The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-28

nize the Governor in this appeal but that, in
recognizing as the legal provisional head of
the State his own deposed Provisional Cover
nor Mr.. Johnson shall reinstate him and his
policy--what will be the drst proceeding Of
the House OF Representatives with the reas-
semblng of Congress in September Assur-
edly it will be the impeachment Of Andrew
johnson for the high crime and misdemeanor
of resisting and overthrOwing the laws OF Con-
gress and melting insurrecton, ETC., the pro-
secuton of the indictment under the late
Committee of Managers, and such shorten
ing of the trial, under new rules OF the Senate,
as will being about the conviction and reno
val of the accused before the Sd Of November
the day of the Presidential election.
Conviction and removal, we say, because,
since the late impeachment trial, in which
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 pro.
clamations of the ratification of the censtitu-
tional amendment by the reconstructed 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 Congress2 No. Should Governor Bullock,
of Georgia, in the absence of Congress, apply
to him for assistance, Mr.. Johnson may be ex-
pected to pay no attention to the appeal. To
answer it would be to give up his whole case.
1t is altogether probable, then, that during
the recess of Congress such scenes of dem
raization and confusion in these reconstructed
States of the South will result from this
policy that on reassembling in September
there will be no alternative left the two houses
but the removal of the otherwise unmanage-
able obstruction at the White House.
Down to this point, even in his proclama-
tions required by law, Mr. Johnson sticks to
his policy and denies the 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
Constitution he will follow against a stone wall
or over a precipice. One would think that in
being cast off by the Republicans and in being
over ooked by the Democrats it has become
the policy of Mr.. Johnson TO be revenged upon
both these parties iu driving them in the
South 10 the verge of another civil war. From
the beginning, however, he has furnished poll
tical capital to the radicals, when otherwise
their 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 of his conflict with Congress, what
ever may be its effects upon the two great
parties of the day, promises almost to a GER
taiDty to open the door of the White House
for his expulsion and the intr oduction of the
Hon. Ben. Wade.