The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-03-05
consequences of impeachment

Tor the trial OF impeachment eases.
1t is the highest Court in theyland.
Its Judgment will be the law, and
unquestionably it will be governed
by Justice OF all Courts, its pro-
ceeding will be the most deliberate.
1t is entitled to the same consider
alton during the trial as any, other
Court, and to the same common ex
pcctation that its Judgment will be
just. And suppose that its judg|
ment should ,impeach Andrew Jehn-
son, and remove him from office,
who shall resist or regret it., or say
that it is not for the welfare of the
country And why, especially,
should any Of those who have be-
fore believed that he has committed
otfenses for. which he. should be put
out of, Office, feel any reluctance or
apprehension in case the Court or
I Impeachment shall find the causc
upon which he is now arraigned,
sufficient ?.+t.l -, 80, " 80 A'I'Ia 3a
Do any apprehehd that ',&impeach-
,ment will create a disturbance Which
will have an evil effect on the ,bnsi
ness orthe political affairs of tile
country? We ask them, has not
Andrew Johnson been a continual
disturbance, q standing source Of
apprehension, an obstruction to tile
restoration Of tranquility, an incite-'
ment to hostility toward the Nation
al Government? Has he not made
the Executive the head and front Of
all the rem aims OF treason, prevent
ed the restoration of peace and
government in the rebel States,
raised up anew the rebellion, and
made himself its leader, entered in
its behalf into a conflict with the
national legislature, tlisorganized,
the administration of Government
and given open license to public
plunder =? Can we reasonably APP
Drehend so great a disturbance from
his lawful taking off as we have
suffered for the last two years from
his continuance Have we not,
| like Macbeth, supped too full with
conflict and threatenings, and the
anarchy of an Executive making
war on the Legislature, to have any
apprehension Of disturbance from
his removal? ?'iFh'i' ifalihii43 ahI 70 e
+ IF the administration Of Andrew
johnson had been peaceful and Sc.
rene, il it had resulted in general
confidence in our political affairs,
I if it had, made no disturbance or ap-
prehension in business, if it had not
been an active obstruction to the
restoration Of peace, then the i'm
parchment movement might have
to take the responsibility of intro
ducing new disturbance But who
does not know that his occupation
of the Executive has kept up state
of anarchy and alarm from which
the only relief that the people could
see was in the next election? Who
does not know that the state Of the
country under. his administration
has been state Of sutferance, look
ing for relief only in the limitation
of his term Of Office trusting notil-
ing to him but relying wholly on
the restraints that could be placed
on him? The impeachment disturb
ance can only be the disturbance of
a bad state Of things, which opens a
prospect of relief. a7 1-ts'
The political party which had re-
course to national dissolution for
the. wild hope Of reconstructing a
defeated party upon its rufus, has,
of course, encouraged this conflict
of the Acting President against
Congress, in the desperate hope
that out of this disturbance their
party may be restored So they
would plunge the country into any
calamity, destroy its national char
acter, disnonor its. faith, PROSTATE
Its revenues and ruin the general
business, for the same desperate
venture, But all the while they
know the evil that this anarchy is
working, and that the way to re-
move it is to remove Johnson from
office. They have no respect for
the man nor the officer. They know
that he betrayed the party who
elected him, and although they en-
courage the treachery they do not
respect the traitor. /
It seems to US that, leaving the
trial of the case to the constitution
al tribunal, and looking solely to
the consequences of Impeachment,
as we are led to look by wild Dem
oeratic threatenings of disturbance,
every rejecting person must see
that the removal Of Johnson from
office is the removal of conflict in
the Goyernm the settlement of
a standing disturbance. It will put
away the only obstacle to the resto
ration Of public and personal secu
rity in the rebel States, and to the
reconstruction oftheir governments.
1t will remove an Administrator
whicn has given up the public rev
enues to piunder. It will depose
an. Acting President who makes
public calamities in order that their
effects may damage the dominant
party. It will restore response
BILE Executive, which we now have
not. And all this will bring relief
and confidence to the country. We
leave the trial to the constitute
tribunal; but, inasmuch as
party which has opposed the ma
ton in all its means of preservation,
has raised an apprehension or a
menace Of the consequences of i'm
parchment, we have to say that they
seem in every way desirable.-Ci's.
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