The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-06-04
The End of impeachment.

1t will be remembered that on the 18th Of
May the Senate, sitting as High Court Of
Impeachment, voted on the etcvenh article,
and acquitted the President by one vots.-
The Court then adjourned until Tuesday,
26th ult. In the meantime the discounted
and crest fallen Radicals had met in Conven-
tiOu at Chicago and nominated their candi-
dates for President and Vice President. AL
though that Convention did not pass any
formal resolution of censurc against the Seren
Republican Senators who had voted for the
aequistsl of the President, although il did
not expel them from the Radical fold, as WAS
demanded at their hands, nevertheless it en-
dorsed the Impeachment movement. Meet
ings were held in various portions Of the
country by the Loyal League and kindred
associations, deGUuucing the seven unregen-
crate Senators-charging them with bribery
and corruption, and demanding their polili-
cal execution. On the day after the Presi-
dents acquittal on the eleventh article the
Radical Rump adopted resolution author
izing the Impeachment Managers to invssti.
gate the charge that corrupt means hal been
used in procuring the verdict Of acquittal by
the vote cf the Senate. This investigation
has been going on ever since, under the lead
crship Of that meanest and most Infamous
of all our public men, Benjamin +. Butler,
whose very name is a stencil in the nostrils
Of the people. So far as the developments
1 4 l.
lie. they DO not 'implicate any of the seven
Senators who could not be frightened into
surrender of their conscience by Radical
threats and aIuse; but, on the contrary,
they make out a strong case Of guilt against
al least one Radical Senator, who, 1t seems,
was willing TO sell himself for conEidera-
tion. The investigation, therefore, is likely
TO prove an Australian boomerang in the
hands of bottled up" Butler, and may in the
end turn round and plagued its inventors.
When the Senate met again as Court,
on the 20ih of May, the Radicals indulged a
strong hope that vote foT conviction might
be had on the second article, which was con-
sidered to be as formidable as the elerenth.
1t was thought, too, by the more sanguine.
that Ross of Kansas would reverse his vote
for acquittal on The 10th, and would now
vote for conviction. thus securing the tails
manic number-tairty sax. 1t was the last
expiring effort of set of desperate ard vic
ked men to concentrate all the power Of the
government in their own hands. With them,
as with a losing player. i: was the last throw
Of the dice-and they lostf The vote on the
second article. stood 86 for conviction and 10
FIR acquittal-the same as on the eleventh
article. a vote was then taken On the third
article, and the vote was precisely the same
-25 to I9. A motion was then made and
carried that the Court adjourn sine die, or.
as wag expressed it, ''until the day of
Judgment" And thus ended this great and
stupendous farce. The success Of the Radi
cal party in the coming Presidential cam
paign was staked on the issue Of impeach-
menr. 1t was SO proclaimed by its leaders,
and the people will not be slow in recording
their verdict.
The acquittal of the President ia perhaps
duo to Chief Jnstice Chase moro than to any
other man not that he did anything wrong,
or that his course is not fully approved by
the leading members of the Bar throughout
the country. His bearing was dignifed dur
ing the whole trial, while his fairness and
impartiaity bespoke the unprejudiced and
FEARLESS Judge. None of the originators of
this proceeding have won any laurels, bat
rather dishonor and disgrace. 1t was
shameless proceeding from its commence
ment to its close-partissn and vindictive in
a; its aspects and surroundings. In his con
Dection with it, from its inception to its ter
mination, Benjamin F. Butler has sounded
the dePths and shoals of political and moral
infamy, while Stevens, .aalienapt and ven
ornous as he is, stands dishonored aud re-