Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-22
OUR WASHINGTON OORRESP ONDENCE.
WAsHTNGToN. D. c., Nav -. 1868.

WASHINGTON, u. o., May IL, 1868.
There was great disappointment mani
tested by all parties at the failure of the
Senate to come to vote to-day on the ar
ticles of impeachment. The pressure for
tickets began several days ago, and contin-
ued up to the time of adjournment,
though long before the opening OF the
court all the seats in the galleries were
taken, the ladies, as usual, occupying about
three-fourths of them. The latter, and
some of the mascnlines, who had been for
tunate enough to secure admission, had
come prepared for a long sitting
rations for one day were supposed to fill
the baskets carried by most of them. and
they were especially disgruntled when the
postponement was announced, and to have
heard them talk, one would have thought
that great swindle had been practiced
upon them. It was ungallant, to say the
least of it, for Mr.. Howard to get sick at
such time, though it did afford his party
an excuse for adjourning question they
knew they could not carry to-day. His
sickness is variously accounted for; some
asserting that the delerium he suffers with
may very properly have "tremens at
tached; however that may be, it is very
questionable if he has been entirely in his
right mind since he left the Democratic
party.
The radicals in this city who have pre-
Dictated their hopes of good or better posi-
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very bitter in their denunciations of Fes-
sender, Trumbull and others of the faith
full who are understood to be "dead
against it, and curses both loud and deep
are visited upon these gentlemen, who are
| too conscientious to perjure themselves
| though their party might be benefited by
| their infamy. According to these patriots
c? the Senators above referred to are dig
| glng their own graves so deep that no such
| word as &C reSu7.gdna need be written on
J their political tombstones. In this, how
ever, they assume that the same corrupt in
huences are to control elections that have
| for several years past overridden the tai
ent and responsibility of the country and
thrown only the smallest and the meanest
men to the surface. They do not heed the
fact that the sober, second thought is set
ting in SO strongly that mediocrity is no
longer at a premium in sections of the
country where thought is comparatively IN
trammeled. These men are stronger than
| their party, now that reason is once more
getting the ascendancy, and the radicals
can lily afford the loss of so large pro-
portion of its talent and responsibility. -
The vote of nearly all the men of &C
knowledged legal ability in the Senate
against impeachment will, should the Pre-
sident be removed, plead s" trumpet
tongued against the deep damnation of his
taking off, "
The Radicals still boast Of their ability
to carry the measure, but that it is merely
g whistlng to keep their courage up" is
evident from the fact that Schenck's COM
mittee have, to-day, sent dispatches to their
party-friends in Maine, Missouri, and other
Northern States, announcing in startling
phrase, that the peace of the country is
endangered" and urging them to send
forthwith to their Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, public sentiment IN "a
cor Of the cO1uiction Of the President Ali of
| which must be manufactured of course, be-
fore Saturday next, or another adjourn
ment must be had.
The President awaits the result of the
trial. with the calm stoicism of III old Ro-
man. Strong in his integrity Of purpose,
he views it not as a personal trial, but as
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let it result now as it may, THE PEOPLE will
do him justice.
The office-holders, who have, almost to
man, been holding up the hands" of
Congress and bounding on impeachment,
have become exceedingly nervous. The
acquittal of Andrew Johnson is their convic-
ton, and already they see their salaries
slipping from their grasp, and others, more
worthy, occupying their stools.
In one Bureau of the Treasury Depart
ment the day of the Presidents conviction
is to be observed as holiday, and the
Chief has announced to his subordinates
that the man who does not get drunk in
honor of the event shall be deemed guilty
of high crime and misdemeanor, and worthy
of removal.
While the bill, removing disabilities from
Holden and others, was under discussion
yesterday, in the House, General Munger,
of Ohio, tried to get the floor to move an
additional Deme-understoOd to be that OF
Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts, who,
the General declares, is as much of traitor
and as much in need of pardon as JEFF.
Davis-of course he was not allowed to get
in his amendment. It was this same Hon
orable gentleman who, also, moved that
the scope of investigation into the treat
ment of prisoners during the war be so en-
l2rSou as TO embrace Inc treatment OF COu-
federate prisoners in Northern prisons,
which brought SO many Radical gentlemen
to their feet and which was so promptly
voted down by that party, General Banks
forming the only honorable exception.
General Mungen served gallantly in the
Union army during the war, and fought as
bravely and as we'll as the fercest of them;
but when the war ended he buried the
Ratchet, as all those who fought bravely
have done, and expressed his willingness
to welcome his brave and honorable, though
vanquished foes to the fraternal fold again.
AS 6rare man he had differed from them,
as brace man he had fought, and as q 6raUe
man he would make friends with them
All honor to this noble-spirited gentleman,
who is an honor to his constituents, to his
country and to his race. Would to God
we had few more of the same sort in the
national councils.
It is understood that Holden had hard
time to get through the committee and may
have harder still il the Senate, which has
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