Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-19

yiciion Of Mr.. johnson, but so soon as
Mr. Grimes changed his opinion on that
question, that paper also doubts and
hesitates, aud concludes the Pres, /bnt
cannot be convicted.
From the New York Tribune.l
No. Senators can be insensible 10 the
verdict Of history II Is written that
President Of the United States disgraced
his high Office, profaned the law, brought
massacre and anarchy into these States,
and made the American name a scandal
among the nations II is written that
for these crimes and misdemeanors he
was brought TO the bar of the Senate and
duly tried. The case is closed, the evil
dence has been told, the arguments have
been heard. The Senators who fail to
add to this history, that by their vote the
great criminal is justly punished, may
we'll pray for oblivion. Especially those
Republican Senators who have steadily
championed the policy which eliminated
in this proceeding, may well pause, be-
fore by their votes they write their names
with the infamous and degraded men,
who in times of national trial sought to
betray their country
Nothing now remains to Mr.. Grimes
but the future he has so officiously well
coined, and nothing remains TO US as a
party, and especially to our friends in
Iowa. who have trusted and promoted
this man, but TO make him an example
to renegades for all time to come. When
Mr.. Fessenden and Mr.. Trumbull finally
consented to place themselves upon the
records as apologists and defenders of
Andrew johnson, it will DO time to dis
cuss their acts; but just now we feel
that their intentions have been misunder-
stood by our friends in moment OF
panic. r
From the Pittsburg Commercial
Weeks ago it was said that with Mr..
Wade out of the question, all doubts
would vanish. 1t may be said that these
things properly hava nothing to do with
the guilt or innocence of the President !;
and they have not. The Senator who
will suffer himself to be Influenced by his
prejudces, or who balances the question
in his mind as one of policy, is faithless
to his duty and forgets his oath.
From the Detroit Post.l
For some time the Chicago Tribune
has been paving the way for his defec-
tion, and manufacturing excuses for him
to vote against the conviction of the
President. 1t has labored zealously at
this business, in and out of season. 1t
has strenuously insisted that the eleva-
ton of Mr.. Wade temporarily to the
Presidential office would give success to
q conspiracy to increase certain taxes in
the tariff list, that Mr.. Wade is a dema-
gogue and violent man; and that the
conviction of the President would allow
the power of the executive office to be
unfairly used by Mr.. Wade's partisans
to thwart the legitimate ambition of Mr..
Colfax, Mr.. Wilson, and other candidates
for the Vice Presidency; and it was even
insinuated that the executive power
would be used to defeat General Grant,
and secure to Mr.. Wade the Presidential
nomination. These violent assaults
could havana other effect than to pre-
pare that portion of the Republican
party in Illinois which it can influence,
TO support Mr.. Trumbull in voting against
the conviction of the President, and thus
secure the safety Of his election in ad-
vance.
From the Madison (Wis.) Journal
Believing that Mr.. johnson has vio-
lated the laws, that he has acted in the
interest Of the enemies of the country,
that he has disgraced the Office which he
holds, that his continuance in the office
is in contravention of the public welfare,
-, of
and dignity of the republic, we think he
ought to be impeached. And we regret
to witness a public journal possessing so
much influence as the Chicago Tribune
lending itself to the service of those who
are seeking to break down the impeach
ment because they are hostile to Mr..
Wade and his views on the tariff For
honest difference of opinion we have a
large degree of federation. If the
Tribune opposed impeachment on the
ground that the President has done
nothing to deserve it, we could respect
its honesty and independence, though
condemning its judgment but its course
in pretending to favor impeachment,
while it indirectly seeks to defeat it by
personal and venal appeals addressed to
prejudice and passion, is rendering it un-
worthy of the confidence of Republican
readers.
From the Rochester IN. " Express.
If Andrew johnson fails of conviction
because one sixth of the Republican
Senators refuse to concur with their po-
litical brethren, great wrong lies at the
doors of those recusant Conservatives
who join hands with the Democrats in
procuring his acquittal. They will have
to share the reprobation with Mcclellan,
Fitz John Porter, McClernand and Pat
terson, who we're responsible for pro-
tracing the war, the continuance of its
horrors and augmenting of its cost.
This trial is but continuation of the
struggle of the rebellion.
From the Ohio State Journall
Republican Senators who vote the
government into the hands of its worst
enemies for the next year, are undoubt-
edly scrupulously conscientious, but
when by their votes they place it into the
hands of their political enemies for five
years to come, they display a. celestial
odor of virtue and a supernatural pa
triotism, which are only Ineligible to
those who have reached the Senatorial
summit of purity and perfection. A
Senator whose conscience compels him
to place by his vote the republic under
the control Of those who for FIVE years
tried to destroy it, has reached q moral
elevation quite beyond the range of or
dinary vision. Men like Grimes are too |
God-like to die. They will be translated.
From the Davenport uOwO Gazette.l
Time proved that nobody wanted |
Grimes for Vice President, and Goals |
we're heaped upon the fires of his wrath
and indignation. He probably acquired