The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-22
s.o.,,l correspondence Of the Baltimore Gazette.
,,,,neachment - Esfs InsInences aa
work-The.A psthy OF the People.

,..,neachment - EsfI InsInences as
work-The Apathy OF the People.
WASHINGTON, May a0.--ss Is not I'M
nssehment dead 20 is the question which
r,se.s one at every turn. The usual re-
sn,nse ia, Dead, but not buried Inor-
d;nary times, and nnder ordinary circun,-
s,anees, such answer would rot only be
satisfactory, but would be strictly correct;
N, these are no ordinary times, and late
.xnsriencc has shown that an unscrupu-
Inns and revolutionary party will hesitate
=. nothing to carry ont their wicked pmf.
rases. OF course no one can tell what the
md is to be. The Jacobins themselves
.rofess to be profoundly ignorant of What
/ in the future. The Conservatives
would be surprised at nothing, while they
feel the greatest apprehensions from what
Tbad Stevens denominated the evil intau-
nnres which are at work. Your correspond
ant has conversed freely with senators on
bo,h sides, and with politicians generally,
and ne finds that terrible feeling Of doubt
and uncertainty universally prevails.
There is much being said Of impeachment
hs;nr dead, and of President Johnson be-
;nr acquitted; but it is a weil-ascertained
fart that leading Conservative men here do
NO; regard the question as by any means
settled while Radical senators are Of the
onnosite opinion. There ia no doubt that
with the present Senate the present i'm
neachment is a dead failure but with
ssthe evil influences which surround us, p
who can say that the present Senate viii
control the issue, or who will venture
the assertion that with the new sena-
tors there will not be. new charges pre-
tarred The leading Radical senator's scout
the idea that new members admitted would
thereby become members of the court.
They 90 so faras to say that the Chief JUS
t;ce would refuse to administer the oath to
them as members Of the court to pass judg-
ment on articles already submitted and
nartially voted on. On the other ,aand,
.be Conservative senators say we aresat
the mercy of an unscrupulous majority, and
this majority may not only admit the new
senator's, but may change the rules SO Us
to obviate any difficulties which Chief
Justice Chase may suggest. Then thesde-
claration that they dare not do this or that
amounts to nothing. They will dare do
anything which is possible to be done
hv the Radical majority. Should the Chi
caeo Convention not adopt the conviction
of Andrew Johnson as a plank in the
party platform, it is possible then that the
putrid corpse will be hidden from view, but
should that body demand the removal Of the
President, that they may control the Offices
during the approaching Presidential contest,
then the country may expect to see inn
peachment galvanized into newness of life,
either by the carpet-bags senators assuming
to vote on the articles still pending, or, if
they profess any squeamishness on this
point, new charges will be trumped up for
the occasion. All, but, say some honest per-
sons, ''the country would never tolerate
this" 1t is too late to assert that there is
anything too vile to be tolerated by the
American people. Had Andrew johnson
been forcibly removed from Office without
tho formalities of a trial it would havebeen
nine days. wonder with the people, and
nothing more. -