The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-24
From the Tribunc.]
II SITUATION,

The olICaIlON.
The next card may be impeachment
MI. johnson might as well understand
this before he forces upon Congress The
necessity. We trust wisdom will pre-.
vail. But if the President makes him.
self an "impediment," he must be
swept away. This is the logic Of the
hour. An issue has been forced upor
the President which he must answer
1.-The admits the right of Congress to
restore Mr.. Stanton, then he admits
everything. If he denies it, he places
himself in antagonism to the law, and
is guilty of misdemeanor.
If ANDREW johnson means to dey
this Tsnure-I Office law, and make a
var upon tie country, let lin do so If HI
dare, and take the consequences Ed
win NJ. Stanton is Secretary of War,
and he a only be removed by the
operation of law.
"Let Stanton reign" say some,
Hand thus tide over this trouble" We
beg Mr.. Stanton not to resign. If we
are to have q contest with President
Johnson of a decisive character, the
sooner it comes the better. We have
had enough Of patience, compromise.
f%orbearancc. Our cause is that of JUS
tice, and VIC owe the millions of help
less loyalists in the South too much to
see them sacrificed to the spirit of Sla-
very and Treason which now rules in
carnate in the person of Andrew John
son. Therefore, we say, let the Pres
ident, if he dare, put q finger upon Mr..
Stanton or Gen. Grant. We have sa-
crificed too much for freedom to see it
stifled in a night by these conspirators
against the public good. The men arc
enemies of the Republic. Under the
prctense of saving the country and ex-
ecuting the laws, they are laboring to
make the South a hell, to have race
to be arrayed against race, and ven
geance to take the place of Justice. =
Rather than see the Congress of
America conccde one element o fjustice,
or surrender n man to the tyranny
of the Rebel power, orpermit the Pres
ident to put a finger upon Mr.. Stanton
or Gen. Grant, we would accept any
political fate. This Congress cannot
recede. 1t cannot shirk its RESPONSE.
bility, and it must not be paralyzed
by concessions to a President who, find
ing he cannot rule the country, SEC ms
bent upon running it.
Therefore we admonish the Presi-
dent and bis midnight, back-stairs
c%ounsellors, like Black, and Coyle, and
Blair, to be cautious !-The next card
that Congress may play is Impeach-
ment. Its for MI. johnson to say
whether il shall be played or not"
(If this means anything, it means
THE REVOLUTION IS NOT TO 60 BACK
WARD. IT IS TO 60 oN.)
The "HERALD," too, is showing that
It is q necessary part Of the desperate
game the Jacobins are playing, to
GET RID OF THE PRESIDENT.
~<~ "All these startling revolu-
measures are directed to the
object Of rushing through with
out further interruption the rcconstruc.
ton Of the ten outside Southern Statcsi
on the basis of negro suffrage and ne
gro supremacy in order that said States
may be hurried into Congress and that
their electoral votes, through patch
up negro radical majorities, may
be secured to the radical candidate for
The Presidency. But suppose The Pres
dent and the Supreme Court assume
!he..responsibility and "apply the brakes
hard down" upon these unGonstitution-
Al d0ings of Congress, what then? I'm
luestionably. We think, at this desper-
tie stage of the contest, if ether the
or the Supreme Court shall
'fford . plausible pretext for impcach,
nent, this Last resort win be adopted
or in the removal Of Andrew Johnson,
Nd the sstting up ofss0ld Ben Wade"
q HE phase, he sdministsatiou viii not
MY b yeeoQstyuceo6 opon the p4dieolI