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FOR I'RESIDEMHI, ELECTORS.
Kill; TIIK STATE AT I.AROK ;
J. I*. \\ ALKER, of Washington Co.
.K»UX R. FELLOWS jfOiwchiU.
FIRST DISTRICT :
ROBERT S. GANTT, of Prairie.
SECOND DISTRICT !
A. B. WILLIAMS, of Hempstead.
THIRD DISTRICT :
•L E. C'RAV ENS. of Johnson.
Sli __mmmmmmmmm—*
THE ELECTION.
The news from all parts of the state
from which we have heard is of the most
encouraging character, The record of
l'rairic cuunty is made against that infa
mous Constitution; the rocoTd of the
state will be the same. To what will the
poor, offlce-seckiug Rads resort to next in
Arkansas; they are beaten with all their
ability to steal, palm votes, und swindle in
every possible way. The majority will be
ten thousand against them. IFe are free
to say that had a fair vote been taken the
majority would have been nt least a third
larger. We speak advisedly when wc say
fraud was practiced. At this poll wc saw
segroes vote who were less than 19 years
eld; and when their votes were challenged
they were not prevented from voting, but
allowed on the plea that it was too late to
challenge. Again, a white man and ne
gro were registered at the same time and
place in an adjoining county ; the white
man offered his vote and it was not accept
ed, the negro was allowed to vote. Is not
this palpable Iraud? yes. all for the pur
pose of carrying the election in favor of
constitution, and elevating to place those
who have no qualification for office beyond
fheir political opinions. Rut thev are de
feated, and every honest man rejoices that
it is so. The poor negro wns duped into
their support, fooled into illegal voting;
yet the moans wore not sufficient to reach
their ends. They must hang the r heads
in shame, and injthe mortification of their
souls, if they have souis, mourn their de
leat; for, alas! they can never rise from the
grave to which the voice of the white men
of Arkansas has consigned them alias!
for /Montgomery, for Hinds, for Roots,
and the smaller lights of the Radical camp,
there is for them no fatness; the constitu
tion defeated, they are thwarted in their
purposes am! must now feed upon other
fish. Let the people of Arkansas prepare
to attend the funeral of the pet of the Rad
ical household, lhv the constitution in the
grave, and bury it so deep that fathers
Bowen, Hinds, Hodges and Brooks will
aaver look upon it again,
BaJ- 1 zast week we published the ar
rest of Mr. Campbell, local editor of the
Memphis Avalanche. Since that time
Col Qallaway, chief editor of that paper,
has been arrested and confined in jail, for
no greater offence than censuring Judge
lluntcr for his high handed procedure
against his associate. The purpose of the
Little RadicaJ Judge, who has no more
brains than decency, was evidently to si
lence this fearless outspeaking journal.
But Hunter reckoned without his host,
for no sooner was Mat. Gallaway in jail
than his wife. Mrs. Fannie Gallaway,
mounted the editorial chair, and hurled
upon the offending Judge, the thunder
bolts of a wife’s indignation and a noble
woman’s contempt of such radical spleen
and judicial meanness. This is another
example of the beauties of radical rule;
let the press but speak out in opposition
to fraud, theft, or incompetently, and lo! by
order of imbecile judges it is silenced.
Let radical meanness be reproved, and im
prisonment is the result. It is thus in
Tennessee, and there are those who would
assist iu bringing Arkansas into the same
condition, but thank God they aro few.
To-day the great heart of the State, our
State, wc arc proud to call her, is beating
with gladness, because of the triumph of
principle over passion. Radicalism wal
lows in the dust—Arkansas has declared
for a white man’s government. The con
stitution, wc are confident, is defeated—
unlike poor Teuuesseo, we will not have
Radicals to rule over as, silencing opposi
tion, muzzling the press, and imprisoning
those who dare condemn their rascality
A SOLID PHALANX!
Tliree Cheers for Austin !
Is There Another Like Caroline!
On Friday, the 13th day of March.
1808, an election was hold at Austin, in
Cm-olino township. Prairie county, for
the rejection or adoption of that infa
mous instrument, called the Constitu
tion of Arkansas, nud resulted in a voto
of 292 against it, and not ohn row it!
We are proud that her people mude
such a glorious record. We have
hoard, good news from other quarters,
but uothiug equal to this. If there is
another township in tile 8tnte that
pulled that many votes against the
Constitution, ansi not onk run it, it
would make us still prouder to hear of
it. “There's life in the old laud yet.”
SPH. Just before going to press wc re
ceived the following returns of the elec
tion from a friend: St. Francis, 1 So against
constitution; Cross, Poinsett, Craighead,
Green, each estimated 150 against consti
tution; Crittenden, 400 for constitution;
Woodruff, 408 against constitution; Jack
son, 897 against constitution; Independ
ence, 103 against constitution. In Phillips
no whites voted; yet 50 majority against at
Clarendon.
-The Council Chamber and city
calaboose of Columbus, Kentucky,
were sold at Sheriff"s sale the othpr day
—the first mentioned for §125, and the
last for §11. The Council Chamber
was bid in by Mayor Vance for the city.
OI K 1‘OLKMIC MM'IKTY.
There is a society called the Des
Are Debating Club, organized in our
town, and has been in successful oper
ation for several months. At rirst the
young men of Des Ait aimed to have
a private organization in the form of a
Debuting Club, at which queries and
propositions would be presented and
debated; and alter the Club had or
ganised and practiced for some time,
with none present tint the members, it
was by the members deemed best to
remove the restrictions prohibiting
spectators and have their discussions
public. In order to afford accommoda
tions to spectators a committee was
appointed by the Soricty to wait upon
the officers having control of the Bap
tist Church, and ask permission of them
to hold the meetings of the Society in
said Church, and through these repre
sentatives of the Church permission
was granted to hold the debates there,
for which the Society then, as now,
feel profoundly grateful for the privi
lege thus granted. It is hoped that
the Society will feel so far grateful as
not in any way to abuse the privilege
of meeting and debating in the Church.
The meetings of the Society are once a
week, oil Saturday evening. (i’a o'clock.
The Society has been highly compli
mented for Ihe last two or three meet
ings by a tine crowd of spectators, es
pecially the ladies, who have lent their
smiles and influence to this laudable
exercise. May the voting men appre
ciate the compliment done the Society
by the attendance ot the ladies, and
may it influence each of them to pre
pare such speeches as may he worthy
to deliver in the hearing of the gentle
and fair ones.
Ofttimos much good is accomplished
through the medium of polcuic socie
ties; here mind is brought in contact
with mind, ideas' and opinions are
composed, argument is weighed with
argument, conclusions and deductions
must pass the ordeal of strict aud rigid
scrutiny; sophistry aud hypothetical
dogmas arc assailed and overturned.
It is emphatically a school of rigid
mental discipline and training for the
bar, the pulpit and the rostrum ; and
every young man ought to avail him
self of the advantages thus offered, by
uniting himself with the Society now
organized in Des Arc, the motto of
which is “Celsior et celsior.”
A Member.
jgyThe editorial columns of the Mem
phis Avalanche, of the 12th, coutuins the
following—Col. Galloway and Mr. Camp
bell were brought before Judge Waldran,
of the municipal court, on the loth, on
writs of habeas corpus, and discharged on
their own recognizance until the 16th :
Twenty-six years ago, 1 gave my girlish
heart to the husband whose name l proud
ly own. We have livod through adver
sity and prosperity, but in whatever condi
tion our lots have been cast calumnly has
never dared to assail my husband’s name.
