The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-24

Revolutions Never 60 Backwards''..
President Johnson,s impeachment In.
evitable-The Plan.
The revolution which was precipitated
upon the country by the Southern rebellion
Of 1861 is not yet ended. The strugglels
still going on with the old Southern oligar-
clly and their Northern democratic sympa-
thizers, defeated in the war, and it will be
carried through. The great Union move
ment of the war will run its course. The
great issues settled by the war will be estab-
lishcd in the government. They are under a
momentum which cannot be resisted. All
| impediments which block the way will be
removed 1t is the law of all revolutions.
This is only history repeating itself. So it
is that no pre-ordained event in human at
fairs is more certain to come to pass than the
Impeachment and removal of President
johnson from Office. This thing will be
done because it has become necessity to the
consummation of this revolution. Congress
has no alternative when the suspension of its
authority over the rebel States for two years
vet to come is morally certain under Presi-
dent johnson.
We are just now in the position of Eng
land 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 in the Parliamentary cause the in
dependents and the Presbyterians, cores
ponding with our radicals and conservatives
of the present day. We know, however,
that Cromwell and his radicals achieved
their grand design in the condemnation and
beheading of the King. and that the Com
monwealth was next established. This is
one parallel to our present situation; and
| ofr Ii f1o Ii
tory of the great French revolution. So far
as his continuance in office is concerned the
present position of Mr.. johnson is hardly
better than was that of Louis XVI, when in
his attempted escape from the republican
authorities he was captured at Varennes, one
hundred and fifty miles from Paris, and
brought back to trial, to condemnation, and
at last to the guillotine, after some stormy
debates between the Jaecobins and Giron-
dists, the radicals and conservatives of the
convention. As it was with that convention
so it is now with Cengress-the radicals
hold it, and the conservatives, to save them
selves, will be compelled to 60 with the cur
rent, or politically they will fall like the Giron-
dists And why? Because such is the drift
of this revolution, and it will run its course.
The House, as grand jury, will impeach
Andrew Johnson of certain "high crimes
and misdemeanors,n and the Senate, upon
this indictment, as high court, Chief JUS
tice Chase presiding, will try him, condemn
him and remove him Before the close of
the present Congress the Impeachment will
be made before the Senate, and with the
new republican accessions to the body which
will come in with the new Congress in March
the Senate will proceed to business The
first step will he the election of President
of the body, who, under an existing law. will
become President of the United States in
the event of . the death, resignation remOv-
al or disability" of Andrew Johnson Sena-
tors Wade, Trumbull and Fessenden are
each named as likely to secure this position :;
but, as Mr. Pessenden is intellectually and as
a practical statesman the first man in the
Senate, he viii probably be chosen. Next,
with the opening of his trial, President John
son will be suspended as disabled, and the
President of the Senate will be assigned pro
tenn. to this place. After Mi. Johnsons con-
viction this new Executive will hold his po-
stion until President shall have been reg
ularly elected by and returned from the
people.
1t is probable that with the removal of the
present incumbent a call for special cleo
ton will be issued-say before the end of
May-and that General Grant and Admiral
Farragut Will be the republican ticket. They
will, if so placed before the people, be cleo
ted by reclamation, and in the meantime
three-fourths of the loyal States now consti-
tuting the government of the United States,
having ratified the pending constitutional
proclaimed as part and parcel of the federal
constitution to all intents and purposes
Then, having an Executive chosen upon this
| ,+fN ho 1u IN no 1o
States as the supreme law, adopted without
reducing them to the test of dishonor as
| they call it, of condemning themselves, their
associates and their leaders in the rebellion,
and leaving them free to choose whether
they will give the suffrage to their negroes
and count them in counting their people for
Congress, or lose some twenty odd represen-
tatives, by limiting the ballot box to the
whites. Then the Supreme Court will be re- |
constructed from fresh materials; so that we
shall have no more expositions of the law
according to the constitution as it was before
the delage.
Thus the essential demands of this great
revolution will be met, the government in all
its parts will respond to the voice of the
people as represented in Congress, and the
States wrested from the late rebellion will be
| reconstructed and reinstated upon the pend
ing constitutional amendment The fire.
eaters of the South and their allies of the
North will be thrown out and will disappear
with the dead issues of the past; the rump
of the old democratic party will be buried
with the old wing party, and the political
parties of the country will be reorganized
upon the new issues of the new epoch which
will begin to dawn upon the country with the
removal of President Johnson.-Nep York
Herald.
We give the above speculations from the
Herald for what they are worth, to keep our
readers posted as to the feeling among the
Northern people.
Public Meeting in Brevard.
| A large and respectable meeting was held
in Brevard on the 29th December, 1866, to
consider on the propriety OF petitioning Con-
gress to form a new State of the Western
counties of North Carolina.
The meeting was organized by calling
Joshua Orr to the chair, and requested w.
H. Nicholson to act as Secretary.
On motion Col J. G. Duckworth explain
ed the object of the meeting.
On motion, the Chairman appointed Col.
S. J. Tracy, Col. j. G. Duckworth and G. W.
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