The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-03-05
Impeachment but Part OF q Com
spiracy to Retain Possession OF
the Government In Defiance Of
the Popular Will.
From the New York Express.]

| p"D WIZ, auoplcl IcSOluIioH w lui-
peach the President for high crimes
and misdemeanors.
The indications now are that the So
called Senate will follow the lead ofthe
House, and so before the 9TH of March
next the country may as well be pre-
pared to see Mr. johnson elected from
office altogether, and Ben Wade sitting
in the Executive chair.
What thcnY What next?
We answer, the road will then be
clear for "thc Board Of Managers
| Chat is the phrase) to so manipulate
the next Presidential Election, as to ef-
fectually silence the voice of tnd Pco-
jp'e, and have everything their own way.
Already we have threats that the Dem
ocratic party will be looked upon as
part and parcel Of "the Rebellion" and
must be dealt with accordingly. Grant
will be made Military Dictator, and, be-
fore we are aware Oft, the same mana
cles which have been placed on the
down trodden people Of the South,
will be made to cncircle Northern lin
its. That is what we are coming to-
, cnd even now, we are not far away from
it.
The last Presidential Election hav
ing been carried by Fraud and Violence,
by Bayonets rather than by Ballots,
by Terror rather than by the untram-
melLcd will Of the Peope,-success has
made these dcmagogucs bold,-aye,
bold enough to try it on again. The
only impeachment in thei" way was the
Executive, and with his deposition, and
the intimidation Of the Supreme Court,
there is apparently no barrier between
them now, and absolute, imperial pow
cr.
AS things are going on we think it
is y matter Of some doubt even, wheth-
er the Democratic National Convention
will be permitted to assemble in New
York on the Fonrth Of July. 1t would
not be at all surprising fold Ben Wade,
then President, should send General
Butler here to overawe the People, just
as Stanton sent him by order of some
supposed military necessity pending
the last Presidential Election.
Yet with these probabilities confront.
ing us, III the near future, these Rump
Congressman threaten, if we dare even
talk of resistance, the resistance to
which, as defenders of the Constitution
and upholdors of the Laws, we may
rightfully resort,--to deal with us as
Traitors and Rebels.
1t may be, now, that the events ofthC
past seven years have transferred q ma,
ton Of ireemen into nation of abject
slaves, Itmay be that People who
were not ashamed to proclaim as vital
principle ofpoitical belief, "Resistance
to Tyrants is Obedience to Cod" have
been SO cowed by the tyranny which
has its heel on their necks, that they are
afraid to vindicate their right to self.
government. 1t may be that the ma
ton has lost its manlincss, it's unset
tishncss, and its patriotic courage,-but
we do not, we cannot believe it. 1t is
incredible that great People, who re-
fused to endure the comparatively mild
dcspotism of L British King, will sub,
mt,-cternally sUbmit,-to the baser
and meaner tyranny Of u Puritan Oil
garchy, which, we think it could with
out much difficulty, be shown, is main
ly indebted to Terror and the exercise
of brute force for the position which it
occupies.
There is one more opportunity about
to be presented to our countrymcn to
regain their lost liberties. We refer to
the approaching Presidential election.
That election, these Rump Congress DEM
agog0es may as weU understand at the
start, must everywhere and in every sense
Be free. They must not attempt, on
this occasion, to renew the system Of
Terror, whereby they reelected Abra-
ham Lincoln. They had better keep
their shoulder straps, their bayonets,
their General Orders, and their "a. A.
G.'s." out of sight. And above all,
they had better make up their minds
that tie Northern people are not goiny to
recognize for Presidential Election pur-
poses the Negro Governments which Mey
are engineering at the South. We are
perfectly well aware that it is part Of
the Conspiracy to count in the Electo-
raj votes oil these Pan-African despot-
isms,-but if the People do their duty,
by the 1st of January next we shall not
only elect President, but have Demo
cratic Governors in all the great North
ern and Western States,--in other
words, Commanders int Chief of the Mi.
litia of these States, and then, if the
Washington Junta think they can cheat
themselves into another fur years
lease of power by thus swindl,ng tho
People, they would do well to stop a
moment, and calculate the probable
cost.
If this great Government is really to
be upsct,-if its Constitution, once
deemed q miracle of wisdom, and a
thing almost too sacred to be rudcly
touched, is to be trampled under foot,
if the priceless boon of Popular Liber.
ty is to be taken away from us,-these
demagogues had better not delude
themselves into the belief that the sac.
rifice will be submitted to without q
struggle,-such q struggle US will be
como men determined at least to die, II
they cannot live, free.