The New York herald., 1868-02-24

1 ss"-Hcs the F0Opi0 speak.
The House Of Representatives will, il Ia ex-
pected, pass to-day by q party division the
resolution reported by Mr. Stevens from the
Reconstruction Committee impeaching Andrew
Johnson, President Of the United States, Of
"hgh crimes and misdemeanors.' This resolu-
ton will doubtless be followed by an indict-
ment from the House, as from the Grand Jury
Of the nation, resting upon the charge and
specifications Of Mr.. Johnson's violations of
the Tenure Of Office law in his official orders
embracing the removal Of Mr.. Stanton as
Secretary of War and the appointment in his
place OF General Lorenzo Thomas. This In
dictment will be presented TO the Senate, and
the Senate then, as the high court OF impeach-
ment (Chief Justice Chase presiding) will be
called upon to proceed to the trial Of Andrew
Johnson and the determination of his guilt or
innocence upon the charges preferred. If
found guilty he will cease to be President
OF the United States, and the President pro
tenn. of the Senate, Benjamin Wade, Of Ohio,
(who may now be called also Vice President
OF the United States), will take the chair in the
White House..
The temptations, nay, the necessities which
urge this revolutionary Congress to this ex.
treme measure, are 50 pressing that with tho
case upon which they are now proceeding it
Is not certain that this impeachment move
ment will end, as the two attempts hereto
fore made ended, in signal failure.
In the House debate on Saturday
there were no doubts or misgivings expressed
from the republican side. On the contrary,
the whole party camp betrayed the wild ex-
citement OF q momentous crisis and fixed
purpose Of speedy and decisive action. Com
bustibles, too, from the outside were brought
in to increase the 6re. A despatch, for in
stance, from the Governor OF Illinois was read
to this effect 1.-THE usurpations OF Andrew
johnson have created profound sensation in
the State His last act Is the act Of traitor
His treason must be checked. The people OF
Illinois, attached to the Union, I nrmly believe
will demand bis impeachment, and will heartily
sustain such action by Congress. The peace
ofthe country Is not to be trifed with by that
presumptuous demagogue," &c. Thus en-
couraged, Mr. Ingersoll, Of Illinois, thai terrible
radical declared that he SHOULD be grievously
disappointed II within ten days from this time
Old Ben Wade would not be performing the
functions Of President OF the United States"
"There was but one single issue to be tried
and upon this the President himself had fur
nished all the evidence necessary TO his con-
vction."
The impeachment, then, Is to be hurried
through but we shall be every much disap-
pointed" II Mr.. Ingersoll's expectations are
realized. Stanton himself stands committed
as constitutional adviser Of tse President
against this Tenure Of Office law as sn uncon-
sttutional act. Some Of the clcarest heads OF the
Senate on the republican side have expressed
their doubts concerning it. But before this
impending indictment from the House can be
pushed through the Senate the people will be
apt to enter into the general argument before
the court. The New Hampshire election QOth
OF March) is too far of. There is no time to
be lost, and from the visible and universal
commotion among the people Of this metropo-
lis the public mind is fully impressed with the
dangers OF the crisis and the necessity OF
immediate action. Hows Through the only
available constitutional method left the people,
Of immense mass meetings, here, there and
everywhere, and OF earnest and emphatic reso-
lutions against this impeachment and all the
other revolutionary measures and tendencies
OF this radical Congress. The city Of New
York, which gave, in her memorable Union
square mass meeting Of April, 1861, the grand
impulse to the war for the Union which saved
the Union from dissolution this imperial city,
we say, should, as she doubtless will In this
crisis, lead OF in another initial popular upris-
| ing in behalf OF the constitution against =
consolidated despotism.
What 10 the Executive Department OF The
United States government to-dayf Is 1t the
Presidential Office Of Washington, or Jackson,
or Lincoln! Mol II has been already Gu.
down by Congress almost to nothing The
President 10 snubbed by his military subordi-
mates, his orders are openly defed and resisted
by one OF his Cabinet officers, forced
upon him by the Senate, and his
military interiors, through his civil interiors
ignoring him as nonentity, communicate
directly their oficial proceedings to the two
houses Of Congress. Various bills ore pending
70 make the Supreme Court equally powerless
against any law Of Congress, however fla
grantly unconstitutional, or TO make this depar.-
ment convenient instrument OF the dominant
party in Congress. With these things before
US surely we have nothing to expect bui
revolutionary measures Of bolder character
with the removal OF President johnson; fol
then bare majority Of each house will be
sufficient for the radical programme Of Presi.
dent Wade and Senator Sumner--a programme
which unquestionably involves the extensi on
Of universal negro suffrage over oil the United
States by act OF Congress
Yet again, IL the friends Of General Grant
desire 20 assist In shelving bin as Presiden