New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-08
IMPEACHMENT
What Is said OF 1t.

What Is said Of 1t.
The New York Sn, conducted by
Charles A. Dana, is represented by CO.
temporary as being opposed to impeach-
ment. This extract certainly indicates
that Mr.. Dana Is drifting into a support OF
impeachment:
This trial, it is certain, will now take
place. We have earnestly hoped, even
against hope, that it might be avoided; but,
since we find among these representatives
who have voted for it such men as Wilson,
Of Iowa, Eliot, Hooper, and Dawes, of
Massachusetts, Judd and Washburne, of
Illinois, and Woodbridge and Poland, of
Vermont, it is safe to conclude that they
saw no means Of avoiding the necessity
The great question now is, whether the
president can or can not be convicted of
the offenses with which he is charged. and
this question will, we trust, be settled with
all suitable dispatch. The Interests Of the
country, industrial, commercial. and politi-
CAL urgently require that an end should
at once be put to that conflict which Presi-
dent Johnson long since began against
congress and the party which elected him; /;
and whatever be the result of the trial, it
can not be so injurious as the continuance
of the present agitation, uncertainty, and
excitement
The New York IFiBt7,e says:
The president has assumed the respon-
sibility of breaking law; congress must
assume the responsibility of. impeaching
him. Not to do so in the face of this
fragrant and insolent proceeding is to be-
come partner in the crime. II is no time
to consider the party influence of impeach-
ment, or its effect upon presidential can
didates. We would rather see the Repub-
lican party, candidates and all, driven into
the deserts of Arabia. than to have them
tremble one moment in the performance of
this high duty.
In another article the tribune says:
Enough of argument. For this and other
misdemeanors Andrew johnson is about to
appear before the bar Of the senate. Sad
as it is to see the chief magistrate of the
nation answering to the law as
a criminal, it is better than that
this bold. bad, malignant man should
be allowed to trample upon legis-
Iatioa, set the will of the country at de-
fiance, and 60 on from bad to worse in the
discharge of his office. Let the trial be
marked with dignity, impartiality, courtesy,
justice, and fearlessness. IfAndrew John
son is innocent acquit him. If he is guilty,
let him be swept from his place as the
enemy of mis- country,
Colonel Forney, in letter to the Phila-
deIphia Press. writes:
have seen and oonversed with num-
Der of leading Democrats, who do not feel
like making martyr of Mr., Andrew John
sou. They frankly say, as he took this last
step without consulting them, he must even
fight it out on his own line. One gentle
man says he told the president yesterday
that the die was cast, and that nething
could stop his impeachment; and some
amusing incidents are told of the cavalier
way in which the Democratic national com
mittee (Mr. Belmont, chairman,) refused to
take any part in the quarrel" as they
term it, between the president and congress
But not one of the committee seemed to be
willing to oppose impeachment as Demo-
cratic duty; and it is generally asserted
that when they dined with his aeeidency
last Saturday Mr.. Belmont cut off all un.
pleasant discussion by intimating that they
came there "to eat, and not to talk poll.
ticsi
The people are for impeachment. In
the debate in the house of representatives;
Mr.. Cake, of Pennsylvania (Republcan, }
supported the resolution of impeachment
He had been recently among his constitu.
ents, and had found among them no apol-
ogist for Andrew johnson, and he believed
that the public mind was ready for the
event of his impeachment. To tri1e longer
with the question was to triae with the just
demand of the loyal men of the nation
Around Edwin NJ. SiantOn were gathering
the sympathies of the people.
The Washington correspondent of the
Providence Journal teIegraphs of the house
proceedings:
The debate was very able. No speech
on the Republican side produced so much
effect as that from Iowa Wilson. He has
steadily opposed impeachment till now,
and now his strong argument in favor Of
il strengthened the timid and waveTing, il
there were any such. Poland and Wood
bridge, of Vermont, heretofore looking
upon impeachment with contempt, argued
vehemently for 1t. The tide in the house
swept everything before it.
The same correspondent adds:
The president is astonished. He did moi
selieve till last night that the house would
impeach, and since the fact has been stated
to him that every Republican will vote fol
impeachment, b admits that his removal i
nearly certain. 7
The Iatelligsneer threatens Resistance IA
the verdict Of the senate, but Ii is less fero-
eious this merning than usual. No North
ern Democrat in congress talks Of resist
anee. The threats AZ come frem rebell