The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-27
A Few Opinions Of the Press.

| A Few Opinions OF the Press.
The New York Herald, which changes
its tactics from day to day, says:
The temptations-pay, the necessities-
which urge this revolutionary Congress to
this extreme measure are so pressing that
with the case upon which they are now
proceeding it is not certain that this i'm
peachment movement will end as the two
attempts heretofore made ended-in sig
nal failure. In the House debate on Satur-
day there were no doubts or misgivings ex-
pressed from the Republican side. On the
contrary, the whole party camp betrayed
the wild excitement of a momentous crisis,
and fixed purpose of speedy and decisive
action.
The New York World says:
The crime for which the President is to
be impeached consists simply in the exer-
else of right which has been enjoyed by
all of his predecessors, and belongs to the
executive head Of every government in
the world. This right is called in ques-
tion by pretended law, which is in such
J fragrant violation Of the Constitution, as
Stanton, who is a lawyer, and has been At
torneyGeneral, advised the President to
veto it. And now the President is to be
| limpeached in Stanton's. interest because
he believes the law to be unconstitutional,
and Institutes proceedings to bring 1t to
judicial test. If the precedent now set is
to be followed, it will be in the power of
any future Congress to summarily eject
any future President. Congress has merely
to pass some unconstitutional law which
reverses the whole past practice of the
Government, and when the President takes
the first steps for bringing it to Judicial
test, forthwith put him out Of Office by ar
ticles of impeachment. We might as well
abolish the farce of Presidential elections
if Congress can thus unmake elected Pre-
sidents at their caprice.
The Wilmington (Delaware) Commercial
says:
This last act Of this mad w-de6er, dan
gerous and violent in his efforts to reestab-
lish a power which the American people,
after four years of fearful suffering, de-
stroyed, has united against him all sober
and law-respecting citizens. he has made
his own removal certain.
The Harrisburg State Guard says:
Let the men who were mustered out at
the end of the war again prepare to resist
treason for just as sure as we believe the
blood of Abraham Lincoln is on the soul of
Andrew Johnson, so certain are we that
he contemplates drenchiDg the country
once more in the blood Of civil war
The Reading Dispatch says:
We will hail the glorious morn when
the crisis comes which is to forever settle
this vexed question in our Government,
whether the people shall rule, or whether
the tyrant, despot, and usurper, Andrew
johnson, shall grind to dust the last vestlge
of republicanism.
The Lancaster Intelligencer says:
We do not desire to see the beginning
of new civil war, but we are not sure
that the shortest way would not be the
! best. We know such afeeling exists among
the masses, who are oppressed by the evils
the Radicals have brought upon the coun-
try. Should they dare to appeal to the
sword, they would unquestionably perish
| by the sword, and that very speedily.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says:
Impeach the scoundrel, and do 1t in
stantly
The PlttSburg Gazette says
In removing Mr.. Stanton and appointing
successor, the President has offered a
deliberate insult to Congress and courted
| impeachment.
The Lancaster Express says:
| We trust that this last act Of usurpation
on the part of Mr.. Johnson will settle all
doubt as to his impeachment.
The Pittsburg Republican says:
If he cannot sustain himself in this po-
sition, it is time the fact was known, and
the office of President abolished.
The Springfield Gll.) Republican says :
The country, not Congress nor the Re-
publican party, demands the removal of
the Chief Magistrate for the sake of the
national honor and dignity.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says:
No fears need be felt, if the President
has organized plan for an armed collision
with Congress, that he can succeed.
General Grant is commander of the army,
and the army connot be used by Mr.. John
son to carry out his reckless schemes.
The Erie (Penn.) Dispatch says:
IF impeachment is to take place at all,
it will take place now; and if the country
is to see the end of this difficulty without
lamentable results, it wants to see it very
soon.
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal says:
This extraordinary condition of affairs
forces an issue between Congress and the
President. We are not surprised that a
motion to impeach him was quickly offered
in the House.
The Buffalo IN. ~ Express says:
The lawless usurper must be taught to
exercise becoming respect for law and
right, cost what it may; and the world
must be brought to understand that this
Government is not one-man power, but
Republic, which rests with and upon the
people and their Congress.
The Boston Journal says:
The action of the representatives in this
undertaking (mpeachment) from begin
ming to end will be sustained by their con-
stituents. They may rely on that.
| The Hartford Post says:
1t is clearly the duty of Congress, with
out exhibiting undue haste or anger, to
assert its rightful powers under the Con-
stitution in such positive way as to end
forever this controversy between the ex-
ecutive and the other departments of the
| Government.
| The Boston Traveller says:
| But there will be no "appeal taken to