Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-22
From Harpers Weekly.
Impeachment and the New YORK
.sTribune.o


Impeachment and the New YORK
Tribune"
The tone of the New York TriJ1Re during
the last DAYS of the Impeachment trial was
insulting to every honorable American. APP
naren;lv smitten with terror lest the honest
verdict of the Senate should not agree with
its own wishes, it cracked the party whip in
the most insolent and intolerable manner,
denouncing in advance every Republican
Senator who might vote in obedience to his
convictions to acquit the President as - in
famous" and " the same rs Andrew John
SON.
The great service which the Ii75ERe for
merly rendered to the good cause viii be al
WAYS gratefully remembered. But since It's
principles have been in power. with all its
experience and ability, its total want of or
binary judgment has constantly alienated .
from it the sympathy Of very many OF the .
most faithful and rejecting Of the Republic /
cans During the whole Impeachment trial .
nothing could have been more damaging to I
the party and to the eau than the course OF
the Tribune. 1t has done all It could do 10 /,
make it difficult even for Senator's, who /
thought that the President ought 10 be re |
moved. to vote for his removal. 1t has
screamed at them as if they did not under
stand both what principle demanded, and
what was true party policy. soon after the
| trial began the Tribune announced IN the
most imposing manner that General Grant
| thought it necessary for the peace of the
country that the President should be remoy-
ed and it added, - When the General OF
our armies entortains this conviction there Is
no room for doubt a. to the duty of the Sen
ate" There was never a more outrageous
sentence published in this country. The
| Senate. according to the TriiiUe, is To regis
ter the will of the General.
1t very plainly insinuated that Republican
Senators who should vote for the acquittal
would have been bought with money. and
would be worthy to rank with Benedict Ar
mold. and then endeayored TO excuse itself by
saving that such reports were IN the
mouths of all men" The Brooklyn Union,
stanch Republican paper, well express the
feeling of all good citizens in saying, The
ahsurditv of the Ir1'ana'S article this morn
inr is only equalcd by its atrociU, and that
is unrarallelcl n Northern political Journal
i'm. or in civilized journalism any where
The Rcruii.au PARTY is di-raccd and hu-
inflated b, ..ie riul-It ui the IrituHf dur
iu, the trial. a- il WIS hy tlc Alta Nela dis
.u>-i1.. and t'it quarrel between Mr.. Don
nelly and Wa>.hume .u the House. This
J., unavoidable. although IN the course to
which vs.. aii.ic tar r.. .H. no more repre-
scented the sentiment ol the party than 1t did
Mt the beginning 1i the secession movement
when it said 90 It the cotton States unltedly
and earnestly wish e, withdraw from tine n
ion, we think they should and would be al
= lowed to DO 50 :" or when it said .' If the
declaration or lnderendence justified the Sc
r...ion from the British clnuire of three mil
r lions of colonist, in l--G. we do not see why
2 = Ill mat ;u.+ir- rI, secession If five mil
BE- i;,,,. - S'.,ttcr1.rs from the Union IN
S Isf1 -, .- who, II hstr,,-s8 it, molevolencc
t,..l,I NJ I-rr.In's administration in its
! ,.rI,. i,,. mp when # rr,tes-ej II. willing
S ncs. p. I,,.7oiir..a the national cause If Lee
= LII (r.,.- m. Sl-..-obaura or when il
49,; ;I ,I,- sb.!lI ,r, Nr. moro L,--le
,-I ,.l:i. +i. -.s,,r- '- ,,f,,, its chief obi
,,,in.I n, ,.,,e ne',,tiation. with rebels
-. -, ~ ,ybc7 n, ,yroto r., President
La IN The d,rt bour If tbe,yar. impl,r-
I, ;-- Inn in tbe u,-nc of q beart-brikcn.
i,77,l-I,I- blerIin, coIr,r,-. q, nav four hum
= d~sJ millions ofd5iiars 70 the shareholders To
I I,,,. - ~. ,rl.on tbc editor whose iourn-
b. al na,y declare. il infamous III Senator to
Andrew q
= ,.,,;It, If srccifc CHARGES hastcned 10 Rich
: 3oond IN bdil Jefferson Davis Upon all these
d tensions the course Of the Trirlqr or its ed
it.r however sincere and patriotic and hui
,',,1e ,no, have been the intention. did not.
: II .oars f. ms represent the conviction or
f. tLo ,,-l;cy or fine Beuublican marty.
! T+oyijeptly pisrerre.ented the real senti-
mont If the rarty when itorr7sei the nomin-
otior If General Grant. which il did at the
: time nf the susuensiou of Mr.. Stanton in a
sc~ies If unccnsrous destinations. which have
{ I'm silancc1 b, the unanimous and euthusi-
. ostic selection Of General Grant as the Re
| rphIiran candidate for the Presidency. The
Bates of Missouri. What the situation
would now have been had Mr.. Bates been
nominated may he suImised. In 1851 1t
would willingly have seen Mr.. Lincoln set
p aside for another candidate. In 1866 1t sup
5 ported Tor Mayor of New York person who
; wrote letter TO the World, when the House
, resolved to impeach, substantially proposnga
vigilance committee and the Inauguration Of
, civil war such person would have been a
5 pleasing Mayor of the city at this time.
1t seems to Us that dlthdence OF ITS own
Judgment as to party policy becomes Jour
nal with this party record and when 1t de
cared, without mentioning names when
names were perfectly well understood, that
Senators Fessenden, rrumbull, sherman,
Grimes. Anthony, and whatever other Re
publican Senators it supposed might vote
against the Presidents conviction would be
= infamous if they did 50, and must look
thenceforth for a career outside OF the Repub-
lican party, it assumed to speak for party
whose convictions and policy it has grossly
misrepresentedat most important cpOchs. The