The New York herald., 1868-04-21

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Impeachment-The Position Of the President
Before the Court and the Country.
impeachment, in nearly its full proportions,
is now before the country. Nothing in the
nature Of a fact remains to be given. Counsel
are yet to argue on either side, but their argu-
ment will mainly deal with the nice points of
law and technical Interpretation. For the
broad view that the people are to take of this
remarkable case the picture is complete And
what picture. We have from time to time
touched upon the fact that the possibility of
such trial, on such charges and in such cir
cumstances, was a national disgrace ; but look
ing over the whole case we appreciate that it
was before impossible to realize the full depth
and extent of that disgrace. 1t was impossible
to conceive that the Congress of the United
States should push an unpatriotic purpose to
such an extreme-should pursue the national
Executive with such inveterate persstency,
and at last have so little to show to his re-
its own course-shonld be able without an over
whelming sense of shame to rest its case, not
having given title of evidence to sustain its
charges, leaving the inevitable and necessary
inference that in this pretended discharge of u
great duty il was from the first moved only by
partisan malignity. Undoubtedly this infer
ence is the final result upon the minds of the
people, Ordinary men, desiring to be right
and not able to see that the House of Repre-
sentatives has proved any offence against the
President, turn to impeachment organs to find
assistance in the search for some reason
against the Executives and in the most vio-
lent the least scrupulous of these organs what
do they see They see it tacitly admitted that
nothing has been proved, but find the Senate
urged to convict aud remove the President
nevertheless; to convict and remove him, not
because he is guilty OF the charges on which
he has been arraigned. but because Of the
crimes he may commit in the future. Was the
name of justice ever before prostituted to such
use in the midst Of sane and reasoning
people? Suppose man on trial for murder
it Is proved and all know that he has not com
mitted the murder ne is charged with, but jus
tice is urged to hang him nevertheless; for if it
does not his enemies are convinced that he
will commit some murder tomorrow. Can
nation be more degraded, politically, intellect
ually and morally, than to be represented by a
Congress to whom the political vampires dare
proffer such advice and such reasoning-by a
Congress whom those who know it best assume
| that such reasoning will move?
Revolutionary periods are troublous and try
ing ones TO men in high station but there is
time above all others when the ruler of
people is in dilemma from which there is no
comfortable egress. This is the time when he
is the head and front of great revolutionary
success, when he stands as the chief execu-
tive offcer-the prime director of the power Of
people who have just triumphed in a great
struggle. Let no person in his senses envy the
position of that man, with the conquered foe
PROSTATE at his feet in front and the noisy ele-
ments of the successful people clamoring be-
hind. What will he do! Will he consent. as
! Sulla did, to he the mere head Of party and
rush on with the triumphant masses, trampling
! the PROSTATE down and distributing their
wealth, fully conscious that this indulgence Of
! the passions Of party is the ruin Of his coun-
| try? Or will he like the wiser William Of
! Orange, consider the whole people, and not a
party and, doing his utmost to restrain the
savage excesses and rcvenges of the triumph
ant host, try to moderate all and make peace
possible and worth havingy Should he choose
/ n. "a.
in proportion as his purpose is pure. He will
have both parties as his enemies and assailants.
lie will be hated by the conquered as the rep
resentative Of the success achieved over them
and as the man who tries to secure the
legitimate result of that success and hated
by the conquerors for controlling their
fury and preventing the glut Of their lust
Tor revenge and spoil. And II is In vir-
tue OF these reasons that Mr.. Johnson,
, not loved by the Southern leaders, is so
savagely hated, not on reason. but on instinct,
! by the dominant party Of the North. IL is for
. this that they would punish, II not the crimes
. he has committed, then those he may commit.
: Sympsthzing TO the utmost with the great
struggle OF the Northern people for the saliva
tion OF the government, he saw the triumph OF
that struggle, but at the close saw that triumph
threatening TO degenerate into a mere vulgar
fury Of prescription and revenge He stood
forward TO save the cause, to save the success
Of the Northern people from the disbonor that
the conduct Of fanatics would put upon it.
t from the disgrace that its abuse by political
reprobates would bring. He was accused of
having gone over to the South because he
stood forth boldly as the protector Of the people
{ who had surrendered and thrown themselves
: with generous confidence on the mercy of the