The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

MORE " RECREANT" SENATORS.

The man last discovered to be " making his way
home on the long and dark track of infamy" was
Edmund G. Ross, the Senator from Kansas, who so
suddenly appeared to the mind's-eye of some men sus-
pended on " a gibbet of everlasting obloquy," as to
startle the whole assembly and almost take away
their breath. The amount of stationery this Senator
destroyed while meditating his leap into " everlast-
ing infamy" might fairly be charged against the
estate of the politically deceased traitor. He sym-
bolized the rending of his party as he tore into
fragments the " cream-laid" supplied to Senators.
D. R. Anthony, speaking in the names of a thou-
sand Kansas men, on the 1.-ith May sent a telegram
to Mr. Ross, declaring " that Kansas had heard the
.evidence..._ancl demands the conviction of the Presi-
dent." This seems to have riled Mr. Ross, and to
h :ve had the most injurious effect on the interest
they desired to serve. Some inen, like pigs, if eagerly
driven, arc certain to get into the wrong road, and
Mr. Ross appears to be one. All the' cussedness"
in his nature was aroused by Anthony and his thou-
sand, and the Senator from " Bleeding Kansas"
placed his back against a rock and crLd, in the
words of Fitz-James---
" Come one—come all ! —this rock shall fly

From its firm base as soon as 1."
Still with that amount of worldly wisdom, even
when about to plunge into " everlasting infamy,"
he delayed this hostile message till he stood on the
brink—not thus hurling back his defiance, till May
16, when he did so in these words :—" I do not
recognize your right to demand that I shall vote
either for or against conviction. I have taken
an oath to do impartial justice according to
the Constitution and laws, and I trust I shall
have the courage and honesty to vote ac-
cording to the dictates of my judgment and
for the highest good of my country." Hav-
ing kept his counsel till the moment when he
exploded his mine in the Senate Chamber, he
escaped a large measure of the persecution directed
against his "recreant" colleagues. The famous re-
porter of the New York Tribune did not exert all
his skill to depict him in the most telling caricature,
nor was he worried into paralysis like Senator
Grimes, nor pursued into his very bedroom, and
dragged out at midnight, to be deluged with argu-
ment like the others. He knew that his plunge would
make the extreme faction his bitter foes, and per-
haps he enjoyed the knowledge that he was going
to hit the first and the most fatal blow. It is
said that had the Managers not been blind that
they might have escaped the consequence of this
vote, as Mr. Ross on the night previous to the as-
sembly of the Court sent a note to the Radical
Senators' Caucus then sitting, predicting failure if
they insisted upon pushing the Senate to a vote on
the eleventh Article. His words, " that it would
not be well to make the trial," passed unheeded.
They put him down as a safe vote for Im-
peachment, and found out too late the error of
their calculation. Senator Fowler, of Tennessee,
another " recreant" on the "long and dark track,"
had expressed himself in favour of convic-
tion, and was once its warm advocate. Of
course both he and Ross are said to have been
bought, but a well-informed paper declares that the
latter was so " horribly wicked that he perjured
himself out of pure 'cussedness' without even the
excuse that he had sold his vote." Not much was
expected from Van Winkle. He was a "recreant,"
evidently acquainted with " the long and dark track,"
and on the whole rather preferring that way
home. His colleague of West Virginia, Sena-
tor Willey, gave way under the pressure brought
to bear on him. Every appliance of party
tyranny and badgering was used, and the weak-
kneed brother whose imagination was worked on
till he shied in a fright from the plunge, promised
to vote for the eleventh Article, a promise he kept.
The opinion of Senator Trumbull has been pub-
lished. After examining the Tenure-of-Office Act,
he points out its inconsistency with previous enact-
ments, directs attention to the permission given the
President' by it to remove Cabinet officers, and
maintains that Abraham Lincoln's policy is identi-
cal with that of Andrew Johnson's. "To do itn-
parti it justice in all things appertaining to the
present trial, according to the Constitution and
laws, is the duty imposed on each Senator by the
position he holds and the oath he has taken, and
he who falters in the discharge of that duty, either
from personal or party considerations, is unworthy
his position, and merits the scorn and contempt of all
just men. The question to be decided is not
whether Andrew Johnson is a proper person to fill
the Presidential office, nor whether it is fit that he
should remain in it, nor, indeed, whether he has
violated the Constitution and the laws in other re-
spects than those alleged against him. As well
might any other 54 persons take upon themselves
by violence to rid the country of Andrew Johnson,
, because they behoved him a bad MAD) as to call

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upon 51 Senators, in violation of their sworn duty,
to convict and depose him for any other causes than
those alleged in the Articles of Impeachment. As
%well might any citizen take the law into his own
hands and become its executioner, as to ask the Re.-
nate to crinvict outside of the case made. To sanc-
tion such a principle would be destructive of all law
and of all liberty worth the name, since. liberty un-
regul,►ted by law is but another name for anarchy."

