Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-16
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

Mr.. Johnson's Chances.
"A correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette
writing from Washington, under date Of Thursday
last, says:
"a very intelligent Radical, who is on terms Of
great intimacy with many Radical senators, re-
marked: "Curtis is delivering great speech, but
it might as we'll be addressed to the Pawnee In
dians-the case is Judged now" And such seems
to be the opinion entertained in wellinforned CIR
ces here of both parties despite all the attempts
made to create different impression. Under that
terrible influence of party pressure, the backbones
of those senators which needed 'stiffening' are
being gradually braced up, and no fears are enter
tanned that they will be able to toe the mark when
the day of pronouncing the verdict rolls round"
Chief Justice Chase's Position.
There has recently been some speculation as
to the political status of Chief Justice Chase, and
his name has been spoken of in connection with
the Conservative nomination for the Presidency.
A correspondent of an Ohio paper lately had a
talk with him, and reports Judge Chase as saying:
'sI wish that all men of all parties would leave my
name alone in connection with Presidential nom
ination. I do not seek the Presidency"
The correspondent says that he went on to say
that as Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States he had necessarily to abandon party
politics. When he went on that bench he assumed
an obligation recognized in his oath, but anterior
and superior to it, to do impartial justice under
the Constitution and laws of the United States.
He could not be party judge, or allow himself to
be eswayed by party feeling, without violating that
oath. And he regretted that newspapers Of both
parties had connected some of his recent actions
with party or perverse feeling.
Gen. Grant on Impeachment.
-S Some days ago, an article appeared in the
New York Tribune, to the effect that Gen. Grant
has expressed the opinion that the only hope for
the peace of the country is in the success of the
trial, and the prompt removal OF the
President" This declaration of the imam on
horseback, has created quite futter. With ref
erence to the matter, the Washington correspon-
dent of the Baltimore Gazette, says:
"Giddy from the height to which fortuitous cir
cumstances have elevated him, and crazed by a
seeming near approach to the Presidential chair,
General Grant is not only prepared to speak fool
ishly, but to act rashly. Without mental caEbre,
he is left prey to an inordinate ambition with
which he has been fired by his Radical keepers,
and there is no telling what he may say or what he
may attempt. He is but the mere tool Of the
Jacobius, and may be induced to attempt the role
of Robespierre but, as the Senator alluded to
said, he had better keep lookout for bis own
head 1t is understood that court of inquiry is
being talked of in official quarters Grants COM
mission is only held during the pleasure Of the
President"
White and Black Vote in the State.
- The military authorities have at length fur
nished to the Charleston papers, an official report
of the registration in South Carolina, and the vote
on the question of Convention. The report does
not include the five days registration just compile
ted, which, so far as we have noticed, has had the
effect to decrease the colored majority. The fol-
lowing is the table as furnished to the Charleston
papers: