Clarksville Weekly Chronicle

The Impeachment—The Revolution

From the New York Express.

People, in 1860, laughed at the very idea of Civil war, and many people, in 1867 think a violent deposition of the Executive head of the Government as possible, with the consequent inevitable use of the bayonet, and the consequent overthrow of all our institutions, even if the President were then and thus deposed. All history teaches that blood is certain to flow upon such a revolution. A Senator cannot be made President of, by an act, of Congress, without civil war. The full comprehension of this truth—this only may save us now, from that civil war, because the proceedings in the House of Representatives are very serious, and indicate very serious Operations—such as even now cannot be retreated from with what is called 'consistency' or 'honor.'

"The intention of our Government was to create all then four departments of Government—the Executive. the Legislative, the Judiciary, and the Senate (in its Treaty making and other high powers) independent the one of the other. The "veto" was given the President to save the Executive department; the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. to save the Judiciary itself, as well as the other Departments; the Senate the ratifying, and other powers, to save itself.

Wisdom, great wisdom, framed all these checks and counterchecks of Government. By the expulsion of members of the House by the expulsion of Stockton from the Senate and by the prolonged exclusion of the ten States, and twenty Senators from Congress the "veto" power has been overridden, and Congress in its "Acts and "Laws, becomes to a certain extent, supreme.

To make sure of that supremacy the Senate are forcing ,in our Radical Senators from Nebraska and Colorado do, both of which, Territories have not as many people in them as one of the Congressional Districts in New York city. These are all acts tending to, and intended for, the reduction of the Executive to the power of Congress—nay, rather for the subversion and overthrow of the Executive by Congress If President Johnson can be deposed—for that is the word, "impeachment" being mere pretense to change Executives—some Radical Senator will usurp his place, and then, in part, the moral obligations, de., will be gone, and we shall be plunged as the Mexicans are, in the midst of anarchy and revolution.

The London and Paris journals, we conclude, look upon this contemplated "impeachment" as a very perilous proceeding; and if persisted in, we have no doubt that our bonds now held in Europe will be flowing back upon us by millions.