The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-21
THE PRESIDENTS sAcau1rrAh.
POPULAR op1NIoN-vIEws OF THE PRESS OF
81 DIFFERENT PARTIES, :.

Tho acquittal Of the President on the eleventh
article Of impeachment seems to have been re-
ceived throughout the country with cordial ap-
probation by rejecting men Of all parties. Es-
pecially is this the case among business men
mercantile, mechanical and otherslwho ere
anxious to see the country quieted and trade
revived. Of course there are exceptions to the
general acquiescence in the righteousness Of
the verdict. Extreme Radicals, who expected
different result, are, apparently, a little
soured, but the "second sober thought" will,
doubtless, cause them to see that the great
masses ofthe people are heartily sick Of the
whole proceedings Of the "High Court Of Inn
peachment" and all it's managers" as well as
the aiders and abettors.
We subjoin the views Of several leading
journals ON the vote on Saturday:
From the New York Herald.l
impeachment has failed, even with all this
tortuous scheming to aid it, and never will
dare again to raise its head before the Ameri-
can people. Even II these men who urge 1t
should on some other occasion attempt to
take another vote they viii be Missed and hoot-
ed to silence, il not to shame, BY. the common
gamblers 20 to Chicago and make their can
didate. Aside from one name they can pre-
sent no man as thsir candidate whom that
very fact will not condemn to infamous de-
feat. The nation has now no great conf
dence in those persons whom it is thought
these men are likely to present as their stand
ard bearer. Fortunately, the country is not
ready for Wade. There are Bome. depths OF
degradation it has not yet sounded. It looks
askance at Grant for supposed completely IN
this atrocious effort, and the voters will only
need to know the name of the one the impeach-
ers desire to have in power to know the name
they must not fold up in their ballots next
November. But If the impeachers shall not
get possession Of the convento If they shall
Fail there as in the Senate, and the name Of
Chase shall be put up, the country will remem-
Der him as the man who maintained the dignity
of the law go far as lay in his power, and OPP
posed the final injustice OF the Senate till
voted down by men who could have done him
no greater honor than was involved in that
vote.
from the New York Journal Of commerce.l
We take it for granted that no further at,
tempt 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 upon which the question was so
thoroughly tested.
What the President will do is now matter
for conjecture, and it has never been safe Tor
the wisest to predict his course. He may do
what he should have done at the outset-re-
place his Cabinet throughout by men in whom
the public, Of all parties, could have confidence.
without leaving the ranks Of the Republicans,
he could All department with able advisers
Justly obnoxious to no considerable por-
tion Of the people. His greatest fault
heretofore has been his constitutional hesi-
fancy Of purpose, which placed him contln-
ually between two fires, without the trm sup
port Of any largo number OF followers we
have never wavered for moment IN our hrm
conviction of his honesty and uprightness, or
of his hearty and unselish devotion to the best
interest Of the country. His errors are not
those calling for strenuous opposition, much
less for such violent remedy as removal from
Office upon impeachment. He has needed sup
port, encouragement, and generous acknowl-
edgment of the purity OF his motives, rather
than rebuffs, suspicious and abuse. II the
party who 30 generously supported MIR. Lilo
coin, notwithstanding his admitted intirmities,
had transferred their earnest sympathy at the
outset to his successor, they would have been
spared nearly all the causes for dissatisfaction
which have widened the breach between them
and their official leader, while his administra-
ton would have been, in the main, satisfactory
to the country But tho jealousy, opposition
and injustice which the President has met have
acted upon his peculiar constitution to delay
or thwart all his plans for good, and to develop
that phase of his character which has 80 exas-
perated large portion of bis old associates;
There is yet time before he retires from office
for better understanding between him and
ali those who desire, unsel6shly, the real pros
perity of the country, and no nero partisan
considerations ought to restrain any from sup
porting him as tar as they can with good
conscience. We are not pleading for the man,
although We think in his private relations s ne
President who sits in the seat hallowed by
Washington, AMI who represents (however
feebly and unworthily in the eyes of many the
high dignity OF the Chief Executive OF great
nation.
from the New York Tribune, Radical.l
OF course nobody imaeines that such men as
Messra. Fessenden, Grimes, Trumbul anu Va,
Winkle voted otherwise than they believed just.
Warped by personal antipatly or PREJUDICE
tbeir iuduma ots NAV have beehive think they