Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-04-28
TIE DETACHMENT.

The strong probability is that the PreSi-
Dental term of Mr.. johnson will find its
conclusion before the issue OF our next paper
Ca Wednesday last the Puritan Boutwell,
opeued the argument in behalf of the prosecu-
ton, and was replied to on the part OF the
Presidents counsel by Mr.. Nelson. The argu-
mcnt of Boutwell, was just such one as
might have been expected, filled up with
falssLoods. which he tried to palm, off as facts.
The Baltimore Gazette, in speaking of his
rhetorical flights, as specimens of turgid bonn
bast, says they are unequaled in this way. He
said some things that remind US of the immor-
tai ELIJAH PoGRAM and JEFFERSON BRICK.
The public is aware that the President has
been impeached because he desired, like all
his predecessors, to have about him con-
fdential advisers men whom he trusted and
respected; because he sought to test the con-
stitutionality of revolutionary enactment of
Congress, and because he made, year or so
ago, sundry foolish speeches. Under these
circumstances, boutwell, arraigns him as
the "great criminal" and in a harangue full
packed vast deal of carefully manipulated
stuff which is to do duty as eloquence. Lest
it should be lost on the public, which will
probably read his speech in a very cursory
way, we reproduce one extract. 1t runs as
follows:
"Travellcrs and astronomers inform US that
in the Southern Heavens, near the Southern
~ = yUb iot, ba
Gated call the hole in the sky, where the eye
of man, with the aid of the powers of the
telescope, has been unable to discover nebu-
lac, or asterod, or comet, or planet, or star, or
sun. In that dreary, cold, dark region of
space, which is only known to be less than
Infinite by the evidences Of creation elsewhere,
the Great Author OF celestial mechanism has
left the chaos which was in the beginning.
If this earth were capable of the sentiments
and emotions Of justice and virtue, which in
human mortal beings are the evidences and
the pledge of our Divine origin and immor
tai destiny, she would heave and throw, with
the energy of the combined forces of air, fire
and water, and project this enemy of two races
Of men into that vast region, there forever to
exist in solitude eternal as life, or as the alb
sencc Of life, emblematical of. if not really
that "outer darkness" of which the Saviour
OF man spoke in warning to those who are the
enemies Of themselves, Of their race and OF
their God"
It is barely possible that some one men,
Der of the Senate-Mr. CHARLES SUMNER,
pcrhaps-may think this all very fine. The
idea that ''if this earth were capable of the
sentiments and emotions of justice and vir-
tue" &C., "she would heave and throw" Mr..
JOHNSON through "the hole in the sky" into
infinite chaos may be thought by Bowery
boy to be what he would call a 'bully" sug-
gestion. School>boys may be struck by the
effort of a member of Congress of "Divine
origin and immortal destiny to consign an
official who is opposed to the Radical party
to solitude as eternal as life," whatever
that may mean. Sensible people will only
read Mr.. BoUTwELL's flight with smile,
and will class him with that celebrated func~
tionary who insisted that they should write
him down al ass.