Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-12-13
From the New York Herald Of last Satur-
day.
Threatened Impeachment Of President
Grant-The B%luBdering Stupidity of
Washington Politicians


A startling piece of intelligence
reached us from Washington at half
past one o'clock this morning, and
will be found in to-day's HERALD.
| The opponents of Grants administra-
ton, we are told, have resolved to
bring articles ofimpeachments against
| the President, as the grand combina-
ton threatened against his reelection.
This open war is to have for its COM
manding generals Summer in the
Senate, Earnsworth in the House,
and Montgomery Blair-when shall
we ever be rid of the Blair family ?
-as chief cook, bottle-washer, boost
er-up and sutler-in-chief of the grand
army of Impeachers. We should
have been disposed to doubt the cor-
rectness of this singular report but for
the fact that it comes to us backed up
by most unquestionable authority.
The main charge-the piece de Tesis-
lance, as it were, of the political feat
is to be the alleged violation of inter-
national law and usurpation of the
war power by the President in connec-
| ton with the attempted annexation
of st. Domingo, andthe articles franz
ed on this point are to be taken main
IL from the substance of Summers IA
nous speech in Congress on that
question. After this solid dish we
are to have an eatTee of Hayti, pick
led, with relieves of a lighter charac-
ter, consisting of a series Of charges of
petty cOrruptiOns in having sold Off
ces for money and gifts, from brown
stone mansions down to the eelebra-
ted bull pup from San Francisco.
! The democrats in Congress are said to
be highly delighted at the prospect of
this nice little family fight, and the
~exuberance of their spirits, our cor
! respondent assures US, is apparent in
the atmosphere-probably in the
strong fragrance that prevails wher-
ever those excited groups of the IN
terrified are found. Noses-some of
them, doubtless, highly eolored-
have been counted in the Senate, and
a majority against the President is
reckoned as 3 certainty. The House
it considered to be less secure but
there are now one hundred and four
democrats among the Representatives
instead of the seventy-siX oflast year,
leaving only a republican majority of
thirty-five. Five of these are already
enlisted against Grant, thus reducing
the administration majority to TWEEN
five, and if the grand army of i'm
peachers cannot gain over twelve and
a half of these, and thus turn the
scales in their own favor, we can
scarcely regard them as fit managers
of such q magnificent movement as
they have in contemplation.
We are thus likely to have a repeti-
ton of the famous Andy johnson
crusade of 1878, with all its interest
and excitement, betting and bullying
increased a hunared-fOld. We may
miss on the side of the impeaehers
the sharp practice and bulldog tenac-
ity of Ben Butler-althOugh who can
prediectsWhere the HeroO of Fort Fisher
will be found in the hour of battle ?
but we shall still retain in the SEN
ate the biting elOquence of Sumner,
intensified by his greater hatred of
Grant than of johnson. We shall
have poolselling in the city, to relieve
the monotony of everyday life, on the
great event when it really comes off,
ana no doubt the President will be
the favorite. Indeed, it is difficult to
conceive how the impeachers can
uOpS lOsuCOSSu aSaAHaI Olaht NASAA
they failed on Andy with three
fourths of both houses against him
and the majority of the people of the
United States to back them up. In
view of the experience of 1887 we
must regard this new movement of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. combination
as the grand humbug of the day, and
as a scheme that could only have en-
tered into the confused brain of set
Of muddled Washington politicians.