The Senate on March 6 finished the long discussion on the right of the President pro tem . Mr. Johnson received him standing at his table, attended only by his private Secretary, Colonel W. G. Moore. The ceremony was very brief. Our engraving in the front page is an accurate representation of this interesting scene. On March 13 the Court reassembled, and the Managers on the part of the House and the counsel of the President, consisting of Messrs. Henry Stanbery, who resigned his position as Attorney-General of the United States to defend Mr. Johnson, Benjamin R. Curtis, J.L. Black, William M. Evarts, and Thomas A. R. Nelson, at once took their places for the trial.
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