Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-13
PARALYZIN6.

The news from Washington, II we may
give it any credence, is we'll calculated
to excite Democratic jubilatiou and cor
responding depression among Union
men. The same Senators who are now
quibbling over techuicalities in the mat
ter Of impeachment, passed the Tenure
Of Office Act over the veto Of the Presi-
dent, by considerably more than a two
thirds vote. 1t is undeuiable that tho.
| chief motive for the Introduction and
passage Of that measure was to restrain
the President from removing loyal aud
appointing disloyal men, or those whom
he could control to further his treason
able purposes. And 1t is also a fact
patent to everybody, that a change In
the Wal Department. and the substitu-
ton of a tool Of the President for Stan
ton, was the main point sought to DO
guarded against. II is the mcrest bal
derdash to deny that the passage Of the
Tenure of 0Gics Act was mainly induced
by n determination to retain Stanton in
the War Office, and to prevent Johnson
from transferring that Department aud
the entire control of tho army into dis
loyal hands. 1t is a fact indisputable
and entirely beyond question that Presi-
dent Johnson has attempted to remove
Stanton, mainly if not solely because Of
his answering devotion to duty, aud to
appoint Thomas, q dwelling incompe-
tent and his willing tool.
This was audaciously done while tho
Senate was in session, without the con-
stitutionally required "advice and on
sent" Of that body, but in direct con-
hict with their formal vote on the mer-
its of that very question. He has clear
ly violated the contemplated and intend
ed scope of the Act. Will Senators ad-
NIT that, after freqnent consideration
and repeated votes, they have, by an
overwhelming vote, passed an Act which
is wholly inadequate to accomplish the
purposes for which it was mainly iu-
tended? They must admit this or JUS
tify IN apparently well.grounded suspi-
cion that they have been tempered
with, or are controlled by unworthy
motives. The great trouble with some
OF our Republican leaders is, that
they have become pulled up with the
idea that they are statesmen Of the FIRST
water, and that craftsmanship Of the
exalted character illustrated in their
persons is Incompatible with any, even
the slightest, consideration Of fealty to
party. Democratic detnagogues will Of
course applaud these ostentatiously cou-
~scientious and palpably stultitied Sena-
tors, pat them on the back, and con-
denim tho action Of those who vote on
impeachment in accord with their votes
on the Tenure Act, as grossly partisan.
Every Democratic Senator will most
assuredly, without pause or hesitation,
vote emphatieally against Johnson's
There will be no single
exception to this rule-that we all know,
but there will be nothing partisan in
their action. Devotion to the Union,
alteration Of the Constitution and
elevated souse Of their moral
will be their incent-
And how these pure, spot
less, unprejudiced aud bipartisan DEM
will laud and applaud the model
Republicans who bubble over tho APP
Of Stanton by Lincoln In
stead Of Johnson, and gauge, with Q
rule regulated to measure the millionth
part of q hairs breadth, the exact alti-
tude necessary to constitute a high crime
or misdemeanor! True, Johnson, if ac-
Quilted, will be encouraged to scourge
the loyal men of tho South and exalt
the Mouroes and Semmeses Of that Sec
ton. True, membership Of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be a r~sproach,
and prominence In the Kuklux Khan .
sure stepping stone to political prefer
ment; the hearts Of the loyal will DO
palsisd and the wartime rebel yell will
re-echo through tho land, but, as a suf-
fcient offset to all these I" unpleasant
ncsses," the patriots Of "the Confed-
crate Crossroads will sing peans in
praise of their craftsmanship, and the
bummers of "tBsscom's Grocery ;" will
call them blessed. raEg
IMPORTANT II TRUI.-The Stockton
Hu-.n. haa had ~saYeral communion fta