The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-01
.The Erect of Impeachment"

Great diversity of opinion exists, even
among Republicans, as to who is to be most
affected blythe Impeachment of the President
of thu. Unitel States, Certain it is that there
isio-evidence before the Senate, to convict
any man on the continent of America. And
it fs--hafdi TO persuade oneself that men oc-
cupying the high and exalted position of Sem
ators of the United States would yield to a
conviction, merely for the purpose of graft
flying party malice, or to answer the purposes
ofparty ends. Fariess can it be supposed that
thcyfcould be induced to disregard that OBJ
legation which requires them to try the case
on its own merits, merely to crafty the ha-
tredapd malice of Messrs. Butler, Stevens
Bingham s. Co. We hope for, and look for,
better things from men occupying the seats
which Clay, Mason and Webster, once adorn-
ed. 1t cannot be. possible that these men will
consent, On an OCCASION ofthis great moment,
to,playsthe part Of. mere politicians, and for
get entirely their obligations to the high
places which they hold, to the country, and
to themselves. In what particular the man
ayers have shown the least particle of guilt
on the part of the President, we cannot dis
cover. Indeed theproof in the case fell far
short of giving semblance of criminality.-
If then We are right in this-and we think
we do not err-the only pretext for impeach-
ing the Executive must be political, and
we cannot bring ourselves to believe that
will fnr tbn;, ~,
tons, as to be governed by mere party mo-
tives.
We have, no Very particular Partially for
Mr.. Johnson. We would have to say and
think the same were the place occupied by
any other man under Heaven, who had COM
mitted no more wrong than the managers
have proved against Mr.. johnson But who
are to be the sufferers by his convictionG We
will let Mr.. Thurlow Weed, one of the most
sagacious Republicans, and one Of the ablest
newspaper conductorsin this country, an
swer this question On this subject Mr..
Weed says:
"What the President would not do-that
is, give them rope enough-the Radicals are
doing for themselves. A quarrel is to cul-
inmate in crime. The Senate, the moment
its sentence of Guilty has been pronounced,
will be impeached and put on its trial before
the high tribunal of public opinion. When
the fire and smoke of the Radical speeches in
Congress and the howlings of the Radical
press subside, judgment and reason will re-
sumo their sway: when there will no longer
be an Andrew johnson for popular scape-
goat and scarecrow when Congress will be-
come directly responsible for all discontents
and disappointment we say, that a re-
action win set in, and an indignation be ava
kened, from which the Radical leaders will
call upon the mountains to hide, and the
rocks to fall upon them. Even should the
consequences not overwhelm the Republican
party-of which there is great danger, they
will crush the Senators who, with no testi-
mony to justify them, say 1--WE find the Pres
ident of the United States Guilty" Though
urged by their partisans to do this thing, those
gerry partisans aoiR use 1t against them 1t
viii be said by those who want their seats
that the impeachment has become SO unpop-
ular, that we must drop A. B., c., D., E.,
F., G., &C., &C.. until one by one, they all
drop out of their positions"