Notwithstanding this fact, he was yester
day torn irom his little family and is now
a prisoner in the county jail; hut, thunk
God, lie is a prisoner without a crime
He has been torn from his home tor the
offense of exercising the rights which arc.
his by the laws of the land. To a free
country a free press is as indispensable as
light is to day. It is in fact, the sun of
the social and political system from which
emanate the healthy influences which pro
duce vitality, strength and fertility: For
exercising rights which the constitution
guarantees, my husband has been incarcer
ated in jail. Not only my prayers, hut
the prayers of all good people of both
sdibs will follow him in his prison cell. I
shall not speak unkindly of the man who
has sought to degrade my husband, and
who has brought unhappiness upon two
1 families. But as the principal editor and
| the local editor have both been arrested,
i and no freeman is allowed to speak through
i the columns of the Avalanche, there is no
, other alternative left but for me to assuuie
the position forced upon me by the
. _ _: ..._J ...: .iv.... .1. ..
tism always brings upon the noble and the
brave. A preconcerted arrangement has
i been umde to crush out the paper. It
| eannoti be done. During the incarcera
| tion of my husband and Mr. Campbell,
! 1 am constrained to take charge of the pa
per, aud can be found at the editorial
| rooms of the Avalanche, and if men are
! not brave enough to defend their rights
1 and their liberties, I trust the paper, for
the next ten days, will prove that there is
one woman ready to defend the rights and
the liberties which weak and timid men
seem disposed to yield.
FANNY 11 GALLAWAY.
Ne\T Jersey Withdrawn* her
Italideation or the ('ounUIu
linual Amendment.
Not long since the Legislature of
New Jersey repealed the act of a previ
ous Legislature ratifying the constitu
tional amendment, and last week the
Governor vetoed the repealing net on
the ground that the Legislature had
no power to do any such thing—that
the State having once ratified the
amendment it was bound by its action
and could not retract what it had done.
The Legislature could not sec the force
of his illogical reasoning, and yester
day passed the repealing act over his
veto. Thill leaven the amendment with
but nineteen states recorded in tavor
of its ratification, with but three States
I yet to act, viz: California, Nebraska
and Iowa. As one branch of the Leg
i isluture of California is very decidedly
j Democratic, there will be no ratifica
tion of the unclean thing there. What
the other two States will do remains
I to be seen. Kven upon the theory ol
j some of the Itaiiical leaders that it is
j not necessary that the amendment
should be ratified by the Southern
States, but that twq-thirds of the
Northern States ean make it tt part of
the Constitution, it will require the
ratification of the two States which
have not yet acted to make out the
number.
Tde Ruditula la Uempalr ! Im
pencil me n I a ('allure !
Wendell Phillips, in bis editorial
leader in the lastnumber of the Anti
Slavery Standard, shows himself hope
less of convicting president Johnson.
He speaks as follows :
Two-thirds of the action of the
Senate, especially for the last three
rears, show that the chamber is tilled
by lawyers led on calf-skins, anil never
daring to peer beyond the limits of a
! nisi prius decision, by greedy nidi
j using their place for profit, and by
| party plotters looking at every mea
j sure from the stand-point of their
: Presidential candidate’s interest. We
i shall not he surprised, therefore, if
Johnson is able to bribe or bully the
I Senate iuto an acquittal.
IIY TELEGRAPH!
Nkw yohk, March Ifi.
The directors of the Erie Railroad
say they will remain in Jersey City
until the injunctions are dissolved.— j
They have assumed to themselves to]
resist any attempt to take them back
by illegal means.
A hnjricai.e at Toronto, Canada
West, to-day destroyed £50.000 worth
of property. One man was killed.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
contains the following: It is under
stood that the expectation of ail attack
from the Virginia shore has within the
past few days taken a form that was at
first anticipated. It is that an order
has been issued from tne War Depart
ment, directing forty army wagons
1 witli teams and teamsters to be kept
j in readiness to movp at a moment's no
tice for the transportation of supplies.
l*rivate orders have also been issued
j to the commanders of garrisons about
the city to keep their rommands, botli
officers and men. in quarters.
The Times' special says hundreds of
! applications are being made for office
under Mr. Wade, when he becomes
I President. s. _
The Senate has recalled Col. Wolf
] ey s confirmation for reconsideration.
In the Supreme Court to-day the
! case of the City of Nashville vs. Coop
I er from the Circuit Court of Middle
I Tennessee, the judgement was revers
ed.
There were no proceedings In tiie
‘ Me Cardie ease. A new Georgia bill
i was filed by leave of the court.
