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AMERICAN CITIZEN.
USURVATION.
There are many persons who have a
very confused notion of the "usurpation '
which is charged upon the President,but
a little reflection will enlighten them.—
The President, by the i9
made a co ordinate but not a co-equal
branch ol the Government. So, also, is
the Supreme Court. But Congress, or
the Legislative branch, is wisely made
tlv3"chief and superior branch. The ex
ecutive and the Judiciaiy are "che;ks
and balances" only. The Constitution
in giving Congress power to remove the
President by impeachment, and to re
organize the Supreme Court by increas
ing the number of Judges, establishes
the necessary final supremacy of the Leg
islature. To suppose three absolutely
co equitl branches is to suppose three
supreme departments of ihe Government,
which is absurd. Under certain sarefal
reservations, therefore, the Legislature is,
as in the nature of a popular system it
should be, constitutionally supreme.
The President is the Executive. He
is the hand of the Government. Ilis
function is to execute the laws which arc
enacted by Congress. He is therefore
made Commander of tho army and savy
because the cxcetion of ths laws may
sometimes require force. But he can
lawfully use the army and navy only in
tho enforcement of the laws, and there
are no laws until Congress makes them.
The Executive has uo legislative power
whatever. But the check upon the Leg
islature by the Executive wlrch the
Constitution provides is the Veto. Yet
that is not a final obstruction.. If a law
be vetoed by the President it is invalid,
unites it be passed over the veto by a
vote of tiro-thirds of Congress. It then
becomes as imperative a law as if the
[Yesideut had approved it; and his oath
binds him to its faithful execution. That
is one of the ways in which the supre
macy of the Legislature over the Exec
utive is constitutionally asserted.
Whcu tho rebellion was suppressed by
the arms of the United States it left
every rebel State without any lawful
civil authority, as President Johnson
truly declared at the time. Every such
State was held by the national military
authority, and as Commander in-Chief
upon the field the President was author
ized to established military governments
to keep the pea,;, 3 But there could be
no pfll itieal uioveuent.no initi#ii„n of a
civil government without a law of the
United State-, and the Legislature or
Congress alone was constitutionally com
petent to pass such a law. By disre
garding this fact, by imitating ciyil gov
ernments upon his own responsibility
an 1 without the least reference to Con
gress, and then insisting that such gov
ernments were as valid as those of Ohio
or Now York, the President indisputably
usurped the function of Congress, and
neither lie nor any of his adherents have
ever been able to show,the slightest coa
stitulional authority for his action. This
is the plain usurpation of the President,
lie had no more authority to reorganize
the rebel States of his own motion than
ho would have for issuing an edict from
the White House, removing the Gover
nor of Now Jersey, and claiming for it
t>o force and sanctity of law.
But he did this twenty months ago,wc
are told, and why do vc now first hear of
usurpation ? We do not now hoar of it
for the first time. It was as clear then
as it is now. Hut the express terms of
the President's proclamations and the
words of the first Message in Dectuihsr,
18G5, by which ho referred the whole
subject to Congress, and his declarations
that he regarded his action as experi.
mental, perfuaded the country that his
proceedings were merely provisional,and
were taken from tta necessity of imme
diate action and from considerat on of
public safety. If the President had said
in his proclamations that when any State
had conformed to the terms he imposed
it shuald be at once by that fact restored
to all its functions in the Union.the very
first act of the present Congress would
doubtless have been his impeachment.
Moreover, when his usurpation began
it was reg rded not only in the light 01
his >wn declaration that t was a j rovis
j ioual, experimental movement, arising
from the public situation, like a sudden
suspension of the habeas corpus, mod tike
that wholly referable to the ratification
of Congress, Jjyt it was viewed also from
th ' point of his conduct through the war
and hisspeeches upon his accession to the
Presidency. In a word.thesan e confidence
which the country had rsposed in the
occasional arbitrary acts of Mr. Lincoln
—a confidence founded in entire faith
in his patriotic loyalty—was naturally
transferred to his successor, elected with
him, and called suddenly to deal witb
an utterly unprecedented emergency. And
Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A. LINCOLN
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1867.
the usurpation would hive b«cn as heart
ily condoned by the country, &3 Mr. Lin
coin's acts always were, had the Presi
dent himself morally justified his course
by showing 51 r. Lincoln's simple fidelity.
