Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-04-11
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
From the New York Tribunal
IMPEACHMENT Is PEACE,

III Pe"ohihcut mas gone DeyOnQ newspaper dis
cussion. Nothing we may say can have any in
fuence on the decision, for that decision rests
with grave and impartial judges, who will de-
cioe according to the law and evidence AL
tnough impeachment is adjourned question,
tits new to the people. They scarcely understand
1t. 1t has been lowering over them like 20 bad,
revolving star, with evil omen, and forebodings
OF national calamity 1t is to dispel these feel
lngs, and endeavor in a small way to educate the
people to the proper appreciation of the solemn
duty that we continue 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-fakes which darken the air. We shall
have no fighting. Here in New York, some OF
Five Points denizens, deep in their cups,
and fresh from the last prize-fght, are threaten
ing to 60 to Washington and assist the President
in dispensing Congress. We have certain heroes
of the July riots-the murderers of fugitive ne
groes, and the burners of orphan asylums-who
would be delighted to aid the President in sack
ing 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 equanlmlty
Amid the agitation of the last five days gold has
merely ranged from l40 to lab. The danger of
war, therefore, has the mercantile value of three
per cent This is the feeling among the money
ed classes. If we were at liberty to print as
surances 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 strenuousy in favor of impeachment Men
who control millions, and whose interests are
widely spread over land and sea, unite with
in the prayer that Congress may speedily give US
peace by removing an unfaithful President.
Impeachment is reconstruction A large part of
the Union is in condition of anarchy and
rest. The pillow rests in the furrow-the hammer
rusts on the anvil-loyal men steal through high
way and forest like thieves in the night-rebes
triumphantly defy the law. There is no safety
in the South, security of property, no assur-
arce of personal liberty. There is nothing
tive but the Sheriff and the Provost-Marshal.
Lands are shrinking in value. The owners have
no money to cultivate Them and people who
have money, and who would gladly go into the
South, and make its dreary and forsaken fields
to blossom like the rose, do not care to accept
the enmty that awaits them, social ostracism,
military law, the sharp and quick rihe-shot of an
ambushed murderer. No one cares to be party
to another Memphis and New Orleans massacre,
especially when he finds assassination applauded
by the President. The South wants money, men,
order, reconstruction. Thus far she has been
the victim of Presidential caprice and of restless
demagogism. Take Alabama, for instance. But
Tor Mr.. johnson, Alabama would now be in the
Union, side by side with Maine and Illinois, with
loyal men in office, the wheels of government
moving smoothly, the courts in session, and
every incentive to capital and industry. Yet
now by the direct and persistent interference of
the President, Alabama verges upon anarchy
The rebel looks to the President for help, and
wars upon the loyalist the loyalist resists the
interference, and leans upon Congress. The
struggle of war is continued in peace-the strife
of the bullet is succeeded by the strife of the
ballot. Impeachment will end this. The rebel
will see nothing is left but obedience, the States
will be brought back to the Union, and loyal
men will be confirmed in their rights by the
power of the United States.
Impeachment is the supremacy Of Tie lar. Here
tofore the laws have been executed in purpose
less, furtive petulant way, without heart or
sympathy The President has enforced some of
them to the letter, while be has broken them in
the spirit. Whenever a soldier like Sheridan, or
Sckles, or Pope really attempted to do what
Congress desired he was stricken down as an
enemy, driven dsgracefully from employment,
and as in the case of Sckles, robbed of the stars
which be by his blood Soldiers like Han
cock were deputed to enforce laws they despised
and their ambition tempted by eulogies and bre-
vets, and prospective nominations for the Presi-
dency. Reconstruction thus made to drag |
and lag, and halt, until men grew weary and
sick, and despared of any true settlement. The |
worst passions were famed into hateful flame,
and when the President was not vehemently urg-
ing the execution of Sumner, and Phillips, and
Stevens, and defending the massacre OF harmless
negroes his organs, like the National Intelli-
gencer, were filled with indecent denunciationS
of the truest and purest of our statesmen. 10
crown it all, we had an assumption, which would
be a tyranny even in despotic France. that no
law was binding unless the President was direct
ed to execute it by the Supreme Court. The
Constitution was stricken down-for while the
Constitution limited the Presidents optional
jurisdiction over the law to the veto power, and
made final execution mandatory, he commended
that he had the veto and judicial powers COM
bined. There will be an end of that iaacy
and from this time through all time Presidents
of the United States will be taught that when
two-thirds of the House and Senate agree upon
law, their duty is to execute it until restrained
by the Supreme Court.
I,npeachment means the triumph Of republican in
stitutions. Republican government has stood
many cruel tests. 1t has sustained slavery and
DESTROYED slavery it has warred upon foreign
governments, and suppressed domestic insurrec-
ton it has passed through the mightest war
of modern times, and survived social revolu-
ton; it has answered every form of government,
and now it proposes to depose treacherouS
Chief Magistrate. France removed her tyrants
by bloody and maddening revolution only to
see newborn liberty torn from her embrace, and
stifed BY the gaudy and dazzling despotism of
an empire England only succeeded in destroy
ing the tyranny of the Stuarts by revolutions
which brought with them wars, and social tur-
moils, and rebellions repeated by three genera
tions. Mexico has seen twenty revolutions and
enervatDg wars, commerce destroyed, industry
paralyzed, traitors in council thieves in Office,
banditti on the highway and, finally foreign
army on her shores, a foreign prince in her pal
ace, her noblest sons massacred and in exile.
Freedom still remains experiment with her.
Free America will show the world that by the
gentle operation of law, her chosen Chief Magis-
trate, and the Commander-in-Chief of her armies
and naves, can be speedily punished for his
crimes, and reduced to obscurty, and no appreci-
able effect on society but few tavern loungers
gasconade, and an advance of three per cent in
gold America was noble in her management
of the war, and the nations stood in wonder
But there is something sublime in her accept
ance of impeachment. Men will say no more
that republican institutions are failure, for re-
publican America, answering every condition,
and accepting every responsibility of govern
ment stands to-day proud, secure, peaceful-the
law supreme and the public virtue unmpaired.
Therefore, it is wise to say that impeachment
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