The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-03-04
The News from Washington.

Our exchanges are I'd with interest
Ing details OF the circumstances attending
the impeachment of the President, and
kindred subjects. In order to keep oul
readers fully posted on the progress Of
events, we have selected from various
sources the following accounts of the pro
ceedings in Congress during the greatest
excitement. They will be found suffi
ciently interesting to warrant perusal
from every one. We have selected these
proceedings from the mass of printed
matter before MS. because that revolution.
AIRY bnds rest represents the onward
ni.,rci: il thc direction of anarchy and
chaos into which civil government is
rapidly drifting
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2l.
Shortly before two o'clock this after.
noon. while Mr.. Trumbull was speaking,
Colonel Moore, one of the private secre-
taries of the President, appeared ut the
dool: OF. the Senate,.with an armfuil Of ex-
ccutive documents. As soon as they were
transferred to the Presidents desk there
was rush of Senators to that quarter,
and Mr. Sumner was the first to reach
The spot, aud tore off the covers with
great eagerness, and read the contents
with suppressed excitement. A message
of the President announcing that he had,
by virtue of the power vested in him by
the constitution, removed Mr. Stanton
from. the position of Secretary of War,
and the appointment of General Lorenzo
Thomas as Secretary ad interim, was the
first one opened, and the whispering COM
ments and threatening exclamations. Of
the crowd around the desk grew no loud
as to drown the voice OF, NJ. Trumbull, in
3,ussrsslon If the floor The envelope
containing the nomination of General
Mcclellan, as minister to Great Britain
was next .opencd, and impaticntly tossed
aside with sneers. The nomination Of
General George IL. Thomas as brcvct
Northumberland next appeared, and
was greeted with ordinations of aston
ir,,mrnt. Some temporary confusion was
occasinnsd. growing out Of the action of
the President in regard to the two Gen.
erals Thomas, which seemed to intensity
the interest and produce speculation and
inquiry as to Whit this mark of favor by
the President meant.
The news quickly spread over the
chamber Mr. TrumbuIl, who still kept up
his remarks, being the only Senator ig-
t,ors,nt of what had transl,ircd. Am i'm
promptu committee, consisting of Messls.
Cattcll, Cameron, Chanler and Thayer,
Immediately took the Senate carriage and
proceeded at u rapid pace to the War De-
parlmcnt, where they found Mr.. Stanton
looking as serene as Il summer morning.
To their surplications to hold on until the
last horn blew. he returned in answer
that no alarm need he entertained; that
when he left the office it would only be
10y main force The Senator's then rushed
over TO Gen. Grants office and notified
him that lie was expected to stand by
Gun gress in this new crisis. Gen. Grant
was silent He may have smoked, but
lie said nothing
The.i.stant Mr. Trumbull ceased speak
ing, Governor Morton moved TO go into
executive session, Mr.. Trumbull objected,
az it had been agreed to take the vote TO-
day on the pending Reconstruction bill,
when Mr.. Fcsscnden told him that he
presumed he would make no objection if
lac knew the Importance of The executive
business The motion was then carried,
MIR. Salisbury alone voting in the mega
tive.
The news flew like wild6ro along the
corridors, penetrated the committee rooms,
and reached the House of Representa-
tivcs. Soon lots of excited men were
gathered in the halls surrounding the
Senate chamber, discussing the coup d'etat,
rs it was called, and the dispute between
the partisans of Congress and the Presi-
dent waxed high. The Presidents
friends expressed their qualification that
he was showing nerve, and the adherents
nf Congress insisted that the backbone OF
that body needed no stiiiening, and that
j, would soon be found who was the
str ngest. During this time prominent
Radicals of the House, including Messrs
Bingham. Boutwell,, Ashley and others,
Senators.
1t was suggested that the papers be at
',nee sent to the House, and the promise
made that that body would send over bill
of impeachment in less than forty eight
hours MIR. Fessenden came out calm and
talked quietly, but very decidedly, but
Scot, went back MI. Chandler came out
clustering and laughing noisily, and suid
it was all right now; they had got him
(thc President) to commit the overt act
His colleague, Mr.. Howard. came out with
tJ,a c.r,a salf soticf;ed smile vereathino his
countenance which spread over it when
the vote rejecting Governor Thomas was
announced. The habitues of the capitol
say that for years there has not been such
excitement as that of to-day.
Six O'Clock arrived. and the Senators
came ont by turns to the refcctory. and