The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-11

gacious and learned Judgment are
still manifest above all these mere IN
dividualities.I he read the articles of
Impeachment with calm gravity, DIS
tinctly yet without raising his eyes to
leok either at the Speaker or at the
House. ~ 81 .l...-srFs.
In good contrast TO this constiiu-
tional lawyer stood Butler at the far
end of the segment across the aisle,
Bingham and he being here, as else
where, at opposite extremes of the
same thing. Butler looked like the
criminal bar, his .slOuched hat IN
his hands, crossed on his ample
stomach, his eyes slanting downward,
almost shut, yet as far open ~ he
ever gets them; puffy pugnacity
around his mouth. as if he had blown
it up with suppressed defamation;
/ badness broad and naked roofing
with abundant eyes the whole man,
so that he looks like an old house
/ new shingled; altogether a rough and
! tumble study, ready TO make a match
any time and pitch his tent In any
body's district. The speech that But
/ Ter made on Tuesday was the most
/ effective one of the impeachment de-
bate. He fairly galloped his tenth
article through the House. He will
certainly make a figure in the trial,
whether wisely or otherwisely,
/ Wilson and Williams, of Iowa and
Pennsylvania, stand together. Wilson
| u q short-haired, gray, ordinary look
jug man, Of boyish build, beardless,
except a small tuft of roam goatee,
and they call him the singed cat,
because under this common exterior
he has the best knowledge and skill
in the law of any Representative.
Williams looks like the American
| farming interest come up to impeach
Andrew johnson on account of the
low price of wheat; he is fat, slug
gish, and rather like a Lancaster
County than an Allegheny County
man.
Boutwell, is the black haired energy
of this impeachment; Bingham holds
/ the helm; Butler is in the main-top,
with a carbine to pick the enemy off
by glib shots; Stevens is the Admiral
dying on deck; Wilson and Williams
are the handy seamen Logan is the
/ boatswain who can yell the loudest
but Boutwell, is the steady wind,
blowing strong aft to carry the vessel
into action. Boutwell, is an original
generic Yankee In appearance, dark,
intense, persistent, angular, the last
man TO make a public enemy of If
you are worth pursuing He has
traits of magnanlmity, however, posi-
tive as his talents; he stands by
rank next to Bingham, the chairman
n this trial.
Logan is altogether the pretty man
of the seven, sound in knees and
limbs, dark as a Cherokee, got up in
good dramatic position, with folded
arms, and motionless as a Brigadier
General in the presence of a pho
tographer. His perfect health and
confidence in length of days and pre-
sent strength too great for calm, is in
strange contrast to Mr.. Stevens, who
has dropped into his chair with 9
hollow cough, and sits there like 8
face with all its candles burnt out aud
the bloodless dawn come to it. His
luxuriant wig, like cedar over a snow
bound grave, makes ghastlier the face
all rouudness and rose persisted from
it, and the eyes have a dead stare t.
them, so that you see but the line Of
the brows and the mouth grand and
hFm IN the article ana hour or death
Since Chatham there has probably
been no such figure in the hall of leg.
islation. He was fiery energy, like
the young man by his side, when free
dom was an abstract, hunted thing
Now he has lived to hear all the hand
cuffs fall, but, uncertain of the glo
rious fact so long as one man bars thu
way to all the people, he Is here, lik'
the corpse of the Cid, riding dowI
the Moorl