Show fie the president and congress nora born aa JOHNSON WILL DO IF from the new itow york herald I 1 after carefully striving to get at the ki so far as aa the controversy between twe Congress and the president is concerned it have arrived at the con elusion that both cofi gr 09 8 and aila tile the president the radicals intend to press impeachment at the next inre meeting ting of f congress and the pi es ident is firmly determined to resist it vie tannis by using all the powers and agents under his hid control the radical loaders leaders have bave come to tile the conclusion that the president is resolved to carry on terms least oppressive to the conquered southern sout heru people and least in sympathy with tile the congressional J ess ional negro supremacy plan they beli believe eve ilia his purpose to bo be to restore tile the dis franchised frati in the south bouth to all their rights as aa citizens and particularly that of suffrage rage of which they ale deprived be the present fly system of registe alion they believe lie ile will employ the alie whilo power of the executive to carry out this his polle policy I 1 of if saving millions of intelligent whites from the domination of an inferior ignorant g and but half civilized class so recently delivered from the bonds of 0 slavery and suddenly invested with tile rights of freemen they see in the execution exeen tion of his plan tile tion ioa of the means liy by which the he great republican party designed to control tile the south and extend their own lease rif of power and patronage at the fico of patriotism hiis ice aud and every every tight light pd observing Ob observing servin 9 all th this i they aru are natural naturally ly eager for his removal a and now clamor fur impeachment with louder voice and nd greater great r zeal than formerly they point to lo the he sitting aside 0 of r stanton sh fidai anil and S Sc ckles klc to the I 1 ettely issued ami jesty proclamation to tile the proclamation warning all civil and military officials to ti re regard urd tile the constitution and olt olty obey y tile oatlie tu preme court to the order served on all the s of tile ihu telling them aar take c of these proclamations and nige that all these lets acts and steps ire arc but a part or of a delih erite plan of the pi eig ident to oct act gin grees at defiance and place himself liim olf in hostility to the regonal ruction laws on the theory that they aie it e al and void they ask aek what will be tile the result if we do not in time chieck all this and place johnson Johne where h he e can call no longer obstruct us or violate tit atie laws we have passed over all his ve toes taking it for granted that the radical leaded is a are in eat eai nest all anil that nil all their loud threats are not mete idle i it becomes a matter of interest to know how abe theli evident will act in the event of his attempted impeachment I 1 om am reliably informed that ho he will regard the action of congress as revolutionary lutio nary the radic radicals nIs having abon do douce ned the idea of trying him tor for high crimes crimes and misdemeanors and justifying his hia impeachment merely on the ground that he is in tile the lan language of butler an impediment to reconstruction he will not recognize their proceedings is as legal or constitutional cons tit it dional and will pay no respect to their resolves or determinations should articles of impeachment in peach ment be presented and a resolution passed suspending mr Jo johnson linson and prohibiting him ft bioni oui exercising the functions of president should wade be clibbon to act as president ad infer antin int and armed with this color of right and ana law command johnson to vacate the white house and turn over to him all the property papers papera sec pertaining to the executive office I 1 have ave reason on to believe that mr johnson will decline and defy congress to do its worst tile tho Vo view of jhb matter is said eaid to ho be this each of the three great branches of the government is for itself the judge of the constitutionality of a law congress in the first firs t place ii ia a judge it passes a law according ic to constitutional forms by the requisite majority over tile tho veto according Accordi ag to the const constitution itil t i 0 t can only I 1 legislate egis late on certain su subjects bj ct well tile the law is passed and it comes to thu president for execution he ill i faithfully sworn to execute his hia office and to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states who is to determine for him wrather tile the law passed by congress does doca not lot conflict t with the constitution he is sworn to driend if ho he coti siders erB it clearly in in violation Tiola tinn of tho the constitution is ii he not under tho the roost most solemn obligation to refuse to enforce it it is contended by some that the mio usual its nal mode is for the president to assume a law constitutional until antil otherwise declared h hy T 0 he le ti nio n court this thir the co I 1 b atil t tu u doubtful cases but when tile the conflict with the constitution li id cleur cle ur and undoubted the president considers it his butylo decline its enforcement altogether Applying this to impeachment climent the fol lowing following is ia afe the rei result gult congress passes p articles artic ids of impeachment suspends athe tho president and orders his arrest age th e alleged offence offense is that ho bi refused alto to cli enforce foice tile the laws which ae believes to be in antagonism with tile the constitution he takes one view law oun con greas rem another ile he holds that he be can only be removed on conviction of treason bribery slid and other high crimes arid and misdemeanors ile he holds that a mere difference of as aa to the r constitutionality of a law between him solf and congress is IB neither treason tre aion bribery or other high crimo crime or dc menor ho he holds therefore that lie cannot be impeached suspended or removed from office congress insists he be can thon then he considers congress place itself in an attitude of revolution it thus vio violates lats the constitution by attempting to usurp the executive power I 1 at and ld must list be put down ITO how w will this ibis be done tile the president acting for the best in teresta of the country and deeming the safety of the republic in dan danger L er will issue a proclamation proroguing pro congress calling for an election of n new ew numbers and invoking the aid of the people to sustain him this I 1 am assured i is ii i the view the president takes of the impeachment muddle and the waybe way he will act should tile occasion arise under lie constitution the president ha s t 11 c 1 0 o w c I 1 to pro prologue I 1 ol 01 congress only in ease case of a d is r in nt to adjoua n but blit in a groat grent public emen emergency 0 rell cyb w when hen the life of the nation is at stake tho the president con considers tile the exercise of extraordinary tra ordinary justifiable able moreover congles 1 i by assuming unconstitutional tut ional powers and attempting to destroy the executive disqualifies itself is no long r a lawful congress bu but a body of pers pera and traitors As stich bik arth no rights the cx executive ati is bound to respect and the executive will deal with them accordingly the fridenti denti theory is thil thal they firpi fief t inaugurate au involution loy liy attempting an act subversive of tile government and upon them will rest the responsibility of any strife or confusion that may fullow follow |