American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-02

The stagnation of week ago is broker
by occasional bursts Of passion. Gusts
of public opinion sweep across the lead
stirring the sentiment Of co mmunities
into visible life and action. Men are
talking in workshops, over counters, ami
in the streets, of the posture Of our M,
tioual affairs and deepseated distrust Of
our Rulers and advisers is manifested
Discomfort, soon to beeenis anger, is rap: 7
idly rising. They who, but now, we're
lukewarrn, are vehement in dsnunciation.
1t is too arpsrent, at leas. for Hesitatiofl, g
that the bold, ad man whuoccupies aud
disgraces. the Presidential chair msdi-
tates the speedy Communication Of hia in
famous plans.
The. failure Of tlie constitutional
amendment leaving the vital Questions
it was meant to settle still at issue !, the,
continued restlessness Of the insurgent
communities their manifest dependence
on the aid of johnson for counteusnce
and support in withstanding the will of =
Congress the incessant, varying at
temmpts of the President to weaken and
divide loyal men by threats, briBss, soph.
istry, lies and hypocrisy /; the factitious
and disloyal efforts and utterances Of the
SO. called Democratic party in the North
and the consequent protraction of our
troubles are all considered .afresh and
together, and are regarded as furnishing
good ground for anxiety and alarm,
Men see tnat to this there must be an
end, as they remember that but two
years ago the visible causes of the pres.
ent dangers we're not only, not in exist
ence but were not apprehcnded, and
that to the voluntary meddling, the de-
Iberate usurpations of single man, We
owe. all the perplexity, estrangement,
difficulty, and delay, which have hith-
erto embarrassed aud which now i'm
pede, they are ready to assert the prime
necessity of achieving peace BY his
civil dettruction. -r-.,--.
The partisan, who signslized his ac--
cession to Office, at an hour when mills
ions were weeping for the great man
fallen, by the boorish declaration that,
she would not be Abe Lincoln's admin
istrator," who reminded Southern dep
utation, with chuckle, that be and they,
like the Roman Augurs, could not ex-
change looks without laughter, has am
ply redeemed his word,in the one case
and proved the fitness OF his self apbre>
citation in the other. He has not beon
the administrator of the policy Of the
late President, nor of the peoples for
they were identical. Piqued BY de-
sire to evince'a a petty smartness which
doubtless, adorned him when q tailor,
alderman, he has created confusion by
his wish for change-anxious TO achieve
at last, place for himself in the charm
ed, social circle of the aristocrats who des>
pissed, hunnned, and insulted, him, by aff.
Getting comhubity in imposture and by
actively endeavoring to secure for them
safety from peril and continuance Of
power, he has played with the interests
of a nation as with the baubles of
a child He has exhibited, through
out the servility of a sycophant, but
wrought through the effrontery aud men.
dacity of the demasogue Happily he
has measurahIy, failed in his most cher
isheJ purpose.
heDeis, as body, are not quite rs yet
the equals of loyal men while living, nor
are they to the full as esteemed when
dead. But who doubts that the author
: of the Amnesty Proclamation and tho
eulogist of the mouldering traitors by
the banks of Antietam, would fain work
their common restoration 10 power and
respect? No honest man doubts it, no
honest man but will spurn tho iEtringaut
who seeks to accomplish these ends.
The measure of Andrew Johnson's iniq-
uity, We think aud hope, is full The
people whose confidence he won by false
pretences, whose powers he usurps,
whose will he thwarts, whose interests
he betrays, whose hope he mocks, and
whose repeated warnings he will
not heed, have no resource left but to
declare in assembled Congress the va
cancy of the Office he has prostituted,
the lapsing Of the power he has abused.
!. Such is, Enthusiastically, the popular will.
These arc The mutteiings which gil tie
air.-Franktin Repository