The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-25
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The persistent misconduct of Presi.
dent Johnson, from the maudlin speech
on his Inauguration to the present day
has eliminated in such "A gross and de.
tiant violation of a law which he him,
sell recognized, that Congress owes II
to its own selt.respect and the country
to apply some remedy which will be
more etfectual than the green withes
with which they have heretofore ESSAY.
Ell to bind this political maniac.
Congress can do thing less
after his conduct last week, than i'm.
peach Andrew Johnson for this and
other mtsdemeanorS in his high office
| acting with due elaboration, but with.
out one hour of necessary DELAY. in
| presenting the articles against the nc.
cused and trying him. Let not Andrew
johnson. like jeff. Davis, be pointed ut
hereafter as a monument of the inabil-
ity OF a republic to protect itself by
imposing adequate punishment upon
those who conspire evil against it!
We are neither croakera
nor alRrmists. We have no idea that
the existence of two Secretaries of War
at the same time is such a calamity that
| the country could not bear it for a
while. Pennsylvania had two Legisla-
lures in 1888, and two Adjutants Gen
eral ubsequently-as had little Rhode
| Island two State governments in 1872.
all OF which both those States survived.
But we do object to the enormous ex.
pense of the delays in reconstruction
caused by the vagaries and disregard OF
law by our President, and see no eff
Gent remedy but his removal, by con-
stitutional means, from an office he
has disgraced from the day he entered
it
CFToni hs PtttsLur0h Commercially
Not since the downfall of the rebel
lion has :he public mind been. so pro-
fnnnFllEy xr,ftt, IS,
days, by the attempt of Andrew John
son, by usurpatiOD, to obtsin the con-
troll of the War Department.,
However much men NAV
differ in other respects, good citizens OF
all parties and creeds will be found
acting together in supporting the un-
mlstaRable commands of the law of
the land. Every private doubt and in
dtvidual construction-every personal
interest and party aim must go down
before the majesty of law. II disobe.
dtence by the ignorant and the humble
cannot be excused, when the Presi-
dent sets law at defiance, and with no
pressing necessity or public emergency
for plea, substitutes therefor hiS own
Will. and with all the power OF his
position attempts to execute 1t, what
but his speedy IMPEACHMENT should
follow? This Mr.. johnson has done,
ana congress, we are persuaded, is
peach him.
When we come to consider
the motives underlying this action aud
the end which, should it prove success
full, will be reached, we find every rebel
and every rebellious element in the
land applaudlng the President. The
bones of the dead rebellion are vitalized
by this act of usurpatfon,
As in the first dayn of the
rebellion, it is no less duty now to
stand oy Congress against the faithless
Executive. 1t is neither Radiculism
nor Conservatism, but the majority OF
the land-the Republic itselfSthat is
rnenaced. We feel persuaded, as we
have already said, that the Republicans
In Congress will do their duty. The
time has fully come when policy and
principle unite in support of the de-
mand for the removal OF Andrew John.
son from the Presidential office, accord
Ing to the forms of the Constitution,
and for reasons which are as manifest
as any that ever appealed to mems
senses.