Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-10-31
Deposfng the Prcsident ny
The Tribunc's W Washington correspondent

The Tribunc's W ashingtor correspondent
writes:
Attention is being directed in the news
papers to the report Of the views and pui-
poses OF the President, as set forth IN tue
Washington correspondence OF the Boston
Pos.. wherein Mr.. johnson is represented
rs giving permission TO publish, that he
viii resist Congress should Al attempt be
made to depose him, and that he proposes
to make changes In the Cabinet, when the
November elections are over. The Presi-
dent was applied to to-day to know whether
he had given authority for such announce
ment. I he reply was that he had Hos CIV
.,aa,s ,bs, what he will do hereafter de-
nands altogether upon contingencies that
nav arise. and that Congress will have to
take the initiative in any extreme, doubt
ful or illegal measures before ne would de-
tesmne what shall be his course"
The Boston Post correspondent nevef-
thelesss reiterates his Animation; ana we
have no doubt that be rightly represents
the views Of the President. Mr.. johnson
has been very meek man, quite AS meek
O. Moses-but we do not believe that be
will pack his trunk and 90 home. if Con-
gress, under the form Of - dsspotism,'
votes him out Of the White House.
There would be, nevertheless, no fight,
no Revolution upon all this, unless Mr.. Vice
President Wade should attempt to get into
the White House, but If be should, we
should soon have two Congresses, with two
Presidents, and two Governments. in lieu of
one,-thc first, Constitutional Johnson, the
SEE ond, Wade Revolu,icnnry.
The President of the Constitution is the
iocum tencns of the Government, with all
the rights of possession, and il he is TO be
ousted, he is to be ousted by process of
Law, not by processes Of voting in a Rump
Congress. lie has Just as much right to de-
pose the Rump, ms the Rump has to depose
him. IL Congress attempts force to Gust,
boy ond the simple writ OF quo worrdnto, or
. nand mus, the responsibility for the use
Of this force. Of it can get hold Of il in the
Army and Navy. will be with Congress. not
with the Constitutionalists Of the country,
defending the Constitution, and the Consti-
tutienal rights of the Executive
| The elections, however, we apprehend,
have settled oil this deposition business, il
not the business Of impeachment. We have
now three Northern Governors--in Con
necticut, Delaware and Maryland, with
more coming. 10 New Yorker, now. IN
less he is little cracked in his upper story,
or we'll paid. will here vote State Ticket
TO egg on Thsd. Stevens. Sumner & Co., il
their revolutionary depositiOa conspiracy
and thus involve us in another civil war -
Express.
SHERMAN THE COMING MAN.-Gen. Sher
man, according to . Washington telegram
in the New York Herald, is entirely opposed
to the voutionary u!tras. and in favor OIL
the constitutional principles upheld BY tbs
President. lie WAS free to express these
opinions few days ago when in Washing
ton, and all statements to the contrary are
pure inventions Of the enemy. Every man
in the North knows. too, that besides being
conservative. Sherman is far superior to
Grant, both as Civilian and as soldier
y Richmond Dispatch.
\ RAW IEIsHMAN, just over, went into d
restaurant, and was asked by the waiter
what he would have? "Wby, whites to
ate. av coorse," WAS the reply A plate o.
hash was placed before him. "Fots that p
demanded Mickey. That's wittles,' was
tho answer. Mickey eyed the compound
suspiciously for some time, and finally ex-
clsimed-'Be jsbers, the man that chew d
tina. can ate II
MICHAEL angelo, the famous painter
painting in Pope Clements chapel the por-
,raiture Of neil and damned souls. made
enc If the damned souls so like q cardinal
that was his enemy. that everybody knew
it al first sight Abe cardinal complained
70 the Pope, and asked that 1t be etfaced
The Pope said to him-"Why, you know
very well cannot deliver soul from hell y
Fletcher Harper i, the editor Of the new
liarpers Bazaar, and better than Fletcher,
more sprishtly. versatile and enlightened,
could not be found.