New-York tribune., 1868-05-06

counterfeiters which he manages to pardon
every morning, but his crimes against the Ma
tiQpal. Reesa. rs,d vdjsait' ',,ay arrccU to wnvre
country. In the South he has made treason
honorable, and loyalty punitive. In his
public acts he has shown a want OF
faith which has lowered our government
system. In every department of the Govern
ment corruption pOurs its fostering current.
Men were first honored for being spies then ex-
alted for being panders, and finally asked to
climb into his very Cabinet by treachery and
self-abasement. The revenues were given over
TO thieves and jobbers. Men were retained in
office against the protest of their superiOrs
merely because they shouted "hail Andrew
johnson N every time they dipped their arms
into the Treasury. Take the Internal Revenue
systeml There is enough to impeach Mr. John
son in this Bureau alone. With very few exceD-
tions, it is well known-nay, more, it Is almost O
common proverb-that to be connected with the
collection of the revenues is to be engaged In an
unlawful business!
And so we drifted and drifted in one tumul-
tuous, torturing current-the Republic every
day losing the rare glories that came from her
mighty and just wars, and becoming the jest OF
kings and the sorrow of patriots, because of the
evil that was triumphing, and the scandal that
dwelt In high places. So one day the nation
rose against this ruler, and, spurning
the patience that had become cOwardice,
dragged him to the Senate. And there it stands
to- day and asks Justice. We demand justice
upon this man and peace to the nation. We
cannot have peace without impeachment. 1t Is
idle to use mincing phrases, or to hunt through
dusty folios for themes, and citations, and pro-
cedents or to find authorities that suit
the conscience of morbid, disappointed
Senators. We can pardon good deal
to the discomfort of men who believe that
Almighty God created them to be Presidents
Of the United States, and that they are only
kept out of their place by the perverseness OF
hard-heaIted and stiff-necked generation
We are willing to give their feelings the name
of "conscientiOusness," or to regard them as
highly-reGred lawyers in the distress of statutes
and pleas But we shall accept nothing OF
this in extenuation OF failure to punish this
man. now that we have delivered him bound
into their hands. To remand the-American Re-
| public to the custody of Andrew johnson, and to
| give him, in addition to the impulses OF his own
disoyal nature, the triumph of an acquittal,
would be to commit an act of treason only
equaled by that of Benedict Arnold. We have
no fear that this will be done. We shall do no
Senator, in whom we have confidence, the in
Justice to believe that he is base enough to
court dishonor, or stolid enough to feel that he
can make himself the defender and apologist
Of Andrew johnson, without standing 10y him
in history as the partner of his crimes.
This is the comment we make upon the
rumors of The Herald and The World. The
fact that one paper gives currency to stories of
Republican detection, while the other openly
advocates wholesale bribery as the incentive
to treachery compels us to say as plainly as
possible how such treacheIy would be viewed
by every loyal man. Impeachment or infamy!
This is the alternative of History, and Sena'
| tors must meet it,