But when the deplorable consequences
of the President's course were gradually
revealed—when the country saw that the
President actually denied to a
legislative function which he had not
hesitated himself to assume, that, not
content with so startling a position, he
fiercely denounced Congress as an unlaw
ful and impertinent body; that his action
had placed the government of the lately
rebel States wholly in the hands of ene
mies of the Government; leaving Union
men of every color tq their mercies; that
he opposed every measure of Congress
intended to secure the just and necessary
results of tho war; and that the whole
mass of those who had been in open or
covert Inu tility to the Union and the prin
ciples of equal liberty were suddenly
changed from his foulest detractors into
his most unwavering and menacing sup
porters —then those who would willingly
have forgiven the assumption of power,
had it beei, directed, us they supposed it
would be, to tho pacification of our troub
les, saw the Presidential conduct in its :
true light as nothing less than usurpa
tion.
That it was begun with the deliberate
intention of overthrowing the Govern
ment is not clear, but fl at its chief dan
g sf, the sudden restoration of the late
rebel States without the least security to
the Union, has been averted, is very evi*
dent. Yet the question still remains, and
it is the question which the country is
now pondering, whether impeachment is
a wise policy until the President is shown
to be wilfully persisting in the attempt
to establish his usurpation by actually
refusing to execute the laws; or whetker
on the other hand, it is a wise policy to
trust the Executive power in hands which
have shown such facility and tenacity in
usurpation, and whish are evidently to
be strengthened by the judicial branch
of the Government.— Harper's Weekly.
A Paper in a Family,
We aever saw a newspaper that was
not worth great!y more than its cost in a
family. It is.to a great exteut true of
every collection gf written matter, book
or newspaper; but uiore esceaial'y of the
latter, for it covers a much greater variety
of subjects, and is necessarily more con
densed. It is a well-knowu fact that
there is no royal road to learning. The
brain, full of knowledge, whoso activity
senda light over our daily pathway, has
been acquired by hard and constantstudy.
Every book and newspaper which the
cpreful or careless reader picks up is fill
ed with the reaults of laborious investi
gation. Take the single issue of a daily
or weekly paper, and see ia its editorials,
its financial articles, its mere drudgery of
daily faots. its quids and quiddities, its
philosophy and fun, how much care and
labor must have been bestowed to furnish
it all with the regularity of one's meal.
It makes no pretensions. It is furnished
to every man for a fractioo c;f what his .
ice cr any cne of the simple luxuries of
his household costs him, and yet it is
thoughts which are con
stantly influencing his- actions, and form
ing the opinions of his children to gov
eru their after lives* Into the columns
of the newspaper come the matured opin
ions of the greatest thiukers and states
men of the old world and the new, and
at a cost, compared with the value of the ,
information acquired, utterly insignificant
in amount. No man, no head of a fain«
ily especially, who would properly qual
ify his children to pass respectably, prof
itably and with satisfaction to therasel7es '
through the world, should ever deny to
them the advantages of a good weekly
newspaper.
A dealer ic horse-flesh, of Jewish
persuasion, sold to a gentleman of little
experience in such matters a steed as
perfectly "without faults." Next day
the buyer came back in great fury, be
cause his groom found out that the al
leged "faultless" horse wan blind in the
right eye. "Why," replied the sly job»
ber, "this is not the horse's fault, it is
only his viis/orlune !"
No TIME TO BE LOST. —"Where are
you going so fast, Mr. Smith?" "Home,
sir, home, don't detaic me; J iave just
bought my wife a new bonnet, and I must
doliver it before the fashion changes."
drain hnds—drlcjt whiskey and
spend all your tiue at 'Jie village tavern.
This will drain you of all your lands in a
sfiort time.
—Tt is not just for two friends, more
than for man and wife, to be out of pa
tience at the same time
THE IMPEACHMENT.
