and Athens Counties. Had he canvassed
the State with like effect, the Democracy
would have carried il by majority Of thir-
II Thousand.
Ills earnest elforts, however, were not
entirely lost. The publication in Galigna-
MS Messenger Of choice extracts from his
speeches has given Us most distinctive
reputation 10 Europe for that species Of
oratoty. AT home every effort Of genius
seems 10 have lost its effect even a sueer
does not avail now IN the place of argument
-General Schenck tried IL in answer TO
MIR. Sianbery's official opinion on the re-
cons ructlon act and his county. which had
given twenty majority for the Republican
ucket in 1866. ihereupon gave SIX hund-
red aid eighty Tor tie Democracy. No
one should carp al General Schenck be-
cause Of his iallure. The opiniun was a
cnmpacl, carefully considered law paper.
sbs"ute:y unassallable by argument; so
General Schenck must either let il pass
unanswered, or wnrk oa his wit, even
! though not Attic, TO stand IN the place Of
argument againstit. Mr.. Wade, Of course,
could do no more than 10 damn il. and the
Attorney General with IL. General Butler
might inpeach the President Tor calling for
X. II were. indeed, more than a5surd--it
were criminal eyen--tn fancy that such an
act. framed IN the temper in which that
was conceived and irameI, admitted OF con-
structlon indeed, It was proved a. last
iliat none but the wgivers who framed
could construe il.
But the impeachment Of the President
has brrn, and perhaps is still, the al pha and
omcgs oi The extreme Radical faction, aud
The crimes for which he is to be ousted are
numerous, il not hagrant.
will briefly consider them, at the same
time expressing hope that the House will
MOI ialtlale an imprachment..w which unbias-
ell opinion will construe mere act 0f par
" malignity. or The prosecution OF pnr-
puse 10 get iull possession Of the Execu.
tive power. II il be touched, The crime
should be definite, and the proof clear;
otherwise, some men mar, like The mad
King Lear, propose 10 +" change sides, han
dy dandy" aud ak. Which is the JUS
i tIce. and whlch the lhieln
Ii will hardly be believed :hat he en-
ployed an assassin 10 murder himself. The
first and most complained Of j. an act ot
party treachery-damAgipg as asrepresented.
but not high crime" within the mean
Ing uf the Consiitutlon, This. g. be intel.
ligIble, requires brief introductory state.
meni.
Al Tie time the people Of Tennessee
/ pissed their ordinance al secession, Andrew
Johnson, Senator in Congress from thai
State. refused 70 join in The rebellion. and
used all the means in his power 10 counter
ract and defeat ii. This excited bitter in.
Jigua,ion against him. and be was insulied
and abused. and at last. driven into exile ;
his anger vas thereby reused TO the high
est pitch, and. in anticipation ol Union
triumph, he threatened the most signal ven-
geance against bis prosecutors. The re.
bellion was put down--he became Presi-
dent Of the United States, and found the
enemies whom he hal threatened, crushed,
PROSTATE, aud suppliani. And here is his
crime--as we have il from one OF ihe most
able Republican speakers lie did MOI, and
strangely persistent--hs will not, as Pre-.