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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
THE TRIRNNE.

We print triple sheet this morning, as the
only means of answering the demands of our
business. The opening of Spring seems to bring
new life into trade, and it looks as if all de-
partments of business would be marked with
unusual activity. Although we print In our
ordinary double.sheet the largest news
paper in the country, we have been ham
pered for room during even the dullest
months of the Winter, and our
advertising friends 80 crowd us that we
can only find relief in an extra sheet. While
our advertising has grown, our circulation has
increased with more marked rapidity. Since
the beginning Of the year we have added $3.50
subscribers to our weekly edition, while in our
daily edition alone we have in the last month
gained nearly ten thousand subscribers So
that to-day THE TRIBUNE stands at the head
Of the press as the most widely circulated
newspaper in the country.
We need not dwell upon the reasons OF this
prosperity. We try very hard to make an un-
surpassed newspaper. We spend great deal
OF money in the effort and, to be sure, lind
pecuniary account in the expenditure. Look
at this mornings paper, for instance. The
reader has all the world at his breakfast table
The proceedings In Congress and Parliament,
the speeches of Butler and Stanley, affairs at
home and abroad, the mightiest events of an
empire, and the humble story of the police
court, yesterday, as it was here and thousands
of miles away, all carefully printed as 1t comes
to us by telegraph and post. A great newspaper
is a commonwealth. There is something I'M
perial in the resources which science and en-
terprise place at It's command. Great armies,
and squadrons on the sea, the mighty drama
in Washington, and the distant wars OF Africa
yea, all the world around us-the world OF
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the statesman leading Senates, tho gosslper with
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reader take this mornings TRIBUNE and trace
it's story Of war and peace, wisdom and anger,
marriage and death. He cannot but appreciate
the subtle and majestic influence called 1.-The
power Of the press"
We appreciate highly the confidence with
which we have been honored. We have tried
to deserve it BY making good paper and
speaking the truth within US.
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ALABAMA,

The ". ?. Times skillfully states the case OF
the Copperheads persus Congress. in the mat
ter of the Alabama Constitution, as follows:
"Mr Stevens has introduced bill admitting Alabama
under her former election and imposing upon her people
NOT easy TO conceive OF more fraudulent unusfabe
political proceeding than this. Congress enacted law
TO majority Of the registered voters the Constitution
shoud not BIO adopted Those opposed to the Constitu'
ins out their views sostanod from voting. They were
entitled TO DO this by the lswere In fact INVITED 70 oS
Mr. stevens to repudlate openly and shame
% the 81 ts "a III M
to DO heartily ashamed Party necessity may 40
but cannot give sembsn0e Of decency to such pro-
This would be clever. il it did not lack
the vital elements of fairness and truth.
"Those opposed to the Constitution" did not
pursue and achieve their end in the manner
set forth by The Timer Had they done so.
they would have given at least plausibility to
the case made out for them by their attorney
In fact. But they-cOnstituting the employing
class almost entire-prOclaimed in advance that
they would deprive of employment the tens OF
thousands of INDECENT, industrious RepubG-
cans who tenanted their premises and lived on
their wages. il those dared to vote for the Con-
stltution. Their journals proclaimed this and
the threat was widely executed. A friend who
was in Mobile on the day of election saw forty
men discharged from one cotton-press directly
after voting, and expressly because they did
vote, for the Constitution. Thus thousands OF
Republicans were compelled to abstain from
voting OH peril OF starvation. The Winter
was q hard one; the croDs had hoon very light,
vet cotton was cheap; employment was scarce,
wages were low, and very poor chance OF
wintering over TO any poor family whose head
was out Of work. The poor Whites were
openly npnaced with the blacklist and social
ostraclsm if they voted; and those threats were
made good. Every Black whose name was
registered inaccurately was challenged of. In
several Counties, the polls were not opened
nor kept open as they should have been. And
thus the vote for the Constitution was reduced
ut least 10000 below what it would have been
if the Rebels had merely "abstained from
voting Mr.. Stevens gives the Constitution
credit for the votes whereof the Rebels by
foul means deprived it. We do not deprecate
the hostility of The Times; we only protest
against it's defiance of candOI and truth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
GOOD SENSE FROM THE SOUTH

