The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

little incident still remained. Great curiosity was
felt as to whether Mr. Ben. Wade would or would
not vote. Van Winkle's voice had been decisive for
the acquittal of the President, and therefore it was
no matter, so far as this Article went, what Mr.
Wade said. But it may be that the honourable
gentleman, in the little time he had to decide,
calculated that the precedent would be against him
for the other ten Articles, so, without hesitation,
he replied to the question Guilty. Then the
Chief Justice arose and said—" On this Article
there are 35 Senators who have voted guilty,
and 19 Senators who have voted not guilty. The
President is therefore acquitted on this Article."
The announcement was followed by no expression
of feeling; the profoundest silence reigned in the
Chamber. Senator Henderson moved to adjourn
the Court until the Ist Jul j, by way of testing bow
the votes would go if another Article were called
up. The motion was lost, the votes being 31 to
20. Finally, it was decided that the Court should
adjourn until the 26th May, when the Chief Justice
vacated the chair, and the vast audience dispersed.
The vote, arranged according to the geographical
position of States, was as follows :

Fon CONVICTION.
New England.—Morrill, of Maine ; Gra„cin and Patter-
son, of New Hampshire; Morrill and Elmuuds, of
Vermont; Sumner and Wilson, of Massachusetts;

Spragueand Anthony, of Mods Island; Furry, of

Connecticut

Middle States.—Morgan and Conkling, of New York;
Cattell and Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey ; Came-
ron, of Pennsylvania ; Wade and Sherman, of Ohio 7
Border States. - Willey, of West Virginia; Drake, of
Missouri; Pomeroy, of Kansas 3
Western Stakes.—Morton, of Indiana ; Yates, of
Illinois; Chandler and Howard, of Michigan; Howe,
of Wisconsin ; Ramsey, of Minnesota ; Harlan, of
Iowa; Thayer and Tipton, of Nebraska ... 9
Pacific States.—Colo and Conness, of California;

Corbott and Williams, of Oregon ; Nye and Stewart,
of Nevada ... 6

Total for conviction 35
FOR ACQUITTAL.
New Eng-land.—Fessenden, of Maine (Republican);
Dixon, of Connecticut (Democrat) ... ... 2
Middle States.--Buckalew, of Pennsylvania ; Bayard
and Saulsbury, of Delaware; Johnson and Vickers,
of Maryland (all Democrats). ... ... ... 5
Border States.—Davis and M`Creery, of Kentucky
(Democrats) ; Fowler (Republican) and Patterson
(Democrat.), of Tennessee; Van Winkle, of West
Virginia (Republican) ; Henderson, c.f Missouri (Ito-
publican); Ross, of Kansas (It Tu'olican) 7
Western States. -Hendricks, of Indiana (Democrat);
Doolittle, of Wisconsin (Democrat.); Trumbull, of
Illinois (Republican); Grimes, of lowa(Republican);
Norton, of Minnesota (Democrat) ..„ 5
Total for acquittal