I In a case from the Nevada court, it
! was decided that a State has no right
to levy a “capitation" tax on passen
! gers. This decision affects the Mary
land and New Jersey taxation ou pas
sengers.
j The receipts from internal revenue
j to-day were $580,000.
Alexander H. Stephens visited the
' President to-day.
Arlington, Gen. Lee's estate, is to be
divided into lots of five and ten acres,
and rented to negroes.
The Alabama admission case was not
mentioned in the House to-day.
Nashvii.i.k, March 15.
Near Columbia, Maury county, on
Friday, a negro woman was shot dead
1 .l .. ' .V.. 1 1,.. o vnffi.in
! named Hilly McKilitly. 4 be latter vras
’ drunk at tbe time, and without any
provocation, whatever, shot tho two
| negroes, who were proeeding to town
in a wagon.
The Tennessee Legislature, foliow
| ing in the wake of the Radical Con
i gross, before the adoption of a partisan
measure, which lias just passed, insert
ed provisions that no court shall he al
lowed to question the validity of Ihe
act.
In Columbus, Ga., on Tuesday, two
brothers named Litinkiiis, were out
watering their mules and got into a
petty quarrel, when the elder drew a
knife and rut the other in several pla
ces, inflicting fatal wounds. The mur
derer then proceeded to n store, pur
chased a pistol, and blew his brains
out.
Near Adairvillo, Ga., a drunken man
named James Collins, was instantly
killed by a train running over him.—
lie had lain down on the track.
Nashville. March 1G.
The Legislature of Tennessee ad
journed to-day to meet again in No
vember.
Judge Hawkins, of the Supreme
Court, lias tendered his resignation,
anil lleurv G. Smith, of Memphis, is
spoken of as his successor.
Mlicit ill feeling between the "loil"
men and the late rebels, still prevails
in Last Tennessee, tbiits for damages
are constantly being brought against
1 tbe latter, and the courts award their
! claims.
The Southern Methodist clergy in
many instances are forced to abandon
their ministrations.
New Orleans, March 1G.
| As President of tho New Orleans
I Associated Press. I deem it my duty
to deny the assertions, contained in a
dispatch sent from this city, which 1
flnu in the Northern papers of the Clli
inst., as folio ,vs :
"New Orleans, March 4th.—Jefl'er
spn Davis is here. All the lire compa
nies gave him repeated cheers as they
passed the St. Charles, and when ptrs
! sing Gen. Hancock's headquarters they
took oft' their hats and their hands play
j ed the Ronnie Rlue Flag. Rut six out
of the thirty companies carried the flag
of the United States. Indignation is
1 expressed by the loyal citizens, and
| fears arc entertained of trouble to
, night."
The only truths which the dispatch
; contained were, that Je tiers on Davis
, was then in this city, and that six of
i the companies carried the United
States flag. Last year, when Gen. Sher
man was here, it was carried by only
one company, while before the war it
was never customary to carry me na
tional Dag in these processions. All of
the rest of this dispatch is a falsehood.
The Agent of the New York Associa
ted l’ress desires me to say that he did
not send or authorize this dispatch, and
knew nothing of it until it was return
ed in tlie Northern papers, and lie con
curs with me in the above statement of
the falsity of its assertions; also, that
another dispatch sent from this city as
serting that Mr. Davis and Gen. Han
cock had been riding in the same car
riage together, is a falsehood without
a shadow of foundation in fact.
A. M. Hui.bkook,
Editor New Orleans Picayune.
A card is published in the city pa
pers this morning, signed by about
two hundred Northern and Western
men, who are citizens of this state, en
dorsing Gen. Hancock.s course while
in command here. The card says:
“Our object iu addressing you is to
make manifest the approval of the
Northern and Western born citizens of
tiiis place of the course pursued by you
while here, and that this communica
tion may assure the people of the
North and West that your official
course has been grossly misrepresented
; before the country by' a few purtizanu
of extreme viewsand office-seekers, for
j self-interest.”
Gen. Hancock goes to'Washington,
this evening, pursuant to orders, and
1 Gen. Reynolds, now in Texas, takes
I command.
