The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-05-28
IMPEACHMENT AS A FAMILY
FEUD.

....s..r. FEUD.
5. The apathy of the people about
impeachment has been yariously the
pretext for comment by writer's whom
the incidents of the subject have at
tracted more than the subject itself.
This Indifference arises from q con-
tempt for the character Of the prose-
cutors and their. charges !; the con=
viction of the partisan preiudgment
of the Senatorial tribunal and the
indisposition of the sovereigns TO be-
come excited over a shameless wash
ing of the private linen in public by
the wrangling members of Radical
administration. The Tribune de-
clares the democratic party have
given up the President in advance, y
The Democratic party cannot ''glve
up" cause which they have never
taken up with them. Impeachment
is a quarrel by and within the Re:
publican party. A President elected
by Republican votesis impeachea for
violation of a Republican law, in the
attempted removal of a Republican
officer. He is impeachod by:Rcpnb-
1ican Representatives, prosecuted ny
Republican Managers, mainly de-
Tended by Republican counsel, and,
if ifdeposed, will be removed by Re,
publican votes. as well as succeeded
bya Republican Senator. ii.'fg
The Republican cast.of Mr.. john
sons administration can. be deter,
mined from the agents he has appoin-
ted to carry out his acts. 0urrevenue
service at home and our diplomatic
appointees abroad fail to reveal in
any prominent positions, if any posi-
lion at all, other than Republican
incumbents..
At London, Pekin, Berlin, Paris,
Lisbon, St. Petersburg, the Hague,
and elsewhere, at lesser places, the
policy of the administration has sent
the proteges or continued the ap-
,,ointees of the late Mr.. Lincoln,
"he very cabinet of the President
does not contain statesman who did
not ardently support the Republican
party at the last Presidential election
and as ardently oppose the candi-
dates and the platform Of the Demo
cratic party who are now gratuitously
charged with deserting cause they
have never made their own.
Thereal position ofthe Democratic
party in this impeachment business
is entirely defnable, and their pre-
s s,nt attitude consists thoroughly with
their traditions and their history.
An illustration will bring the matter
into plain light at once. If a husband
a7d his wife have bitter quarrel, in
which the latter is unjustly treated,
that is no reason why every man who
clivalrously espouses her cause
should be compelled to cspouse the
woman too, as consequence. Her
advocates and herself would be led
to exclaim, even with no Utah recol-
lections of Artemus Ward, ''This is
too much! - Every redresser Of III
iared innocence could as logically be
held accountable for the facts which
brought the Innocence into injury.
Such a course would make champions
chary, to say the least.
The President is accountab lie to
the Senate. No demonstration out
eide that body can help him. Only
snch few Democrats as are in the
Senate can be of direct assistance to
the arraigned Executive. While the
action of these Democrats is unequiv-
ncal, the reasons of that action must
i'pt be confounded. They behold n
Republican President tried before
ii,em and their preponderating Re
publican colleagues and his conylc,
lion. and the Republican charges on
which this conviction is sought, they
strenuonsly oppose. But they do
hpt oppose these issues because their
ascpublican colleagues support them,
l.or do they advocate the Presidents
..ase because he heads a section Of
ie warringy Republican forces. Party
cling has no place in their action,
| cause no party success is dependent
ION any result which the case may
l,toduce. The Dem ocretic Senators
flrI tI,. :. 90 =.