The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-06
THE IMPEAoHMENT-THE sENATE-THE RA9tAI
soHEME--THE PROBABLE RESULT.

SCHEME--THE PROBABLE RESULT.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Gazette writes ON Monday last:
The party lash is being freely used by thu
impeachers to secure a safe passage of theil
measure through the "High Court of Impeach
ment % atias the Radical Senate of the United
States. The leading spirits in this assault
upon The executive department of the govern
ment laugh at the suggestions that senators
when sworn asjudges will not be senators still
30 far as their votes In sustaining impeach-
ment may be concerned. They talk of the
mpossiblity Of leopard changing his spots,
or an Ethiopian his skin, and say it is equally
unreasonable to expect that Radical senator
will change his views as to the moral obliga-
tlons of an oath simply because he votes as q
| member of court instead OF member of the
Senate. There is too much truth in this de-
claraton, and many conservative mon are rely
ing too confidently on the fact that senators are
to be ssworn" to try the issue according to the
law and the facts. Have they not been under the
| constant obligation of an oath to obey, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United
| States; and yet, have they over hesitated to
act outside of and i'll direct violltion OF that
constitution if party interests required it :?
Nevertheless, it is generally beloved in
well-informed circles here that there are
eight leading Republican senators who will
provo too much the Roman to be thus used for
base party purposes. These eight senators
are Fcssenden, Anthony, Wiley, Van Winkle,
Trumbull, Frelinghuysen, Grimes and Pome-
roy-which, together with tho eleven Demo-
Gratis, constitute O sufficient vote to defeat tho
impeachment Of the President. Should these
stand firm % barrier against the successful
progress of the impeachment movement, there
may be several others who will prefer making
similar record for the future historian. Hence
we have prevailing impression among the
conservative men that the whole project of the
oT ba praQi6nnt vii
much a. did the prosecution against General
Lorenzo Thomus. The impeachment prosecu-
tion will be on larger theatre only what
Thomas was on smaller one, and Thnd. Ste
vens, with his associate prosecutors, may be
dismissed from the High Court OF Impeach--
ment with as little ceremony as General
Thomas was put out OF court BY Judge Cart
ing relied Oh by the Radical managers to sus-
tam tho charges of conspiracy to seize by force
the War Department.; but when this testimony
comes to be published as given before the I'm
parchment Committee the honest masses OF
the people will surely be disgusted with the
whcle thing. In the meantime the party lead
ers have been profuse in the abuse OF the man
they found they could not exactly use to suit
their purposes.
But do the Radical leaders care, or expect,
to Irove the President gully Of the charges
contained in the articles OF impeachment?
This question was frankly answered by Gene
raj N. p. Banks, one of tho impeachcrs, who
assured your correspondent that, so far as the
particular charges were concerned, tho Prcsi-
dent could not be found guilty; adding, at the
same time, that tho Senate, apprcciating tho
importance OF removing MIR. Johnson for the
general good of the country, would convict him
To prevent his doing any harm, and that i'll do
ing this, senators were not responsible to any
ono for the votes they gave Such is the Rad
aoko ot,a,, ~, + oy1tto Tod
by Stevens, Bingham and others, that they
have only to offer tho pretext, and their friends
in the Senate will take care of the rest. No
reliance is placed by them in tho puerile ver
bosty put forth in the shape of 'articles of
imi eachment." They are merely the fimsy
pretext under which 1t is anticipated the Senate
will seek protection, and the sentiments eX-
pressed BY General Banks arc those generally
entertained by the Radical revolntionists.
The result of all this is difference of opn-
ion here as to the probabilities OF convictine
President Johnson-a difference which extends
se6nte eaD po to base
purposes, and that senator's, sitting as u court
of Impeachment, can find Mr.. johnson guilty,
in order to deprive HIM OF the power 10 do
harm, take the affirmative OF the proposition;
but those who yet believe there is virtue in
tho Senate scout tho very idea that two-thirds
or the senators can be baSely used Tor party
senators opposed to impeachment do not hesi-
tato to express very decided conviction that
the President will pass the ordeal unscatched.
1t is also understood, zen among the Radicals
themselves, that Mr.. Johnson's acquital burios
the Radical party too deep for resurrection.
DRIVING IMPEACHMENT AS PARTY MEASURE
GENERAL EMORY AND THE MILIrARY-MoRE
FORTHCOMING EVIDENCE, ETC.
The Washington correspondent of the Balt-
more Sun writes under date Of the Cd inst.
Both branches of Congress have been labor
ing to day to effect the prellninaries for the
impeachment trial, and each House has been
driven by the inlpeachers IN and out OF Con-
press. with the view Of hulrying tho project tc
!. verdict ut onco, upon tho assumption that
the result will, beyond II peradventure, be tho
removal Of Mr.. johnson. There are but few
of this class who attempt to justify such re-
suit upon any other grounds than that the
removal of Alr. Johnson has now become u
party measure, aud therefore all arguments
upon the merits OF, or lesal points lnvolveu IN
the presecuticn are by them secuted as profit
loss. In fact the almost unanimous opinion
is now thai il the President is tried strictly
upon the law and the facts, he must be acquit-
led. and that if the Senate shall render ver-
dict of guilty that the verdict will be purely
upon political and partisan grounds.
1t will be shown upon the trial tnat fresl-
don't Johnson was informed Iy respeStag3e per
sons. who believed what they said, that an
order had been given on tho 2lst OF February
nit, that all military officers in this depart
menL report at once 10 tho headquarters Of
General Emory, To receive directions for Ger
fam military movements, and that. upon this
info, nation tho President sent for General
Ipmorv and intcrrogtted him, as related in the
lnttcr;s evidence before the House committee,
and it. is probable that General Emory may
rceollcct. when his attention is drawn closely
to what took place ut the interview DciWeeh
the President and himself, that instead OF Mr.
Johnson asserting that military orders, NO l9
General Emory if he Emory did not think
ihe order WAS in conflict With the constitution.
suggestion has been made by members OF
the Houso that the impeachment trial take
ulace in the hall OF tho House, so as to afford
nccommodaaon for o greater number of per-
sons than can be seated in the Senate.
THE pnoBABLE RESULT OF IMPEACHMENT.
The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Tribune regards the convlctloG ana re-
moyal OF the President as hxed fact. lie
! says:
II MIR. johnson has any friends OF supporters
left in this city, they MAINTAIN singular retl-
cence on the subject OF impeachment Tor
scarcely "a word is heard anywhere in his fa-
yor Even the rumors that certain senators
were slakv on the subject and would certainly
voic a@ainst the conviction OF the President
nave nil died out, and The opinion is almost
unanimous that the Senate will eject Andrew
I''L SON from the White House, and that he
Jo.c, ,ves TO bo 40 treated. The trial, ON ac-
count of its novelty, and in the expectation
that it may develop something unlocked for, is
awaited with deep interest; put nobody has