Arizona miner., 1867-02-23
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The subject of impeachment of President Johnson continues to occupy the public mind, not only throughout the United States, but in many parts of Europe The best writers f q the leading papers are every where freely di,cu sing the matter. Following is an eX
 tract from the san Francisco Call, which con
 tains much sound sense, and is far above the general character of writings found in the partzan press: |" No one can justly deny the right of Congress to impeach the President of the United States if, tn the estimation of that body, just causes exist for the act; nor can
 its right to remove the incumbent of tha; office be denied if, after fair trial, it shall be
 found that he has been guilty of treason,
 bribery or misdcmeanors. The policy of i'm peachment may be justly questioned; the
 right to mpcach cannot be denied But it iS
 proposed by prominent members of Congress
 Co remove the President from office before
 trial, and install some other man in his place Congress has no legal or moral right to take
 such step. Chief Crowley has as much
 right to hang man, before trial, arrested on
 a charge of murder, as Congress has to de
 pose the President before trial and conviction.
 The Constitution says that the President can only besremoyed from office after impeach-
 ment and conviction. Removal from office IS the only punishment which the S nate can
 iuflirt in case of conviction; it cannot, 0f course, legally iuhct this punishment before tle ptrty accused has been convicted An
 impeachment Is simply complaint accusing
 one of having been guilty of certain uiien
 ces, and demanding that he be tried beinre
 the pro CT Court for the same lt does not
 follow that man is guilty because an accu- satiun has been lodged against him. and cer- tainly the entire letter and spirit of our Con sttution and laws, from beginning to end, forbid that a man should be executed before trial If Congress should D. oceed to carry out the measure proposed, to remove the President without trial, install another per son in his off e, that body would be guilty of the most violent and unjust usurpaiioT, and the person it might set up for President would be no more the legal President of the 1 United States than he would be the legal l King of England. Should the party thus i illegally installed in the Presidential chair 8 tempt to exercise any of the duties of the President Il office, he would be guilty of the i most fragrant tr a on against he onstitution, ! the law, anl the people of the Cnited 1. States, and, ol course, justly liable tO the punishment provided by law for traitors ! Andrew Johnson is the legal President of the United States whether for good or for evil, he will remain such until the expiration ! of the term of his off %, on the 3d of March, ! 1869, unless he dies in the mean time, or is ! l ate, ofer being tried and duig cJariciei of treason or other high crimes or mi>demeannrs. l Andrew Johnson k President hy virtue Of the Constitution of the United States-and not by virtue of any power or Act of Con gre,~. He can only cca c tn be the legal and rightful Prgsid,nt by the operation of q Q Constitution and laws, and tSe Constitution says he cannot be removed until ef er conyic { or or pc lchment. If ongre $ proceed, 10 carry out the tbre tt, of some of its mem b r> by re moving the President before con victiun, its acts will be illegal and void and consequently not be recognized by the pen- pie. On the contrary, it will be the duty Of the people to re 'lst such acts of usurpation m teiiln e of the Constitution, which Is the biglcr w." above Congress and the Pres ident, and male Co con erye the interests and trntcrt the rights If the people If Con  gress uSurp7 the right 70 trlmp!e plain pro vision O. the Constituii,n under iuof. in one respect, it may do so in others, and thus its members, insteal of being the servants of the people and the creatures of that instru ment, will become the tyrannical masters O both. To the lawful Impeachment of the President, except the policy of the net, no one has right to make opposition; but if k the duty of every voice in the land to be raised, and of every pen to be wielded, in opposition to the forced removal of the Pres ident Gom office without lawful trial and conviction, on charges prop rly made against him; for such a preceding, in dirert viola tiOn a> it would be of the plain provisions of the Const ti;ion, would be bow aimed di- rertly against the rights and liberties of all citizens, and they would be unworthy the name of Ameri ans if they submitted to the u'urpation. We cannot believe, however, that a majority oi Congress will proceed to the extreme proposed by some of its most ul- tra members.
 ANOTHER LIE REFUTED.