Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-05-07
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The rreat trial Is now nearly q dead
lock. The court is unwicldy, its pre-
siding oiiicer fettered by the Howard
rules, and every question has to be
|put 10 yote, The more of q dead lock
the trial gets to be, the more exacting
lit grove Yesterday and the day be-
fore the ilustrious hero OF the great
|mnrch Was haggled over by the law
|ycrs as ii he had been the corpse of q
|man fonnd dead and examined by a
|coroncr's inquest. Reverdy Johnson
|nrosc IN the C@sarian majesty and
cut friend Benjamin Butler through
|the slkull, fgurative speaking. All
the lesser birds cackled, crowed or
He'd.
Is STANTON A COWARD.
General Sherman testified that Mr..
johnson promised to him that Stanton
was cowardly. This fact is very pa
|tent here. To those persons whom
|he can overawe, Stanton is q roaring
lion. he is meek as ring-dove to
people who can put him on any equal
|ity. During this long dd interim sea-
|son he has been afraid to quit the War
Department, sleeping there at nights
TO the amusement of men of all opin-
ions. EFen old Gen. Thomas said
"No man but one who would do a
|mcan hing himself would act as
Stanton expects me to act. He thinks
I would Slip in there in the night and
beize his office. A politician might
DE De this this, bot o soldier"
Mr.. Stanton's cowardice has been
tested here very often. One of his
reasons for keeping "General" Deteo-
five Baker in his employment was to
watch his house and keep assassins,
Imagined or supposed, away. During
|much Of the war he lived "A haunted
existence, relieved by spasmodic blus-
|tering. Indeed, the "advance charac.
tiers" in the impeachment trial are a
good deal like Falstaff's band. STAN
ton 10 Nym, Wade is Pistol, Howard
with his red nose, is Bardolph, Butler
fs Falstaff, with his eye in mourning,
bingham is old Mistress Quickley and
|Forncy is the convenient young wo-
|nan Of the play, camp follower, who
|will sleep any where.
|F0RNEY's MORTGAGES TO JERRY BLACK.
Lest you might imagine by the fire.
huent repetition of Forney's name,
that he was a person of any signifi-
|cance here, | must tell you that his
|cminence in syeophancy has now pas
bed contempt and is now one Of the
|bumors of Washington.
jerry Black said to a Republican
|Congrossman the other: "That's a
pretty crowd that lodges with you
Fellows. I'll tell you about one of the
Pnost precious ones of them, Forney.
After he had abused Mr.. Buchanan in
ibis new paper in Philadelphia, he
bamc 70 see me one day, with his face
|white-livered as usual, and said 'Mr.
Black make me territorial Cover
|nor l will put my paper at your feet.
There shall not an article of any kind
appear IN il which has not first been
submitted to YOU He retired un-
|Batisfed, and wrote letter upon letter,
praying to be appointed something
Those lctters are now in my posses
|sion, and Forney Knows it, while he
prints bis TRADES upon me. And why
does he dare do it? Because he has
|no shame, and because he knows that
|old Jerry Black never showed a pri-
|vate lotter."
Black has had a good chance 10 see
the characteristic malice and treacho-
Try Of johnson. Having tried hard
TO got Black TO conduct his case in
|the Impeachment trial, and failed
johnson got the correspondent "Da-
|ta," who is his Photographic repor-
ter, TO attack Black in the Baltimore
|Sun.
If Andrew Johnson is convicted, it
will be chiefly because he lost the aid
|of yorry Black, who would have met
Butler point by point in the cross-ex-
|amination, and laid him out in the
|early stage Of his audacity. Black is
avery curious character, full ofidosyn-
|cracics. He prepares most of his ar
|guments at home walking up and
down the floor at night, where he
would walk the whole night long il
Ibis wife did not appear along toward
Il o'clock and lead him to bed. 1t is
related that on one occasion he had
bought q bran new hat, which had
been laid on tho floor by some mistake.
Jerry mistool it in the imperfect
Light Of his parlor for a spittoon and
next morning the hat looked like a
|great quid of tobacco He had spit
Il nearly even full.
snE CROToHETs OF sTANBERY.
Ii is reluctantly admitted that Mr.
|Stanbery, conductor of Mr.. Johnson s
case, Is q failure. lie has been too
|much Of a student, and his experience
lis too much contracted in ready de
bate. His temper is irritable and his
face nlmost transparent, so that all
|Butlerhas to dol TO watch Stanbery'i
|countenance TO know where 10 hit
next This the "gluttonous old fib
ber,' a. the prize fighters say, does
with q kind of Marat grin which poi
sons while he wounds. Beyond this
|Sthnbcry's judgment is bad. Evarti
and CARTS do all they can to keeI
him in his place, but Butler, by dc
moniaoal grin and pricking can gel
him up at any time, so hot and oui
of PATIENCE that his words fail him
|he founders about, and finally effects
nothing. One day he comp elled Ev
|arts to sit down while he himself re
piled 10 Butler, which he did badly
Mr. Stanbery is not a practical talkei