Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-15
Vermont Daily Transcript.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1868.
Opinions on Impeachment.

The New York Tribune says that the
acquittal ofJohnson is but the beginning
of the storm. Each acquittal has here
tofore only nerved him to commit acts
which more resolutely detied Congress
and the people, and invited punishment.
He will not fail to do the same hereaf-
ter Grimes, Fessenden, Henderson and
Trumbull must prepare to share the
blame of complete revolutionary sub
iugation of Congress to the President,
and notification and forcible resistance
of all the laws he has vetoed, and an
election of all the officers, including
Gen. Grant, who have incurred his dis
pleasure. Get down, noble Senators,
therefore, into the dust. Go at your
work of eating dirt as if you like it.
You will have too much of it to do, to
make any ado about it at the outset.
The New York Times asserts that "im-
parchment has failed, ii never was a Re-
publican measure, but only Il Radical
one, and Grimes, Fcssenden and Others
who were always among the ablest and
purest men of the country and who
have now shown themselves to be among
the bravest, will yet be found to have
saved the Republican party from des-
truction and will earn the gratitude of
the country at large"
The Boston Jourroi, whose Washing
ton correspondent has from the initial
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President would be convicted, in the
course of an article on the part effect of
acquittal, says: "But suppose the Presi-
dent, after all, is acquitted and acquit-
ted he must be, by Republican votes
what is going to happen to the Republic
can Party? Is any member going to
leave it on that account? Are its D1inci-
pies to be affected in the least degree?
We answer no 10 both questions and no
other answer is possible. Whence then
can any permanent harm ensue. No,
the Republican party was raised up for
great national purposes not yet entirely
fulfilled. 1t has its work to do, and it
will 90 right forward to its completion
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sits in the Presidential chair. Its fate
is not in the hands of any one even the
best and most popular, least of all in the
hands of detected renegade. Its life is
not wholly in Washington, but among
the free people of this Union, vast ma
jority of whom it includes and repre-
sents."
The New York Evening Post wants
the President acquitted, with "shdrp
cens,Te of his cOnduct
The Boston Traveller says 1t may be
urged that impeachment is party
measure, but is also something higher
than that-the welfare of the country
the salvation of our government, it may
be- depend upon it. And the Republi-
cans who vote against it will not only
act in opposition to their party, and sub
ject themselves to the censure which all
men who violate party usages are liable,
but they will put themselves in Opposi-
ton to the interests of the country, and
place themselves side by side in history
with the men who have turned traitors
to the government in other important
eras in our history.
1t is stated by Washington cores
pendent that Senator Wade is quite
confident that the President will be con-
victed. He was asked day or two ago
if his vote should be required, he would
give it, and then resign, so as to make
ColfaX President. His reply..was quick
"If had twenty votes I'd give them
all, and as for resigning, never thought
of such a thing of course l shan't.'
The country will have but a day OF
two longer to remain in doubt. The
Senate will according to present appear
ances, render verdict tomorrow.