Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-01
ANOTHER AND GREATER IMPEACsI-

ANOTHER AND GREATER lMPEACAI.
MENT.
Under the forms of the constitution
a rumpo OF the American Senate is organ
izing itself as a High Court Of Impeach- |
Iaept 20 try the President of the United |
States upon frivolous and partisan
charges preferred liy rumP House Of
Representatives Judge Woodward, Of
Pennsylvania, in his speech on Monday,
assumed the true ground when he de-
clared the House Of Representatives as
at present constituted, incompetent to
arraign, and the present Senate incom-
potent to try. He was bold to advise the
President To refuse to submit 90 such
jurisdiction, but he wis right in that too.
Should the proceeding now inaugurated
come to naught, it will 60 into history as
a disgraceful farce. If it be prosecuted
to an attempt at removal, II will be a
tragedy, mayhap a bloody one hat in any
any event fatal to the charter Of
American liberties It viii be the
Triumph pf o. faction, which haT"
ing obtained temporary power in
the legislative secuted he judiciary,
and o7ershrew the Executive Depart
meut Ahsr sueh precedent there can
he Tao reguIated III rty, The nation is
shsn the SNORT al IL tons The one in
power. ana there Ihhy be dozen in
twelve month, can 10 what it pleases 1t
will be the Inauguration cf anarchy and
@ chaos come AGAIN, with its dread cons
comitant--despatiam --treading close np-
on its heels. r r-F 60
But Pari Pdssn with this Impeachment
vibrating between the comic and tragic,
there Is another one afeot 1t admits Of
noquastion, neither astot the power fthe
tribunal nor tie motive of the inquest
Its object ie neither to trihe nor to de-
stroy, bat 70 save lis the grand Assize |
Of the nation "a November appointed by |
the organic law, and in which the people |
are triers and accasers-indge, jury and |
minister Of execution TO this supreme |
and ultimate trihdna! the proceedings
Of this arrogant Congressional High
Court win be submitted, and before It |
will be arranged all their aidera, abettors |
and advisers. As the people watch this |
show at Washington, let them proceed |
with thu organization Of the Higher |
Cont The great criminal ia the Radical |
party ithas been in career Of crime
well on to seven years, and is guiltless of |
none in the catalogue Of political offen~
ses
The New York World tins indicts and !
opens The prosecution
Disunion prolonged 10 keep The Repuh-
lican party IA power negro supremacy |
worked By military despotism 10 keep the |
Republican party in power after disunion |
becomes impossible; these are the high |
crimes of the Republican party, these the |
misdemeannrs of the Ramp. These high |
crimes ard misdemeanors Of their own |
they nov seek TO abet vet draw attention
from, BY their SENSATIONAL Impeachment Of |
the PRECEDENT Of the United States.
Their charges against Presi dent johnson
are trash II il scandaldns efrontery 10
utter or to urge them. They deserve not
the dignity OF a fat denial. Ii IS an insult
TO the understanding OF any man to demand
their disproof The obstinate defender of
the constitution they impugn az its viola
tor. Their charges are trash, as their
schemes are glass fh
Not he is the criminal They are the
traitors. The Rnmp Congress are usurp.
era and revolHtionists. They band to
geiher and boot their scandalous and i'm
pudent lie in the face Of the nation, against
the Chief Magistrate whose crime for them
has been that he has upheld and obeyed
the supreme law-!hat he has refused TO
conspire with them in disobedience and
disunion, in usurpation and treason.
Let the people keep their eyes on the
real traitors and the great crime Let
them watch the genuine criminals as they
20 through their solemn moCkery of i'm
peaching him who refused his consent to
every step Of their crime. Let them fasten
their gaze on the usurpers, the traitors, the
disunionists, who make Of this solemn
procedure of an injured nation the instru-
ment Of their hate against the steadfast
upholder Of the nations laws. Mark the
revoluiiouists of the Rump as they insult
The face Of day with the pretense of a CON
Germ for the laws which in their hands
have been nothing but the record of a
party caucus and the register of party
plans-for the Constitution which is every
where rent with the trampling Of their
brutal heels. .EEaE s4r
Let the sensaton-spectacle of great
impeachment 90 on. Let traitors be the
ministers OF Justice, let usurpers affect re-
gard for the divisions of power in the
structure they have undermined, let revo-
lutionists uphold the Ark of The Covenant,
let faithful Chief Magistrate stand in the
dock, and Chief Justice preside who is
ambitious Of his chair; let the amazing
mocEery 60 on, but refuse to be deceived by
the DISCUSSES Of their role O fellow-citi-
zens and forget not for a day the real
and their high crimes.