The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-14

| House on the New Orleans riots, look to the
| same object. In both cases il is the ghost of
old Hamlet reappearing to young 'Hamlet, "
| only ito whet thy almost blunted purpose"
| The impeachment party find it necessary to
| keep up their fire, TO reproduce vividly in
| both Houses the sins and transgressions OF
| Andrew Johnson, and 10 show how clearly he
| is a subject for impeachment, in order to head
| off the counter-mOvement for compromise,
| whereby, upon the basis of the Presidents sur
render the impeachment may be bridged over
by a new bill.
On the other hand, the old king OF the
Lobby, - Thurlow Weed, finds time TO drop for
a moment the negotiations for his lobby per
quisites in the Custom House and Naval Oihce,
in order to Join with John G.. Green and others
in a petition to Congress demonstrating against
the threatened impeachment, and praying the
adoption of measures that will promoe the
peace and prosperity OF the Union, " as IL any
thing could be adopted better calculated to
secure such measures than the removal of the
deadlock which keeps Congress standing still.
But still the question reours, Why all these
lodges and delays in Congress, when the case
is so clear against the Executive, the authority
to impeach him so express and ample, and
when the Republicans have more than a two
thirds vote in each House Do they fear that
if Mr.. Johnson is pushed to the wall he will
try the trick of Louis Napoleon with the
French National Assembly of 1851 2 No. But
there are several Republican aspirants and
Presidential cliques who want clear field for
a year or so longer to perfect their plans, and
the impeachment and removal of Mr.. Johnson,
in precipitating the Presidential election,
might spoil most of these plans on the spon-
taneous movement of the people for General
Grant, and in his election.
As the law now stands with the removal of
Mr.. johnson the President of the Senate would
temporarily take his place, but the Secretary
of State would be required to provide at once
for an election by the people. Now, we sus-
pect that the pipelayers of Chief Justice Chase
and the admirers of Secretary Stanton, and the
friends of several other Presidential aspirants,
lying back in the shade are not ready to meet
the contingency of an election by the people
before the regular time. Hence they are in
clined, like MIR. Bingham, of Ohio to patch up
a truce or treaty of peace with President
Johnson, in order to gain the time required to
organize their little working committees all
over the country i'll view of the regular Re-
publican National Convention. While every
thing remains unsettled this man may have as
good chance as that man or the other man;
but if you remove President Johnson General
Grant is brought forward at once by sort of
spontaneous combustion, and all competitors
are cast aside.
But still the necessities of the Republican
party may bring them to this alternative. Mr..
Johnson is their apple of discord. His re-
moval will, at least for the time put an end to
their dissensions, while his retention in office
can only serve to widen them, do what else
they may. In surrendering he will be like
the sagacious Dutchman, who got down from
his horse only to get on again better; if his
surrender is accepted, it will only be the ad-
mission again of the Misunderstanding wooden
horse into Troy. Eliot's bill, based upon the
New Orleans riots looks like impeachment;
but from present indications even this BILL in
the short interval of this Congress to the 4th
of March, will fall through between the two
Houses, and the whole business of reconstruc-
tion and impeachment will devolve upon the
new Congress which meets on that day.