Year: 1868




Intrigucs of the Politicians.


The impeachment trial progresses. Within
three weeks, they say, it will be ended, and
Andrew Johnson will be among our cx-Presi-
dents His conviction is regarded as fore
gone conclusion, nasmuch as his acquittal
would involve the immediate disruption of the
republican party. His removal, demanded by
the party, is expected by the party and is
necessary to save the party from immediate
shipwreck Chief Justice Chase, ruled off the
Presidential course, is relieved of the trammes
of party. Thus, rising above the noxious at
mosphere of party he stands in this trial as
the representative of impartial justice, and the
more moderate of the republican Senators have
done well in voting to sustain his rulings, here
and there, against the preposterous notions Of
such implacable partisans as Drake and Sum
ner But what does all this amount to if the
final verdict in this case is fixed in the minds Of
the court and the jury? The New Hampshire
election, turning upon this issue as party
measure. settled the question; for from that day,
as by general consent, Presidential politicians





Washington and elsewhere began to shape their
plans and calculations upon the probable Con
sequences of Andrew Johnsons removal, and
cold Ben Wades' promotion to the White
House for the remnant of the Presidential
term to the 9TH of March, 1869.


The Independent position, therefore, taken
by the Chief Justice in this trial, looking TO
President Johnson amounts to nothing. The
trial is lormality which cannot be avoided,
and few days more or less gained for the
defence upon points of law and evidence will
serve mainly the advertisement, on grand
scale, and gratutously, too, of the learned
lawyers concerned on both sides. This i'm
pcachmcnt is, indeed, a great thing for them
and hit for the newspapers; but it is a mock
cry to Andrew Johnson. The briefest glance
at the programme for the prolongation of the
reign Of radicalism will serve to show how fall
lacious must be all estimates of q republican
| diversion in the Senate sufficient to save poor
Johnson, especially when it is apparent on
every hand that the outside hue and cry for
his removal will admit of no defections in the
party camp What, then is this radical pro-
gramme2


IL is plan of operations not only for the
next Presidency and the next Congress, but
for such a reconstruction of States, the right
of suffrage and sectional balances Of power, as
will be best adapted to secure q long posses
sion OF the government. The great impedi-
ment to the plan thus agreed upon has been
and is Andrew johnson as President Of the
United States. With his removal and the
transfer of Mr.. Wade dd interim to the Execu-
tive mansion the coast will be clear. The
outside Southern States, under the supervision
Of a radical President, can be reconstructed
and restored bottom end up without
the slightest difficulty, or held over till after
the Presidential election, as may be deemed
most expedient. Thirty or forty thousand
federal officers, mainly useless for radical party
purposes under Andrew johnson, will, with his
removal, be thrown into the republican Presi
dental market, and an electoneering fund o
millions may thus be secured from the whskey
interest alone. The Supreme Court will mex
be made all right with such additions of reliabl,
political Judges as will secure radical majorlt,
on every important test, against all con
tinpences, for years TO come. A law of Con
gress establishing universal negro suflrag
throughout the United States would thus b.
made sure thing against any appeal from an.
quarter Finally. with the eleven rebel Statt