The criminal folly of the frjjnds of
the President who at the Democratic
Conventions and in such papers as the
Washington Constitutional Union openly
threaten armed resistance if Congress
should exercise its exprsss Constitutions'
right of impeachment, has done more to
make an impeachment proba le than all
other causes together. If Congress cap
not take an undeniably Constitutional
step but a faction in opposition must in
voke civil war, we ought all to know it
And if it be necessary to impeach the
President in order to prove that lact, by
all means let him bo From
1860 to the present tima tha Democratic
party has triedfto ca r ry evary election
and to secure all its measures by a threat
of eivil war. John Van Buren at the
Cooper Instituto, in 1862, and James
Brooks at New Haven, and Edmund
Burke (Phoebus Apollo !) at Concord, in
1867, resort to the same menace. It
should not be disregarded. Sjjph men
should be taught, whenever they invite
the issue, that tue people of the United
States are not yet Mexicanized, and that
they intend to settle all questions by
peaceful methods until they are openly
opposed, and will then forcibly overcome
the opposition that peaceful methods may
be resumed,
If the evidence laid before the Judi
ciary Committee shall show that the Pres
ident has unquestionably attempted to
subvert the Government, directly or in"
directly, by usurpation or by corruption,
or by inaction, he will bo impeached and
tried, and if conyieted he will be remov
ed from office. And whoever undertakes
to resist b}' arms the processor the decis*
ion will fare as other rebels have lately
fared. It is one of those great and grnv«
measures which only an extraordinary
public emergency can justify. It is in
deed strictly Constitutional, as the war
power is Constitutional. If the Consti>
tutional authority be offensively denied,
the country may demand that the issue
be raised. But no sensible man can be
indifferent to tlm itnpu,t3nce of such ac
tion, and will therefoie neither passion
ately nor flippantly invoke it.
This is undoubtedly the attitude of the
conntry at this moment. Nothing will
change it but the continuous folly of the
President's party. II the) and hears
wise, they will patiently await the action
of the Committee. If the Committee re
port tiiat aM)pi« grounds for impeach
ment exist, and state theii nature so that
the country can clearly comprehend ttacui,
the President, if wisely advised, will
abide by the Constitution and the methv
o.s it prescribes- That, and that only,
will be proof to the country that he sin
cere]/ believes in the justice of his posi
tion. That, and that only, will incline
the country to judge dispassionately the
evidence and the defense. Mad and reck
less as his words and measures have been,
fatally encouraging to the rebellious spir
it, end destructive of the hopes of loyal
and humane citizens, his acts are not of
necessity to de- interpreted as conceived
with an ijtent of overthrowing the Govs
ernmcnt. An obstaclc*o the loyal and
generous purpose of the country ae plain
ly is ; but not an obstacle, obviously, to
be removed by impeachment. But the
moment he resists a simple Constitution
al that, moment he judges him*
self.
If the Judiciary Comutttec shall be
satisfied that the laws of Congress passed
over the president's veto are made inop
erative by hit inaction, and that in con»
sequence of that inaction the condition of'
loyal men in tbe late rebel State) is in
tolerable, upon lyhat ground can any body .
ask tlio country to wait two years before
such wrongs are remedied ? If that shall
be made plain the impeachment will bo
carried and unanimously supported by
the country. Kut if, as the President
and the Secretary of State declare, the
laws passed over tbe veto are faithfully
executed, although, of course, not with ,
the hearty cooptfiation of approval, then
the impeachment will not hold. This
seems to us to be the substantial pQintjj
and we can know tbe trulh not by the
rhetoric (/'partisans, but by actual evi
dence. For that, as we have already
said, we mus,t wait." Nor can any of us
tell jrliether the President ought to be
impeached until the grcanUs of the ekar.
ges are repealed in detail.— ljurper'i
Weekly.
—What is the difference between a
summer dress ,ic winter and an abstracted
ed tooth ? One is too thin, and the other
tooth-oat.
—A married moneter says he once had
a most delightful dream, in which he im
agined he had an angel by his side, and
on waking up found it was only his wife.
