The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-16
vsnal A.nsets Of the Impeachment.

| President johnson Is in the unpleasant
situation of the man captured BY brIgands
| who was tied to tree, and booked on Will g
| his captors were throwing dice for his
/ ciuthes. Wilson and Boutwell, and Bing-
| ham, among the managers, are up for Judge
ships on the bench Of the supreme court,
| which is 70 be enlarged by the addition of
enough mem beTs TO make it radical over the
| democrats, and the appointees OF Mr. Lin
coin, who hold to the views of the "late
| lameuted." Mr.. Speaker Colfax is up for a
cabinet ofhce-postmaster general, we be
| lieve; Mr.. Scheack is after the navy depart
| ment /; and dozen or two more are canvas
| sing for the missions and collectorships, and
| nice, fat places in the gift of Mr.. Wade and
comp PLEASANT senate. The senators who
are the Judges on the trial are to furnish
forth long list of eager candidates for sec
retaryshiPs, iudgeships and missions; and
| he president of the senate, "Old Ben Wade, Z"
Is expected 20 cast the vote by which be is
to be made acting president, and have the
power of distributing these tat places among
his brother judges, secusers and prosecuting
attorneys --
We take our authority for these statements
from Washington correspondents Of the
press, who are making up cabinets for Mr..
according as they are written up by poIiti-
clans in intimate Communication with sena-
tors and representatives of the radical party,
who know, if anybody does, their course
and intentions. What is said is, at least,
what is expected and approved. Next to
the shocking indecency of the spectacle Of
JUDGES, and witnesses, and lawyers parcel
ling am ong themselves the spoils of n man
whom they have eoLspired 10 convict, is the
iusensibility with which an-entire press &C.
cept it as a natural and proper use of power
for the profit Of party. When the trial is
over, the Judgment pronounced, and the
greedy victors come into possession of the
spoils, it viii speedily appear from lists of
newly appoiated ofice-holders, what mem Der
of the house, what manager, and what sem
ator is obnoxious to the damaging suspicion
of having sacrificed an innocent man to
make clear for himself the way into place !;
what, in short, are the wages for which he
sells his vote. But it will never be known
fully how many votes viii have been cast on
hungry expectation, which was not salts
fed !; how many viii have done the dirty
work and got no paw. These are, however,
considerations 10 come after; but for the
present, as3 IN view Of the case actually IN
der trial, the universal acceptance of it by
the radicals, as a procedure to get possession
of the presidential Office, is one of the most
powerful means conceivable for effecting
that result, as it enlists ali that IS corrupt
and corruptible in a grand hunt af.er public
plumber. = = 4Aas @ TX -
The state of public morals which can en-.
dure this, and suffer the conspirators 20 en-
JOY the profits of success, is very little bet.
ter than that of Rome, when the pretorian
guards put up the empire for sale to the
hfghest bidder. Up to that time the empty
forms OF republic had been preserved, and
the emperor IN fact was Imperator, or gen
eral--anosher coincidence to be noted.
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