Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-22
The Impeachment Result.

The whole political community
knows by this time that on Saturday
the United States Senate began vot
ing on the articles of impeachment,
taking the eleventh firstly choice
of the impeachment supporters-and
on that acquitting the President by a
vote of IS to 10. Then the proceed
ings were interrupted by an adjourn
ment of the High Court of Impeach
ment to the 26th inst. Sincerely re-
GREETING as we do this result, we were
not unprepared for it. For twenty
four hours at least before the vote
was taken it seemed manifest to us
that the johnson interest had succeed
ed in arranging the whole thing
They had not only made sure of the
requisite forces, but they had them
we'll in hand, so that whatever article
of impeachment should come up, they
could mass or deploy them as they
should think best. This implies, it is
true, plot Or conspiracy. if it may be
so called, on the part of those Repub-
lican Senator'S who voted for acquittal
but it need not include all of those
senator's. zeaH aW
But the deed is done. 1t is well
| known that the eleventh or last article
| of impeachment was submitted to vote
| first, because the friends of conviction
believed they were strongest thereup-
W. UhIuh Uiloy -s.----c
| upon that as upon any other, on Sat
| urday, certainly. What reason there
may be to believe that more strength
can be rallied upon the remainder OF
the articles by the 26th we are at
loss to imagine. Those, however, who
have charge of the matter on the spot
ought to be the best judges of this
point. But we must say that the gen
eral management of the impeachment
movement, from the day of its incep-
ton to that of voting, does not seem
at this distance, to have been distin-
| guished by such eminent sagacity,
Judgment and tact as to have left an
| overplus of confidence respecting the
| wisdom of this postponement. At any
rate, the step is taken, and "while
there is life there is hope"
/ But even assuming that our politi-
cal opponents are correct in declaring
that Impeachment is dead" we dc
not admit it, as our readers are al
ready aware, that it will be no kill
ing matter to the Republican party
On the contrary, while we should have
, preferred Johnson's conviction. sc
thoroughly deserved, his acquittal-
especially in view of the halting anc
meagre style in which alone convic
) ton seemed possible since the secess
| ion of Messrs. Fessenden, Trumbul
and others became apparent--wll
: have some decidedly beneficial result
to the republican party. 1t will re
call It's masses to the old, real issue
before the country; it will keep dow
u all new topics of division, and rail-
|. its ranks as one man against Andre'
i. johnson and the cause he so vividl
personates. "Let the dead past bur.
its dead" The country will appea
from Washington to Chicago-froI
a court room bound by technicalitie
and swayed too much, it is feared, b
Q personal motives to the GRAND assen
]. blage OF the peoples representative
beating in unison with the popula
heart, and glowing with the highes
N resolve that the Republic shall liv'
If anything has gone amiss at the Cal
i itol, the Chicago Convention shall re-
70 tify it in the end. If Andrew JOIN
,. son has not yet received his desert
d the country will care lutte about tn
Y fact under the redeeming accession 0
i Ulysses 5. Grant.-BOston Journal.