The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-14
Ghn9ntelI1qeneer,
THE Impeachment skies this morn

luB dES brighter Iuhu y6SLStudys
The tide of Generalization which
threatened Monday and Tuesday to
sweep away the barriers that now
hedge in the wicked President has been
checked. Those who led the way to
the enemy's camp. evidently under
the full belief that other Senators
would follow panic stricken, appear
to have discovered their fatal blunder,
and they not only cover before the
righteous indignation of betrayed
friends, but II reports are true some of
them are more than anxious to regain
their former position. Talk aE We may
about the judicial oaths of Senators,
the quick instincts Of the country at
once detects in the conduct of these
men something different from con-
scientIous anxiety to repect their obli-
cations. The circumstances are extra
ordinary. Their declarations are direct
ly opposed to their declarations made
ten weeks ago, then as much as now
under the obligations of an oath. So
extraordinary a change needs to be ex-
planned, and naturally people seek the
explanation in the circumstances that
surround them-among them the per-
sonal resentments and jealousies
against Mr.. Wade. and against party
majority which they feel has not appre.
ciated them; relations OF intimacy with
Mr.. johnson, which at least two of
them have kept up throughout his
administration in order to control OIL
cial patronage; and the presence not
only of ofhcial bribes but of enormous
sums of money known to be held as
standing offer of purchase. Besides, it
is claimed at Washington that absolute
facts are known confirming the suspi-
cions TO which these circumstances
point; and an investigation in the
Senate as soon as thetriaI is over is
talked Of It is possible, of course,
despite all this. that these men are act
ing from the purest motiyesi yet the
country has the right to and willjudge
for itself; and in making up its judg-
and probabilities of the case.
Any Senator who voted for the reso-
luton of February 2lst, declaring the
President had no authority under the
Constitution to remove Stanton or ap-
point Thomas, and now votes Johnson
guiltless, will find 1t hard to convince
his constituents that in doing both
these acts he was influenced solely by
the finest sense of judicial obligation,
though he might himself believe it TO be
true.
The present plan of the Republicans
seems to be to concentrate a vote for
conviction on the eleventh article,
which embraces four distinct charges,
covering in effect the second, third,
seventh and eighth articles, and for
this article it is confidently affirmed the
requisite two:thirds will vote. The
Washington correspondence of the Gin.
cinnati Commercial says:
"The doubtful Republicans are the
following: Messrs. Anthony, Fowler,
Frelinghuysen, Ross, Sprague, Van
Wrinkle and Wiley. Messrs. Anthony,
Frelinehuysen, Sprague and Ross are
regarded as certain for conviction. So
the President must have the two West
Virginia Senators and Fowler, OF Ten
nessee, in order to insHre an acquittal.
These three Senators are, at least,
doubtful, and hold the verdict in their
hands,"
II this be true, there rests indeed upon
our Senators a. .weighty Responsible
ty. Our people look TO them with con-
fidence; yet not unmixed with anxi-
ETY., for while SO much is said about
their doubtful status, we are
compelled to suppose they have given
some reason for the doubt. Probably
there is no State represent ed in Con-
gress whose loyal people would feel
more mortified and aggrieved over An
drew Johnson's triumph than ours, and
none where 1t would be more disheart-
ening, If not disastrous. In this. we
stand like our brothers further South,
appealing to the Senate that this bad
man be not empowered to remand us
to the tender mercies of our ancient
oppressors, and appealing 10 our own
trusted Senators not to desert us in
this trying hour; not to desert the loyal
people of the South whose very lives
are in their charge; not to desert the
country at large whose welfare. and
possibly whose peace, they holdbalan-
cling in their hands. LlE
THE feeling in Chicago against Sem