New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-09

the bill in the Senate. The admission of Ar
kansas will be the first fruit of the liberal
policy adopted by Congress in the Supplement
tary Reconstruction act of March 80, 1867.
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THE S7A1ESMANSHIP OF IMPEACHMENT.
We do not intend to be driven from our pO-
sition, nor to be led into angry and personal
issues by the concerted attack of the Democratic
press We are coolly charged with attributing
corrupt motives to certain Senators, and distin-
guished men are singled out as having incurred
in some special way the wrath of The TRIB-
UNE. All that is neither here nor there. We
have charged no Senators with accepting money.
We merely commented upon a statement OF
The World that large amount OF money was
about to be subscribed to compel the Presidents
acquittal and upon the current rumOrs that there
were men claiming to be Republicans who were
morbid and sick with dissatisfied ambition.
These things were not of our information.
They were in the mouths of all men, and the
agitation attending was universal We felt
bound in the interest of friendship and patriot
ism, to point out the danger which threatened
Senators, and the infamy with which they
were said to be tri1ing. But one illustration
came out of our history. If The WOrld-speak-
ing for the Whisky Ring and the gangs of
local, State, and national thieves for whom it
is the organ and apologist-came forward with
insidious suggestions and tenders of millions,
the least we could do was to illustrate the
career of the one American whose disappoint-
ment and cOnscientiOusnessn led him to sell
his country to its enemy.
Impeachment is craftsmanship justice-peace.
The logic of the Republican party brings it di-
rectly TO this issue. We should be very glad
to view it as merely an impartial and sponta-
neous work of the Senate. But the Democrats
will not permit us. They are the partisans in
this proceeding. They tried and acquitted
President johnson long before the articles
were read to the Senate. They fought I'M
parchment precisely as they fought the War
the Observation-Disclosures The vote in its
favor was as distressing as our victory
ut Gettysburg. The triumph of Lee would
have given them the mastery at the
polls, the triumph of Johnson would
have caused a similar result. All this clamor
and cant about the Constitution merely recall
the days when Yallandigham moaned over the
unconstitutional proceedings of Sheridan in the
Valley, and the extremely constitutional adj
regard fired his guns upon Sumter, he was
doing precisely what johnson did when he
removed Mr.. Stanton. The intent of one
was to test the legality of the election of Lin
coin. The intent of the other was to carry Ger
tain law to the Supreme Court. If we had fought
the war as the Democrats desired Mr.. Toombs
and his negroes would be quaTtered on Bunker
Hill. Ii we abandon impeachment, as they pro-
pose, we shall have Sheridan asking pardon for
his unlawful proceedings at Winchester. Loyalty
will become a crime. This vindictiye, petulant
furtive, bad President confirmed IN his illegal as
sumption of power, sustained by Republican
Senate, cheered in his madness and ambi-
ton, will have the country at his feet, and all
its resources the agents Of his malice and re-
venge. Oh, but, we are told, the men who
acquit Mr. johnson will give us assurances of
his penitence and comfy! This is an old
story We have had these assurances before
and coming from a man whose word Is OF no
more value than the ashes of his cigar, who
trusts nobody, and is trusted by no one we
cannot accept them.
For treason Is but trusted Like the fox.
Who. ne'er so tame, 80 cherished, aud locked up
VIII have a wild trick OF his ancestors.
If war was craftsmanship. what is Impeach-
mentf In what essential do the issues between
Bingham and Evarts differ from those between
Grant and Lee7 The hopes of loyal millions
hang as eagerly upon the success of lmpeach-
ment rs they did upon the issue of the war
Else wherefore the intensity of the national
feeling9 Why do we see the Republican
party incandescent with zeali Why is it
that every convention, every newspaper, every
public man, the solid mass of representatives
nay, the great and mighty people whose
voice they speak, demands Impeachment
with vehemenceR Is it the clamor
country rested with so much content and
patience impeachment is the within Of The
TRIBUNE All, gentlemen, this is honor over
much! Go to Wall-st., and you find gold
cheaper than when impeachment was proposed
The sensitive, varying, tickle money-ehangers
are as eager to scent danger as the stormy
petrol To them. Impeachment means conf
dence-security- times in trade. Acquit
the President, and throw the country back
to his unmolested control, and we shall have
panic in New-Yo surprising in fierceness and
misery any that the country has known.
Impeachment is Imperialism. Have we for
gotten that the very essence of this proceeding
is claim on Mr.. Johnson's part that he has
judicial cognizance of the lawsY This is but
small claim SO was that of Charles l. He
merely wanted to have judicial power over
shp-money trihng matter of pence in the
pound. Louis desired very little from the
States General. George III. wished the small
est possible revenue upon tea. These were all
unimportant matters-as trivial in themselves as
the claim of President Johnson The removal
of Mr. Stanton is q minor event. That states
man longs to retire Sick weary broken In