The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-10
hlI,muud Gllspatth.
Observation-Disclosures 10, 1867
The Impeachment quest Com
mcr.~ at the Press.


introduced into the House, and are gene.
rally adverse 4" the prosecution of tho
m,vcm ut. The Tribune SAYS:
There would bc much doubt as 10 IN,
rosul, of this trial. President johnson
fas done many things which we consider
criminal: hut would the Senate, a. Judges
,liuk so2 TamperinC with the revenues
Tx removing faithful officers because they
attended to their business and did not con
Germ themselves about politics, and ap
raintirg dishonest men, is serious matter
The Interference in the Fenisn troubles
la,, summer. whereby the honor Of Anne.
rca was sacrificed to please England,
should be inquired into. The riots At Ne"
Orleans, aud the Tact shat no human being
la, been punished for ihc blood there shed,
stain with indcllible blackucss the admin
i,fraiirn of President Johnson. We ycaru
AN. some atoucment Tor that crime and II
g.. wise that Congress should find ont tho
authors of the wroug-ali who were acce>.
.,.,y either before ct after the act.-and
rnri>h them. We believe a committee has
TT. matter now in charge. We have yet
a. >,c whether the best remedy for this
is impeachment.
krc there no issues Of more Importance
than this? Must all this Congress be
wasted, and the next, perhaps, in a pageant
and prolonged deba,c, endless Earring of
LAWYERS and Senators, The currency calls
.ur relief. Labor suffers under this fearful
irritation. Our tariffs want reconstruction.
There are 4 hundred questions near to the
prosperity of the nation which must suffer
d. 49,
We do not say that President should
not he impcachGd. We by no means say
that Mr.. Johnson should not be impeachcd.
That would hc to take judgment into our
oTn hands. We think this administration
has been n calamity-a di>grace-thc
cause OF many evils TO the country. We
should like some redress. But how is il to
be- had In attempting remove these evils
NAV we no. fly TO others that we know not
o. May We pot put precedent upon our
statute books wj.,h will give any Demo-
cratic majority o. the Senate and House,
in future Years, the right to revolutiOnize
the Government IN the interest Of slavery
Let us walk slowly, and survey the ground
as we 20. Let Us not lay violent hands
upon the Executive Office untilwe find that
no other course remains for the honor of
the nation. Perhaps we are wrong; but ii
does not seem IL us that the time for the
StCrucr alternative has come.
The Times says:
The auti-Admiuistration party in Con-
grcS> have a sweeping majority. They can
control a sufficient vote to carry any mea-
surcs they may think neceSSary-over-
riding opposition in every shape and form,
whether il come from the adverse side of
the House, or from any other branch OF
the Government. II is this fact which
makes it of SO much Importance TO aSccr
tain the views and purposes OF those who
are recognized as its leaders. Ii il he tie
determination Of two or three members,
who might lie named, TO carry ont the
schemes they have concoctcd for the i'm
lea hment Of tie President, then the sub.
ir,t 50 far rs the action of the House is
concerned, may be considered a. settled in
advance. Ii Boutwell, adhcrcS To what he
Ia, recently rroclaimed-if Ashley main
tajrs the ground he has :" dvtrrminedly
as>nmrd-,f Wentworth, and Loan, and
Tuad. Stevens hold To- the position they
have takrnUp within a very short time
then The majority which viii follow these
may be estimated hy Just abont the
strength of the party in CONGRESS.
The excited proceedings in Congress YES
to-day, and the dispatches from Washing
tom u> - the disposition ~ leading mem
lers, put a more Spri"uS face upon the mat
ter. in a practical way, than it has had
Heretofore. II seemed, Icy what took place
in the Republican caucus on Saturday
might last. lhat the question was then put
IN >uch a shape that the country would
hear no more OF il Tor this session at least.
BIT hy the developments in Congress yes
trriay, and hy the peculiar circumstances
attending the final reference to IA commit
tee of The subject OF Impeachment, there
seems To- hr no doubt that it i the de-
termination of the leaders OF the House to
push the matter through, whatever may be
Tie consequences. This is the tenor of the
DISPATCHES which have been received here
from the most reliable and best-iniurmed
sources, and there is no difficulty in Gre
difiDr the reports of the excitement which
existed in Washington yesterday. = .
The formal charges that these parties pro-
pose to prefer against President JOhnsnn
IN their articles of Impeachment are no
more than those with which We have be-
come familiar from the speeches of his as
S1ilantS. Nearly all of them would be
dismissed at once by any court, and II
they ever come before such body as the
Senate, We have no doubt of the DISPOSE
ton that will be made oi them.
The HraA concludes an article on the
subject with this paragraph:
The object contemplated in this resolu-
ton of Mr.. Ashley, thea, Is the removal oil
the President from office. But why remove
him when the charges preferred against
him. or when, at least, the thigh crimes
and misdemeauors OF which he has been
guilty have been common thing with all
his predecessors as party leaders, from
General Jackson down topoor Pierce and
Buchanan, to say nothing of the lamented
Iincoln' 1t seems little rough and un-
charitable that President Andrew Johnson
should he made the first victim TO tue wrath
OF Congress, and particularly when he has
ceased 10 bc an obstruction to the legisia-
tive policy Of Congress, and when over
two-thirds vote in both Houses is secured
agdinst him to the end of his term Of office.
in this situation of affairs il appears TO
Us that if this impeachment movement be
followed up to its legal conclusion, II VIII
be productive of a miscellaneous confusion
in our political parties, q serious panic and
arrangement in our financial affairs, and
needless and damaging delays on those
practical measures Of legislation demand
ed 10 meet the general interests and wants
OF the country. We think it altogether
probable, however, that the Judiciary
Committee of the House will be occupied
10 the end OF the present Congress in their
preliminary Investigations, and that with