The Press vs. Public Sentiment.
Some writer has truly remarked that
ths press ii lue helm by which th 6 ship
of public opinion is guided, and he might
haye said with equal truth that without
the press that ship would be carried hith
er and thither until finallv wrecked upon
the rocky reefs of ignomice and super
stition. Indeed, we have sometimos
thought that the very existence of our
government depeuds upon the free aud
universal discussion of the questions and
principles upon which our republican in
stitutions are based, and every one must
admit that through no other means covjld
tilts discussion be made so general and so
thorough as through the agency of our
daily and weekly journals. But howev
er potent this power may have become,
we must not lose sight of the lamentable
fact that it is not what it should be, in
many or what may reasonably be
expected of it by the American people.
The press needs purifying. Many of our
journals are too much trammejed by par
ty, which restricts them to certain limits,
virtually saying, "thus lar and no far«
tlier," and forcing the journalist to advo
cate and defend principles ajjd actions
which his better judgment would lead
hitn condem*. In journalism, as in
other professions, a inau must have some
thing wherewith to meet little bills for
coal and groceries, and dry goods, and
knowing that his support from the public
depends upon his agreeing with the p^b*
lie, he is apt ratbgr to hush his conscience
than to sacrifice the patronage which sup
plies the wants of the little ones at
And who can blame him ? Does not the
blame rather rest with the community or
the party which demands to be agreed
with, and which will nut allow itself to
be argued with or contradicted ? In how
jnstances have editors been rc»d
out of parties because they dared to ex
pose corruption, and because they felt
greater regard for the "still small voice''
within than for the clamor of popular
opinion ? And how many professedly in
dependent journals have been Jitefally
starved out of existence or into the whirl*
pool <>f party corruption and misrcpre»
sentation t Is this not reversing the or<
der of things? What part is the helm
playing in this voyage ? and who will
bear the reproach if the ship is stranded,
and tho precious cargo goes to the bot
tom?
Then, again, too many of our papers
are conducted by unprincipled men, —
men who seek for nothing but to pkase
the public, and who mould public senti
me u t j 11st UH it happens to ask to be mould
ed, never asking themselves whether they
are right or wrong, and never waiting to
consider whether the production will be
hideous or beautiful. These are the men
who succeed best, as success is generally
estimated, but we fear thpy will be found
wanting when weighed in the balance
with the few honest men of the profes.
sion who have really felt the responsibil
ity they were to their God and
their fellow men, but who have been ma:>
tyrs to public sentiment.
We Jargue, then, that the press needs
purifying, and that this work is for the
people. Whenever a consciencious, hon
eit man can wield the pen according to
his convictions of right, with the assur
anco of a patient hearing, and without
fear of losing the patronage which keeps
grim starvation from his hearth-stona,
whenever the smooth-tongued knave, who
is on every side of every question, and
who never comes out in favor of a meas
ure or expresses an opinion till his pat
rons ask him to, ii treated with the con
tempt due him, then, and not till theu,
will the press of the world assume thb
place that Providence designed it to oc
cupy, and then will the pen be indeed
" mightier than the sword."— Sharon
lUrnld.
—" What do you know of the defend
ant, Mr. Thompson ? Do you consider
him a good musician ?"
" On that point I wish to swear witji
great card. Ido not wish to insii.uate
that Mr. Vonslope is not a good musi
cian. Sot ht all. But I could not help
observing (persons will observe queer
things at times) that after he commenced
playing on the clarionet, a saw-filer, who
lived next door, left home and has Dover
since been heard of."
—A minister met a parishioner who
had come into possession of a handsome
property by the death of hi» brother, and
inquired how he was getting along.—
"Oh I" said he,"l am having a dreadful,
time; what with getting out letters of
administration, and attending probate
court, and settling claims, I sometimes al
most wish he hadn't died."
—Surrat arrived in Washington last
week
KINDNESS REWARDED.
