The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-03-04
THE IMPEACHMENT.

! ClnG intense eAciCement tHfouSHou
| the Northern States. The impeach
ment project which, not many week
since, SO signally failed in the House Q
Representatives, has, for some cause 0
other, been recently revived with a
complete a success. A resolution Il
impeach the President has passed witt
indecent haste and the committee i
busily engaged in preparing the arti
cles of impeachment. The Committee
it seems, has no easy task before it,
Mr.lBoutwelPs long bill of indictmen
which failed in the House, has set thu
Radicals to thinking over the long lis
of "high crimes and misdemeanors
for the purpose of lighting upon some
one which may afford q pretext for {
trial before the Senate. The promi
nent offense now seems to be an alleg
ed violation OF the HTenure Of Office
BILL and on this the Radicals princi.
pallysrest their hopes of q conviction.
This will open up the whole Stanton
business afresh and the contemplate
little ex-secretary will thus become
the pivot on which the impeachment
and deposition of Mr.. johnson are ex-
pected to turn.
The trial, if it should take place
would afford most extraordinary
spectacle, the most extraordinary
perhaps that the American people ever
witnessed. The object of the move
ment is SO thinly disguised that no one
can fail to see that it is to remove an
impeachment to the continued reign OF
political organization, whose princi-
pies are condemned by large majori-
ty of the American people. The Chief
Justice, who will preside at the trial,
and who should be above partially, is
q prominent candidate for the Office
which his party is seeking to degrade
by the degradation Of its present in
cumbent. The Court, which is expect
ed to convict, is unlawfully slorn OF
one third of its strength by the action
of the party which set the impeach-
ment movement on foot. Moreover,
at least one dozen Of the sitting MEM
bers of the Radical party are represent
ing constituents who have recently re-
pudiated their principles at the polls,
and several of them have recently lost
their seats by popular reaction at
home. In case Congress should usurp
the use Of the army to carry out its re-
evolutionary designs, the army is COM
manded by another Radical candidate
for the Presidency, whose personal
hostility to Mr.. johnson is now a mat
ter Of history. 1t would seem that the
Judge, jury and everything else in the
case are stocked in advance against the
President, and that his chance Of ac-
quittal is hopeless one.
But will the reyolutionists succeed 2
We do not believe they will. Their
recent actions have stirred up the
people of the North, and Mr.. johnson
is receiving every day words Of encour-
agement from all sections, from men of
every shade Of political opinion. The
people have walked up at last and seem
determined to defend their rights at
all hazards. They will not tamely
submit any longer to these efforts of
the Radicals to plunge the country into
another civil war more disastrous than
the one from which they have SO re-
Gently emerged. The Radicals in
Congress--the towards who staid at
home during the late warfare not
meet the angry gaze Of an enraged
constituency. They will recall their
action. Some, indeed, will deny that
they ever thought ofextreme measures.
impeachment will fzzle out as igno-
as its predecessor which was
buried early in the session. In the
mean time the Democracy is gathering
it's clans and preparing to sweep the
Radicals into utter nothingness. A
grand triumph is in preparation for it,
and we should not be surprised if, with
the assistance of Radical persecution,
it should end with placing Mr.. johnson
in the Presidential chair for second
term.
CoMPLIMENTARY.-The names of Gen
Longstreet, Cows. Holden, Orr, etc..
nave been presented to Congress for
pardon. They came from the Radical
Congressional Committee, and the Com
nittee got the names from the Negro
Conventions. Any decent man who
Wantsa pardon from such inspiration is
hard up for certificate of good beha
vior. We think their unpardoned