The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-27
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in the trial, rather than merely to ques-
ton the motives of the prosecutors.
Now that the miserable failure of the
affair is complete, impeachment and the
main parties thereto willbe criticized in
view of the unholy purposes that in
spired them.
1t will bejustly said, that the Radical
party found the balance of the Govern
ment preserved by the distribution of
power into coordinate Departments,
and that it sought to destroy that bal
ance and change the form Of a Republic
into the fact of despotism by absorb
lug the Judicial and Executive branch
es. 1t will be rightly said that impeach-
ment was begun without Justification,
prosecuted without decency and man
aged with sole reference to Conviction;
not to punish an offender, but to re-
move al obstacle, make usurpation more
easy and enable Congress to
control the Executive, as it had vir-
tually abolished the Judicial, Depart
ment of the Government. 1t will be
rightly said that impeachment was the
last of q series of crimes committed in
the name of loyalty" for partisan ad-
vantage and against the peace, the law
and the common sense Of the nation;
that having prostituted four years of
successful war to party purposes, hav-
ing prostituted three years Of perfect
peace to party purposes, having blotted
out ten of the States for party purposes,
having establisbed negro SUPREMACY
therein for party purposes, having
built up Military Government to
guarantee that supremacy for
party purposes, having taxed and rob-
bed and ruined the country for party
purposes, having fettered the Courts of
the country to avert check upon their
uHrighteous course, the representatives
of the Radical party sought to complete
the structure of iufamy which they had
built up, by removing the last obstacle
between them and unlimited power, re-
moving the President whom the people
elected and supplanting him with BEN.
WADE whom the people rejected.
Fools and fanatics. talk of "recreant
Senators" and anathematize the seven
judges who could neither be bribed nor
brow beaten, as traitors 20 their party,
their country and their Cop. Such i'll
decency is the mere anticipation OF
what the prime movers in this great
wrong have deserved and will receive.
If the seven arc to be hissed and spit
upon because they were true to their
conscienees and remembered the respon-
sibility of their oaths, let it be remem-
bered that the opposing thirty
five are spared the spleen
and venom of mob-makers and rabble
rousers, because of their devotion to
party; they are held to have forgotten
their duty and their sworn pledge to
heaven that they wOuldjudge the Pres
ident as they wOuld themselves be
judged by a just and omniscient COP.
Their recommendation is their snbserv-
iency to the behests of party; the
crime Of the "recreaRts" is their fidelity
to conscience. Let an impartial public
decide between them, as the case is pre-
sented by the organs of impeachment
all over the country.
We have little disposition to recall
the senseless clamor with which the
"loyap impeachment shriekers de-
manded the Presidents removal. At
the same time, slight retrospect may
not be useless. For weeks prior to the
decision upon the eleventh artisIe, we
were vehemently assured, that impeach-
ment was peace, patriotism and states
manship, and that "the people" so be-
lie yed. Ten days ago the eleventh ar
ticle failed and the satisfaction with
which the entire country received the
result, showed how utterly unworthy
of confidence were the shameless
fanatics who professed to speak ain the
name of all the people"
When the fortunes of impeachment
became desperate, leading Radical pa
pers declared that "the General of the
Army regarded the removal of the
President as necessary toprevent blood
shed 7" Yesterday it was finally an
nounced that the President should con-
tinue in office until the end of his term.
When, where and by whom is this
bloOd-letting operation TO be commenc-
edi Unless "the General of the Army"
proposes to lead in carpet. bag
gers revolt against the, decree
which deprives them of plunder, there
will be no more blood spilled than would
fill the least of BUFFERS pilfered spoons.
The universal acquiescence of the peo-
pie in the decision of the Senate is the
best comment upon GRANTS stupid and
empty threat. scHENcX added his
fumes to the vaporing nonsense of the
advocates of Impeachment by main
strength. "Great danger to the peace
of the country if the President
is aoquitted' was r. the burden OF
his telegraphic refrain. The Presi-
dent is fully acquitted, but where
is the realization of this frantic proph-
Eecyf The wall of GRANT and ScHENcK
and the balance of the gang, was simply
like all "tales told by an idiot, full OF
sound and fury, signifyipgnothing,p and
now that their purpose is defeated, the
foolish rage and howl, with which they
tired to effect it, will merely make the