Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-05-30

comfortable and substantial, and contains
forty.seven rooms in all the departments.
Iwas in Boston when the news Of the
nomination of Grant and Colfax was receiv-
ed. While they would have preferred their
own fellow citizen, Senator Henry Wilson,
they were unanimous in their opinion that
no better selection, or more satisfactory
one than Mr.. Colfax, could have been made
This opinion is universal, and acknowledged
by Republicans and Democrats, everywhere.
NEW YORK, May 2eth, 1858.
Returning from Boston to New York, l
took the stonington line, passing through
Providence, Pawtucket and other thriving
manufacturing towns in Rhode Island. The
new steamers on this route are trulysplenoid,
though not so large or half as expensive as
their rivals of the Bristol line. The fare on
this route is only SO for about 90 miles ira
vel by railroad, and 1870 by steamboat.
New York, though the commercial centre,
is not, exactly, the political centre of the
Union, SO far as the Republicans are con.
cerned.
Its 10000 Democratic majority is made up
of material that does not add much to the
character or prosperity of the country. Out
side of the city, where the foreign element
is not 80 large, the Republicans have large
majority. The New York Democracy have
been greatly disappointed in the Chicago
nominations. They hoped to get up feud
among the Republicans in the nomination
of Vice President. Unfortunately for them,
the selection of Colfax for that position has
left them nothing to hope for. Perhaps, no
public man in the Union is so universally
popular, or more generally esteemed, for all
the qualities that adorn the man and states
man, as Mr.. Colfax. Even the New York
World, the leading paper of the Democratic
party, admits this fact, and the only fault it
can find in Mr.. Colfax is that he is ambi-
tious and aspiring. And who has better
right to be ambitious His aspirations were
noble and honorable, and by his own efforts,
the poor printers boy has become an emf
nent Statesman, and is acknowledged by
Republicans and Democrats to be one of the
ablest speakers that ever presided over Con,
gress. 1t is common thing to hear Demo
Gratis, everywhere, say that the nomination
of Grant and Colfax was decidedly the best
that could have been made by the party,
which is almost equivalent to an admission
of their election.
The result of the trial for the Impeach.
ment of the President surprises no one.-
Though nominally and legally acquitted, he
nevertheless stands convicted in the eyes of
the people, Notwithstanding his nominal
acquittal, by the purchase of four Senators,
which even then, gave him but 10 out of the
81 votes. The investigation of these facts,
thus far, has satisfied every reasonable mind
that bribery and corruption saved Andrew
johnson from being deposed from his high
Office. The testimony of Thurlow Weed
alone establishes that fact. Mr.. Weed is o
prominent and distinguished politician, and
is the intimate friend and counsellor of Se-
cre!ary Seward, and was most unwilling
witness against President johnson.
The vote on the second article, relating
to the tenure of Office act, having resulted
like the eleventh. there was no use voting
on the remaining articles. Thus ends this
famous trial of Impeachment, which some
well-meaning people of both parties dcplore,
but which, 1 think, has left an impression
that will be lesson to future Presidents,
and restrain them from the exercise of arbi-
trary power. The resignation of Blr. Stan
ton is what was expected. He had some
time since determined to resign as soon as
the Impeachment trial was over, whether the
President was convicted or acquitted