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

he has the notes OF II still IN ms pos
session. And this was the introduce
ton to the American people, as Pres
ident OF the Senate, of the man i'm
peached to-day in articles replete with
extracts from his drunken utterances
of rage. as President of the United
States. Three years from personal
shame to the bar of the same justice
he had shamed ! 1t is worthy of a
new Hogarth to render the stages of
his decline and fall.
MARCH 4TH, 1868.
To day, Wednesday, at two o'clock,
the Senate was engaged In practical
business. There had been a ripple of
/ inquiry and excitement at the recep-
| ton of letter from the Chief Justice,
/ objecting In some sort to the Senate's
/ rules for the impeachment trial. While
! this was discussed In a quiet CONVEX
sational way by aside groups of Sena-
/ tors, a great crowd of people flung
open the gallery doors and filed In an
! instant the tiers of benches. Almost
every Senator was in his place A
/ group of Indian Chieftains in the
! gallery, fresh from their tradi-
/ tional feuds on the frontier, sat
| looking In stolid wonder at
/ this conflict of authority in the eoun-
i ellis of the white men. The noisy boy
| pages hocked around the Presidents
desk, sQuatting on their heels, and
/ looking up for the eventful moment
| that Is to be among the longest and
! strangest of their recollections. The
door of the middle aisle opened after
a pause, and the represe natives of
the nation filed into the presence of
the Senators.
The aisle, red-carpeted, was per-
fectly clear. Three figures came first
abreast, Judge Bingham, Gov. Bout
well, and the Sergeant-at-Arm of
the Senate; the crier in a shrill voice
announced:
THE Managers of the House of
Representatives to report Articles of
Impeachmentl "
Then down the aisles, by twos. arm
| 10 arm, the committee came: Biug-
ham aud Boutwell,, Stevens and Lo-
gan. Wilson aud Williams, and But
Ter. The four first named took chairs
in the area before the President
chair, on the lett; the other three on
the right, accompanied by Dawes, of
I
companionship with the committee,
being the oldest member present of
the House of Representatives. Then,
by direction of the President, the
Clerk called the impressive formula
for "silence.f
Silence followed so perfectly and
promptly that the low, modulated
voice Of Judge Bingham was heard,
as if reading a burial service. He
stood, lean and short and gray, look
ing through silver spectacles, print
ed copy of the Impeachment Articles
in his hands, and hearkened the Sen
ate to hear the articles, if itso pleased
them. The managers of impeachment
all rose. Dawes alone remaining seat
ed, and for half an hour there was
presented an almost motiOnless Ia
bleau, so broad in space and so count
less in its personages that art will
never find a standpoint WhereupOn
to depict it.
STUDY FOR CANVASS.
This is the Senate-House, a room
all gold and buff, belt of buff gallery
running round it; through the gold
of the roof tWenty-one great enameled
windows giving light. The floor here
of is a soft red English carpet; deer
golden cOrnices surround the hall; q
blue-faeed clock without a sound goes
on with time remorselessly. So black.
ly the people fill all these galleries
that it is but here and there a sun
beam falls upon a face, making il
warm yellow; the far-ceiling corners
of this hall are full of darkness; dark
also are the deep-gilt ornaments.
tons in the edge of the ceiling; up
f on the floor, however, where thu
: chief actors stand, it Is clear as oper
: day. La the Chair. sat Wade, stout
: depted and carved of face, with
weather beaten look of dignity anC
uncomfortable courage, yet with NJ
expression of other feeling than the
, memorable purpose of justice, clad il
: black. showing off his three-score anC
seven years little of their ravages, Blu
? all their obstinate devotion to free
5 dom. Beside him Colfax sat, younger
2 more affable, smoother sapling be
side a Scared ash trunk-raised t
that place, (where he may one day 81
1, permanently, by the courtesy Of Hen
I bricks, of Indiana, one Of the gentles
: of Senators.
Beneath these two, Forney an,
: Mcpherson sat, Secretaries of tn
t Senate and House-FOrney a brigh
eyed, red faced, middle aged man, an,
e Mcpherson with forid mutton-choI
/ whiskers, Fredericksburg, shar
featured. Mr.. Forney walked int
!, this hall with Andrew johnson Oh
: his arm three years ago to-day. Nj
Mcpherson as a Yillager of Gettys
e burg, and a protege of Thaddeus Ste
c vens; both Forney and McPherso
are Pennsylyanians.
= THE MANAGERS OF TUE IMPEACH
"A MENT