Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-03


short of all the attempted sensation about
the President going to seize and imprison
Congress- He will resist usnrpatien of his
prerogatiges by force, if necessary. He
has as much right to do that as he has to
exercise the functions of the Presidency,
which right can not be disputed by sane
persons.
What effect will the result Of the coming
elections have on this point? And that is
just what the Commercial, the St. Louis
Democrat, speaker Colfax, Schenck and
others, want to deceive the people about
They want to make the voters believe that
the defeat of the Radicals, with their negro
equality, and rings" supremacy, would
produce civil war, when the reverse is the
fact. If the Radicals are successful in the
coming elestion, they will net only impeach
the President, to which he does not object,
but will also attempt to suspend him from
his Office during the tendency Of his trial
before the Senate. If they are defeated,
they will do no more than impeach the
President, if they even do that, which, OF
ITSELF will produce no civil convulsion.
The friends of law and order are all, there
fore, interested in voting against the Radi,
cal ticket The friends Of peace, and all
who do not want civil strife at the North
will vote against the Radical ticket for
as sure as day follows night, if the Radical
leaders shall be encouraged by the coming
elections to depose the President, as laid
down in the Phillips and Butler pro-
gramme, there will be eonyulsion that
will deluge the North in blood.
From the New York World. DEM
A question of some interest is here pre-
sented What course will Democrats take
in case the President is impeached? We
answer, in a general way, that, from our
knowledge ofthe temper of the Democratic
party, we have no hesitation in saying that
it will face the emergency with as much
yigor and intrepidity as indignant human
nature is very well capable OF. 1t is our
clear and decided judgment that influential
Democrats ought not TO 90 into the Cabinet
or accept any Office under the President,
and thus expose the party, in the great
struggle which may come, 10 the imputa-
ton of sordid motives. We can easily con-
vict the impeachers of such motives, but
the charge would lose its effect it, with any
color of truth, it could be retorted If it
were merely a fight between Congress and
the President, we should have no interest ex-
cept, as bystanders, to see fair play. But it
is offar high consequence. 1t is an attempt,
by one branch Of the government, to destroy
the independence, and subvert the constit~
utional rights ofthe other. Toput out Presi-
dentfor the, base motive ofgetting control of
the federal patronage for electioneering pur-
poses, would be degree of political de-
generacy not whit better than the pronun-
cidnlentOs and anarchy which have 80 long
afflicted Mexico. If President johnson is
impeached and deposed for no crime but
fidelity to-the constitution. and the people
submit to it, the country will have reached
the lowest stage OF political degradation.
If, unhappily, it should come to a conflict
of force, it will be for US to decide, on high
public grounds, free from any Identification
with the personal fortunes of Mr.. johnson.
where duty might call us in SO serious a
conjuncture. The controversy will pass
through many phases before it reaches the
stage at which that question can arise; and
Democrats, while shrinking from no re-
sponsibility whichpublic duty may require
Of them, hope to defeat the impeachment
project by other methods than a resort to
force. Whenever it becomes necessary, they
will cause it to be fully understood that they
will stand resolutely-not by the President
who is nothing TO them-but by the consti-
tuition threatened to be outraged in his
person. They will make no sacrifice for the
man, but they will shrink from no sacrifice
which may become necessary to viudioate
the rights of the Office.
Soldiers meetingat Philadelphia, Sept. q. Re-
ception of Sheridan and Siekles,
Resolved, That we urge the House of |
when it shall assemble in
November next, to formally impeach An |
drew johnson Of high crimes and misde- |
meanors.
Resolved, That now, as in 1861, we are |
for an uprising of the American |
people; we are ready to quit workshops, |
factory, desk and farm, TO cast aside do |
nestle ties. and arm and arm fight for our |
country and freedom and the rights of all |
her loyal children that, mindful of the |
past, we will never suffer Rebels to rule |
patriots, our glorious leaders to be reviled, |
and our Congress to be resisted by a |
traitorous President, backed by a guilty !
band of conspirator5 and powerful but mis-
guided party.
N. Y. Anti-Slavery Standard and Nashville
Press and Times. (Radical.)
TO the fortieth Congress of the United
States: The undersigned citizens of -,
pray your honorable body to i'm
peach and depose Andrew johnson from
he Office of President Of the United
States.
We hope that some one will take pains
o obtain signatures to the above memorial
n this city, and in every county in the
State without DELAY. The country wants
1eace, bat IL can hare no peace rhile An
ireo johnson as President
New York Times moderate Republican,
Can anything be conceived more uu-
eemly in the chief executive officer of the
House of Representatives than this parade /
# impeachment as foregone conclusion, |
n this allusion to flying gossip as pretext
or threatening to hang the President?
Waving altogether the expediency or
nexpediency of impeachment, as question
lot requiring to be discussed at present, we
ppreh0nd that Mr. Colfax has in this
Instance permitted the partisan to run away
nth the statesman. Mr.. johnson may or
nay not deserve 10 be impeached, but the
uesLion, however it be ultimately am
wered, is too grave to be the theme of Jest ]
r threat upon the stump. 1t is matter
OF of eiectioneering excitement, but for
aim inquiry and rational discussion in the
ody over which Mr.. Colfax presides. The
me for this proceeding will scarcely come
ltil the Judiciary Committee shall have
eported that evidence exists to justify
and, pending the presenta-
ion of such a report, there is neither wis
ON nor propriety in the attempt to infame
ublic opinion on tbs subject. An Ohio
rowd may be excellent judges of telling
oints in partisan harangue, but Congress
I'LL disgrace itself if it permit shouting
t Wooster or elsewhere to influence its
ction in the case.
John LELLYETT,
\ TTORN AT Law