The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-05
WHY FESSENDEN, GRIMES AND
TRUMBULL VOTED TO ACQUIT THE
PRESIDENT


PRESIDENT.
The Iron Age, flor copy of which
able exponent of the tariff system and
sound Republicanism We are indebted
and thankful to Hon. D. R. Ashley
furnishes forth the following remarka-
BILE explanation, or theory, of the vote
delivered by Fessenden, Grimes and
Trumbull upon impeachment;
What is the explanation of the fact. as
extraordinary as it was unlocked for, that
certain leading Republican Senators who
had enacted the law which Andrew johnson
violated and had recorded their emphatic
condemnation of that violation, should at
the last moment change their minds and
hold him justified and themselves con-
demned. Some motive of most constrain-
ing power must have impelled men of such
wide and established reputation as Senators
Fessenden and TrumbulI thus to stultify
themselves and deceive and betray their
party-some reason unseen and hitherto un-
thought of must have operated to work
change SO radical and SO unexpected. We
cannot say what the hidden springs of those
mems action may have been. We cannot
think that lawyers so acute should thus
recent their most deliberate recorded opin-
ions-that statesmen SO profound should
thus abruptly change their solemnly avowed
convictions-that Legislators so wise should
thus, without moments premonition, sud
denly reverse their policy-that men so eau
tious should thus rashly destroy their char
acter for prudence and discretion, except
some most powerful incentive forced them on.
What this incentive is, as we have said,
We cannot say, bnt we my surmise. We
bsliere If proceed from, III 1t deep and uacreas-
ingly po,cerful conspiracy ,ohich noe crisis
to place the indus RI of the country in the
po,cer Of the manufacturers Of Erope.
Everything indicates, as we have so re-
peatedly shown, the existence of settled
purpose to accomplish this result, and we
fear that the present attitude of the Senate
is a new evidence-and if so. the most hu-
initiating we have seen-of the influence of
British Traders on the American Congress.
1t is true that Messrs. Grimes and Trum-
bull are open and Jealous advocates of Brit
ish free trade. 1t is true that Mr.. Fessen-
den has recently given unmistakable evil |
dence of his apostacy from protection, and
may justly be suspected of an Intention to
betray the cause which was once contded to
his care. And it is little singular that |
these shoad be the three Republican SEND
tors scho sig'aah-e themselves as the Oppon-
e72fS OF CONNECTION.
They know the consistent and we'll defined |
record of Mr.. Wade, on the protection ques-
ton, and they my esar that the influence of
his administration would be brought to bear
Upon the defeat of the foreign scheme, to
which we have alluded, and in their anxiety
to prevent this result, they consent even to
stultify themselves and aequit the President.
We may, we think, assure these gentle
men, that if they hope, by the acquittal of
MIR. johnson, to secure the adoption Of
free trade policy, or even an approach to 4
free trade policy by Congress, they will be
they will have sacrificed their
honor and their reputation in vain. And,
n the other hand, we think we may as GER
ainly assure them that there is no purpose
o make any changes in the TaIif Laws
which will not meet the approval ard sup
'ort of that large majority of both Houses
shO voted in the last session of the las, ,
congress for the notifications then pro-
osed. That immediate revision of the
'aritf laws is necessary all agree; that
UGH revision will secure wise and practi-
al adjustment, we have no doubt. and Sena-
ors Trumbull, Grimes and Fessenden mis-
axe if they suppose that their short-sighted Z
reachery can prevent it. !,
The most important interests Of this coun-
y are not to be sacrificed to foreign trade {
,huence, nor to be held subject to the will |
even such distinguished gentlemen as 4
1essrs. 1rumbuH, Grimes and FesSende1s.