Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-05
lFrom the New York Trlbune.l
Impeachment In Ponra.

have any Influence on the decision, for that
decision rests with grave and impartial
Judges, who will decide according to the
law and evidence. Although impeachment
is an adjourned question, it is new to the
people. They scarcely understand 1t. It
has been lowering over them like "bad,
revolving STAR" with evil omen, and fore
bodings Of national calamity. 1t is to dis
pei these feelings, and endeavor in small
way to educate the people to the proper ap-
probation of the solemn duty that we CON
tinue to discuss question that now rests
with the high court of the nation.
Impeachment is peace. The thousand
rumors of war are OF no more consequence
than the snow flakes that darken the air.
We shall have no fighting. Here in New
York, some of our Fiye Points denizens,
deep in their cups, and fresh from the last
prize fight, are threatening to go to WASH
ington and assist the President in dispensing
Congress- We have certain heroes OF the
July riots--the murderers of fugitive ne
grues, and the burners of orphan asylums-
who would be delighted to aid the President
In sacking the Sub Treasury. We have seen
no one really anxious to fight but Mr.
Brooks, and no one really expecting fight
but Mr.. Raymond. The Wall street people
are quick to scent trouble. Money is the
first influence to feel panic Yet Wall
street maintains surprising cquanimity.
Amid the agitation of the last five days, gold
has merely ranged from 140 to l43. The
danger of war, therefore, has the mercantile
value of three per cent This is the feeling
among the moneyed classes. If we were at
liberty to print assurances which have come
to the editor of this paper, it would be seen
that the wealthiest, the most conservative,
the most timid of our citizens are strenuous
ly iu favor of impeachment. Men who CON
troll millions, and whose interests are widely
spread over land and sea, unite with us in
the prayer that Congress may speedily give
MS peace by removing an unfaithtul Presl-
dent.
inlpeachn,ent is reconstruction. A large
part of the Union is in condition of an
anrchy and unrest. The plow rests in the
| furrow-the hammer rusts on the anvil
| loyal men steal through highway and forest
| like thieves in the night-Rebels triumphant
| ly defy the law. There is no safety in the
South, no security Of property,no assurance
of personal liberty. There is nothing ac-
tive but the sheriff and the provost-marshal
Lands are shrinking in value. The onwners
have no money to cultivate them, and peo-
pie who have money, and who would gladly
| 20 into the South, and make its dreary and
| forsakcn fields to blossom like the rose, do
not care to accept the enmity that awaits
them, social Ostracism, military law, the
sherp and quick rife-shot of an ambushed
murderer. No one cares to be party to
another Memphis and Newt Orleans massa-
ere, especially when he finds assassination
applauded by the President. The South
wants money, men, order, reconstruction.
Thus far she has been the victim of Prcsi-
dentra caprice and of restless dcmagogism.
Take Alabama, for instance. But for Mr..
johnson, Alabama would now be in the
Union, side by side with Maine and Illinois,
with loyal men in office, the wheels of gov
ernment moving smoothly, the courts in
session, and every incentive to capital and
industry. Yet now by the direct and per.
sistent interference of the President, Ala
bama verges upon anarchy. The Rebe
looks 10 the President for help, and wars up
on the loyalist; the loyalist resists the in
reference, and leans upon Congress- TIL,
struggle of war is continued in peacc-tht
strife of the bullet is succeeded by the strif'
of the ballot Impeachment will end this
The Rebel will see that nothing Is left bu
obedience, the States will be back to thu
Union, and loyal men will be confirmed il
their rights by the power of the Unitee
States.
Impeachment is the supremacy Of tn
law. Heretofore the laws have been exc
cuted in a purposcless, furtive, petulan
way, without heat or sympathy. Th'
President has enforced some of them to thu
letter, while he has broken them in TIN
, spirit. Whenever n soldier like Sheridan
or Sicklcs, or Pope really attempted to d'
wnat Congress desired, he WAS stricken
down as an enemy driven disgracefull,
from employment. and, as in the case o
, Sickles, robbed of the stars which he woi
ly his blood Soldiers like Hancock wcr
deputed to enforce laws they dispiscd, AM
their ambition tempted by eulogies AM
: brevets, and prospective nominations 70
the Presidency. Reconstruction was thu
9 made to drag and lag, and halt, until me-
grew weary and sick, and despared of an
1 true settlement The worst passions wcr
; famed into hateful flame, and when th
D President was not yehemently urging th
r execution Of Sumner, and Phillips, and Ste
8 vens, and defending the massacre of harm
: less negroes, his organs, like The Nntiond
/; Mtctiigeacer, were filled with indecent de
il nuncialions Of the truesl and purest of on
s statesmen To crown it all, we had n
r assumption, which would be atyranny eve
+: in despotie France, that no law was bint
n ing unless the President was directed to ex
} ccute it by the Supreme Court. The Coz
stitution was stricken down-for while til
q Constitution limited the Presidents Option
e al iuristlicl IN over the law TO the veto pow
er, and made final execution mandatory, /
II contended that he had the veto and judci
/ powers combined. There will be an end (
l. that fallacy and from this time through a
v time Presidents of the United States will
II taught that when two-thirds of the Hou'
> and Senate agree upon law, their duty
r to execute 1t until restrained by the Supren
,s Court.
J. Impeachment means the triumph I
d Rcpublican institutions. Republca
,e government has stood many cruel tests.
,c has sustained Slavery and destroyed Sli
,e very; it has warred upon governments, al
t. suppressed domestic insurrection; it hi
sassed through the mightest war Of moder
times, and survived social revolution;
,e has answered every form of government
and now it proposes to depose treachero,
Chief Magistrate. France removed her I
rants by bloody and maddening revolutie
of only to see newborn liberty torn from h
u embrace, and stifled by the gaudy and do
d. zlng despotism of an empire. Englar
ar only succeeded in destroying the tyrrany
u the Stuarts by revolutions which broug
ly with them wars, and social turmois, al
IN rebellons repeated by three generation
n Mexico has seen twenty revolutions and e.
Vi ervating wars, commerce destroyed, indu
ie try paralyzed, traitors in council, thieves
r office, banditti on the highway, and, tinall
lie foreign army on her shores, foreis
is prince in her palace her noblest sons ma
i, sacred or in exile. Freedom still renal
re an experiment with her.
of Free America will show the world that
lis the gentle operation of law, her chos,
re Chief Magistrate, and the Commander-i
ar Chief of her armies and naves, can
pc speedily punished for his crimes, and ]
e. duced to obscurity,an no appreciable effe
g. on society but a few tavern loungers' g.
d, conade, and an advance of three per Gel
n in gold! America was noble in her ma
IS. agement of the war, and the nations sto
IN in wonder. But there is something subir
lis in her acceptance of impeachment. M
will say no more that republican institutio
to are a failure, for republican America, a
d. swering every condition, and acccpti
IN every responsibility of government, stan
to to-day proud, secure, peaceful-the law Z
he preme, and the public virtue unimpairt
an Therefore, it is wise to say that impeac
his ment is peace. Some of our people M
S; rave and swear, and gnash their teeth |
ne we shall have no war-nc disturbance
en- arresting the wheels of Government
sh the simmer of a bayonet nor the click O