Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-14
IMPEACHMENT G0ss1p

WAY the Vote was Postponed -TrOubIe
An the Radical CamP-POsfpomemen
favorable to Ibe Prcsitient-REOre
Pressure UPen shady Senators.
Special to the louisville Journal
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Radical
Senators are bewildered BY the magnitude
of the act which is demanded at their
hands, and they wish for time to think.
In secret session to-day Mr.. Edmunds
moved a posiponement Of the vote for
sixty days. Within these two months the
Chicago Convention will be held, and there
are many influential Radicals, both in Con-
gress and ont of il, who desire 10 have the
matter deferred until after the meeting OF
that body, and | think il likely it will be
done. Il, rar
Many intelligent men here are Of the
opinion that the farce will end simply in
vote of eensure. ra4-s
The Senate, or high court of impeaclI-
ment, adjourned this morning until Satur-
day-fOur days. The movement took every
body by surprise, and created universal
disappointment. The excuse made for the
proceeding was Senator Towards Illness;
but ii was poor and false excuse. II a
Senator friendly 10 the President had been
i'll, you may be sure that there woald have
been no adjournment. Howard has bat
single vote, and yetthere is an adjournment
of four days on his account Howard,
have no doubt, could have been got 10 the
Senate to-day even if his illness was not
assumed for purpose, but, even if an add
journment of half day or whole day
was thought necessary and proper, certainly
the adjournment from Tuesday morning TO
Saturday was ont of all reason. The an
doubted truth is that the Radicals saw that
if the vote upon the question Of the
| Presidents conviction should be taken to-
day, the result would be disastrous to their
wishes, their hopes and their political
fortunes, and Therefore they have taken four
days to try what political engineering Of all
kinds can accomplish. ih
1t is asserted that Fessenden, Fowler,
Frelinghuysen, Henderson, Grimes, Trum-
bull, Norton, Wiley, and Van Wrinkle will
vote against every article of Impeachment.
| am strongly inclined to believe it. The
Senators mentioned are among the abIest,
most candid, and most statesmanlike mem
bers Of the body TO which they belong, and
they have much pride of character. Be
sides, they have been very silent as to their
views and intentions, and for all these
reasons the Radicals have all along strong
ly suspected them, and brought the most
continuous and tremendous pressure to
bear upon them, in the hope, that, by
some agency or other, they could be per
suaded to vote for the Presidents conyie-
ton. $50
Bingham and other leading Radicals
very confidently claim conviction, but on
grounds which they have not carefully
surveyed Sherman, Edmunds, Howe and
several Others, are in favor of conviction
but disagree on particular articles, no two
OF them being likely to vote together
The question Of the final decision absorbs
every other here. Nothing else is talked Of
or thought Of All interest in other mat
tiers is, for the time, suspended. The ex.
element is intense beyond description
| Special to the Louisville Courier.
! WASHINGTON, May l2.-The ostensible
cause for the postponement of the vote to
day was Howard's illness, but il was a mere
pretext, for COlfax said in the House yes
terday, it might be postponed and Ed
munds, bitter impeacher, last night pre-
pared the way for it by proposition Il
rescind the resolution, fixing the time al
twelve o'clock to-day. Moreover, in eau
Gus Of the conspirators this morning &C
| quittai was conceded.
| Speculation is rife as 10 how the post
ponement will affect the question. TIL,
general conviction is, the delay will be Il
the advantage of the President.
| The impeachers seem to think that du
ring the interval, home public sentimen
can be brought to bear upon Senators ant
dispatches signed by Schenck, Chairman o
the National Republican Committee, have
been sent to leading Radicals in Maine
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, TO bring all
possible appliances TO affect and secure
Senators. Tennessee Radicals are already
nursing Fowler. The four leading Sena-
tors who have struck dismay to the heart
of the Radical cohorts by their bold and
patriotic course cannot lie moved, but ar.
rangemeuts are already concluded, "a in.
timated last night, to secure the wayerinp
Senators. If it fails, the vote will be post
pOned again Saturday on some other pre-
text. But in spite of all calculations, im.
parchment is very sick tonight.