The Southern papers, among which may be
named The Charleston Courier aud Richmond
Vhig, give evidence Of having become pos
sessed of right ideas with regard to the cause
of their difficulties and the means for securing
a return of prosperity. Spring, they say, Is
about to open, and they urge all who are en-
gagged in agricultural industry "to devote
"themselves to the great work of production
"as they have never done before" 1t is recon-
mended that variety of crops be put in tho
ground, in order that among many some may be
secured beyond contingency. In particular are
young men out OF employment advised to
assist in cultivating their fathers farms, or to
combine In parties to rent And ~vrh land on
their own account. The Wing says There Is
"great need for the application OF all our pro-
"ductive power, and in all ages farming has
"been dignified and adorned by the connection
with it of patriots and good men, The Courier
reminds the Southern people that bad legisa-
ton did not produce the cotton worm, nor DIS
organized labor the low price OF cotton; for had
two thirds of a crop been raised, and reason
able price been obtained, there would have
been plenty throughout their country. As for
the freedmen, the reasonable remark is made
that, "bom in Slavery, it is hardly to be won
"dered that they were anxious to show they
"were free by refusing to work for their former
"masters Sooner or later they will learn that,
"to live upon the produce Of the ground, the
"ground must be cultivated, and that in patient
"to they must look for their independence
"snd the comfort of their families. but if they
will not learn this they will be destroyed by
"their own folly. and their places will be filled
"by others
These few lines contain the wisdom by which
national and individual prosperity are founded;
and If it is accepted and acted upon by the
different classes of the Southern people, the
work of reconstruction will, in great degree,
be accomplished by themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

Earopc-Letters from our Special Correspondent
in Paris. and Ne,os from Great Britain, Ger.
many. The Papal States, Austria, Turkey, and
Russia, Tho Mississippi Suspension Bridge,
The Pacific Coast, Presbyterian Contention ~ in
New Department System in Navy Yards. A
Letter from our Special Correspondent in Bos-
ton, The Massachusetts, Legislature, Lath and
Plaster Superseded, Venezuela. and Diamond
Robbery IN broadway on the third page Bay;
Items, Fioridd-Letters from Scion Robinson.
Life al the Capital. Letter from an Occasional
Correspondent. General He,cs. and THE WEEKLY
tribune for 1858 on the fourth; Political, Tho
Fashions, Our Ferries. The Cost Of Labor a
pie, and other matters on The ninth and Tara
ton of United States Bonds. Andrew johnson
and, Gen. BuIel and Fagily Markets o" tho
tenth q 2-r1- -H~'S-
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and removal from Office, although they might
not constitute "crimes' in the eye Of the law.
The power Of impeachment may fifty be en-
ployed to abate gigantic and intolerable nui-
sanco az well as to degrade criminal.
If not, it is a mere scare-crow. For Presi-
dent who should commit felony being there
upon convicted and sentenced to State Prison,
corld hardly avoid vacating his Office. But
that is not the object of the impeachment pre-
scribed and provided for in the Constitution;
for, if it had been, the provision would have
contemplated impeachment after conviction OF
crime in the ordinary civil tribunals, and not
impeachment, conviction, and removal first
and trial in the civil courts afterward
But The Tines has another trouble of the
apprehensive sort, which it sets forth as fol-
lOwsl .......,......-.-....'
"The misfortune Of such proceeding will be that 1t
will render the public mind familiar with the idea OF I'M
a h cnSHous s before Els term has
expired and In advance Of the regular Presidential cleo
and Congress by sucent msorties Of the other people
will come TO tpk the President may be imprisoned, ana
the two departments OF the Government thus prousn'
into political harmony"
How can the President "happen' to be OF
one party. and Congress, by sufficient MAORI
"aes, of tho other when the same people
elect President and Congress, and in good
part at the same timef We defy any one
to show how this is likely to happen
unless tho President shall betray, desert and
turn his official power against. those by whose
favor and votes it was Confded to him. And.
whenever that shdH happen we trust tho
President will DO impeaohed and kicked out
the sooner tho better. ......'.............'.
Bat may not the President, like any other
"citi.en. change his partyf May he not see light
to-day which was hid from his eyes yes
"terday y Grant this case supposable we in
sist that he, il an honest man, will say 81
"took this Office under mistake find that
81 cannot oonscientiously fulfill the expecta-
"tions which those who elected me were justi-
"fied in entertaining 80 give it up. and TO-
"claim my right to act with perfect freedom
This is what an honest convert while in office
from one party to its antagonist would do.
Contrast it with the policy of johnson, Dixon,
Doolittle. Norton g. Co., and judge between
them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

