Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-05-28

Mr.. Weed they offered the five Radical
votes for thirty thousand instead of the
forty thousand asked from Col. Cooper.
Testimony Of Colonel Cooper Before the
Impeachment Managers.
From the National Intelligencer, May 22.l
The testimony of Colonel Cooper be-
fore the impeachment managers was sub
stantially as follows: Butler, as usual,
conducted the examination. Col. Cooper
was asked if he was approached by any
person to use money for the acquittal Of
the President He answered: Eyes; a
person sought an interview with him, act
ing in the name Of and by the authority
of S. G. Pomeroy, Senator from Kansas.
and proposed for forty thousand dollars,
cash in hand. that he (Pomeroy) would
control four Republican votes, and his
own, so as to insure the acquittal of the
President" Witness professed to doubt
his authority, and the person then brought
a letter from Senator Pomeroy, dated
Senator Chamber, - day Of -, y
as follows:
"Sr-I will, in good faith, carry out any
arrangement made with my brother n-law,
Willis Gaylord, to which am party.
TSigned7 rs. C. PoMERoY,
"U. S. Senator"
General Butler objected to witness prov
ing the contents of the letter, as he But
ler) could produce the letter. .
Willis Gaylord was introduced by the
person first calling. The letter was read
to witness and Gaylord by the person, who
then retired, when Gaylord renewed the
proposition that for $500 cash, and the
distribution of patronage, the five Repub-
lican votes, including Senator Pomeroy's
own, would be so cast as to insure the &C
quittal of the President. The witness
believed at the time the proposition was
intended to entrap him. Witness assign
ed as reason for this belief that Senator
Pomeroy was strong partisans; that he
felt bitterly towards the President. and
that if money was his object the party to
which he belonged was better able to pay
than the friepas ofsthe President In adj
dition to which, in the list of names SeDa-
tor Pomeroy proposed to control, appear
ed the name of Senator Morton, of Indi-
ana; and witness did not believe it posi-
BILE that Senator Morton's vote could be 50
obtained. The name of Senator Nye was
also on the list.
.-..ae The Negro Vote, i-.....
A Washington letter to the Louisville
Journal says that when the Democratic
National Convention meets, July 4, re-
solution will be offered by some of the
Northern delegates to the effect that the
party pledges itself to resist the counting
of any electoral votes determined by the
admission of negro States; that the at
tempt by the Radicals to secure power in
that manner by defrauding the people Of
their inherent liberties in the selection of
a President will be resisted, if necessary,
with armed force, and that the legally
elected President of the white race shall
be inaugurated if it requires even mil
lion Of bayonets to install him in the
White House.
That's the kind of talk! Let the Rad
ical desperadoes, who propose to retain
the power they have SO unscrupulously
used for the last eight years, for four
years longer, by the instrumentality of
the negroes and "carpet-baggers,' y under
stand once for all that the Conservative
masses will not permit themselves to be
robbed Of their dearest rights by such
foul agency, and there will be an end to
the trickery which they are now so reck-
lessly practicing Cecil Democrat. 5r