New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-21
IMPEACHMENT AND THE PEOPLE

IMPEACHMENT AND THE PEOPLE
The tone of the Western press indicates
Enthusiastically that the sentiment of the Re-
publican people cordially sustains the
thirty.fve Senators who voted for convics
tion, and utterly condemns the action of the
Republican Senators who voted against
conviction, from whatever cause. The St.
Louis Democrat of Monday says:
Seven Republican Senators have i'm.
| peached themselves and thirty-ive others,
| alleging that they have infamously slandeI-
ed Mr. johnson and the Democrats who
have defended him. The case will be tried
| in November, but the people, who will form
the jury, can not be bought.
The same paper says:
President Johnson has escaped convic.
ton by buying the vote of one iuryman
! We demand a new trial-a trial before the
people in November. Neither money nor
patronage will clear him there.
The Washington correspondent of the
Democrat telegraphed Saturday evening:
There is far more Indignation than
| dependency among Republicans to-
night. The fact of having been sold
out is too well known to excite con.
troversy,. or to. admit of any denial.
/ lsh5b ulBuL bnlAI1 1-SLA CGnhtOld WCIG
pledged to each other to vote for conviction
on the eleventh article. The list did not in
| clude Grimes, Fessenden, Henderson,
| Trumbull, or Van Wrinkle There was no
| doubt of carrying it if Anthony, Sprague,
Ross, and Wiley would declare their inten-
tons to vote for it. All of these did.
| There had been no special doubt regarding
the first two, except what arose from these
gentlemen not having expressed their
opinion. When asked, they stated their in.
| tentions fairly, and were found to be for
conviction. Wiley and Ross pledged them
selves, making thirtysiX. The result
| showed Wiley to have had due regard to
his promise, and Ross to have violated it,
and this violation caused the failure of i'm
| peaChment.
All that is said for Ross by the Presidents
friends, is that they were sure of him, and
all that the Republicans know is that he de.
ceived them grossly. To those newspaper
men who have defended him from the
charges of being bought, he has constantly
conveyed the impression, in unmistakable
| terms, that he thought Andrew Johnson
| guilty. On Wednesday evening Senator
| Ross told your correspondent, in CONVERSE
tion on the avenue in presence of Senator
Cattell, that he should vote guilty on the
| first, second, third, and eleventh articles,
and on Thursday evening, in the Senate
chamber, he said that he should vote for
the first, second and third, and that he
thought there was something in the eighth
and that he had no doubt of the Presidents
guilt as charged in the eleventh article,
though no evidence had been admitted to
prove the latter. On the same evening he
marked himself down on list of Senators
who were marking as for the first, second
third, and fourth articles.
The Cincinnati Gazette says:
The issue which these Senators made can
not be lodged in this way. If Johnson is
not guilty of gross misgovernment and of
destroying the public peace, they are. If
the public welfare does not demand his re-
moval it does demand that they shall re.
sign their offices. Their acquittal of him is
a confession of their own guilt. And when
the American people can be indifferent to
the Executive treaChery which betrayed
what the heroic sacrifices of the people had
achieved; to the bold attempt to put the
rebels in power, in order to make party
for the traitor; to the long years of conflict
which this has brought upon the whole
land; to the renewal of war in the South,
and to all the reign of terror and blOodshed
which the Executive has caused, then, and
not till then, will they resign themselves in
silence to this betrayal of impeachment,
and will allow that men to whom they have
delegated their rights may betraY them,
and then assume new character which
places them above responsibility.
The Chicago Republican says:
Not upon the loyal masses of the Repub
iican party in the North will Johnson's &C
duittal strike heaviest. Like the defeat al
Bull Run or Lees raid into Pennsylvania
it has served to knit the organization more
firmly together. and strengthen their deter
mination to fight on IN this line until the
battle is won. What the combined power
of eleven great States could not accomplish
seven irecreant Senators will surely fail tc
| achieve. There is no sign of dlsmay or de
moralizauion in the Republican ranks in
consequence of Saturdays events; every
heart Is burning, and every eye blazing with
the fervent desire to meet the enemy in the
open field once more, and show the world
that treacherous diplomacy is not to lose tol
US all that our four years fighting was IN
Cured to save
But it is in the South. where the feeble
! leaven of loyalty is struggling for very exis
! tence amid the prepondering lump OF re
, bellion, that the effects of this verdict vii
, be disastrous. It.is accepted by the rebel
/ as a triumph of their ally and patroI
over the friends of law and Union
1t is received as an Endorsement of the Pr
! ident's traitorous course for the last tive
: years. 1t is direct encouragement to thu
renewal of the bloody outreges at Memphis
and New Orleans. Already we begin Il
hear the first ebullitions of their tendisl
glee at the anticipated delivery of the Iowa
element into their prosecuting hand. Al'
vote that sent a thrill of disappointment
and regret into every patriotic heart car
ries rejoicing and hope into each rebelliou
+ heart. Until the strong arm of law ant
justice is felt in the protection of the Whit
= and colored loyalists of the reoelliou
States; until the traitors see the glittel
of the same bayonets and hear tht
echo of the guns they learned to dreaC
: and flee from IN the war the life OF trienC
/, of the Union cause down South must be
desperate and dangerous one. The ku hlul
: Klan will devise fresh prosecutions anC
:, atrocities at this vindication of their GranC
a Cyclops, and many loyal homes will be mad
!, desolate, we fear, by the insolent traitors
;, grown bold and defiant by this unlooked.fo
encouragement to their schemes of rag,
!, and hate. The Unionists of the Soutl
5 should prepare for dark days; but let then
rest firm in the assurance that the loya
arm of the country has not lost its might
/ nor the loyal millions of the North thei
determination to crush out the last ember
of rebellion, in consequence of this seeming
reverse. The Republican party is a party
of progress, as well as of freedom; and ther,
will be no resting on arms until every legiti
!, | mate fruit of the battle field is secured, ane
e the powers Of government intrusted to loya
!. hands.
I The Chicago Tri5tme, organ Of Senator
Trumbull, says: o
!, The appointment of Ad Interim Thoma
D was not embraced in the eleventh article
d nor has there been a sufficient declaration
.. of the views of Senators on THIS branch Q
the question to commit them to vote 70
acquittal on it.
The Missouri delegation in Congress prt
:. pared the following address; 81
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