The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-04
Special Correspondence of Baltimore Gazette.
The Impeachment-The Senate-The
Radical Scheme-The Probable Re.

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The Impeachment-The Senate-The
Radical Scheme-The Probable Re.
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WASHINGTON, March 2, 1863.
The party lash is being freely used by
the impeachers to secure safe passage of
their measure through the High Court of
impeachment" alias the Radical Senate
of the United States. The leading spirits
in this assault upon the executive depart
ment of the Government laugh at the sug-
gestions that senator's when sworn as
Judges will not be senators still, so far as
their votes in sustaining impeachment may
be concerned. They talk of the impossi-
bility Of leopard changing his spots, or
an Ethiopian his skin, and say it is equally
unreasonable to expect that Radical
senator will change his views as to the
moral obligations of an oath simply be-
cause he votes as member Of court in
stead of member of the Senate. There
many conservative men are relying too
confidently on the fact that senator's are to
be sworn" to try the issue according
to the law and the facts. Have they
not been under the constant obligation OF
an oath to obey, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States !; and
yet, have they ever hesitated to sct out
side of and in direct violation of that Con-
stitution if party interests required it 7
Nevertheless, it is generally believed in
well-informed circles here that there are
eight leading Republican senators who will
prove too much the Roman to be thus used
for base party purposes. These eight sem
ators are Fessenden, Anthony, Wiley,
Van Wrinkle, Trumbull, Frefinghuysen,
Grimes, and Pomeroy-which, together
sufficient vote to defeat the impeachment
of the President. Should these stand firm
as barrier against the successful progress
Of the impeachment movement, there may
be several others who will prefer making
q similar record for the future histo-
rian. Hence we have prevailing i'm
preston among the conservative men
that the whole project of the impeach-
ment Of the President will end pretty
much as did the prosecution against Gene
raj Lorenzo Thomas. The impeachment
prosecution will be on a larger theatre
only what Thomas's was on smaller one,
and Thad. Stevens, with his associate pro-
secutors, may be dismissed from the High
Court of Impeachment with as little cere-
mony as General Thomas was put out OF
court by Judge Cartier. The testimony
Of General Thomas is being relied on by
the Radical managers to sustain the charges
Of conspiracy to seize by force the War
Department; but when this testimony
comes to be published as given before the
Impeachment Committee the honest
masses of the people will surely be dis
gusted with the whole thing. In the mean
time the party leaders have been profuse
in the abuse of the man they found they
could not exactly use to suit their purposes.
But do the Radical leaders care, or ex-
pect, to prove the President guilty. of the
charges contained in the articles Of i'm
peachment? This question was. frankly
answered by General N. P. Banks, one OF
the impeachers, who assured your CORE
spondent that, so far as the particu cular
charges were concerned, the President
could not be, found guilty; adding, at the
same time, that the Senate, approaching
the Importance of removing Mr.. johnson
for the general good Of the country, would
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and that in doing this, senator's a0ere notre-
spoasiblejto any one for the uotes they gaue'
Such is the Radical expectation in Con
gress. It's anticipated BY Stevens, Bing-
ham, and others, that they have only to
offer the pretext, and their friends In the
Senate will take care of the rest. No re-
lance is placed by them in, the puerile
verbosity put forth in the shape OF = ar
ticles ofimpeachment." They are merely
the aimsy pretext, under which it is anti
cipated the Senate will seek protection,
and the sentiments expressed by Genera
Banks are those generally entertained by
the Radical repolutionists
The resultof all this is o difference fopin:
ion here as to the probabilities of convict.
ing President ohnson- difference whict
extends through all circles Of society
Thoseswho believe the Senate can be pros
tituted to base purposes, and that sena
tors, sitting as aacourt of impeachment
can find Nr.. johnson guilty, in order T
deprive him of the power TO do harm, tax
the affirmative of the proposition bu
those who yet believe there Is yirtue Il
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