The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-04-03
From tie -Ne,c York World.
The Eigh Erine-1he EceGg
Criminals.

Were the President rs guilty as he is guilt
less, there are men at Washington glliltier
than he, and greater crime is doing than
any he is accused of. Impeachment is but
the blind of these greater criminals to hide
this greater crime. 1t behooves the people
of the United States to keep their attention
fastened on this great crime-the crime of the
Republican party and the Rump Congress-
the crime of Disunion. Every other crime of
theirs is less than this or it is adjuvant to this
the greatest of their crimes Their usurpation
Of the powers of the Executive, their usur-
patton of the powers of the Judiciary; their
attempted occupancy Of the Executive chair
by the impeachment process their squander-
ing of the public treasure their wholesale
frauds upon the revenue their continuance
of the whiskey-tax at two dollars so as to get
few millions of money for carrying the No
vember elections by suffering the whiskey-
thieves and the bribed revenue officers to
plumber the people of fifty millions, their
usurpation of the rights of States TO control
the suffrage, and their prostitution of the
power thus usuTped 10 abridge white suffrage
and confer the ballot by wholesale upon 10
norant blacks these indeed are crimes, but
they are less than, or tributary to, their great
CT crime.
Four years of successful war they prositu-
ted to party purposes. Three years of com
pletc peace they have rrostituted to party
purposes Disunion still exists, despite sue
Cessfu war, despite entire peace Party as
tendency is still their sole purpose, and their
plan is to maintain it by negro supremacy
worked through a military dcspotsm over
ten States. Grant has consented to be their
tool in working the military despotsm, but
he is only the General of the Armies of the
United States. A successful despotism is not
assured unless they can control the Com
mander-in- Hence they impeach the
President who was the choice of the people,
to replace him by another who has Just been
rejected by the people, Wade will be their
plant tool. johnson will not.
Disunion prolonged to keep the Republican
party in power Negro supremacy worked
by Military Depotism to keep the Republi-
can party in power after Disunion becomes
impossible. These are the high crimes of the
Republican party, these the misdemeanors of
the Rump. These high crimes and misde-
meanors oftheir own they now seek to abet,
yet draw attention from, by their sensational
impeachment of the President of the United
States.
Their charges against President johnson
are trash. 1t is scandalous cffrontery to ut
ter or to urge them They deserve not the
dignity of a flat denial 1t is an insult to the
understanding of any man to demand their
disproof The obstinate defender of the
Constitution they impugn as its violator,-
Their charges are trash, as their schemes are
glass.
Not he is the criminal They are the
traitors. The Rump Congress are usurpers
and revolutionists. They band together and
boot their scandalous and impudent lie in the
face of the nation, against the Chief Magis-
trate whose crime for them has been that he
has upheld and obeyed the Supreme Law
that he has refused to conspire with them
in disobedience and disunion, in usurpation
and treason.
Let the people keep their eyes on the real
traitors and the great crime Letthem watch
the genuine criminals as they go through
their solemn mockery of impeaching him
who refused his consent to every step of their
crime Let them fasten their gaze on the
usurpers, the traitors, the disunionists who
make of this solemn procedure of an injured
nation the instrument of their hate against
the steadfast upholder of the nations laws
Mark the reyolutionists of the Rump as they
insult the face Of day with the pretoncc o n