Before the Legislature adjourn We beg OF
them to do something to prevent the Internal
torture of dumb beasts by the Railroad Com
panies Of this city. We ride almost daily upon
some of these lines, and know from our own
observation that outrages the most tiagrant are
of constant occurrence. A hundred passengers
are taken in and on car, and these are hauled
by two WORKOUT horses. The lash and the
butt of the whip are freely applied, and from
one end to the other of the road it is curse
and whip and whip and curse, until the
wretched animals are utterly worn out and sent
away to die. We ought to have law specify
ing the number of persons who shall be ad-
mitted at one time to a car-say the - who
can be seated, and not more than 10 standing
up these, with driver and conductor, make: 40,
averaging $50 lbs. each, or 6,0O0 lbs, be-
sides the car. Let us have such law. and
fine the violator $1,000, half of which shall go
to the Association for the Relief OF the Poor,
o quarter to the prosecutor, and quarter to
the City Treasury, and there will be a sudden
and effectual reform, not only for the relief OF
the wretched horses, but for the universal COM
plaint of crowded cars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

SENATE, March ia number of petitions
and memorials were introduced.
The Senate insisted on it's amendment to the
Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill.
At o'clock the Chief-Justice took the chair,
and the impeachment TRIAL was proceeded with.
HOUSE, March i8-The report Of the Com.
of Mira. Cen Anderson (for property destroyed
in Che Seminole War. after being discussed at
length was informally laid over.
A resolution that the House in a body attend
the impeachment trial each day was introduced
but not considered q motion that to-day the
members proceed 10 tho Senate In q body was
agreed to, and on the receipt of o message
from the Senate that IL was ready to begin
the impeachment trial the House resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole, and pro-
ceeded to the Senate Chamber.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

There are some happy dispositions which And
cause for thankfulness in oil the miseries Of
human life, but it was reserved for Earl Mayo,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, to make drunken
ness matter of official qualification, and to
find thrift and prosperity at the bottom Of q jug
Of whisky. In the debate on Irish affairs he re-
ferred the other night in Parliament to the in
creasing consumption Of ardent spirits a. 9
proof Of the material welfare of the Irish
people. Hard drinking he considered an evi.
dence Of comfortable condition of society.
and we suppose his remedy for the Irish diff
Guilty would be to make punch so plentiful that
there should not he q dissatisfied man nor
a sober one in the whole island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
GROUNDS or IMPEACHMENT,
To N. Y. Times sees fit to say that

"a President chosen is not fastened the
service. unless the people see at to reflect him.
This Is the mode provided for getting rid Of an ncom
other remedy Is provdied--lmpeaoh mens and removal
from once This wa: evidently intended e Be- on eT
IRENE remedy for an extreme case; and all writers Oh
public affairs concede the necessity Of 90 regarding It,"
These positions rest markedly On the simple
assertion of The Times. They are directly con.
troverted in the ablest Democratic speech made
in Congress this session-that of Judge Wood.
ward of Pennsylvania. More than that: They
seem to lis wholly unsupported by the Federal
Constitution. All it says on the subject is as
follows.
Art L. IS. Clause 9. The Senate shall have soss
purpose they .h oath or When tho
PRECEDENT Of the United States tried the
the concurrence Of twothrds Of the members present
~ Judgment In eases Of impeachment shall not extend
to hold and enjoy any oos Of honor trust or profit un
der the United States; but the party convicted ,ha
jud smens ana J punishment, according to law"
Art II g. Clause T. ThesPresdent Vice Pre, 20
moved nom ONCE on impeachment for and conviction
pssanors."
Suppose President should become o low,
debauched sot, Keeling about the streets and
vile resorts OF Washington, belching out bias
phemy and obscenity, to the disgrace and
scandal of the American People, might he not
thereupon DO impeached, convicted. and re-
moved from office We insist that he could,
and should. -
Suppose President were to reel drunk into
the Senate, and there persist In making o
beastly, incoherent, maudhn harangue, at once
senseless and nauseous, might he not be i'm.
peached therefor, and, on conviction, removed
from object We hold that he could, and
should.
There are many other outrages on propriety
and decency that President might commit,
which would Justly suhioct him to impeaehmsnt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

for Grant OF Sheridan. Everywhere, the military
power is ruled by the civil law. The very
military governments in the South are the
creatures Of Congress, and perish when Con-
gress chooses. There is no soldier m the army
of the United States who dares to draw his
sword unless the Republic gives him the order,
or who would dare refuse to sheathe it when
the Republic commands. Precisely the same
elements which make 1t apparently impossible
for military usurpation to succeed in the
United States, will in time disprove Mr.. Ste
vens's theory. -Four years hence, unless we
vastly mistake, new issues will be determined
in the Presidential election; and it Is not likely
that the generals who commanded armies in
1854 will command conventions in 1872. The
President who is then to Be elected may have
served In the War of the Rebellion, but not
because of that service will he be chosen.
The desire Of the people of the United States
is Peace They honor the Army-not as the
French honor their armies, for the glory won
but for the peace it established. We cheered
when Vicksburg was taken, and when Sherman
marched to the sea not merely because these
were splendid triumphs OF war, but because
they were steps to peace, and brought us near
to the happy time when the terrible drum
should cease to roll Its muttered thunder
through the land. Long before the war ended,
the heart of the Nation yearned for peace; and,
now that she has come, with Freedom for all
her companions, We have no fear of war
wsged in the interest Of despotism. This is
not country 6t for Napoeon's purpose. 1t
is country where the greater the law
breaker may be, the greater we hold the crime.
When we find President who would play
Napoleon, we impeach him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
SENATOR WADE's POSITION

