The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-05-21
IMPEACHMENT.
The Republican Press ON the
Situation. t

part OF some OF The ieautnS heliuO-
lican aud Independent Journals Of
the country which were called out
by the Senatorial developments Of
Monday tho llth inst, foreshad-
owing the accquitlal Of President
johnson. The extracts show the
diverse impressions made upon diff
icrept journals of the sa,no politi-
cal faith by the action 6i the SEN
ate, and now that the impeachment
case has actually been decided by
the aaquittaiof the President, they
.willbe read with an augmented
interest.
The Ohio State Journal says:
A feeling of the deepest mortili-
cation and Indignation pervaded
this community on learning the
nature of Mondays proceedings in
the Court Of Impeachment. That
Grimes, Fessenden, Henderson
and Trumbuil had ioiued Garrett
Davis in proclaimipg the spotless
purity Of tho Presidential lamb,
staggered tho credulity of the cred
ulous public and prepared them to
believe that Sumner and Howard
might next 90 over to the enemy. A
feelingof dependency seized many,
which was slightly relieved by the
newsthat tho Court had adjourn
cd, without taking vote, until,Sa-
turday next at twelve o'clock. 1t
cannot DO denied that indications
point towards the acquittal Of An
drew j Johnson.
Republican Senators who vote
the Government into the hands OF
its worst enemies for the next
year, arc undoubtedly scrupulous-
ly conscientious, but when by
their votes they place it in the
hands of their political enemies for
five years to come, they display q
celestial order Of virtue and su.
pcrnatural patriotism, which are
only intelligible to those who have
reached the Senatorial summit of
purity and perfection. A Senator
whose conscience compels him TO
place by kis vote the Republic un.
der the control Of those who for
five years tried to destroy it, has
reached a moral elevation quite
beyond the range Of ordinary Wis.
ion. Men like Grimes are too God
like 10 die. They will be transla.
ted.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says
Of tho Republican Senators in favor
Of acquittal: 2
''Thcsc men tako up their bur.
dcns OF infamy and clothe them.
selves with their eternal shame
without a shadow Of excuse. They
have been bargained for, biggled
over, weighed, and measured, and
valued, and finally paid for and
delivered to the purchaser as com.
pleteIy and unreservedly as was
ever the lowest wretch whois drag
red from the cutters OF the Fourth
Ward TO the polls, and who casts
Ills vote for adtink Of WHISKY.
at will be found that more than
one Of them had been bought with
actual money, selling their misera
bic souls aud consciences for 81
many dollars. There are others
no less base and trcachcrous, who
have sold themselves TO their own
spite From the day when these
men reverse their own sworn prin.
ciples and Tho solemn verdict o.
tho people, men will begin to teach
their children these names, as they
teach them the name OF Benedict
Arnold, and they and their poster
ity will long in vain for an obliv
ion that would blot out the record
of their intamy from among men.
The Philadelphia Press (Forncy,
says; ~ ~
Last night, when the bone ant
sinew oil tho country lay uncon
scious in honest sleep, the mid
night wires flashed over the land
the disastrous intelligence that IN
all probability tho Republic haC
been betrayed in the house of It's
friends, Tho worst feature of this
startling dolecLion-if detection
there isis revealed in the fact
that those Senators who now indi
cate their intentions to vote iol
the acquittal OF the great patriciGC
MS ii conscious of guilt or dishon'
or, have steadily kept their coun
sci IRON their best friends, refusing
to confer with tho mombers frou
their own State, and utterly de
clining TO heed the voice OF theil
constituents"
Tho Cincinnati Gazette says:
at is q matter of public motor
iety that tho agents OF this whiS
ky] gabg have been watching III,
Senate with sums large enough Il
secure any vote that could be iounl
purebasable Shall the public 8,
strain and distort charity as I,
suppose that Senators who are un
faithful to their party and country
Tor such base considerations, ar,
too minded to be approacha
bic by these corrupt ptagencios2' i
Tho Now York Tribune says:
Nothing now romans to Mr.
Grimes but the future he has 8,
oiliciously welcomed, and nothing
remains to us rs n party, and es
pecially to our iriends in lowi
who honorod, trusted, aud promo
ted this man, but to make him al