It is a dreadful th : ng to be old and
poor, and have no home ; but there is a
deeper depth of human calamity than
this—it is to have in addition, an old
age of wasting, wearing sickness, which
is often superinduced by that constant
depression of mind which attends the
cojsciousness of ilone and friend
less aud in want. One of the best means
of avoid wg an old age of destitution and
bodily suffering is to cultivate while
young all the benevolent and generous
feelings of our rMure, never by any pos
sibi.ity allowing any opportunity pass of
befriending a fellow-traveler, as we are
passing on life's journsy, for sooner or
later the reward will ccuie of a happy
heart and oftentimes a comfortable pro
vision for declining yeais.
ID 1812, a wounded soldier was lying
help'ess on the * plains of Chalraetta, a
few mil.es below New Orleans. A youth
passed that way, kneeled at his side, in.
quired as to his wauts, eonreyed him to
a shelter, and remained with him until
he was able to leave for his home in (lie
city. Nearly half a century later, the
wounded soldier died, kut old Judah
Touro never forgot the youth who help
ed him on the battle-field, and left him
fifty thousand dollars in money, beßidei
some duties to perform which
yielded Mr. Shepherd 8100,000 more.
While living in New Orleans, about
the year 1850, a poor young doctor, with
a largo family and a small practice, often
£ame into my office. He wa# always
courteous, always kind, and always sad ;
and who could be otherwise when anxie
ty for to morrow's bread for wife and
children is always pressing on the heart?
But there c:i me a letter oue day, with the
English post-maik, making inquirios for
a certain young AmerioAn doctor who
had greatly befriended an English gen
tleman during a long and dangerous at
tack of sickness in New Orleaus a nums
ber of years before. The grateful gen
tleman had (Jied, apd left our poor young
doctor a large 6state.
Ten years ago,.and less, there lived in
the city of New York a clergyman whose
name and momory are sacred to thous
ands ot gratel ul, loving, revering hearts
lie hastiot been dead long; he will nev
er die out of the holy affections of the
ppopLa beforo whom he came in and
went out go many years. Among his
people there was one man, and he was of
large wsalth, who seamed to make it his
special bufincs's, as it was his highest
happiness, to soe that his revered pastor
wanted nothing. It was not a fitful care,
ft did not spring up in JUay, and die
long before December came, but through '
weeks and months and loug years it was
always the same j incewant, perenial,
gushing up always like a never failing
spring. The pastor died; his loving
watcher," by no fault of his own, failed
for almost millions, any resovery was ab
solutely hopeless. The grief that press
ed him most was the loss of ability to
help the helpless. Men looked on and
wontierod, and beg«n to question if Prov
idence would let such a man come to
want in his gray hairs. B«t there was
an eye upon him. A man of very great
wealth said : "He must not suffer who
cared so well and so faithfully and long
for my old minister. He is just the man
I want to attend to my estates, and he
shall have all he asks for us a compensa
tion for aarvicee."— Unit's Journal
of Health.
CONVERSION OF SEVBN TIIIRTIE.—
To facilitato the conversion of Seven-
Thirty Bonds due in August 1807, the
Secretary of the Treasury has decided to
pay express charges until March 31st on
Seven-Thirty Bonds transmitted to Wash
ington for conversion and also the ex
press charges on bonds sent in return.—
Holders of Seven Thirty Bonds falling
due in August, forwarding the same be
fore March 31st, can feel certain of get
ting a prompt return of the bonda. while,
if conversion is delayed until nearer Au
gust, the pressure for conversion will be
so groat as to prevent a prompt re'urn of
the bonds.
—Witness, you said-that while walk
ing with an open umbrella, you fell into
this reservoir and were badly injured.—
Did you break any bones, sir, at the
time?" *
" I did, sir."
" What bones ?"
" Whale-bones, sir."
■ ■ ■' i>
—'' I say, milkman,^ougi7o youc sows
to« much salt!"
" Why, how do you know how much
salt I give them ?"
" I judge from the appearance of the
milk you bring us latklely. Salt makes
the cows dry, and then they drink too
much water, and that makes their milk
thin, you kuow."
NUMBER 12.
A Republican Southern State.
