The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-28
FAINT SUPPORT FROM THE REPUBLI
CAN PRESS

Congress. The New York Tribune Is the only
one which enthusiastically supports the radi-
cal precipitators in the work OF removing the
President because he would not consent to
abdicate his most essential executive functions
in favor of Grant, Stanton and company.
Mr. Greeley, with the instructive prediction
for wrong movement which inspired his ia
nous cry of son to Richmond" screeches
characteristic hurrah to the impeachers, and
avows that he would rather see his party
broken to pieces and dispersed in the wilds
of Sahara, than to see Republican congress-
men save it from destruction by so far defer
ring to public opinion and expediency as to
forbear from infict:ng official death on Mr..
johnson for presuming to be master in his
own presidential household 1t is no wonder
that SO inyeterate political Africanizer as the
editor of the Tribune, should think of the
great African desert as a fit place for the lost
| tribes of radicalism to evanesce into invisible
martyrdom and glory. He is evidently re-
| solved to Africanize American politics actu-
ally, or to Africanize his party metaphorically
the sense above indicated The country
| will not mourn if his ferocious howl for i'm
parchment in this case shall result in the
latter alternative. Shrewd Republican leaders
will see something ominous in an impetu-
osity Endorsed and instigated by the jour-
nalistic inspirer of the ''On to Richmond"
rashness; and they may, not without reason,
believe that to heed his advice in this in
stance will conduct to political Bull Run"
Among the Republican journals which
openly deprecate the course of the Repub-
lican majority in Congress with reference to
the Stanton affair. is the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, which, if sometimes stigmatized as con-
sentative by such journals as the New York
Tribune, is still radical enough to be friendly
to the election of Mr.. Chase to the presi.
dency. We read in the Commercial of the
| 23d instant
Ofall the causes of quarrel that Congress has
he'd with the President, the removal of stanton is
the case in which the President has most sympa-
| tbizers. The universal understanding has been,
| from the beginning of the workings of our gov
erument that wherever the President was re-
stricted, he at least master of his own house,
hold and capable of making choice of his own
csbInet. The popular impression that he should
have that privilege, at least, is not rooted out.
According to the journal here quoted
the most popular and widely circulated Re-
publican paper, perhaps, in the West
the convictions and feelings of the people at
large are ON the side of the President in his
effort to protect his official home and family
from the impudent and indecent intrusion of
minion and spy of "a hostile faction in Con-
gress. We quote again from the remarks Of
the same paper ON the Gath and 23d:
The presence of stanton in the war Office ia not
essential 10 the safety of the country the saliva
ton of mankind. The last we heard from STAN
ton on the tenure of Office act, he thought il un-
constitutional majority OF the lawyers
throughout the country are Of that opinion now.
md aside from that, Stanton has been advised by
Generals Grant and Sherman to lelve the war
Office, and not insist upon being nomnally the
bead 81 8 department where 1t is hardly possible
that he can do the public any considerable SER
vice, and where he may be the occasion OF an
immense mischief. . Therefore, it
must occur TO ell who heartily wish Congress and
the country well out of this scrape, and who have
no objection whatever to dsposiDg of Andrew
johnson according to the plain provisions OF the
orgsnic law, so that he shall no longer be a dis
turbing element that il is pity, after all the pro-
vocstions he hes given, and the damage he has
done by the revival Of rebel hopes that the i'm
pending declaration of war against him by Con-
gress should not be backed by more satisfactory
preamble.
The following passage is especially signif-
cant and noteworthy:
In the air, the tone, and words of men oethe
streets yesterday-taken in connection with the
flying OF many flags. as it happened TO be Wash.
iDgton's birtbday-the days Of the first alarms and
excitements of the war were recalled With start
lirg force; and the reality OF danger certainly was
sufficiently great to induce, in the th0ughtfcl, the
ersvest solicitude and In the tmid the lveliest ap
prehension. That the day passed without any
very warlike demonstration, was a subject Of con.
graduation. There was not, though. as in the
days when sumter was fired upon and the people
called TO arms, an almost unanimous opinion that
| there was but thing patriots could do. The
question: ss IL is presented between the President
and Congress, ID one upon which ths. aud .essry
Northern community divides in sentiment There
il the danger; and therefore, the infinite import.
snce of proceeding strictly within the limits Of
The law.
So, the CLEAN Of war was visible In the
passing faces Of people in the West, when
they heard of the extraordinary and porten.
tous complication of affairs in Washington.
So, the looks of men, hurrying through the
streets, recalled the mOmentous period in
1861, when the battle spirit throbbed in the
veins and flashed from the eyes of Northern
millions, burning to vindicate the flag of the
Union defed, resisted, and brought to the
dust at Sumter. But there is a marked
difference between the two occasions;
difference pregnant with meaning and
consequence. Then, the war that was bodeC
was to be war of sections. Then, the Nortl
was, on the popular surface at least, prepared
to unite almost to a man for the coming con
test But now the signs portend civil, no
asectional war. Now, the North is thoroughly
profoundly, universally disunited on the
question at issue, and the portended conAic
of arms ensues, it will come home to the
heart of every Northern city, town and neigh
borhood. And, moreover, it is admitted b.
one of the cooler and more rejecting organ
! of the party whose incorporate and rasl
! policy threatens to precipitate the collision o
political adversaries armed with musket
| instead of with ballots, that the sympathies o
the masses are against this policy and on tn
side of the men and the institutions that i
aims to crush.