A destructive conflagration occurred
here yesterday, beginning in a distille
i v on Commerce street. Five build
ings were burned, and a sixth seriously
damaged.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Wash niito.x. March l(i.
j House.—ruder the regular call the
'following bills were introduced: For
erecting a Marine Hospital at Curio,
repealing the provisions of the Judi
I ,-iurv act, forbidding further appoint
j incuts until the Supreme Judges ure
| reduced to six
Also, a preamble and sixteen resolu
1 Hons, a kind of Declaration of Rights,
i which was introduced by Mr. lioss, ot
| Illinois, who moved the previous iiues
| lion, which was not seconded, and then
for the purpose ofgetting a direct vote,
moved to table it. which was defeated
—yeas 8 ; nays 123.
The following were referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The rules may
be suspended at any time during the
impeachment trial for the considera
tion of business thereto.
The hill relieving certain persons
from political disabilities was resum
ed, and several names added,including
that of John II. Gilmer, as a reward
for having opposed the Lecomplon
swindle. It transpired during the de
hate that the purpose of the bill does |
not remove the disabilities imposed by (
the Fourteenth article. I ■
Mr. Heck made a point, that under
the Garland ease, the Supreme Court ,
had decided that the General Amnesty |
did work, as proposes! by this bill.
Mr. HUigharn said the Supreme
Court could only decide cases which
came up before il. lint could make no
decision which would operate on the
House or Senate. After this opposi
tion from an unexpected quarter, and
without action, the House adjourned.
Senate.— In the Senate, the Georgia
Convention asks a loan of $100,000.
The South Carolina Convention asks
the repeal; of the duties oil rice, and
more negroes want assistance to go to
Liberia.
Mr. Fowler introduce!, a hill for a
survey of the Mississippi from Cape
Giradeau, Mo., to the mouth, for the
location of levee linos, and an appro
priation of $230,000 for the same.
The Committee on Commerce repor
ted an amendment to the House Tax
bill, retaining the tax on turpentine,
sugar refineries, candies and confec
lionerv, alter which the Seuutcadjourn
ed. ' '
LOriSVli.EE MARKET.
Louisville, March 16.
Tobacco quiet; sales 71 hhds ; com
mon lugs to medium leaf $5 to 16.
Cotton 23 to 23,'^c. Flour, superfine,
$8 50 to 8 75. Oats in bulk 68 to 70c.
Corn dull and unchanged. Lard,
tielves. 15c. Mess pork is held at $24,
llarou shoulders llj^c; clenr sides
14'„c; bulk meats dull and nominal,
ST. 1.0118 MARKET
St Louis,March 16.
Tobacco steady and unchanged.
Flour (inn hot quiet; superfine $7 25
to 8 50. Corn inactive and lower at
87 to 90c. Oats dull at 69 to 72c. Rye
steady and firm at $1 70. Harley 82
65. Hulk sides 13**0 ; bacon very dull ;
shoulders 10% to 11c; sugar cured
hams 16 to ltc. Lard dull at 14 to
11**0.
CIVdWATI MARKET.
Cincinnati, March 16.
Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat
L..IJ 11.I .. - A C'A RA Ul
to 86c. Ifye steady at $2 70. Tobacco
steady ; logs 34 50 to 11 25. I’ork $23
60. Bulk shoulders 10c; sides 12c ^ ba
con clear sides 14 to 14t4r. Lard 15V4c.
Sugar cured bams 17 to 13c.
TENNESSEE NEWS.
W C. Burt was confirmed by the Sen
ate on Thursday as postmaster at Mur
freesboro.
A United States lieutenant was arrested
at Nashville bust week fur fast, driving.
One hundred prisoners in the peniten
tiary are to receive pardons
More shade trees are being put down in
Nashville than at any other time since the
war.
The Nashville Press and Times accuses j
the Ku-A'lux of trying to break up the
negro schools by threatening the teachers. 1
A Monroe correspondent writes : Not
withstanding our wants and financial dull
ness, not a man from this county has ever
gone into bankruptcy under the law of
1307.
