Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-02-19

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III feb4l|ion &c 1861 Is hot yet 6nty<
ed The tzaze q still going Or
with the ola Southern oiigaf ely Az s'
their Northern Democratic sympa-
thizers, defeated in the war, and it
will be carried through. The great
Union movements Of the war will be
established in the government
They are under momentum which
cannot be resisted. All in,pediments
which block the way viii be remov-
ed. It is the law of all revolutions.
This is only history repeating itself.
So it is that no preordained. event in
human affairs is more certain to come
to pass than the impeachment and
removal of President johnson from
Office. This thing will be done be-
cause it has become necessity to the
contamination of this revolution.
Congress has mo alternative when
the suspension of it's authority over
the rebel States for two years yet to
come is morally certain under Pres
Eident johnson.
We are just now in the position OF
England after the war between the
Parliament and King Charles the
First, when, from his refuge among
the Scots, he was delivered up TO the
Parliament for trial. There were at
that time ia the parliamentary cause
the Independents and the Presbyte-
rians, corresponding with our Radi-
calls and Conservatives of the present
day. We know, however, that
Cromwell and his Radicals achieved
their grand design in condemnation
and beheading Of the King, and that
the commonwealth was next estab.
lished. This is one parallel to our
present situation and there is an
other equally striking in the history
Of the great French revolution. Sc
far as his continuance in Office is con.
cerned the present position Of Mr.
johnson is hardly better than was
that Of Louis XVI, when in his at.
tempted escape from the republican
authorities he was captured at Var
ennes, one hundred and fifty miles
| from Paris, and brought back to tri.
al, to condemnation, and at last to
the guillotine, after some stormy de-
bates between the Jacobins and Gil
rondists, the radicals and conserva-
tives Of the convention. As it was
with that convention SO it is now
with Congress Radicals hold it,
ana the conservatives, to save them
selves, will be compelled to 90 with
! the current or politically they will
| fall like the Girondists. And why
Because such is the drift of this rev
olution, and it will run its course.
The House as a grand jury will
impeach Andrew Johnson of certain
"high crimes and misdemeanors," and
the Senate upon this indictment, as
i9h court Chief Justice Chase
\ q ne, & ~ lH try him, Condemn him
and remove him. Before the close
OF the present Congress the impeach.
ment will be made before the Senate,
and with the new republican access
ions to the body which will come in
and with the new Congress in March
the. Senate will proceed to business.
The first step will be the election of
a president Of the body, who, under
an existing law, will become Presi-
dent of the United States in the
event of "the death, or resignation,
or removal or disability" of Andrew
johnson, Senators Wade, Trumbull
and Fessenden are each named as
likely to secure this position but, as
Mr.. Fessenden is intellectually
and as a great practical Statesman
1.-The first man in the Senate, he will
probably be chosen. Next, with the
opening Of his trial, President John
son will be suspended as disabled, and
the PRECEDENT Of the Senate will be
assigned pro tenn. to his place. After
Mr.. Johnson's conviction this new
Executive will hold his position until
q President shall have been regularly
elected by and returned from the PEG
| pie.
It is possible that with the remov-
al Of the present incumbent call for
a special election will be issued say
before the end Of May land General
Grant and Admiral Farragut will be
the Republican ticket. They will, il
so placed before the people be elect
ed by reclamation, and in the means
time three>fourths of the loyal States
now constituting the government Of
the United States, having ratified
the pending constitutional amend
ment, it will before September next
be proclaimed as part and parcel OF
the Federal Constitution to all intent
and purposes. Then having an Ex-
ecutive chosen upon this plat.
form, he will apply it to the outside
States as the supreme law, adopted
without reducing them to the test OF
dishonor as they call it, Of condemn
| ing themselves, their associates and
their leaders in the rebellion, and
leaving them free to choose whether
the suffrage to their negroes and
count them in counting their people
for Congress, or lose some twenty
misrepresentation by limiting the
ballot box to the whites. Then the
Supreme court will be reconstructed
from fresh materials, so that we shall
have 10 more expositions of the law
according to the Constitution as it
was before the deluge.
Thus Tue essential demands of this
great revolution will be met, the gov
ernmenti in all its parts will respond
to the voice Of the people as repre-
sented in Congress, and the States