The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-24

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parchment from a New Quarter.
The newly admitted radical representatives
in Congress, known as the ''carpet-baggers, "
from the reconstructed States, are, like all new
converts and beginners, jealous to prove their
professions of loyalty to their new church.
They held meeting the other evening in
Washington, at which, after, being warmed up
by an encouraging speech from General Free
mont, they resolved among other things that
Gin the threatening attitude assumed by Presi-
dent Johnson in his recent message vetoing
the bill declaring which of the Southern States
are not entitled to vote In the Electoral Col
lege," and in his declaration that Congress
has no more power to reject the votes of the
Southern States that have not yet been reorgan-
lied than to reject the votes of States that
have never been in rebellion" shows that he
is s'stin the enemy of law and order and
threatens the peace and safety of every Union
civil war, and that, therefore, he ought to be
at once impeached, and that ''the representa-
tives and delegates from the Southern States,
In conference assembled" &C., ''pledge our
selves to use our utmost endeavors to prevent
the adjournment of Congress before his con-
viction and removal from Office and to pre-
vent "a recess even till articles of impeach-
ment are presented and court of impeach-
ment convened"
This movement Is somewhat startling, coming
an IL dooa c1osa uuon tho haoIa of our n oo,,
RANGES from Washington that ''Old Thad" had
concluded to let bis new impeachment articles
go to the tomb Of the Capulets. But these
Southern "carpet-baggers" have new matter
to work upon. The President has fatty given
it as bis opinion that they are unconstitutional
interlopers, and that the State governments
which they represent, set up under the Recon-
struction laws of Congress, are bogus, null and
void. No wonder, then, that these men should
faunt in his face the penalty of impeachment.
Their case, too, is quite as good if not
decidedly better than the case made out against
said Johnson on Stanton's peremptory removal
from Office. Nor, If this threatened new i'm
parchment were brought before the Senate,
would there be any apparent chance for John
sons escape with the addition to the High Court
of fourteen Southern radical and intensely
anti-Johnson Senator'S. The always ready and
universal lobby man, Thurlow Weed, with his
Astor House consultations, could do nothing
against this formidable reinforcement of
"carpet- baggers," and johnson would have to
walk the plank. But we guess that the i'm
peachers of the House of Representatives have
had enough of these impeachment trials to last
them to the end of Johnson's term of Office, and
that they will be satisfied in providing the ways
and means and In adopting the necessary pre-
cautions to hold him in check till after the
Presidential election. Then there is no telling
or calculating what may happen. The impeach-
ers now have ''the man at the other end of the
avenue" completely in their power, but they
have other matters now to be looked after
nearer home in connection with the coming
October and November elections for the next
Congress-