Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-03-11
Wednesday. Mar. 11.IS6S.
The High crme-The Real Criminals.

Were The Prsslden. a. guilty a. he l.
guiIsIe.-, says tie Eor!I, there are men
al Washington gaiItier Than be, AID
greater crime ]. ding than any be j. ac-
c1sei Of. Impeachnent j. b., the blinI
Of these greater criminals to hide this
greater crime Il behocTes The people q
tEe Clitel States % keep their attention
fastened On :his gres: criDe-tbe crime Of
the Republican party abd the Ramp Con
gress-:he crime Of dis0nion- Every 9th
Ct crime Of theirs Is less than this, or Is
s3juyitant to this the creates. Of their
crimes. Their Qs1Tatioo Of the powers
Of the Executive; their usurpation Of the
powers Of the Judiciary; their attempted
occupancy Of the Executive chair by the
Impeachment process; their squanderiogs
Of the paJlic treasure; their wholesale
frauds upon the reyenue; their cootinu-
zncc Of the whisky a: two dollars, 30
as 70 get few nil.ions Of money for car
ryipg the SoTernber elections by suffering
the whi.kE-tLieTes and the bribed revenue
oficerz 10 plGnder the people Of ffty mill
iona their usgrpatIon Of fhc rights Of
Statcs 70 control the suffrage and their
prostitution Of the PDWers thar usurPed to
abritee white suffrage and confer the bal
lot by Wholesale upon ignorant blacks !;
these in5eed are crimes, but they are no
i@ss than, or tributary 70, their greater
crime.
-Four years Of successful war they pros
tituted to party purposes. Three years Of
complete peace they have prostitaied to
party purposes. Disonion still exists, de-
spite successful war, despite eutire pea"e.
Party ascen1ancy Is III their sole purpose,
and their plan is 10 maintain il by negro
supremacy worked through military des
poiism over ten States. Grant las con
sen,ed TO be lbeir :ool in working the mill
tary despo,ism, but be IS only the General
Of the Armies Of the United States A
successful despotism is not assured unless
they can control the CommaDder-in Chief
Hence they impeach the President who
was the choice Of the people, to replace
him by another who has been rejected by
the people. Wade will be their plant
tool. johnson will not.
Disunion prolonged TO keep the Repub-
lican party in power; negro Supremacy
worked by Military Despotism to keep the
Republican 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 misdemeanors Of their 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 John
son are trash. 1t is scaudalous cffrOntery
( 10 utter or to urge them. They deserve
not the dignity Of fat denial. 1t is an
insult to the understanding of any man to
demand their disproof The obstinate de-
fender Of the Constitution they impusn as
its yIolator. Their charges are trash, as
their schemes are glass.
Not lie is the criminal. They are the
traitors. The Rump Congress are usurpers
and reyolunonis,s. They band together
and hoot their scandalous and impudeni
lie in the face of the nation, against the
Chief Magistrate whose crime for them ha;
been that he has upheld and obeyed The
Supreme Law-that be has refused to con
spire with them 10 disobedience and disun
ion, in usurpation and treason.
Let the people keep their eyes on tn
real traitors and the great crime. LIE
them watch the genuine criminals as they
90 through their solemn mockery Of i'm
peaching him who refused his consent 4
every step of their crime. Let them faster
their gaze on the usurPers, the traitors. th'
disunionists who make Of this solemn pro-
cedure of an injured Lation the instrumen
Of their hate against the steadfast upholde
Of the nations laws. Mark the revolu-
tionists of,he Rump a. they insult the fac
of day with the pretence of a concern 70
the laws which IN their hands have beer
nothing Lut the record of party caucus
and the register of party plans-for Sh
Constitution which is everywhere rent will
the trampliug of their brutal heels.
Let the spectacle of grea
Impeachment 90 on. Let traitors be To