Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-17
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Another great crisis has been brought
upon us through the designs of bad
men. The rebellion Of the Democratic
party against the election Of Abraham
Lincoln, as President Of the United
States, had for its head the traitor Jeffer-
SON Davis; and that into which we are
now preeipitated finds its front in q po-
litical demagogue who lacked the cour
age to become q traitor when traitors
staked their lives on the hazard Of the
enterprise. The subtle political cum
ming Of this man is so apparent that
were his designs even Of noble purpose
they would fail. In the superficial at-
tempt to draw around him political
strength he tempts a great and popular
General with barren honors of promo
ton, which are rejected. He offers to
one who but recently stood as his polit-
ical opponent, civil honors, which might
tempt stronger men and to him who
so nobly barred his breast to the bullets
and the glistening steel of traitors, and
who won everlasting fame ut Nashville,
he would incite with hollow-sounding
titles to fruitless honors, forgetting, in
his duplicity, that the making of hon
est fame is above his might. Good
fai,hi he dare not try that. But the
hour of argument has passed. A law
of the people has been set at defiance,
and treason, with brazen face and I'M
blushing efrrontery again asserts its i'm
pudencc. When the rights and the lib
critics of tho old Romans wero threat
ened with usurpation they printed on
their banners tho letters as. P. 2. R."
-Senatu, popalus que Romanns Tho
Senate and the people Of Rome. The
preservation of all that is dear to US
rests now with the Senate and the peo-
pie of America. Party ties are discard
ed; we bid politicians to begone, while
tho people, with their hearts and faith
arigh. again, uufurl their standards
conveying their maxim, in the cabalis-
tic letters inscribed thereon, S. ?. 2. A.
Senate, populus que Ameriedni-The
Senate and the people of America. The
dignity-we were nearly saying the di-
v~iuity-of the Presidential Office is such
that the Republican party felt that i'm.
parchment should only be used as a
last resort; that it would be far better
to bear with Mr.. johnson than to bring
upon the country IN uncertain, doubt
full, angry issue. We believe few Re-
publicaus ever doubted that there was
abundant evidence to justify ~impeach'
ment. The President has been so reck-
less with his high trust, he has so often
dared Congress, as it were, to visit him
with this penalty, that n hundred acts
may be found in his administration COM
ing within the constitutional meaning
Of " high crimes and misdemeanors.'
When the vote was taken, sixty-seven
Republicans were willing to wait q little
longer-to wait to the end-to treat the
President with magnanimity-to submit
to any action on his part not directly
and fundamentally in violation of law.
We dwell upon this point, and empha-
size it, because VIC wish all men to feel
that the House has shown rare wisdom
and patience; that it has not wantonly
used its high power that it has finally
~impeached the President in the per-
Torrance Of q solemn and unavoidable
duty. The people await with almost
breathless suspense the verdict of tho
High Court Of Impeachment.