The Washington correspondent of The Bos-
tor Post says that In Conversation, on THURSDAY. ME-
Wade remarked that since the impeachment Of the Pres
don, he had been bese BY snss 20 nsS
mot moment No could call his own. M wade pro-
nsuncsd "A utterly without foundation the
that 10 had intention Of rsnn q saa q n ne no %
isS him in e yoteS which might 10 taken during the
mpsaohnisM TRIAL When asked what he thought Oh sns
defense ~ shasSsaa BE vote be rsPaee & Az he
Ccnshtlon gave every stAts IN the Union two yos:
aud that could not be deprived Of her eQsSi ~
the scuhe1 Hates 70 be Represented when y snap So
that that youd sdpit Of no discussion Inc REUSE
Ia anterts I'm any such dueS0oA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
TdyTyG N1TIONAL BONDS.

We publish elsewhere an elaborate and ex-
haustive argument going to show that under
our National Constitution not only have the
States no right to tax national securities, but
that Congress cannot constitutionally confer
such power upon them. The power to tax
national securities is one of the attributes OF
national sovereignty which the States cannot
exercise and Congress cannot delegate to them
without violating that clause OF the Constitu-
ton which makes the National Government
supreme over the States in the exercise OF all
its delegated functions. The arguments against
the eIpedency OF taxing national securities
are or strong as those against its constitutions
atty. 1t would lead to their taxation at dif-
ferent rates in the various States, and cOnse-
quently would drive them out of the States in
which they are heavily taxed into those in
which they are taxed less. As the bonds held
abroad cannot be taxed, it would tend to drive
O still larger proportion of our national debt
int the hands of foreigners, and to increase
the drain of gold necessary to pay the interest
TO our foreign creditors. The taxpayers would
save nothing, as whatever might be the tax
levied on the bond, II would be added to the
amount of the interest which Government has
W pdys ana % "ouiu ui'n'"eSAy po ""i'Ne'NsA
from the present taxpayers. a loan which
might be effected at five per cent, II subjected
to tax of one per cent, can only be effected
at six per cent, and the additional one per
cent is paid by the tax payer. Or if the loan
10 already negotiated, the taxation OF the bond
holder may accomplish virtual reputation
Of part Of the interest. and dishonest saving
TO the Government for the time; but when
the Government is obliged to renew its loans,
as 1t constantly must, any regulations 1t may
have been guilty of are charged against it by
the public creditor, and form an element in
the terms on which he offers the loan. The
experiment Of sustaining the Government by
taxing it's own debts 10 q repetition OF the
vagabond's policy Of living on the interest OF
what he owes. 10 has never yet been profit
able or respectable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

postmaster-t,, neral Randall told gentle
man. the day befor.N the New-Hampshire cleo.
ton, that he had such tfull returns from every
postmaster in that State as made it certain
that the Democrats would hare a minority OF
over 5,OOO-that there had been perfect revo-
luton in public sentiment, and that the coSntry
would be astonished at the election returns.
What does he say nowf What will he No
with his poor postmasters Had MT he better
turn them out and put in some Radicals who
know more of arithmetic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

An appeal has been made to the public in
behalf of Berea College. Kentucky. We
think 1t merits attention. This Is on institution
which recognizes no distinctions Of color, aud in
which the freedman has an equal chance with
the white man In the struggle for education
The slaves of Kentucky, under the old state
Of things, were generally moro intelligent,
painstaking, and laborious than those of other
payts Of tho South; families were. for tho
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

The trial Of Andrew johnson before the
Senate on the Articles of Impeachment e1hib-
tied against him by the House of Representa-
tives was fairly opened yesterday. The Presi-
dents counsel appeared and asked post
ponement of the trial for forty days to prepare
the case. Tho Managers of the House opposed
any continuance. and the Senate, after delib-
Grafton with closed doors, agreed to an order
for the trial to proceed on or before March 20.
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AS an evidence Of the absence of partisan
ship on the part of the Democratic Senators.
we notice that the Democrats are voting in q
body on all questions. The Republican mem
bers divide as their judgment leads them; the
Democrats stand together. Which side shove
partisansbipf