Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-09-24
CLEARFIELD, Pa THURSDAY, SEPT "a, 1868.

] the order and proprieties of judicial
{ trial. Six other Republican Senators
0 seven in all-held the invocation.
r 80 help me God, paramount to It's
= opposite $50 help me caucus All
had to pass through like ordeal with
, Ross, but none OF them except him
gave 20 the public any Of the dispatch
, es Of their beseechers and assailants
! Something was known as TO Senator
Henderson, of Missouri. A friend of
mine was riding in the f street car
at the time the excitement ran high.
; est, and there chanced 10 be on board
an elderly gentleman OF decent appear
ancc, who talked very loud He was
declaiming against Henderson 5 antici.
pated vote Of acquittal, and said If he
gave II he would be hanged on his
lreturn~to Missouri. A member from
one of the Eastern States, at home a
Judge, who sat on the other side of the
car, went and sat near the vehement
gentleman, and said something to him
in an undertone, TO which he replied
loudly and emphatically ooh, damn
him, have told him So" Now, what
says the bench and bar of our country
to this mode of conducting criminal
trial in this our highest tribunal, whose
judgments are irreversible, and whose
action challenges the Judgment of the
civilized worlds Would you wish
that our Minister in London should,
IN your name, avow and defend itg
This was the same, though on a
worldwide theatre, as II the prosecu-
ting attorney, when trying criminal
case before traverse jury, should, by
public advertisement, call upon the
friends Of jurymen and ask them TO
prevail on the jury, by entreaties or
threats, to find verdict Of guilty.
The action OF Gen. Schenck amuses
me. have known him for half life
time, an honorable member of the bar,
bred and praoticed in the high morali-
ty of the profession. The wild tale of
the German students who, through
diabolical influence, changed souls,
must have been verified in him. Five
years ago, or at any time when his
soul was his own, he would have
moved to expel a member of the bar
who committed such professional afro
city, and he would have felt dishon0red
by sitting with him at the same coun-
sci table
General Schenek signed these let
ters and dispatches as Chairman of the
Republican Central Committee. Ill
was not lis act alone, but the act of
the party, in the House, and indicates
their sense Of professional morality.
! find quite appropriate to the matter
the following item from the Cincinnati
Commercial Of yesterday;
"Jadgc Stowe, Of Piitsburg, on Saturday rem
dcrcd decision, granting a new trial in an i'm
portant case, on the ground that the plaintihs
tampercd with one Of the Jurors. The case has
been tried three times before"
Judge Stowe is evidently "a mile
post on q deserted road" He has
not been taught judicial morality "by
the war"
Most Of the leading members of the
Senate, by their speeches, and nearly
the whole body, by their vote on the
Tenure-of.Ofiice Act, were committed
to the proposition that the President
had right, by his own mere act, TO
remove the Secretary of War He
did formally remove him, and the next
day as formally nominated successor,
and sent, with all due dispatch, his
nomination to the Senate. Some de-
lay, however, occurred, by reason of
the early adjournment of that body.
The Office of Secretary Of War was
now vacant; the Office building, with
its books, papers and seals, and other
muniments OF office, were in the hands
ofa lawless intruder, who was instruct
cd TO "stick."
In this state of things the President
appointed one of the officers of the
department TO take charge of il pro
tempore, until regular nomination
should be confirmed by the Senate.
This fact was charged In one of the
articles of impeachment as a high mis-
dcmeanor, and the Republican Sena-
tors, all except seven, including those
who declared and voted that the Pres
ident had full power TO remove, voted
this attempt to iake care of the depart.
ment, its seal, its correspondence, and
its archieves, during the two DAYS of
inevitable vacancy, high misdemean-
or. 1t was not a trivial offence, this
attempt TO take care of the executive
Office, but q high misdemeanor for
which he ought to be removed from
office, and give place TO the man who
had told the intruder TO "sticl0." This
vote was given under the solemnitios
of an oath to do impartial Justice
The like is not to be found in any tri.
bunal anywhere, certainly not in our
own or in English history. Stafford
was impoached by the House Of Com
mons at u time when party spirit ran
highest and widest in England, but
tboy failed to prove him guilty
Of any crime known to the laws
This being settled, they knew convic.
tion impossible, as the Peers, in enter
ing on tho trial, pledge their honor
that they will do impartial justice.
The articles Of impeachment were,
therefore, withdrawn, and bill of
attainder substituted, which, as it in
volved no oath and no pledge Of hon.
or, was readily passed
This vote of our Senators on inn
poachment, sworn, as they were, to do
impartial justice, as one Of the legiti-
mate consequences OF the new code of
morals which Senator Morton boasts
of having been taught by the war, it
developed itself in ether instances
most worthy Of note in logic as we'll
as morals. He says in his speech of
January 4, 1868, that President John.
sons proclamation, under which the
seeded States were reorganized, was
more radical than that prepared by
Mr.. Lincoln more indeed, than the
project of Winter Davis aud fit had
boen submitted 10 Congress before it
was carried into oiieot would have
been well. But the Constitution re-
quiros that the United States shall
guarantee to each State n Republican