Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-18
SAUCE FOR THE aANDER.

hhhs huAo SShhoSl
defence Of himself which he sent to
the Senate, lost sight of the an
cicnt maxim about sauce for the goose
and the same treatment for the gander,
in his anxiety TO defend the Presidential
prerogative Of removing public officers
at will. In the course Of his argument
he says:
II, for instance, the incumbent Of an Of
fee be found to be wholly unfit to exerciscis
functions, and the public service should re-
quire his immediate expulsion, a remedy
should exis. and be at once applied. !.
So wholesome a power should certainly
not be taken away BY loose implication.
But suppose, Mr.. Johnson, that the
President himself, being mortal as other
men are, should prove to be wholly I'M
fit to exercise the functions Of his office,
is there not to be prompt application Of
a sufficient remedy? And suppose that
tho public service does require his inn
mediate expulsion, should there be DAM
aging delays and "demurs to j~urisdic-
tion," and threats Of the employment of
the army and navy in the resistance to
Congress, as Judge Woodward talked
about2
Leaving out of the question the men
who butchered Union soldiers on South
crn battle.fclds and starved them il!
Southern prisons, leaving out of con-
sideration tho Northern sympathisers
with treason and rebellion, who did oil
in their power to aid in the destruction
of the nation; aud, finally, excluding
from tho count the Bread and Butter
Brigade to whom official dirt is a dainty
meal, and there is scarcely an intelligent
man or woman throughout the land who
| does not hold that Andrew Johnson
stands in the precise predicament which
he describes rs being possible in the
case Of others, aud that he is wholly
unfit to exercise the functions Of his
high office. Let the Senate take this
bad President at his word, and let tho
remedy in the shape Of prompt expul-
sion BIO applied. The country wants
peace aud rest, and it can secure neither
whilo n faithless official and his conf
Dental organs are threatening revolu-
ton and attempting to enact it by an
impudent defiance Of the laws Of Con-
gress. All good and loyal men demand
that the action Of the Senate shall be'as
short, sharp and decisive rs the laws
will permit.
There is another feature Of tho Presi-
dents high crime and misdcmeanor
which does not appear to be generally
understood If it were oven admitted
that no has the right to break q law be-
cause he thinks it unconstitutional, or
that the Tenure Of Office law had actu-
ally been unconstitutional, it would
simply throw him back upon the law OF
1889, which was repealed by the new
law, and which would again become
operative, il the latter were proved null
and void. Now, the law Of 1889 ex-
pressly provides
There shall be in the said Department an
inferior officer to be appointed by the said
| principal officer, (the Secretary Of War; to
sk....n -. hn .hnIl daoD, nPnNar
| and to DO called tho chief clerk in the De-
partment Of War, and whof whenever the
said principal officer shall be removed from
| Office BY the President Of the United States,
| or in any other case Of vacancy, shall during
luch case Of vacancy have the charge and
| custody Of all records, books and papers APP
pertaining to the said Department.
This is clear enough. The chief clerk,
Mr.. John Potts, would, in such case,
have been the acting Secretary dd in
term, and not General Lorenzo Thomas.
Mr.. johnson has q sorry choice between
the horns Of his self.made dilemma and
the lesson which he is about to learn
will not only be a most wholesome one
to him, but will DO of incalculablc ad-
vantage to oil those who come after
him, in teaching them that the supreme
power of this country is in the law, and
in the virtue, intelligence and patriotism
Of the people who make the law.
The PoIsoS OF RATTLEsSAKEs.-Dr.
s. w. Mitchell of this city has just COM
pleted q second carefully conducted Sc
ries Of experiments upon the venom
of the rattlesnakc. The principal con-
illusions to which he arrives are ms
follows: First-There is no antidote
to this poison, the remedies usually
applied being nearly or entirely USE
less. carbolic acid, applied cxter-
nally, sometimes delays the fatal result
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