Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-08
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FRIRAY. FEBRUARY 5, Iss7.
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THE PREsTDENT AND GEN. GRANT
ENTFFF SANE RoAT

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THE PREsIDENT AMI GEN. GRANT
NTHE SAME BOAT.
Mack, an independent Radical cor
respondent Of the Radical Cincinnati
Gommeroiql, thus treats the subject Of the
Presidential impeachment and the dispo-
sition to be made Of Glen Grant kv the
Jaeobin leaders in Congress
People who imagine that the impeach-
meE! agitation has died out--and notice
By tie papers that great many think so---
are greatly mistaken. II was never intend
ed % do more at this session than start the
subject for the purpose Of educating the
public mind up 70 the required point be-
tween December and March. Ashley was
selected as the most senseless and fit per
son 10 herald the thing-iusI as Aleck
Long vas picked ont more than two years
ago to feel the way toward the recognition
Of the Southern Confederacy, on behalf Of
the Democratic party. The political equa-
tion stands thus: as Aleck was to Vallan
digham, 30 is Ashley 10 Ben Butler. Aleck
played John the Baptist 10 the peace De
mocrscy, and Ashley is Just now figuring
in the same role for the Impeachment Radi-
Gals. Prepare ye the way for the Bottle
imp, says Ashley, and make his path
straight, for he eometh 10 tnrn ANDY out.
and then postofiees shall much abound Ter
us loyalisis. Butler is now on the ground
himself, and Ashley's occupation IS, in
measure, gone. The determination was
never greater than il is to-day TO
force the President out Of Office.
and General Grant with him. You
may laugh il you please al that last clause,
bat time will vindicate its truth. Il is
necessary part Of the programme, and
there Is no Disguise about ii among The
loyal few who have undertaken TO engineer
the business. Butler has recently pro-
claimed in a speech, in Boston, that Grant
was worse than johnson, and occupied the
most humiliating position Of any man on
the American cOntinei. And Il will be
remembered that in his Mozart Hall speech
in Cincinnati, he limited at the very same
thing when he spoke Of sweeping the regu-
lar army out ofeX istence ifitattempted toin-
terfere 10 prevent the removal of the Presi-
dent before his conviction. That's lust ex-
actly where the row comes in. The first
step in the Butlerian plan is TO pass an act
of Congress declaring the President inca
pable Of holaing his Office, pending his trial
before the Senate. The constitution de-
ciares that the President, Vice President
and all civil officers may be removed by
impeachment upon trial and conviction,
etc. Butler proposes to 60 behind the con-
siimtion, remove the President first and
convict kim afterRard.
Does any sane man think this will be
quietly submitted TO? " Is thy servant
dog, that he should do this thing ?" Is
johnson a fool and an imbecile, that he
shonld be forced from Office in plain viola
tiOn Of the letter of the constitution. as
well as Of the law that protects the mean
est criminal on earth from punishment I'M
til after conviction?
One plan for the removal Of Grant un-
derstand 10 be this First, To declare the
President incapable Of holding Office du-
ring his trial; then the President pro tenn
OF the Senate becomes President of the
United States, and er-oGicio Commander-in-
Chief Of the Army and Navy, and as such |
he will exercise has right 20 appoint re- |
move or suspend "his subordinates." He |
may not have the right to deprive Grant of |
his commission, or rather, he NAV not care |
TO exercise il, for the question of right will |
not enter largely into the consideration |
when things have come 10 such pass, but
he can order him ont TO the plains 10 fight
the Indians or any where else he pleases.
and in his absence appoint some man after ]
his own heart TO command the army.
Another plan is TO displace the General by
almost abolishing the regular army by act
Of Congress
Now, all these revolutionary schemes can
be stopped only by the voice of the people.
Ifthe people choose TO let them come by
supinely folding their arms and "hoping
they will all blow over" well and good. i
am convinced they viii not all blow over
and am equally convinced that three
months hence it will be too late to avert
them. No such revolution as this country
is now threatened with was ever stopped
after il had been permitted to begin until
Il had spent its desolating fury, and sacri-
iced the welfare Of a nation and the lives
Of thousands Of innocent people. 1t tshould
not be forgotten that revolutionists, in al
times and in all countries, have relied up
on the very enormity of their schemes to
turn suspicion into derision, and to furnish
in their inception q theme for ridicnle
rather than for fear. It was so in France
10 the time Of Louis XVI it was so IL
England with the party under Cromwell,
and it was so in America as late as 1860,
with the secessionists Of the South. The
smile Of derision at the idea of civil war
had scarnely died away when the first gun
opened on Fort Sumter