The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-27

son has failed, definitely and finally
The Senate voted yesterday on the lind
and IIIrd Articles, and they were lost
by exactly the same vote as the XIth,
The Court was dissolved; and thus
ends the attempt to impeach a Presi.
dent who has successfully obstructed
and defied the laws of the Uuited
States for the past two years.
Notwithstanding this failure, no in.
telligent man in the nation believes IL
was because the President had not
merited impeachment.S His offences
of such character as to require that
remedy have been SO open and pal.
pable as to be notorious; so no.
torious that all the material facts
were known before the trial as well as
after, and SO well known that no mate
rial charge was disproved in the elab-
crate trial before the Senate. With all
the facts and the simple law before the
public, their judgment goes straight to
the mark. Lawyer Senators may sup
pose they can weave such a web OF
technical sophistrIes as will entangle
LnhG anu HAOAOSS SACL4 AAOhA
1t; but they are mistaken. They stick
their heads under cover like ostriches
and suppose nobody sees them. The
plain people who care great deal
for serious facts and very little for
fine argument, weigh the Repub-
lican Senators who voted for acquittal,
along with the absolutely known facts,
and find them wanting. Their bitter
hostility to wade's becoming Presi-
dent; Mr.. Chaae's aspirations and
efforts to influence their action; the
presence of money and other corrupt
influences; In some cases. their sud-
den change of opinion without appa-
rent reason just before the vote; their
having declared first under their Sena-
torial oaths that the President could
not, under the Constitution and laws,
remove Stanton or appoint Thomas;
their voting afterwards that he might
do 1t and be blameless-all these things
are thoroughly understood everywhere,
and Senators have the full benefit of all
the probabilities and suspicious which
these facts suggest. They may be sure
they will never again be trusted with a
similar responsibility.
This Is the end of all attempts TO ap-
ply the Constitutional remedy for An
drew Johnson's offences. After the ac-
ton of the Senate we can hardly con-
ceive circumstances under which the
House would again present articles.
In theory Mr.. Johnson is to-day q
dictator; for the only tribunal that
could bring him to judgment has sol
EMMY decided that the laws may be
executed or not executed as may be
most agreeable to his sovereign will.
If Andrew johnson were man of real
nerve and genius, If his ambition were
not as grovelling as he is morally q
coward.-i for example he were Jere
Black instead of Andrew Johnson-he
might be dictator in fact as
well as in theory. But he has
had a narrow escape; and to save
his head, he has doubtless SO tied him
seIfup with promises, and is SO hedged
in with conservative influences, thai
he is not likely to undertake such
high-handed measures as the Senate
has authorized. Many Republicans
believe that Johnson in the White
House will be the strongest argument
we shall have In this summers cam
paign, in favor of the Republican
ticket. In this purely partisan view o
the situation, the country will fnG
some relief for the disappointment al
his escape from merited punishment.