The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-05-06
The Cincinnati C0mmers IaI on
Impeachment and "RecOn-
structiOn."

The Cincinnati Comnners IaI on
Impeachment and "RecOn.
structiOn."
NJ. llalsiead chief editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, is now in Washington
City, and is Sritine letters home for pub
lication. From his letter dated April ~,
published ia the Commercial of April 80,
we make the following extracts:
In the same sentences that FOrney clam
ors for the consummation OF impeachment,
he becomes Joyous ever the appearance OF
delegations Of Senators and representatives
iso-called) frOm the Southern States
There are already Senators here rom Al
kansas. The new South Carolina Senators
are expected soon 70 arrive, 1t is antici>
rated that Republicans throughout the
North will. upon the appearance Of these
men, break forth in songs Of Thanksgiving
over a restored Union, and of rraise at the
faithful action of this wise Congress. We
b, & TO call halt on that proposition. Do
we want any more rotten borough States IN
the Union? Could any thing be mere fatal
to our perpetual plblIe content and good
order than the admission OF such States?-
We have enough of them now. Nevada
and Nebraska, that should yet for years
have been Territories, are as weighty IN
that Senate that proposes to rule tie ma
tion, as New York and Ohio. Now, there
is no reason to believe that the persons IRE
senting themselves here rs Senators OF the
tInEed States from Arkansas and South
Caroli1a, represent even the negroes OF
those States. They are adventurcrs, rep>
resentative OF little more than their own
audacity; and they wia become, if permit,
ted to enter the Senate, the most stgect OF
party serfs, because they will have no pos
sible vitality outside their party. This may
be a recommendation to Congress, but do
not believe it is TO the people. 1t the Ar
kansas and South Carolina reconstruction
ia the sort of thing Ben. Wade is wanted III
the White House TO promote, the less we
have of it the better. -
The Republican party can maintain itsei
in power without these desperate expedients
these hazardous experiments-or 1t ought
not TO be in rover; and as certain as the
people ofthe North are free and iniellgeRt,
aud ave a sense ofjustice and fair play and
a due regard for their part III the Govern
ment, and for the charter of the Goyeru-
ment, the Republican rarty must address
itself to that intelligence, by caring seriously
for the public business rather than eXpen-
mcnting in black States, and aggrandlzlng
one OF the coordinate branches ol the Goy-
iernment at the expense OF the other, or 1t
will he loser.
The impeachment is hlunder which
would be best repaired by the Senate re-
80 .oaar1,,r 70 fhn law and
the testimony. That, think, would be a
rerdlct. Of acquittal, and the Recpublican
party would haye the benefit OF most
act of justice. Mr.. Manager
Boutwell, said the Senate decree concern
ing Andrew johnson would be executed
without the intcrposition Of soldier or
constable. There is no doubt of that, be>
live; but it is no reason for an injustice that
there is an apparent impunity in its COM
=
Now. it does not much matter to the REQ
ple of the United States what becomes. Of
Andrew johnson or Edwin NJ. Stanton. -
Neither of them are worthy of popular
love or confidence. johnson has been gull
ty of almost all possible indiscretions, and
Stanton has kept up sensation here, and
sought to II agnify his Importance by iorti~
fying himself in the War Office. There
are bat ten months left Of johnson $ term.
How he spends this fragment Of time
whether in or out of ofiice-is of little con-
sequence to him; but it is Of consequence to
the people Whether one department. OF Gov
ernment is to absorb the power OF the three
We are not without warm
ings looking to this condition of affairs
Mr.. Madison, IN the First Congress, said
Annals of Congress, vol. / p. 462l:
1T is evidently the intention OF the lnn-
stitution. that the first magistrate should be
responsible for the Executive Department;
so tar, therefore, as we do not make the
officers who are to aid him in the duties OF
that department responsible to him, be is
not responsible to his country. Again, is
there no danger that an cili3er, when hes is
appointed by the concurrence OF the Sens
ate, aud has friends in that body. may
choose rather to ri,k his establishment on
the fayors Of that branch than rest it upon
the discharge Of his duties to the satstac-
tion of the Executive branch, (which is con-
authorized to inspect and
control his conduct; for if it should happen
that the officers connect themselves with
the Senate, they may eventually support
each other, and for want of efficacy reduce
the power of the President te II ncre va
por; in which case, his responsibilities
would be annihlatcd. and the expectation
Of it unjust. The high executive officers.
Joined in the cahal with the Senate, would
lay tho foundation of discord, and end in
on assumption Of the executive power, only
to be removed by a revolution in the Gov