The New York Sun gives this graphic sketch of
the scene in the Senate Chamber while the vote
was being taken on Saturday, May 16 :—" As soon
as the clerk began reading the Article, Mr.liender-
son left his seat and went to Mr. Ross, and stoop-
ing down whispered in his ear a long and earnest
entreaty. It was a superfluous caution. Mr. Ross's
lips were seen to move, and Mr. Henderson, as the
clerk finished reading the Article, lifted himself up
right quickly, and returned to his seat cheerful and
elastic. His man was all right. Then commenced
the formal vote. The Chief Justice asked of Senator
Anthony, " How say you : is the respondent, Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States, guilty or not
guilty of a high misdemeanour as charged in this
Article?" The Senator, rising from his chair, re-
mained standing during the interrogatory, and
answered " Guilty." Down the roll the Chief Jus-
tice went till Mr. Fessenden's name was reached.
The hushed attention with which his vote was
received had in it no expectation that he had re-
laxed his purpose to accomplish the acquittal of
the President. " Mr. Fowler, how say you ?" The
nerve of the Tennessee Senator gave way. His
voice was inaudible. The cry flew through the re-
porters' gallery, "He has voted Guilty !'—saved
in the last moment!" On the floor of the Se-
nate some one demanded that he should speak
louder. With an effort he articulated the words
" Not Guilty," and sank into his seat, amid the
noise of a movement of the vast audience that
threatened an outburst of demonstration. Down
the roll to Mr. Ramsay, all voting as it was known
they would, and Mr. Henderson tallying and keep-
ing the record of the defection. " Mr. Ross, how
say you : is the respondent, Andrew Johnson, Pre-
sident of the United States, guilty or not guilty of
a high misdemeanour, as charged in this Article?"
For the second time was the vast audience hushed
into a death-like silence of waiting upon this man's
word. 'Tie fate of Impeachment and the iuteres.s
of millions hung upon it. He was standing while
the Chief Justice spoke—standing with au atti-
tude of defiant sullenness, again tearing with
his nervous fingers a scrap of white paper into
tiny pieces. "Not guilty," he in a low tone,
and sank into his seat and hung his head. A mur-
mur of horror and grief pervaded the floor and gal-
leries of the Senate. It was drowned in the loud
and cheerful voice of Mr. Chase calling upon Mr.
Saulsbury, of Delaware, and repeating the formula.
Mr. Saulsbury's vote for acquittal made 16
19 were necessary. Messrs. Sherman, Stewart,
Sprague, Stunner, Thayer, and Tipton followed
with votes of " Guilty." Mr.. Trumbull broke
the line. His vote for the President was ex-
pected, but it produced a painful sensation. This
made 17 votes. Mr. Vickers would make 18.
There was the Republican Van Winkle from
West Virginia. Last Tuesday he was right. He
had written an argument to sustain his purpose to
vote " guilty." On Thursday night Messrs. Hen-
derson, Hendricks, and Trumbull spent two hours
with him, and induced him to abandon his intention
to give that vote on the eleventh Article, and to tear
up the written opinion he had prepared. But now
the question was, " How will Van Winkle vote ?"
It is unnecessary to ask. Iu reply to the Chief Jus-
tice's formula he answered " Not guilty." The tale
of 19 was complete, and the conspiracy within the
Republican party to acquit Andrew Johnson was a
success.

A STRAW ON THE STREAM.—Chief Justice Chase,
immediately on resuming his seat after taking the
verdict on the Impeachment trial, wrote upon a
blank card, and sent it to a gentleman on the floor
of the Senate, whom he had more than once assured
during the week that the President would be ac-
quitted. The card bore but a single word, and
that, for greater decorum, was in disguise. That
word was the exultant use of the French exclama-
tion of Voila! If this is doubted we can prove it.—.
Wilkes's Spirit.

BUTLER UNRAVELLING THE

SENATORL!L PLOT.

General Butler has been earnestly exerting him-
self in attempting to unravel the great plot which
resulted in the acquittal of Andrew Johnson.
Wilkes' Spirit " traces the progress of this almost
incredible conspiracy among the lawyers of both
parties iu the Senate to subvert the Constitution,
and to establish in its stead a monarchical system
after the British pattern." " We had shown," says the
Spirit, " how this movement had, through the
sympathies of politics, extended itself across the
northern border and finally engrafted itself upon
the ambition of the wealthy leaders of the Demo-
cratic masses of our section. We had directed the
attention of the public to this fact before. We had
warned them that, strange as it might seem, the
seed of monarchy was still alive, even in our own
sturdy section ; and as long as four years ago,
pointed out Mr. Seward as a monarchist; or as a
man, at least, whose disappointed hopes had soured
him against Republicanism ,:.nd brought him to the
deliberate conclusion that the people are incap-
able of self-government. We found but few to
agree with us in these ideas, or to accept our warn-
ing. It was difficult for a loyal American
to comprehend how the detested principle which
we had expelled with fire and sword in 1775 could
again get a spontaneous footing in the country ;
and still more difficult was it to realise that Demo-
cratic leaders could sympathise with those who pro-
posed to repudiate free institutions, mach less to
strike hands with such traitors in an attempt to
monarchise the continent. But this conjunction,
though apparently au unnatural one, had become
logical by the progress of events. The simplicity
of Democracy in the North, like the original sim-
plicity of the Catholic Church, has become changed
with the acquisition of great wealth. Its chieftains,
through long possession of the Government and en-
joyment of the enormotorenums which flow from