New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-26

and the provost marshal Lands are
shrinking in value. The owners have
no money to cultivate them, and people
who have money, and who would gladly go
into the South, and make its dreary and forsa-
ken fields to blossom like the rose, do not care
to accept the enmity that awaits them, social
ostracsm, military law. the sharp and quick
rifle-shot of an ambushed murderer. No one
cares to be party to another Memphis and
New Orleans massacre, especially when
he finds assassination applauded by the
President The South wants money,
men, order, reconstruction. Thus far she has
been the victim of Presidential caprice and OF
restless demagogism. Take Alabama, for in
stance But for Mr.. johnson, Alabama would
now be in the Union, side by side with Maine
and Illinois, with loyal men in office, the wheels
of government moving smoothly, the courts In
session, and every incentive to capital and In
dustry. Yet now by the direct and persistent
interference of the President, Alabama verges
mon anarchy. The Rebel looks to
the President for help, and wars
upon the loyalst the loyalist resists tho
interference, and leans upon Congress. The
struggle of war il continued in peace-the strife
of the bullet is succeeded by the strife of the
ballot. Impeachment will end this. The Rebel
viii see that nothing is left but obedience, the
States will be brought back TO the Union, and
loyal men will be confirmed in their rights by the
power Of the United States.
Impeachment is the supremacy of the Ia,c.
Heretofore the laws have been executed
in purposeless, fUrtiye, petulant way, without
heart or sympathy. The President has en-
forced some of them to the letter while he
has broken them in the spirit. Whenever sol
der like Sheridan. or Sickles, or Pope
really attempted to do what Congress de-
sired, he was stricken down as an en-
envy, driven disgracefIly from en-
ployment, and, a. in the case OF Sckle5,
robbed of the stars which he Won by his
blood. Soldiers like Hancock were deputed to
enforce laws they despised. and their ambition
tempted by eulogies and breyets, and pros
pectve nominations for tho Presidency Recon-
struction was thus made to - < and lag, and
halt, until men grew weary and sick, aud des-
paired of any true settlement The worst
passions were famed into hateful flame,
and when the President was not yehe-
mently urging the execution of Sumner. and
Pbilips. and Stevens, and defending the mas
sacre of harmless negroes, his organs, like Ihe
National InteIligenccr, were filed with indecent
dcnunciations Of the truest and the purest OF
our statesmen. TO crown it all. we had an as
sumption, which would be tyranny even in
despotic France, that no law was binding I'M
less the President was directed 10 execute 1t
by tho Supreme Court The Constitution was
stricken down-forw while the Constitution limited
the Presidents optional jurisdiction over
the law to the veto power, and MADE
final execution mandatory. he contended that
he had the veto and judicial powers COM
bined. There will be an end of that fallacy {;
and from this time through nll time Presi-
dents of tho United States will be taught that
when two-thirds of the House and Senate
agree upon law. their duty is to execute it
until restrained by the Supreme Court.
Impenchment means the triumph Of Rcpub-
Iican institutions. Republican government has
stood many cruel tests 1t has sustained
Slavery and destroyed Slavery; it has varied
upon foreign governments, and suppressed do
nestle instruction it has passed through
the mightiest war of modern times. and
survived social revolution it has an
swered every form of government and
now 1t proposes to depose trcacher-
GUS Chief Magistrate. France removed her
tyrants by bloody and maddening revolution
only to see newborn liberty torn from her en-
brace, and stihed by the gaudy and dazzling
despotsm of an empire. England only sue
ceeded in destroying the tyranny of the Stuarts
by revolutions which brought with them wars.
and social turmoils, and rebellions repeated by
three generations. Mexico has seen twenty
revolutions and enervatiug wars, COM
merce destroyed, industry paralyzed, traitors
in council, thieves in office. banditt on the
highway, and, finally, foreign army on her
shores, foreign prince in her palace, her
noblest sons massacred and in exile. Freedom
still remains an experiment with her. Free
America will show the world that by the gentle
operation of law, her chosen Chief Magistrate,