Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-30

consultation. AT This point an interesting
law question is likely to be raised. The
constitution says a two-thirds vote shall be
necessary to convict, but is silent as to the
vote on the Judgment, and the question is
whether majority or two-thirds must a.
gree as to the sentence. Some of the law
yers in the Senate are looking up authori.
ties on this head. The majority are doubt
less in favor of disqualifying Mr.. johnson
from ever holding Office, in case he is con-
victed, but it is by no means certain that
two-thirds of the Senators would agree to
this sentence. When judgment has been
determined it will be pronounced by the
Chief Justice. It is not necessary that the
President should be present when this is
done. Here the functions of the Court will
cease, and the Chief Justice will not appear
in any further proceedings.
HOW 1T WILL END. "s d
A letter to- the Baltimore Gazette says :
It is generally acknowledged now that
the President will be convicted. The pro-
gramme is to acquit him on all the minor
points and to find him guilty on some lead.
ing one, which will probably be etheremoval
of Secretary Stanton. The necessities of
party require this. Most of the members
are under party lash and outside influences
are also very strong. Nothing but secret
ballot can affect the result unless, indeed,
the next ten days bring wonderful changes.
The discussion will probably be prolonged
for that time, now that the field of discus
sion has been thrown open.
WHAT OLD THAD. THINKS.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says:
Thad. Stevens displays the strongest be-
lief in the success of conviction. To-day
he stated that thirty. eight of the senator's
were known to be in favor Of conviction.
This will be two more than the requisite two
thirds necessary to success from his stand
point. Mr.. Stevens feels so much encour-
aged by this fact that he even thinks the
number will be more than thirty-eight,
which he illustrates by atprinciple in nat
ural philosophy called gravitation. He
says ga larger body always attracts the
smaller, and by the law of gravitation, the
thirty-eight senators being the larger body,
he thinks they will bring to their senses
those of the Radicals who hang back" Mr..
Stevens never looked in better health du-
ring the present session. The prospects of
a political necessity which
he has so long been pressing seems to act
with remarkably invigorating influence.
ssMAcK's" VIEWS ABOUT THE RESULT.
ssMack" writes as follows to the Cincin-
natl Commercial:
"Banished from Rome! What's banished but set
free ...-'.
From daily contract with the things loath."
I think you may take it as fact nearly
consummated, that Mr.. johnson will have
to study up some such passage as this. His
trial, at first show, then safety, and
now almost destiny, can scarcely eventu-
ate otherwise than in peremptory expulsion.
His last reception, on Monday night, will
probably be his last of all but one. From
as careful canvass as I can make, I believe
that he will be convicted and removed,
though doubt that the Senate will dis
qualify him from holding further Office of
trust and profit under the United States.
The full penalty of conviction, under i'm
peachment, is optional with the Senate, and
while there are not sufficient Republican
senators STRAIGHTFORWARD enoug II to vote for
there are several who are ready
to take the ground that the Presidents rash
acts were merely rash, and should excul-
pate him from more than the temporary
penalty. disqualification" they say,
sswould sound like persecution. Let him
90 stump the country, as he threatens, and
make votes for US, as his speeches always
do"
WHAT MR.. JOHNSON WILL DO IF CONVICTED.
If not disqualified, Mr.. johnson expects
to acquire citizenship in a Democratic
State, and be returned to the Senate, where
he will fight Howard, Chandler, and the
other contrivers of his conviction. He is
confident of his ability to master Tennessee
again, as he has often done, when he can
slip into the Senate, say by his relative-in,
law, Patterson's, resignation. His resources
are not great, but his confidence is aow-
ing we'll. Had he any knowledge of hu-
man nature, or power of critical character
ization, he could still be singing adver-
sary on the floor of the Senate.
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