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Let lis reflect q moment how it would
work If r. John son were removed and
Mr.. Wade installed in the Executive
mansion. Suppose, Seward, Welles,
aStanberry and the rest should choose
to act upon Mr., Stanton's principle, and
decline to leave the departments of
which they are tie heads Would not
"bluff old Benz find it rather too empty
an honor playing fgure-head to an Adj
lninistratlon Of which each department.
was conducted as nearly as possible on
-Johnson's policyf If we repeal thelaw
for the sake of getting rid of the Cabi-
net, we should confess that our egislat
ton was purely partisan, and enacted
for the sake of trapping Mr.. johnson,
and not because we thought it good for
the country. i If we make the Senate
agree to Mr.. Wade's proposition that
they are not in harmony of sentiment
with the new President, we shall justi-
.fy Johnson's desire and attempt to re-
MOVE stanton for the same reason
Which horn of this dilemma will be a
comfortable one to be impaled upon in
the,pleasant days of next October /? We
venture upon the opinion that it is much
better to reflect rather carefully upon
this now than to take that. leisure for
repentance which proverbially follows
acting in haste. & There is, of course, a
class of persons to whom it is all-suffi-
..eient reason for any action that it puts
their own party Immediately in power,
and such we have no hope of reaching
by argument; but there are, fortunate
ly, very many whore who have am inter
est in retaining power in the hands OF
the Union men of the country after the
present year, and to such we submit
that the political profit and loss account
zrwould not look well if, on footing it up
next. fall, the loss of the Presidency or
theloss of a majority in Congress should
be found Oh the debt side, with nothing
but the fag-end of. Johnson's time for
Mr.. Wade to balance the books.
- 1fthe President in therelnoval Of Che
Secretary of War acted merely with
the intent of bringing the law before
the courts, he was in his right; but if
he acted with view, or shall act with
aview, ofassertingIhis own interpreta-
ton of the law by force, he is not in the
fright, and will not be upheld by public
opinion. In the former case, we hardly
see how he is liable to impeachment;
he is not opposing the law with a view
to annulling it. bat with view to test
ing it.; and while he confines his hostil-
ity to this limit he is at the most but
technically guilty of a'breach Of itsspro-
visions, If the. courts should decide
that the law is unconstitutional, there
is an end to his offence; but if they
SHOULD decide. that it is constitutional,
twill bestime enough then fur Congress
to inquire into the nature and degree
Of his offence. AS Mr Stanton, by the
arrest of Gen. Thomas, has appealed to
the courts, it is incumbent on all parties
to await heresult before either of them
resorts to other proceedings.
All this is simple enough, and the
difficulty may be easily settled; but
what we fear, sand wliat zexcites the
alarm of the public, is the,apparent dis
position Of Congress to precipitate The
Issue. The speeches OF Saturday, espe-
eially those of Mr. Brooks, Mr.. Farms
worth and Gen. Logan, were neellessly
violent. So grave aquestion as the
impeachment of the Chief Magistrate
demands the utmost seriousness and
vdecorum, calm consideration of the
grounds of accusation, and an entire
exemption from party bias and preju-
dice, The proceeding Us in the nature
!, of a judicial inquiry, and is not to be
prosecuted like a debate at the hustings
or street quarrel
% nBda4on the New yors Il Times II we u
There can be no doubt, we presume,
an any ones mind, that the Supreme
Court is the proper tribunal for the de-
.c;sioa Of the question involved in this.
! particular conflict between the Presi-
s-dent and Congress Il isnot q political
question in any such sense as could
.cxcIndc it from the jurisdiction Of that
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