The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-21

President never told the Cabinet b
would use force in putting Stanton out
was excluded, after argument. tn
= votes on excluding this class Of testi
mony were very decided, and were In
terprsted a. stifsning up among IN
friends of impeachment, and aR unsyil
= IIingness on the part Of the Senate z
trife with :he case any longer. Inc
result was that Saturday evening the
Republicans in Washington were buoy.
ant with hope.
LII Is not 10 be regretted, perhaps, thaf
lin the admission OF testimony the Sem
ate allowed the Presidents counsel a
1ood deal Of latitude. No room was
ri len for any pretence Of unfairness.
E Yet the action Of the Senate in several
cases was such as 70 create at the time
a positive distrnst among Republicans
outside. 1t seems, too, that some half
dozen Senators who are commonly
classed as 'sConseryatiye Republican,
\ rarely or never missed an opportunity,
| when a question was raised, to vote
| wifi, 4he Denocrafs-Who in every In
stance. blind 10 all other considers
tons. voted on the side which was
supposed to favor the President. The
uniformity OF this kind OF voting eH-
cited a distrust which has not yet been
removed, although the voting Satur-
day showed a slight Improvement. 1t
has been suggested in some
quarters that Republican Senators
were not voting In this way merely
from a sense of fairness, for then 1t
could hardly be possible they should
not sometimes lind that fairness rested
with the Republican majority but that
It was done as covert expression of
their sympathy for the President,
Tor if not exactly that, then OF hostility
to his prosecutors,) and to make SO
much of diversion in his favor as
that kind of voting could give. We
confess that knowing human nature In
the Senate to be very much like human
nature elsewhere, wehave had our oHn
suspicious on this point. 80 ~
As a rule, very little importance
should be given to the personal I1mors
sent ont by the press gang at Wash
Iingtoa. We regret TO say the members
Of that body are not always Influenced
so much by a desire TO tell tn truth as by
an anxiety to create a sensation; and if
they are ever so honest, there are al
ways Interested parties there
whose business it is TO manu-
facture :and circulate false infOr-
mation. The statements, therefore.
that this or that Senator is unreliable
and counted on to vote for johnson, are
to be received with caution. At the
: same time it must be said the afnIia-
tions of these Senators have been such
as to provoke such suggestions,
though the statements of what they
have said aud what they will do may
be untrue. One thing may be re-
garded as certain, that it would
be very unfortunate for any Sem
ators elected as Republicans 10
fail to be sufficiently convinced of
Mr.. Johnson's guilt 50 to vote upon the
fnal Issue. So strong are the eonvie-
lions on this subject throughout the
country, so pressing are the demands
for the removal of the one man who
stands between the country and gem
eral paci6caiion and security, so vivid
Is the realization OF the mischiefs in
store IL this dangerous man, after all
thai be has done and attempted, go free
and acquit OF blame. that the Rspubli-
can Senator VINO votes 30 sequit him
will have need TO take home with him
convincing reasons for his vote.
: As well as we can nov Judge from
what has been developed in The triaI;
J from the discoversble indications of the
: temper Of the Senate: from our foil con-
|, viciion that Johnson IS guilty under the
law aud that his intent was even worse
, than his set, and orr consequent be-
: lief that others must ieel q like con-
! viction, We believe, As we deEOutly
i trust, that this great criminals lease
! Of power IS nearly run ont. With
N one week from This morning Ne
may fairly expect the words that VIII
either uDdo or confirm the work
OF Wilkes Booth will be pronoun-
cd; and If Re mistake not grzysly,
Tia Eirss that carry the news Of John.
soo's eouSieti0n owe. the country VII
csrEy \; ihs sAme instant \ message OF
Peecs ssa Eood order tor the South
and Of eonmsrC5aI eonEdEnes for The
Sor,z nd west IftssTsgsIss E tbz.
johnson Is guiltls1, then EsdoDo: -
that respect ard obedIsles % Law can
ever more b enforced anywhere. with
snch az example before The country,
and 90 dangerous power behind the
example. In that event the country
, may have TO eonfronta state Of things
nov scarcely thought Of.