Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
THE YoRKYTLhK KMQUHRKR.

political gamblers go to Chicago and make thei
candidate. Aside from one name, they can presen
no man as their candidate whom that very fact vii
not condemn to Infamous defeat The nation ha
now no great confidence in those persons whom j
is thought these men ere likely to present as thei
standard bearer. Fortunately, the country is no
ready for Wade. There are some depths of deg
radiation it has not yet sounded 1t looks askanct
at Grant for supposed completely in this atrociou
name OF the one the impeachers desire to have il
power to know the name they must not fold up il
their ballots next November.
From the New York Journal Of Commerce.
We take it for granted that no further attemp
will be made to secure conviction, and that the
remaining counts of the indictment against the
President will be allowed to sleep with the one up
on which the question was so thoroughly tested.
From the New York Tribune. Radlcal.] -
OF course nobody imagines that such men as
Messrs Fessenden, Grimes, Trumbull and Van
Warped by personal antipathy or prejudice, their
judgments may have BEEHIVE think they were
but they are above the suspicion Of yielding to any
more sordid temptation. Mr.. Van Winkle did not
determine on which side to cast his vote until two
days before the verdict
Of Mr.. Fowler we have already stated that he
was an early and apparently earnest advocate Of
impeachment-that he found fault with the failure
of the House to impeach in December. Of Mr..
Henderson we forbear to speak for the present.
Mr.. Ross succeeded in deceiving even his col
league to the last. He attended meeting Of the
earnest supporters of impeachment at that col.
leagues house the evening before the verdict and
was apparently one Of them. He has repeatedly
declared that he should vote guilty on the eleventh
and several other articles. Yet General Thomas
Ewing, Jr., we learn, knew, days ago, that he
would vote not guilty if it should be necessary; :.
No doubt Mr. Ross has an explanation Of his
course ready: and we are sure his most partial
friends will agree with us that it is badly needed.
Mr. johnson remains in the White House. The
eleventh was deliberately, and we doubt not judi
ciously, selected as the article that would COM
mand most votes. This failing, all fail. There
may be those who deem it wise and we'll to admit
senators from the reconstructed States and force
verdict of guilty by their votes butwe cannot con-
cur. 1t might have been well to defer the I'M
peachment until those States should be represen-
think it would not do to admit new senators to
vote upon it after the testimony taken and the
argument closed. &c.,.
From the New York World, Democratl
1t is greatly to be regretted that the dignity of
the station of general of the armies OF the United
States should have been lowered as it has been, by
the spectacle of its occupant laboring to procure
the political and partisan conviction OF his COM
mander-in-chief, for pretended and trumped up
"high crimes and misdemeanors." Gen. Grant
was not bound to defend the President, but he was
in duty bound to refrain from conspiring in po-
litica outrage upon his superior officer: The code
of honor among military men should have held
him within such limits, even if his sense Of honor
as politician and man was no finer than that OF
the impeachers, with whom he has been tugging:
Wade's act in voting, and in voting guilty, !"
had two objects, and is marked by double base
ness. 1t was vote, being judge, to profit BY his
Judgment in getting brief occupancy Of the White
House. 1t was also a vote to get the use Of the
White House patronage and power in order to
force his own nomination as Vice-President upon
the Chicago Convention. Now Grant is as certain
that he will be the Republican candidate for the
Presidency rs Wade was of being the candidate
for the Presidency if he could but occupy the
White House till March 1862 Therefore, Grants
persistent and vigorous efforts to consummate the
political outrage of impeachment are no whit clean
er, no whit less base than Wades in this latter re-
gard. Wade, besides that peculiar infamy as a
judge which is all his own, conspred in partisan
assault upon the executive patronage and power
in order to force upon his own party his nomina.
tion as Vice-President. Grant industriously egged
or the impeachers to consummate their outrage IN
order that the executive patronage and power
might be welded to solidify the military despotism
at the South, and by fraud and violence to force
his own election upon the country as President.
From the New York Times, Republican,
When the heat of party passion has passed o.
way, sober and rejecting men will wonder how
they could have been betrayed into such violation
90 nd Tho
ators who will have to justify themselves to their
own conScences and at the bar Of public opinion,
will be those who voted for conviction on this pre-
posterous charge-not those who voted against it.
And every man who has any appreciation of what
it is that constitutes the honor and security of the
nation, will rejoice that the country was saved the
scandal and reproach of deposing President un-
der so shallow and barefaced pretext as this
We have escaped this black and lasting stain on
our national reputation, and it is one Of the mar
rowest escapes any nation has ever made from one
of the greatest dangers which any nation has ever
encountered.
The Washington Chronicle, of course extols in
the highest degree the thirty-6ve senators who vo-
ted to convict the President, and denounces in an
unmeasured manner those who declared the Pres
ident not guilty 1t has an article on the adjourn
ment of the court until the 26th instant, in which
it seems to undertake to indicate the purpose of
the adjournment, and foreshadows the future poll
cy of its party on the subject but whether its init
nations are of any value remains to be seen:
In adjourning the High Court of Impeachment
over until the Goth Instant the senators have acted
wisely The attempt of the Chief Justice to rule
the motion out of order, being only another move
in his little game of political thimble-rigging, was
promptly ovc:-uled Republicans are beginning
to see through the willy Chief Justice, and his days
ofiuggling are about over.
1t was eminently wise and proper we say, to
adjourn until the Goth, leaving the articles of i'm
peachment undetermined and yet to be voted upon
This will prevent the White House criminal (al-
ready carrying the damning infamy of thirty-6ve
votes for his conviction) from setting aside the
reconstruction governments of the Southern States
and will compel the recusant Republicans either to
vote for or against the admission of Arkansas
Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia and
North Carolina, in accordance with the terms pre-
scribed by themselves. When these States are
admitted, there will be added to the body of the
Senate and to the High Court ofImpeachment ten
accession of strength, there will be no difficulty in
conIryictinng and deposing Andrew johnson.
The House Of Representatives should prepare
raign the presidential culprit at once; and the
Senate, as constituted after the admission of the
Southern States, should take short, sharp and de-
ciSive action upon it.
1t is said that damaging disclosures have been
made regarding the motive power Of certain sena-
tors The spare time of the House of Represen-
tatives might well be occupied in investigating
these, and bringing the qa1d pro quo to light.