The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-05-23
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When the vote on the eleventh article was
| announced on Saturday last, grief and indig.
| nation was felt by every true man in this
great nation, and the seven traitors that had
| been found in the Republican ranks base
| enough to become the Judascs Of the United
| States Senate, received nothing but execra.
| ton and scorn from the people they had 50
| shamefuIIy betrayed.
1t is now agreed ON all sides that con
spiracy was deliberately formed with the
Chief Justice, Salmon p. Chase, at the head
of it, to clear the great criminal, and thus
divide and destroy the Republican party,
and erect new party ont Of the debris, with
Chase at its head, supported by the seven
Senatorial traitors as main braces. Through
the disappointed ambition and jealousy of
those who would be leaders of the party, but
| not one of whom the people ever had the
rcnotest idea Of selecting for Presidential
candidate, the great convict has been allowed
to escape that punishment which his crimes
demand.
The idle dream INDUCED by the conspira-
tors, and still more idle fears which some
honest, but timid Republicans entertained,
that the acts of few traitors would weaken
| or disrupt the Republican party were shown
in a moment, when the lightning flashed the
news Of the vote over the country, to be the
widest deluson. The honest people of the
| land had heard the evidence and pronounced
| the sentence of guilty on the great escaped
criminal and the treachery Of seven men
whom they had trusted, and who owed all
the honors they possessed to that diSap-
pointed and enraged constituency, could
have no more effect to disintegrate that party
than the idle winds that blow. The result
Of their treason was only to add seven more
to Johnson's guilt, in the eyes of the people.
The treachery of those envions or corrNpt
Senators and the unprecedented disgrace c /
the Chief Justice, has had the effect to inten-
sify and cryata.ize the party which they plot
ted to destroy. The dismal failure of Andy
johnson to disrupt the Union party and
build up new organization, should have
served as a warning TO those conspirators,
but it has not, and we hope that the stern
rebuke that these men may receive by being
at once discarded by the Republican party,
will deter all such in future if any more
such remain within the Republican fold,
from similar attempts. That party is found
ed on the great principles of truth and JUS
tice and it matters not how many indiyid-
uals may be blinded by ambition or led
astray hy baser influences, the party founded
on such principles will move steadily on in
its great mission, without such apostates
being at all perceptblc in the diminntion Of
It's strength. The press reiterates the voice
Of Indignation of an outraged people from
every part Of the country, and though Andy
Johnson may escape by a single vote the
Punishment which he has so richly merited,
yet he stands guilty by vote Of IS to 10 by
the American Senate, and by equally as de-
cided u condemnation among the masses
Of the people. The men who uphold guilty
President in his crimes are the men who
supported JEFF Davis and the rebellion, and
among the Senators who are not identified
with the rebellion and the rebel cause, and
who now take sides with the great Escaped
are but seven to 35, and grave suspicious of
bribery and corruption rests upon portion
Of this small number. Though the country
may be doomed to remain under the curse
Of a corrupt Administration for few months
longer, the Republican party nndauntod and
unchecked, is forming and rolIying under its
chosen leaders, Grant and Coliax, and
with former victories emblazoned on its ban
ners, again takes the field with confidence
and hope, and an abiding faith in the purity
Of its principles for the final triumph of Re.
publican government, and the annihilation
of those bitter fruits which have sprung from
among the ruins of the great rebellion.