Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

ayers TO carry 10 Tue OeuaCe Tue dTClcleS VI lIH-
parchment agreed upon and to be exhibited in
of the House is presented and read by the Sec
rotary of the Senate, A time is then appointed
by resolution of the Senate. THAT the Senate
will resolve itself into Court of Impeach-
ment," the Chief Justice presiding. The oath
| is administered to each Senator that in all
things appertaining to the trial Of the impeach-
ment he will do impartial justice, according to
law The Senate now being resolved into a
| High Court of Impeachment, the Board of
Managers of the House of Representatives are
| received, who formally present the articles Of
| Impeachment in the name of themselves and
all the people of the United States. The
Board of Managers of the House are then In
| troduced to the bar of the court, and the Ser
| geant- at Arms makes proclamation per-
sons are commanded to keep silence, on pain
| of Imprisonment, while the grand inquest of
the nation is exhibiting to the Senate Of the
United States articles of impeachment against, =
| &C. Proper order on the subject of the i'm.
| parchment is taken by the court, of which due
notice is given to the House of Representatives.
The managers of the impeachment on the part
| of the House then retire. A summons is then
issued to the party accused to answer the ar
| ticles of impeachment, fixing the day returna-
Bile, which is served by the Sergeant-at- Arms
or deputy, properly appointed, at least ten days
before the return thereof The court then ad-
journs until the day fixed for the return of the
answer. Upon that day the Senate resolves
into Court of impeachment, and notifies the
House of Representatives OF the facts. The
House resolves into Committee Of the Whole,
and, with the chairman, in a body proceeds to
the Senate chamber and is announced at the
bar and admitted. The Sergeant-atA Arms of
the Senate then hands in the return, which is
then read by the Secretary. The Sergeant at
Arms of his deputy takes the oath as to the
| correctness of the return. Arrangements are
then made for the summoning of witnesses. =
Upon the completion of the trial the Secretary
of the Senate reads each article upon which
the roll is called, each Senator answering
Guilty" or 'Not guilty." two thirds being
required in each case. The decision being CIV
en-, the court orders and DEGREES and adjourns
without naming day. The sentence of the
i Court of Impeachment is then communicated
to the party and, if guilty, from the moment
Of conviction the functions of President depart
from the person OF the party so convicted, and
the Vice President ascends to the Chief Magis-
tracy Of the nation, possessed of all its powers
| and prerogatiyes.
The Hon. VIM. Mungen, of Ohio, who is
somewhat of wit, satirest and poet, intro
duced the following resolution in the House for
the immediate admission of Alabama into the
Rump: a
Whereas the welfare of the country, and es
pecially of the dominant party, at this particular
juncture, imperatively demand the admission of
some one State under the reconstruction acts OF
Congress and whereas it has been authoritative
ly ascertained that many ''trooly loiP' freedmen
of Alabama, in voting upon the adoption of the
constitution lately submitted to them, under and
IN accordance with said reconstruction acts, de-
posted their ballots in the post offices instead Of
the ballot-boxes contrary to the instructions OF
Al Ic%n
against the great loyal heart of this House,"
therefore be it
l. Resolued, That it is highly improper that
said ballots be lost in this manner; that without
further delay Alabama be admitted into the.
Union co-equal State, to the end that said
'trooly loiP' freedmen be represented in Con-
gress as well as in the Freedmen's Bureau.
2. That any member of any party, or "any
other man. voting against the foregoing be adj
judged guilty of high crimes and misdemean-
ors, and be Immediately impeached.
The above caused some squirmng on the
Radical side though not entertained, but on
the Conservative side it produced much laugh
ter.
En- passent a committee Of Radical distruc-
tionists are here from Alabama with carpet
bags, full of loyal documents and ready to
swear, that the Mongrel Constitution was
defeated by fraud, intimidation &C., notwith-
standing the ''loip' negroes, black and white,
had the polls all to themselves! Wonders new
CIR will cease.
One of the strongest cases that ever came up
in the District Court, here or any where else,
is that Of the Stanton Thomas decision 1t
exceeds any ever rendered by modern Dog
berry, and has been mildly designated as infa-
nous from the partisan turn it took, the Judge
(Cartter) playing, .;udicially into the hands Of
the brazen faced, Edwin NJ. Stanton, and the
party ends of the Rump Congress. A Judge
Of the court deems that high considerations Of
official duty should require him to issue his
warrant at one In the morning IN order to bring
an alleged criminal before him. He eXacts five
thousand dollars bail for the appearance of the
accused, and fixes an early day for hearing.
On that morning the accused is present with
his counsel, and continuance is asked for by
the prosecutlon-in case, remember, where
the eXigency was so pressing that a judge acts
at midnight The judge is about to grant the
continuance when the prisoner counsel notify
the court that his bail surrendered him, and
ask that the case be transferred from the Judge
in chambers to the Criminal Court, whose ses-
sions have been interrupted to hold this import
ant hearing But this was the very thing that
the prosecution did not want; for if General
Thomas had committed high crime against the
laws, and his bail surrendered him, he must go
to prison, and if in prison, would be reached by
writ ofhabeas corpus, which brings the ques-
ton before the Supreme Court. The counsel
for the defence insisted that their clients case
should be disposed of by either discharging him
as guilty Of no offence, or holding him for the
Criminal Court under a criminal charge, and
without bail, and therefore to be sent to prison
The court turned its back on itself, discharged
the prisoner as an innocent man; and thus a
Judge, to serve party, lets prisoner 60 for
an offence for which he formerly exacted S.; 600
bail
The most reprehensible and disgraceful part
Judge Cartier enacted in this strange case
while it was pending before him. was the fact
that he was frequent visitor to Stanton's Star
Chamber and thus had every opportunity to
become acquainted with the views of persecu-
ted ESQ called) Secretary Stanton. The mod
ern Dogberry afterwards made his appearance
on the floor of the Rump House, at 1890 P.
NJ. took seat on the Radical side and held
sort of reception there, being Immediately
surrounded upon his entrance, by impeachers
Ashley, Covode, Collum, Williams Ferry,
Wilson and Others and was evidently ''lion"
with them on account of his course in his mag
isterial capacity in the Stanton disgraceful de-
cision. IT.
General Lorenzo Thomas has entered suit
against Edwin M. Stanton for false and ma
licious Imprisonment, fixing his damages at
rather high figure -$150000. The suit mag
test the consttutionality of the Tenure office
Bill
It has been telegraphed from this city that
President johnson has given directions to At
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