The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-11-05
The President and the Impeachment Matter.

Sometime ago q correspondent of the Boston Post,
writing from Washington, asserted that if Congress
undertook to the President from Office before
trying him on the impeachment charges, he would re-
| sst with all the power at his command The truth
fulness Of this assertion has been denied by other
correspondents, but the correspondent of the Post
asserts it and sustains his declaration with the follow
ing remarks
every device has been resorted to by the Radical
partizans to dscredit the statement of your
pendent that President johnson had declared his
purpose to resist any attempt to depose him before
trial and conviction by all the means which the Con-
stution affords for its own protection and preser-
vatlon. One writer says the intimate friends the
President assert that he denies the the
language attributed TO him by his Boston organ but
my dispatch was not obtained from the intimate
friends, but from President johnson himself, who
also declared, at the time, that it would be
criminal IN him to entertain a different purpose
The President said further that it was well the peo-
pie should know his views and understand his pur-
poses; and your correspondent has no fear that Mr.
johnson will reract the statement, however unpaa-
table 1t may be to those engaged III the revolutionary
plot against the Executive Department of the Gov
ernment But this declaration of President johnson
of purpose to protect and defend the Constitution
is not new. In his letter to General Grant dated as
late August 10, 1867 he saws BY his oath the
Executive is bound, to the best of his ability to pre-
serve, protect and defend the Constitution; and it is
his duty without regard to the consequences him
sell, 10 hold sacred and to enforce and all of
provisions. Any other would lead to the de-
struction of the republic, for the Constitution
abolished there would be Congress for the
else of Legislative powers, Executive to that
the laws faithfully executed, and Judiciary
afford to the citizen protection for life limb and
property"
A correspondent of the New York Times writes as
follows from Washington:
Impeachment is gathering strengh. Members
of Congress appear in little knots in search of win
ter quarters, and they eagerly sounded the
subject From all that can be learned, they stand
they did at the close of the last session In the
New York delegation there certainly converts
to Impeachment, and leading member of the Senate.
here said recently, that from all he could learn
he did not believe there were half dozen changes
all in the Senate. The New York election will n
questionably have much effect the subject and if
the State is lost carried by the republicans by
close that will be the last of the impeachment.
Only if New York is carried by majority which re-
sentiment increase among members of Congress. AS
heretofore stated in these dispatches nothing has
been developed from the judiciary committee, of
reliable character indicating any change of views
the part of any of its members. A member of Con-
gress in speaking of the Virginia election recently,
pointed to $4,000 republican majority in that State
as forciby illustrating the power of Congress in spite
of the Presidents opposition, and rendering the
necessity for impeachment less apparent than ever.
The proposition for continuous session of Congress
to the end of Mr. .Johnsons term is favorably
ceived by the republican members who have been
there