Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-10
Iay- Impeachment has found an early


grave, and sunk to rest unhonorod
and unwept The ferocious diairibes Of
Ashley, Butler and Logan have fallen,
pointless, to the ground. Not that the
Radicals loved johnson more, or are
less inclined to punish him for desertion
Of their bloody principles. But a greater
power than themselves has arisen and
asserted its majesty. While Radical
orators and presses we're crying impeach.
ment, and Sheridan and Sickles played
the despot id Louisiana and the Caro-
linas; while murder, robbery, confsoa-
ton and ether Radical principles were
being openly advocated and practiced
in the South the people lof the North
were quietly sweeping RadicalIsm of
the face Of the earth at the polls,
Sheridan, flushed with his triumphs over
powerless men and women in the South,
was sent North to excite the people to
demanding impeachment. Leading
Radicals pressed him to their hearts,
and Radical women slobbered the little
tyrants face with kisses. Then the
elections came. Wherever Sheridan was
feed Conservative victories were piled
up like huge avalanchos. California,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Con-
necticut, entered their solemn protest
not only against impeachment, ,but-the
further reign of the party that for five
years deluged the country with blood.
Maddened, the Radical leaders only
the more loudly clamored for impeach,
ment The perjured Ashley, the thief
Butler, and the renegade Logan, forced
the Issue. The result is thus briefly mar
rated in Saturdays Congressional pro-
eeedings: rrTED
Wilson assented to the proposition to-
withdraw his motion to lay on the table,
and moved the previous question. The
resolution being seconded and the main
question ordered, the House proceeded to
vote by yeas and nay on the following
resolution: 49,
Resolred, That Andrew Johnson, Pres
ident Of the United States, be impeached
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Yeas 81, nay lOS.
The Radicals who voted nay as ar
IDENTIFY desired impeachment as the fifty
seven furious fanatics who thundered
dye /. but in the face of the already over
whelming political revolution the action
seemed a dangerous leap in the dark.
So it was not taken; but the failure was
due to no Radical sense Of justice. 1t
was simply that of the cowardly bully,
who quails before numbers, but who,
backed by power, seeks to crush his
enemies into the earth. A few months
ago the Radical Congress would have
dared even to send the President to the
hangmau, calculating, not withoutreason,
on Endorsement by the people But the
popular voice is declaring against them,
aud to-day their courage, IKE boo
Acres, has oozed out at their fingers
ends. Impeachment is dead; not be-
cause unwished, but because Congress
dare not further outrage deceucy. The
President is safe; not because the
Northern people love bim-we all know
halter than that-but because anarchy,
which stared the country in the face,
could only be prevented by their inter
vention. The refusal to impeaeh is no
Endorsement of Andrew johnson. His
fneads in the North are few, and any |
policy that be advocates is weakened in
that quarter by having the weight of this
fact to carry.