The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-25
Andrew johnson Again in Danger-Im-
parchment from New Quarter.


parchment from New Quarter.
From the NJ Y Herald.
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 reor-
ganized than to reject the votes of States that
have never been in rebellion" shows that no
is 'still the enemy of law and order and
threatens the peace and safety of every Union
man in the South, rendering imminent an
other civil war;" and that, there fore, he ought
to be at once impeached, and that "the repre-
sentatives and delegates from the Southern
States, in conference assembled, " etc., "pledge
ourselves to use our utmost endeavors to pre-
vent the adjournment of Congress before his
conviction and removal from Office" and to
prevent 'a recess even till articles of impeach-
ment are presented and a court of impeach-
| ment convened"
| This movement is somewhat startling, COM
| ing as it does close upon the heels of oar as
suIances from Washington that "Old Thad"
! had concluded to let his new impeachment
articles go to the tomb of the Capulets. But
these Southern "carpet- bsggers" have new
matter to work upon. The President has
flatly given it as his opinion that hey are un-
constitutional interlopers and that the State
Governments which they represent, set up
under the Reconstruction 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 impeachment
were brought before the Senate, would
there be any apparent chance for Johnson g
escape with the addition to the High Court
of fourteen Southern radical and intensely
anti-JOhnson Senators. The always ready aud
universal lobby man, Thurlow Weed, with his
| Astor House consultations, could do nothing
4 against this formidable reinforcement of "car-
pet baggers," and Johnson would have to walk
| the plank. But we guess that the impeachers
| 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
precautions to hold him in check till after the
| Presidential elections. 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.