In Bradley county the wheat crop
looks well and promising That which
was sown early in the fall looks remarks
bly green and thrifty—th.it sown late is
not so forward.
At A'noxville last week a merchant i
found a human foot in a bag—sensation
and suspicions of A'u Alux !
Tn consequence of careless shooting, 1
says the A'noxville Press, "it has, within
the past month, been dangerous for a per- 1
son to go outside of town without having '
his life insured.” The same paper states : i
It lias been so ooi union of late for robberies
, to be committed in that |uirt of the city
that no one feels safe to travel at a late
hour in that vicinity.
A'noxville is troubled with loafing no
i groes.
Col. David J/cAInnie, an old citizen of
Hardeman county, died last week ; he was
the heaviest tax payer in the county.
A difficulty occurred at Somerville on
: election day, in whioh Capt. Wm. Bell
was slightly wounded.
The Jackson Whig states: “A white
female child was born in this city one day
last week, having two tongues.”
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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
One night last week a squad of dis
i guised men on horseback dushed through
the streets of Corinth—they were said to
1 he the disreputable A'uklux gang.
Cars are now running regularly on the !
Port Uibsuu and Grand Uulf Railroad. i
The Aberdeen Kxnminer records the
mjaiti 01 ^ oiunci i vy u*u I.
There issomo excitement in Vicksburg
on account of a attempt to put the hospital
under Homan Outhulic management
The Charleston Tulluhatchisg com
- plains t|iat last fall the planter had to sell
liis cotton at a low price, and now he has
to lmy his spring supplies at a high price
The same paper says the wheat is doing I
well, and wishes more had been planted. !
Fruit promises to be plontifui about
Charleston.
The Panola Stai expects a full fruit and
vegetable crop in that neighborhood.
The Panola Star saysi “There is just
one tiling that we are in a hurry to know,
and that is, if certain of our subscribers
ever intend to step up like men and pay
. us ? Ho they think we can sleep on the
fence and eat our uusalted gumbo with a
splinter always, just for the privilege of
1 sending them a paper for nothing?
A Holly Springs writer says notwith
• standing the advance iu cotton, they will
1 pul in loss this year than last.
IQrOur Washington special says “it
is not believed in well-informed cir
cles that ltie Senate dare convict the
President” on any such charges as
those preferred against him. That, wc
think, depends entirely on circnm
staneos. If the Jacobin majority in the
Senate are of opinion tlmt the people
of the 1’lilted Slates will quietly ue
quiesee in the removal of Andrew
Johnson on the ground that lie did not -
yield implicit obedience to the uncon- I
stitutiomil tenure of office bill, tiny
are certain to do it. for the Radical
leaders long to see all impedimenta to
Congressional absolutism put out ofi
the wav. The impeachment trial will !
not be decided until an opportunity!
lias been had of leeliug the popular [
pulse, and the decision will be in nc- j
cordunee therewith. He who looks
for justice, patriotism, or a regard for I
their oatli of office from Itadieal Con-1
grcssioen lias observed the course of |
national legislation to little purpose.
during the hist few years. If the peo
ple snow a hold front for liberty ami j
the Constitution, the President will
not be removed otherwiaa he will.
Tlie Inipenrment Trial.
That there are some Republicans who
inve not lost all sanity is proven hj
he following opinion of the N.
