Fact 2: Did President Andrew Johnson impeachment justified for what he did?
President Andrew Johnson |
One toxic energy can
spoil the spirit of a group. We all know that one odd individual always
looking for ways to ruin the atmosphere of the community. They are not
contributing to the goal of the group. They will bring more problems and
increasing it one by one as time past by, and the people who are going to solve
those problem is certainly not him or her but the peers in the group. In
response, we should cut them off with radical reasons and approval of many
peers in the group; and prevent that energy to come back with all costs, as
much as losing a friend and create an enemy. This cycle of treating toxic
people is very similar to the process of Impeachment in American politics. In
fact, the first Democratic American President Andrew Johnson was impeached and
had experienced the exact same process as the process described above. The fact
that he was a Demoncrats explained that he would oppose every move that the
Republicans propose. The decision of impeaching President Andrew Johnson was a
necessary step to attempt remove a toxic ideology out of a rightful agenda by the
Republicans in the 1800s.
Democrats vs Republican |
Growing poor in North
Carolina, Andrew Johnson followed a path to becoming a tailor. Without any
funds for his education, he had to self-educate himself without any formal
schooling. Later on, he discovered that he has a gift for debating for oratory.
After many advances in political starting from a small town's mayor, he was
elected to be an US Senate in 1857. He proved to be an independent thinker when
he remains loyal to the Union while the South States secede. Another evident is
when he against all the Republican policies during his presidency. He began
very hard to deal with because he did plan to compromise his ideology. He
vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which is an organization from the government
aims to assist the newly freed slave to adopt the new life because he did not
want the blacks to have equal rights to the white. While the Republicans
planning to make the Confederates leaders to come back to power in the South,
President Andrew Johnson granted their former power and lands with his personal
power as the president. As many people oppose him, one of them was Secretary of
War Edwin M. Staton, because his easy-going on policies with the Confederates
and allows racial discrimination to happens. As a result, President Johnson
planned to remove Edwin Staton despite that the Congress passed the Tenure of
Office Act to prevent president firing or appoint the cabinet without the
consent of the Senate. This proved that President Andrew Johnson was a white
supremacist and his ideology was to suppress the newly freed blacks to possess
the political power, and he was willing to eliminate anyone who opposes his
vision.
As soon as President
Andrew Johnson fired Edwin, the House of Representative began the process of
impeaching and looking for someone would suit their political agenda. In
the end, he was impeached. The decision of impeaching Andrew Johnson was a necessary move to try to remove a toxic representative because he had prevented the Republicans from assisting the freed slaves and
bring balance to the nation. As long as Andrew Johnson remains in the seats,
every bill proposed by the Republicans will be vetoed and many aid to blacks
will be shut down because it's against Johnson's vision.
Sources:
- US Senate: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Johnson.htm#1 (USS).
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