The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-27

poo'etY y $3.50 ~ AS'on We on"" no'
be surprised if the Hon. Ben Wade shall yet
be made master of the White House, and in
the interval to the approaching Presidential
election
Mr.. Johnson, in his late veto messages and
proclamations in reference to the reconstructed
Southern States, substantially takes the ground
that the State governments under which said
States have been readmitted into Congress are
illegal and void, and that the provisional gov
evnments organized under his policy are the
only local establishments which he can recog
niZe in his view of the constitution. 1t is
given out from Washington that within the last
three days he has expressed himself to this
effect, that he cannot consistently recognize the
up under the policy of Congress, and that,
consequently, he will be obliged either not to
hold any intercourse with them or address
himself to- the officers who, in his judgment,
are legally entitled to recognition is, the
officers under his provisional governments,
which were set aside and superseded by Con-
gress. On this tack, we say, it is not impossi-
BILE nor improbable that Mr.. Johnson may find
himself impeached, tried, condemned and re-
moved before the Sd of November.
Congress han resolved upon recess from
this day to the third Monday in September.
Let US suppose that during this recess the
State authorities of Georgia, for instance, set
up under the reconstruction laws of Congress,
are discountenanced by the opposition ele
ments Of the State; that the Governor and his
subordinates (the United States army being
withdrawn) find themselves powerless to en-
force their State laws; that q general refusal
to recognize them is infamed to an organized
resistance which cannot be overcome short of
shape Of soldiers; that the Governor applies
to the President for this assistance; that the
President declines to render It or to recognize
the Governor in this appeal, but that, in
recognizing as the legal provisional head of
the State his own deposcd Provisional Cover
nor, Mr.. Johnson shall reinstate him and his
will be the first proceeding in
the House of Representatives with the reas-
sembling of Congress in September? Assuredly
it will be the impeachment of Andrew John
son for the high crime and misdemeanor of
resisting and overthrowing the laws of Con-
gress end melting instruction, &C., the prose-
cution of the indictment under the late Com
mittee of Managers, and such shortening Of
the trial, under new rules Of the Senate, as
will bring about the conviction and removal of
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day of the Presidential election.
Conviction and removal, we say, because,
since the late impeachment trial, in which a
change of one vote would have put Mr.. John
son out and Mr.. Wade in his place, fourteen
ultra anti-Johnson radicals have been added to
the Senate, clamorous, all of them, for his
impeachment Now we have the evidence
before us, in his late veto messages
and proclamations of the ratification Of
the constitutional amendment by the re-
constructed States, that Mr.. johnson does
not recognize these new State governments,
but fatty denies their validity in the presence
of Congress. Is he likely, then, to recognize
them in the absence Of Congress No.
Should Governor Bullock, Of Georgia, In the
absence of Congress, apply to him for assist
ance, Mr. johnson may be expected to pay no
attention 10 the appeal. To answer it would
be to give up his whole case. 1t is altogether
probable, then, that during the recess OF Con-
gress such scenes of Generalization and con-
fusion in these reconstructed States of the
South will result from this policy that on re-
assembling in September there will be no
alternative left the two houses but the removal
OF the otherwise unmanageable obstruction at
the White House.
Down to this point, even in his proclama-
tions required by the law, Mr.. johnson sticks
to his policy and denies tho validity Of the re-
construction system of Congress. A call from
one of these new Southern Governors will put
him to the test, point blank, of surrender to
or defiance Of Congress to do its worst and
we have seen enough Of him to fear that what
he calls his consistency and regard for the con-
stitution he will follow against stone wall or
over q precipice. One would think that in
being cast of by the republicans and In being
overlooked by the democrats it has become
the policy of Mr.. johnson to be reve nged upon
both these parties in driving them in the South
to the verge of another civil war. From the
beginning, however, he has furnished political
capital to the radicals, when otherwise theii
own follies and blunders and botchwork would
have utterly ruined them. In the matter Of these
reconstructed States we have only to say to
Mr.. johnson that the further prosecution o.
his conflict with Congress, whatever may be
its effects upon the two great parties OF the
day, promises almost to certainty to open the
door of the White House for his expulsion and
| the introduction of the Hon. Ben Wade.
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