['imes;
The Senate will try Mr. Johnson
olely on his recent action concerning
he War Department. In order to find
vurrnnl for convicting him they must
>e of opinion, not only that his action
n that particular matter was in viola
ion of law, but that it was done with
iriminal purpose and intent. For he
s to be convicted of a "high crime and
iiisdemcanor"—and the question of
ntention enters necessarily into the
•use. There can be no such thing as a
'rime where the intent to commit a
•rime is wanting. Mr. Luwi^uicc, ol
Ohio, said in debate on Saturday that
ho "did not consider the question of
motive at all material,'’—but that "it
for any cause he was unlit for the
office, it was the right and duty of the
[fraud Inquest of the nation to eject
him from the office.” lint irt the broad
Bense in which Mr. Lawrence uses the
words, the peopldare the only "grand
inquest of Hie nation” for electing and
dismissing public officers. They, and
they alone, can eject from office a Presi
dent for general unfitness. Congress
lias jurisdiction of tiie matter only in a
restricted sense, and in certain specified
cases. It lias no shadow of jurisdic
tion except what is conferred upon it
by the express terms of the Constitu
tion. Even Mr. Stevens does not pre
tend that the impeachment and remov
al of the President is to, be accomplish
ed “outside” of that instrument. The
House lias power to impeach, and the
Senate lias power to try, the President
only for "treason, bribery and other
high crimes and misdemeanors.” To
Ibis extent, and no further, may the
two Houses become the "grand inquest
of the nation.” In these cases, and no
others, have they the right, or does it
become their duty, to "eject him from
office.” The idea that they may and
must do this, as Mr. Lawrence holds,
"lor any cause” which in their judg
ment may involve "unfitness,” is the
offspring of Mr. Lawrence’s feelings as
n partisan—not at all of his judgment
ns a lawyer.
The Senate will scarcely feel empow
ered. under the Constitution and under
Ihe specific oatli of office which they
take before entering upon the trial, to
entertain the question of the President's
general “unfitness” for the office he
holds; nor will they feel at liberty to
decide that he is guilty of the specific
o fie uses charged in the articles of im
peachment, because they think him
unfit’ for the place, lie is not impeach
ed for “unfitness ;’ lie is impeached for j
certain acts, which are distinctly speci
fied, anil alleged to be "high crimes
and misdemeanors’ in the articles of;
impeachinfcnt. And the Senate is to
decide, under oatli upon evidence,
whether he had been guilty of those
acts, and whether those acts were, as '
alleged, "high crimes and misde
meanors.” And this necessarily in
volves the further question of the
intent with which those acts were per
formed.
The addition which Mr. Jenekes pro
poses to make to the articles of im
peachment ns reported by the select*
committee, shows a consciousness on
his part and on the part of the more
moderate liepuhlieans. of tlie necessity
of establishing a criminal intent on the
part of the President. This, the essen
tial point of the case, is only inferen
tial!)’ indicated in the articles as they
stand. The allegation Unit the Presi
dent has bean "unmindful ot the high
duties of his office, of his oatli of office,
and of the requirement of the Constit
ution,” is reiterated ill each succeeding
count Of the indictment ; hut there is
no where a di.tiuet charge of that
wrongfuiilcss of Intention whielj is the
real point in issue. A** *t the facts
there is no dispute. Hut unless the
amendment suggested In Mr. Jenekes
he adopted, the indictment will lack
the specific accusation ou which (lie
guilt of the President wholly turns.
Nothing could be noire absurd than
to exclude the intention from the ques
tion of guilt. The President may
make a mistake in the construction of
the law; hut no otic supposes that a
mistake is an impeachable. If it so in
his case, it must be equally so in the
case of every other officer of the
government. If the President may lie
impeached for mistaking the meaning
of a law. and for removing a subordi
nate officer under that mistaken con
struction, so may Collector bmythe.
For ail such mistakes the law provides
a remedy ; his action can be reviewed
and reversed, if found to he without
warrant of law. by the. judicial tribu
nals created for thut purpose. If bo
should violate a law, and then resist
such an appeal, ro refuse to ubide by
the decision of the proper court if it
should lie against him, these facts
would render it certain that his intent
was had, and that his act was therefore
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should appear that his acts, although
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stead of avoiding or residing the
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no purpose or thought of resisting
such judgment, whatever it. might be,
lint had declared his intention at all
times to abide by and obey it—it would
he somewhat dlfficiit to come honestly
to the belief that’the acts in question
were criminal, or that they fell within
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Tin* Experiment and the Result.
Not withstanding all the fuss the
Radicals of Congress have made and
are still making about impeachment,
we very much doubt whether sentence
will be pronounced against Andrew
Johnson by the Senate. This doubt
lias its origin not in any favorable es
timation in which we bold the integri
ty and rectitude of the Senate, but in
other causes, to which we shall pres
ently make reference.