The man mos'', abused outsi:le the list of " re-
creant &nators " is William M. Evarts. Th.)
charge most s'rong,ly urge'd against him as a Re-
publican in aiding in the defence of " the greatest
criminal of the age". is that he sold hip opinions for
hire, the Indepen.lent actually g3ing s) far as to
accuse him of being bribed. Now it is asserted
on the best authority that this able counsel received
no fee whatever for conducting Mr. Johnson's de-
fence. This being true, Mr. Evarts must have lost
a large sum, considering that his time was worth far
more than that of most of his professional brethren ;
thus, in giving his services, he gave away a sum
few working men could afford. The charge
that he " sold" his opinions is one of the
most ridicalous ' that could be made against
a barrister. Why, what has he in a professional
way to sell except his opinions, and ought not any
lawyer to rejoice that there are people who consider
his opinions worth paying for ? The term " hire-
ling" counsel is just as ridiculous as " fee'd" physi-
cian as a term of reproach, and a doctor might with
exactly the same justice have abuse piled on his
head for exchanging advice for money. We pre-
sume that Mr. Evarts being requested by the Pre-
sident to take up his case, as one of the most emi-
nent counsel, very properly did so ; but, knowing
that as a member of the Republican party he would
be subjected to hostile criticism, he declined remu-
neration, keeping his hands perfectly clean to meet
this sort of charge.

A JEWISH FESTIVAL.—Last week was celebrated
in all our synagogues the beautiful and ever-wel-
come festival of Shevuoth, the anniversary of the
day which beheld the revelation of the divine law
on Mount Sinai. Nearly thirty-two centuries have
elapsed since God spake amid thundering and
lightning, amid earthquake and convulsion, those
ten words which form the basis of every civilized
religion. The dicta intended for the moral
guidance of the whole world were first made obli-
gatory upon the Jews, and became the nucleus of
that code of religious, moral, and social laws, the
wisest, the noblest, the greatest, and the best the
world has ever seen. Judaism, living and grow-
ing during all these centuries, has been attacked
often, and from many points of view. Some have
attempted to prove that the sacred books, on which
it chiefly rests—the books of the Pentateuch--are
unhistorical or unscientific, are contradictory or im-
moral. Others strive to show that the Mosaic
code is the work of several authors, holding dif-
ferent views, and separated from each other by
long generations. We do not at present purpose
to combat these views ; we hope in another column
to present to our readers some reflections upon
these important questions. When Judea was a
sovereignty, and Jerusalem its capital and its
fane ; when the Israelites were independent and
free, possessed of country and self-government ;
when the Temple stood on Moriah, and the priest-
hood ministered before the Most High,—three
times in the year did every male present himself
before God, on the festivals of Pesach, Shevuoth,
and Succoth. From the remotest portions of the
Idoly Land they made these pilgrimages to Zion,
bearing with them of the goodly things of the
earth for gift and sacrifice. Arrived in Jerusalem
they held glorious feasts. They thronged the
courts of the Temple, raising their gla Ivoiees iu
imoans to the Bestow.q. of,hlessings• Tney rejoiced
before the Lord. Their hearts were lifted up.
Parent and child, relative and acinaintance, sepa-
rate'l during many months, here m:t and em-
braced. A thousand greetings passed ;'a thousand
words of love and peace were spoken ; a thousand
griefs assuaged ; a thoaFanfl strifes healed. Joy
reigned in the hurl, and gratitude filled the skies.
And when the festival drew to a close hands were
clasped, and loving messages were sent; and the
Israelite, with cilm in his heart and fervour in his
soul, wended his way back to house and home.
But it may be urged by the same objectors, " All
these things are of the past. They are but a re- •
membrance, a dim reminiscence. No joyous
pilgrims now wend their . way to Jerusalem, no
altar smokes, no incense sends forth its fragrant
cloud. The Temple is no more, and with it hav e
departed the joy and the feast, the mirth and the
gladness." Not so; these festivals still form
centres round which are gathered our happiest
hours. The joy may be somewhat saddened by
the recollection of the past, the feast inay ba some-
what shorn of the noble proportions it bore in
olden days ; still we do rejoice. We still spread
the festive board. We have lost the Temple, but
we have still the synagogue. For the sacrifice we
have the prayer, for incense we have the heart's
devotion, for the wheaten loaf we deck the house
of God with flowers. In our homes, too, we keep
the festival. We cease from work, the family circle
is united, the friend is welcomed, the poor fostered.
Everything wears a brighter, a calmer, a holier
garb. -,.leirish Record.
A quarrel connected with matters theological
has lately arisen among the Protestant clergy of
Berlin ; and, as there seems to be some probability
of its attracting a good deal of public attention, I
will give a short outline of • its origin, says the
Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.
At a meeting of the synod of the Berlin circle,
held in October of last year, the Rev. Gustav
Lisco, a clergyman of very liberal opinions, had
to make a report on the religious and moral con-
dition of the congregations of the district. In
several passages of it he advanced opinions of an
extremely rationalistic character, which called
forth an immediate protest from the President in
the name of the Synod ; but, in conformity with a
previous agreement, no further discussion took
place at the time. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lisco
published his report twice—first in the form of a
pamphlet, entitled " State of Moral and Religious
Life in Berlin ; a Synodical report. By Gustav
Lisco, preacher at the New Church ;" but all al-
lusion to the protest was omitted ; and, secondly,
as the official report of his own parish. This
greatly incensed the Synod. The more orthodox
members were greatly scandalised by the opinions
advocated in the report appearing to receive any
countenance from themselves, and drew up a de -
claration, which became the subject of a warm
debate at a sitting held in April. It is a little
incident which occurred in the course of it that
has given the quarrel its present importance. The
report contained one passage too long for quota-
tion, but to the general effect that those old views
of the creation, based on orthodox Protestant
theology, which had satisfied our ancestors, were
now exploded, and that modern science had re-
placed the Biblical representation of the cosmo-
gony by another in which miracles had no place.
Mr. Kuak, a Berlin clergyman, of the strictest
orthodoxy, asked Mr: Lisco whether he (Mr.
Lisco) belonged to those_ orthodox believers in
whom the Biblical view of the cosmogony had
passed away? Lisco replied, "If you will allow
me to say so, yes ; for, whether you know or not,
you have undoubtedly also received into sour in-
tellectual life many elements wl,ich destroy the old
views of the system of the world. To mention
one—you will hardly believe, in conformity with
the Bible, that the earth stands still and that the
sun moves round it ?" " Yes, Ido though,'' inter-
rupted Mr. Kuak ; " I accept no other opinions
respecting the world than those found in the
Scrip-
tures." " I beg your pardon," said Mr. Lisco ,
confess 1 have mistaken you. Your orthodoxy
1 fitanda =impeached. in all its glqry.".

