Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-26
mPEACHMENT AGAIN.

On toaday, the Chief Justice will
again take the presiding chair of the
Senate, and the body will proceed to dis
pose of or postpone the remaining arti-
cles of impeachment 1t is to be pres
sumed that the Republican Senators whe
refused to sustain the eleventh, will re-
main firm. How they can do otherwise,
it is difficult to conceive 1t was the sum
and substance of all the others The
New FORK World justly says;
II was the evident purpose Of this article
10 connect the acts of the DIST of February
with the speech of August, 1866, and to
charge that the acts Of the Dist Of February
were high crimes and misdemeanors mas
much as they proceeded from determine
ton to regard Congress az Legitimate and
its laws as having no other force than such
as he chooses 10 give Them This article
contains the substance Of the other articles,
but It traces the ofIenses charged in them
back TO remotcr pedigree. This article
bears some resemblance to the tbeo-
logical doctrine of what is called
original sin. According to that doc
trine, the particular transgressions OF IN
dividuals merely betoken the corrup-
ton introduced at the fall and transmitted
from Adam. In consequence OF this, the
otherwise innocent anger or greedlness Of
very young children are manifestations Of
the old Adam, and on this theory of cor
rupt nature the sterner Calvanists built the
doctrine Of infant damnation. Infants of
a span long were TO he scorched in the
neither flames because the hereditary faint
Of original sin makes the life Of every I'M
regenerate human being a constant act of
sin from the first moment that he possesses
a soul In like manner, the acts of the
2lst of February, as charged in the eleventh
article, are not high crimes in themselves,
but only as exhibitions of the original
faint with which Mr.. johnson was in
fected in the summer Of 1866. The vote
of Saturday did not evade the main
charge on which the President was ar
raigned the Senate passed Judgment on
that, and something more. The eleventh
article recites the same acts and ascribes
them to a worse principle. The Sen
ate. in taking up this article by prefer
ence, acknowledged that the mere re-
moval of Stanton and appointment OF
Thomas did MOI suffice TO sustain the Im-
parchment apart from the motives aud an
tecedents with which the eleventh article
connects them. This article presents the
web Of the main charges dipt in blacker
dye. If the removal of Stanton be not
criminal with the blaeker motive super
added, il surely is not criminal when taken
BY itself; 40 that in logic az well as in fact
the impeachment completely broke down
by the failure 10 convict ON the eleventh
article. When the Senate come TO vote on
the other articles (if they ever do vote on
them they will not pass Judgment on diff
ferent charges, but on the same charges d.
vested OF MIR. Stevens aggravating inpu-
tations.
IL is not impossible, however, that the
pressure may move some Of them, and
yet secure conviction; but it Is more
probable, if the Radicals discover they
are unable to do this, they win postpone
the decision indefinitely, and hold these
ten walls Of wrath suspended over the
Presidents head during the remainder of
his term.