Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
GNAsHING OF tEETn.
Choice Extracts from the Radical
Press on the " Rccgeant" Senators.
The Ohio State Jourpal says:

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1--WE shall expect to find Grimes,
Fessenden, and Henderson delivering
eulogies over the grave of Wilkes
Booth for having given us a ruler
this immaculate Saint Andrew"
The New York Tribune inquiries,
What is Mr.. Trumbull's guerdon for
defending the President ?" The Tri-
bune prefaces this inquiry by telling
how large a fee Judge Trumbull re-
Gently received for arguing a law case.
The New York Sun says, "there is
a woman i'm Mr.. Henderson's case. "
Mr. Henderson is reported about TO
be married.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says of
the Republican Senators in favor of
acqnittal:
These men take up their burdens of
infamy and clothe themselves with
their eternal shame without shadow
of excuse. They have been bargained
for, higgled over, weighed and meas
uredaand valued, and finally paid for
and delivered to the purchaser as COM
pletely and unreservedly as was ever
the lowest wretch who is dragged
from the cutters of the Fourth Ward
to Tho polls, and who casts his vote for
drink of whisky.
at will be found that more than
one of them has been bought with ac-
tual money, selling their miserable
souls and consciences for so many dol
lars. There are others no less base
and treacherolis, who have sold them
selves to their own spite. From the
day when these men reverse their own
sworn principles and the solemn YER
dict of the people, men will begin to
teath their children these names, as
they teach them the name of Bene-
dict Arnold, and they and their pos
teriy will long i'm vain for an oblivion
thai would blot out the record of their
infamy from among men.
Tue Philadelphia Press (Forney)
says;
"Last night, when the bone and
sinew of the country lay unconscious
in honest sleep, the midnight wires
flashed over the land the disastrous
intelligence that i'm all probability the
Republic had been betrayed in the
house of its friends. The worst feature
of this startling defection-if defec-
tion there isis revealed in the fact
that those Senators who now indicate
their intentions to vote for the acquit-
tai of the great Patricide, rs if consci-
Gus of guilt or dishonor, have steadily
kept their counsel from their best
friends, refusing to confer with the
members from their own State, and
utterly declining to heed the voice of
their constituents"
The Cincinnati Gazette says:
at is a matter of public notoriety
that the agents of this whisky gang
have been watching the Senate with
sunHs large enough to secure any vote
that could be found purchasable.-
Shah the public so strain and distOrt
charity as TO suppose that Senators
who hre unfaithful to their party and
country for such base considerations,
are too high-minded to beapproacha-
BILE by these corrupt agencies?"
The Cincinnati Chronicles Wash
ington special says:
"a rumor was extensively circu-
lated this morning that there had been
caucus of renegade Republican SEN
dence last evening.
at is claixed that evidence will be
elected which will prove that two
Senators have obtained large sums OF
money for going against the convic-
ton Of the President, and that they
deliberately bartered away their
votesN
AWashington dispatch to the New
York Tribune says:
"Trumbull, Fessenden and Grimes,
poor Grimes were more conspicu-
Gus than ever before. The infamous
notoriety which they had obtained
made every stranger ask to have them
pointed out to him. They sat alone
| In tneir seats. Nobody who had the
least regard for his reputation ven
tured near them. Can one touch pitch
and not he defiled? seemed to be the
unanimous sentiment. Grimes curled
himself upon his seat, as mean, repul-
siye, and noXious as a hedgehog in
the cage of q travelling menagerie (;
and so they sat, the target of scofis,
while five hundred lorgnettes were
scanning their faces for some indica-
tion i'm their facial lines of the deep,
dark treachery of their hearts. Trum-
bull smiled. How different his look
from that Of the light, fresh boy-his
son II may be-whom he cs.ressed.--
Fessenden busted himself with his
correspondence. Indignant New En-
CHAMBERS asked, what has New En-
gland done that she should have such
a representative
aAt1l:3O precisely the gavel of the
President pro tenn. called the Senate
to order. Every Senator was in his
seat. The silence was almost painful.
After fervcnt prayer, in which de-
cent few joined, the Chief Justice as
cended the rostrum, and opened the
Court by directing the Sergeant-at-
arms TO make proclamation. The
journal of Yesterdays secret session,
a dull, dry record of motions and
votes, was read. 1t contained none
of the burning words of Morton OF
Wilson. n gaze Httte cUidence 0f the
tredchery Of TrumbuU, the Jdtseh0od
Of Fessendcn, or the party .tredSo" Of
Grimes"