The impeachment project, as we have
more than once intimated to the read
ers of the Courier, is an experiment
which the Radical leaders have insti
tuted to test the temper of the Ameri
can people. That experiment lias not
resulted as they wished. Whatever
may be the issue as to the displacement
of President Johnson, it is still indubi
table that they are disappointed, and
that ns a consequence, their plans have
received a serious check.
The Congressional Jacobins argued,
and their reasoning was not illogical,
dial if the people put up with Johnson's
removal because of his opposition to
an unconstitutional and usurping en
actment of Congress, they would sub
mit to any other legislation, however
unconstitutional and revolutionary.—
With this sort of reasoning tlie im
peachment test was instituted. The
displacement of the President was re
ally to thorn hut n secondary consider
ation. Ilnw little cause thev have to
he satislied with the result ot their ex
periment our readers can judge.
The conservative people of the Unit
ed (states, God knows, have no desire
for the inauguration of hostilities ; but
still it is sufficiently evident that, even
if the Senate should proceed to the in
famous outrage of deciding against the
President, it would be his own fault
should lie actually be deposed from ot
hers, There arc many thousands of
Democrats ill the land who do not np
.. . . . » 1. T..1..
done, but on this question nil the
friends of the old Constitution and the
old Union are a unit in his behalf. In
espousing his cause against Congress
they would but he taking the part of
liberty and constitutional government
against centralization and usurpation.
Some of the Radical journals assert
on wlmt they pretend is good authori
ty, that Johnson has ceased to be deti
a'nt, and that he will quietly acquiesce
in whatever tiie Semite shall do. Well,
we know not how that is. but tie it ns
it may, tlie President will not, we re
peat, be deposed in any event, unless
be chooses that ailairs shall take that
course. There are millions of strong
arms and stout hearts to sustain him if
he decides to make the issue with Con
gress in so just a cause. Wc do not
think lie will have occasion to make
any such draft upon the patriotism of
the people, but if it should turn out
that we are mistaken, and if he calls
for support upon those who love the
old Government, and abhor the infamy
of Radicalism, he will assuredly re
ceive it.
We can well imagine the chagrin of
the Radical leaders at tiie result of
their impeachment experiment. As,
one after another, tiie dispatches sent
to the President from all parts of the
country giving him the promise of
men and money in his expected strug
gle with Congress for the integrity of
the Constitution came to hand, how
the traitorous hearts of such men as
Stevens and Rout well and Ashley must
have sunk within them. Kvcr since
the hour when impeachment and des
potism seemed determined upon, the
telegraph and the mails have beeacon
stun11 y burdened with encouraging
words from the people to the President.
They have gone up to him from the
Androscoggin to the Wyoming, from
the Merrimac to the Kentucky. From
no quarter of the laud—wo refer more
particularly to tlie North—have the
people failed to send to the President
messages of encouragement.
This was far otherwise thftn the
Jacobins hoped and expected. They
doubtless imagined that the people
would tamely acquiesce in whatever
they did.
i rue, i ongress has also had its assur
ances of being sustained. But whence
came these assurances, and in what
shape did they come? Kxcept for the
frothy dispatches of two drunken Gov
ernors. tlie reassurances to Congress
were from ‘•tlie Grand Army of the
Republic”—a secret Radical 'military
society of limited organization and
numbers. In tlie event of a conflict.
Congress, wo know, would expect to
have tlie assistance of Grant and all
that portion of tlie army that lie could
command ; but even supposing that be
eot^ld take the whole army with him,
which is exceedingly improbable, wliat
resistance could it make against tin
great masses of determined freemen?
These are considerations that can not
fail to have oceured to tin- Radical
demagogues, and while they till their
hearts with despair, will go far toward
securing peacefully the preservation of
the liberties of tin- people.
The Jacobins of Congress have at
times seemed in an insane baste to ac
complish their mad projects, but there
ha* ever bee* a method in their mad
ness. They take good care to feel the
popular pulse as they go, and to gov
ern themselves accordingly. What lias
occurred, aud is occurring, at the North
by no means tends to reassure them__
Louisville Courier
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