If the present dominant party in Ten
nessee should continue to retain
sion of the State, the prospect seems to
be (air for making it a more prosperous
»nd flourishing commonwealth than any
in the south Statistics show that while
the negro population has decreased in
most parts of the south during and sinco
the war, it has increased in Tennessee,
because there it is protected in all its
rights. Negro emigration thither from
Kentucky, North Carolina and tho cot
ton States is providing an ample supply
of cheap labor, whereby iudustrial ens
terpriscs thrive, and the agricultural in
terests aro recuperating from tho disas
trous results of the civil war.
Tennsssce has generally been found to
bo liberal in politics, and her public men
have given many proofs of their regard fot
free principles. The loyal population has
been strengthened by imigration from
other States, and with the aid of the ne.
gro votes will bo able to maintain pos
session of power. The example set by
the Republicans of Missouri has bcon
emulated by those of Tennessee, and both
States arc now fine fields for emigration
and tho investment of capital in busi
ness enterprises. The contrast presented
by those two States with Kentucky is
not much to the credit of tho laUer.
The Republicans of Tennessee have
been bold, open and resolute from tho
timo when the State government was re
organized. Those of Kentucky, on tho
other hand, suffered themselves to lie mis
lod and misrepresented by allyiug their
forces with the thing misnamed a con
servative Union party.
'1 he efforts of the Johnsonites to over
come the Republicans in Tennossoe, and
give tho Stato to the Democrats and reb
els, have been constant, and, backed by
the power of tho national government,
they would have succeeded had the Ten.
nessee Jtspublieanij beoa less determin
ed. It is of tho utmost consequence, in
relieving the south of tho evils engeni
dered by slavery,that we shoyli} strength
en the hold of the Republicans upon
Tennessee, which, right in the heart of
tho Bouth, must largely influence tho
surrounding country. It is not mertjj
the political weight thus added to our
cause that we set value upon. Tho Re
publican party carries with it tendencies
that hare made every State prosperous
whore it holds sway. In t'oo short timi
ths4 jt has held possession of Missouri
it lias don 3 a vast amount of good.
For these reasons w should be pleas
ed to see a more general disposition to
encourago emigration to Tontewoe. The
resources of the State are equal to those
of any of tho ncqr States thataro receiv
ing such streams of emigration. The
negroos will, of course, go there fast
enough; but white emigrants from tho
north are Deeded to strengthen the noble
Republicans who have thus far held the
State.— N. American.
Thelrijo.
Mr. R, I/,4nn, correspondent of th*
Morning Star, in a Utter from Suez,thus
speaks of the most Wonderfiil river in the
world—the NH» :
The greaj; natural curiosity~of Egypt,
and that which not only distinguishes it
from other countries, but is the cause of
all its other peculiarities, js the wonder*
ful Nile. Tha immense quantity of wav
ter necessary to cause the continued rise
of a river with a good strong current,
from June to October, unt*i its channel >
ordinarily from half to one and a half
miles wide, is widened to from fire to fif
ty miles in width, is astonishing, and al«
most snfficient still to stiir ulate tha belief
that some divine agency, rather than the
rains of Abyssina, must be tha cause.—
And this appears still more strange when
it is remembered that not a single spriug
or branch of any kind caters it within
one thousand miles of its mouth. It is
strange, indeed, that in so hot a climate
and so vast an extent, the volume of wa*
ter is not diminished by absorption and
evaporation; and perhaps the facts that
the waters secK to extend thiough the
entire valley upon the same level wiijx
th; Nile can alone explain this continued
fullness.' Tho sands from the deserts,
which bound this valley upon either side
seem to be constantly crowding upon th*
fertile soil, and tha deposits of the river,
which have raised its bed and banks
about fifteen feet within three thousand
six hundred years, are crowding in upoo
the deserts, and thus, as elsewhere in
nature, antagonism maintains the equili
brium.
—A ltiss, says an ingenious authority,
is like the cieation, because it is made of
nothing, and is very good.
—Never retire at nip-ht. withnnf 1
wisertimu alunjou .ioi>e iulheworbmf!
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