The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-21
A New way TO Convict.

When it became manifest in the Sen
ate, on last Monday week, that at least
four Republican Senators intended to vote
for the acquittal of the President the
Radicals resorted to their usual base ex
pedients to avert the impending blow
Among the number was Mr.. Henderson,
of Missouri, upon whom the Radical
members of Congress from that State
called and modestly asked him 20 resign
in order that the Governor of the State
might appoint as his successor some one
who would hasten to Washington and
vote for conciction That such base
and scandalous proposition conld be made
at all only furnishes additional evidence
Of the utter rotteRness of the Radical
party. If Mr.. Henderson had yielded to
this Infamous demand his successor would
have voted TO convict the President, al>
though he had not heard one word Of the
evidence. But Mr.. Henderson, ike ar
honest man, Indignantly spurned the pro-
position.
John w. Forney, however, whose
baseness is always equal to any political
emergency, hit upon more move! and
yet more disgraceful expedient to con-
sumnate the Radical plot against the
President
There are now at Washington two men
yb,N nj, TO 81
States Senators from the reconstructed
State of Arkansas. They were doubtless
understrappers of the FIeedmen's Bureau
in that State, one of them hailing from
Pennsylvania and the other from New
York. Forney proposed and even urged
through the columns of The Press that the
Senate should at once admit these two
carpet-baggers to their seats in that body,
and thus render the conviction of the
President a JLred fact. Could any man
who was not born a scoundrel conceive a
proposition more supremely infamous than
that Nothing but itself can be its par
allel, and its mere mention can only ex-
cite feeling of shame and Indignation.
Ii WAS worthy of the 'EDead Duck" and
of the author of the Jameson letter.
A man is on trial before a Court and
jury for high criminal offence. 1t is
ascertalned that ten are for conviction and
t,co are for acquittal. These t,co are
Withdrawn from the jury and their places
supplied by tvs substitutes ,1ho are kaao,Cn
to be hostile to the prisoner, and a verdict
of gu'!ty is rendered Would not such
proceeding shock the moral sense of any
civilized and law-abiding community
And yet this is precisely what Forney
wanted the Senate to do, and if it had
been done we suppose the Radicals would
have defended the outrage upon the
ground of party necessity.
With the failure of impeachment
great many shrewd political combinations
have suddenly vanished into thin air. OF
course President Wade had all his Cabi~
net officers selected-several foreign mis-
sions now vacant were to be filed by his
special friends and admirers-bright Wis
ions. of fat collectorships and profitable
post offices fitted before the heated i'm
aginations of scores of hungry Radicals
Sheridan was to be reinstated at New
Orleans-Johu Pope, the hero Of defeats,
was again to make his headquarters at
Atlanta, and Sickels was again to be
enthroned at Charleston. Such was the
bright and happy future of Radicalism /;
but the stern and inAexible decree of the
Senate has dissipated all these pleasing
antieipations and turned the golden fruit
of Radicalism, like Dead Sea apples, to
ashes upon the lips. Andrew johnson is
still President of the United States, and
may yet write several veto messages.