The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-16


The Boston Aduertise. administers bit
of ghostly consolation to some of the promi
nent impeachers in this fashion:
Doubtless IL was hard for men like Mr.. Bout
well and Gen. Logan to retreat after having
maintained the battle so long, but they have cause
to thank their friends for taking the matter out
of their hands, and dismssing it summarily,
and if they now review the business, even in no
other light than rs it effects their personal for
tunes, they should think it fortunate that the
case stands no worse sEE xs
Boutwell, and Logan may, perhaps, pick
up a crumb of comfort from the provision
made FOR them by the 4drertiser; but it is
cold at best. These men, with Ashley, But.
Ter, Schenck and the other coadjutors will
find, as the whirligig of time brings about
its revenges, that they have suffered in repu-
tation as much for attempting to do malig-
nant rash and unjusti6able act, as If they
had succeeded in getting the Endorsement of
the House for it. As to Boutwell,, he has
given the coup de grace to all chances of
maintaining his rank in public life. A few
years hence the public places which knew
him will know him no more forever. He
viii only be remembered as the mortified and
baff1ed engineer in an atrocious enterprise,
which tried to hide its mischief and crimin-
ality under the forms of law and q judicial
investigation. Lo an, in the future, may
tIy to keep his head above water by strik-
ing hands with parties whom he has been
holding up TO execration, and, after swear
| ing that he never was a republican, trying
to prove it by coarse blackguardism of his
present associates, in the horse-laugh style
of his oratory, which he delights in, but he
win find that his scurrile slang is no longer
| the power it once was. Ashley, we take it,
will be dropped even by Toledo radicalism,
without saving word even from Nasty,
| who, probably some years hence, will be
amusing the public by graphic ridicule OF
Old Abe's eccentricities and Summers ped
antry. Butler was fast losing ground among
his supporters even, before his insane pur.
suit of johnson and not a few of his radical
constituents are now thinking of him just as
they used to think when they called him
what, in st. Louis, answered to the title of
a calaboose lawyer. As to Schenck, 1t may
be remarked that, when he played the Gen.
eral so ridiculously, showing up fantastic
tricks before high heaven" had he accom-
panied the poor soldiers whom he foolishly
sent into an ambush in Virginia, he might
not have survived to poster the country.
Schenck undoubtedly ought to be buried in
the folds of the flag with which he covered
God it would be a pity # such a man should
die, unless redolent with the odor which his
participation in the impea chment business
has thrown around him. OF the lesser
lights-such as the Loans, McClurgs and
Gravellys-al that need be said is, that, as
they could not raise themselves from obscn-
rity by throwing themselves headlong into
the movement, so they may be said to have
lost nothing by its failure De 1reninais non
Tue impeachers, possibly, have sense
enough to be aware of the sentence of con-
domination that has been passed upon them.
If so, they will hardly form themselves into
some order like the Cincinnati, with anniver-
saries set apart to celebrate the great work
to which they devoted their energies in a
manner and from motives so entirely worthy
of them.-iSt. Louis Republican.