The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-03-19

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be felt more than any Of his associates
in the management of the prosecution
The personal appearance Of Mr.. Bout
we'll is very prepossess'ng. As / sait
on n recent occasion, he woL Id pass foI
a Presbyterian minister as to manner
voice, and appearance in a private com
pany.
There Is very little Of o politician
about him, but much of the statesman
aud too much Of the Puritan. He il
less than fifty years of age, of hand
some looks, black hair and whiskers
aud a countenance that betokens The
scholar and the student. His speeches
have always, to my mind, been mark
cd by an utter absence Of demagogism
and a full trust in strength Of argu-
men: to carry AL the points before IT.
He brings TO the decision Of every sub
ject tho most thoughtful, and, we
would think, to hear him speak, the
most prayerfui attention. ii prayers
and politics could co-cxist IN the same
mind.
Mr.. Boutwell, was Democratic Gov
ernor OF Massachusetts, once, and was O
Democratic member Of tho House I'M
der Pierce's administration. You would
not think, to hear him talk now oil
equal rights and eternal justice, that
he once constructed the Declaration OF
Independence in the exclusive interest
Of white mon, and shook hands with
the shareholders on the proposition
that negroes had no rights which white
men were bound to respect. II is even
so, however. l talked to n man the
other day, who once had heard Bout
we'll make "tho strongest kind OF n
speech" against tho Abolitionists. But
tempora mutantur OF nos mutantur in
illus. The times change, and if we
don't change with the times, so much
the worse for us.
MR.. BUTLER.
The personal appearance, and mill
tary and political history Of General
Butler are so we'll known to the coun-
try, that is hardly worth while to say
q word about either IN this letter, ex-
cept that it is necessary to do so, to
complete a feeble attempt at giving
something of q sketch of each mana
ger. John Randolph once said that
the dome of the Capital was a great
cxtinguisher Of provincial talont-a
remark the truth of which has been
evident in Mr.. Buffers case. He has
not been "extinguished," perhaps, but
he certainly has failed, since his
advent as q member of the House, TO
command the attention and respect
which he thought were in store for him.
He expected to DO the chosen leader
of the House, at least on all strong
political questions, and especially in
this matter of impeachment. but the
attentive reader Of Congressional pro-
cecdings cannot fail to have noticed
that he has been compelled to be sat
isied with q very subordinate part in
the drama all the way through. When
1t is remembered that his speech at
Mozart Hall, Cincinnati, on the SAtur.
day night preceding the October dec
ton Of 1866, vas the first public advo-
cacy of impeachment any where in the
United States, it will be acknowledged
that the role to which he vas assigned
in the House when the subject came
up there was not all commensurate
with his merits as the pioEcer OF the
movement. 1t took a good deal Of hard
pleading to get him on the list of man.
ayers last night. He will do much
loss real service IN the conduct Of the
case than Boutwell,, ye: he will pnsh
himself further forward, and / shall he
much disappointed IL no does not try
very hard to make it appear that he IL
bearing the heat and burden of the
whole thing.
A year ago no did not hesitate to
say that the impeachment of johnson
meant his (Butler's) selection as the
Republican candidate for President,
and there are those who remember how
he travelled through Ohio with the air
of one upon whom the mantle of Lin.
coin was just about to tall. But / pre-
sumo he has batod q few points of his
hope, il not of his ambition, since
though he has not yet reconciled him.
selfto the nomination of Grant as ar
accomplished fact-and won't till he
secs what can be done on the impeach,
ment trial.
|. MR.. BIGNHAM.
Politics, like misery, makes Ole nc
quaintcd with strange bed fellows.-
Bingham and Butler joining hand IL
hand on u subject like impeachment l
a good illustration Of the truth of thi
maxim. 1t was about impeachment
that they first quarreled IN o caucus,
year ago, and Kept up the quarrel un
Til it disgraced the House and bore
the country, and people sighed for a
alteration between a couple Of Eng
lisA fish-hawkers as an improvement
upon It's Iona and dignity. 'Brougt
up on a bottle and fed with n spoon,
was strong IN words but weak in wi
unless reinfol ced with italics and foo
notes. Then, in return, Booths dair
was hourished, and 80 on dd nausea
uSque-and all about impeachment, {
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