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THE PUBLIC HEALTH,

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It appears from the Registrar-General's return that in
the week that ended on Saturday, 4,353 births and 2,664
deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other
large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate
of mortalit3 was 22 per 1,000 persons living. The annual
(
rate of mortality last week was 19 per 1,000 in London,
19: in Edinburgh, and 25 in Dublin ; 19 in Bristol,
17 in Birmingham, 26 in Liverpool, 23 in Manchester,
29 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 29 in Bradford, 21
in Leeds, 24 in Hull, 19 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
lend 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 37 per
1,000 during the week ending the 30th ult., when the mean
temperature was 14'4 Fahrenheit higher than in the same
week in London, where the rate was 20. The death-rate in
Sheffield shelved a considerable decline upon the three pre-
vious weeks, but measles was again fatally prevalent in
many parts of the town, and two more deaths were re-
ferred to unvaccinated small-pox. In London the births of
1,042 boys and 974 girls, in all 2,016 children were regis.
tared in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten
1-cars (185 S-67) the average number, corrected for increara
of population, is 2,005. The deaths registered in London
during the week were 1,160. It was the twenty-third
week of the year, and the average number of deaths for
that week is, with a correction for increase of populations
1.249. The deaths in the present return are less by 89
than the estimated number. The deaths from zyrnotic
diseases were 293, the corrected average number
being 302. Sixteen deaths from small-pox, 60 from
measles, 41 from scarlatina, 12 from diphtheria, 47
from whooping-cough, 34 from fever, and 27 from
diarrhoea were registered. The deaths from fever '
were at the annual rate on 10,000 living of 4 in West
London, 3in North London, 9in Central London, 10 in
East London, and sin South London. The deaths of 3
persons from intemperance, and 2 persons from delirium
tremens, of 5 infants and 2 adults from syphilis, of 3 chit.
dren from burns or scalds, of 12 persons from drowning, Of
4 infants and 1 adult from suffocation, of 7 persons who
committed suicide, and of 7 persons who were killed by
horses or carriages in the streets were registered.

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