Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-11
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THETMPEAoHmENT FAEiluRE-RIrI.
7 E.EPs REPORT
The report of benjamin r Batter, for
the eOmmittee" Of managers engaged in
the investigation Of the corrupt means
alleged 10 have been used to influence
the determination Of the Senate upon the
articles Of impeachment, has been subs
mitted to the House Of Representatives,
II is complete in nothing, says the Balti-
more Syn, eKceptits ridiculous failure to
show that either of the Senator'S who voted
for the aequittal Of the President had
been corruptly Influenced in bringing
about that result Mr. Butler, having
worked out in his own brain a certain
theory Of criminality, has consumed a
vast deal Of time and labor in3pihng up
an amount Of trash and chat which de-
velOp nothing except the partisan pur-
poses and passions Of those engaged in
it Considering that the examination was
entirely one-sided, and that the minority
was not allowed single representative
upon the committee, it is wonderful that
Mr.. Butler with all his ingenuity and
practice as a criminal lawyer, has not
been able to make a more plausible show
than this insuGeTably weak and
trashy report The seizure Of tell
egrams by the committee is adj
mitted, and briefly referred to as 'the
subject Of much useless and senseless
vituperation" The report charges that
on the day after the November election
in New York, there was a subscription
taken up among the employees of the New
York CustOmhOuse TO a paper which
originally read, "we, the undersigned,
gratuitously appropriate the sums set
opposite our names for the cause of our
country, and the words "and opposed to
the impeachment of President Johnson"
were added thereto by the Collector,
Henry A. Smythe.
The report also states that Gen. 7 w.
Eagan, formerly Collector Of Internal |
Revenue for the ninth district of New |
York, was at Wizards Hotel on day
between the 30th of March and the 81 of |
April, havingleft the President within an
hour, and then and there wrote down
the names of seven Republican Senators,
to-wit Messrs Fessenden, Trumbull,
Grimes, Henderson, Fowler, Ross and
Van Wrinkle, and no others, each Of
whom he declared w0uld vote for acquit-
tai, and bet hat that every one of them
would 30 vote He won the hat on the |
10th Of May, those Senator's so voting
This is most extraordinary predic-
ton, which Mr. Butler considers quite |
miraculous; though considering that
every politician in the country was en-
gagged in making cOnjectures OF what |
Republican Senators would vote for inns
parchment il is not SO marvellous that
here and there some Of the speculatiOns /
should tally with the result For our own
part, though we never exchanged a
single word with either of the Senators
named on the subject of impeachment, or
heard from them through any source
whatever in regard to it, we always
counted, with confidence, upon six OF |
them at least voting as they did--so we
are not surprised that others should have
Judged as correctly as ourselves in the |
matter Another piece Of testimony is
that of James F Legate, special agent
Of the Postoihce Department in Kansas,
who is alleged to have been associated |
with Mr. Gaylord, the brotherein law Of |
Senator Pomeroy, in approaching Colonel
Cooper, to sell Pomeroy's vote the theory |
being that his vote must be secured to
Justify the vote Of his colleague, Senator
Ross The design of his statements is
to relieve Mr. Pomeroy, but the COM
mittee are constrained to say Of him, "if
any considerable portion of his testimony
is worthy IF credit
The most obvious criticism on Mr. lie
gates credibility is that he was parhcPs
in a corrupt enterprise, and, upon his own
showing, a willing one So the COM
mittee seek to corrOborate his testimony
by that Of other witnesses. Legate was
appointed mail agent" in Kansas at the |
very earnest request Of Senator Fomeroy,
and Col Cooper testifes that lac proposed
to sell Pomeroys vote la order to cast
doubts upon the conduct Of Senator Ross,
Mr. Butler says
1t also appears that the closest inti-
macy and family relations have existed
and still exist between Fuller and Ross,
Fuller is the son -in-law of the person
where Senator Ross lodges, and that
Senator Ross was visited by Fuller on the
evening before the vote was taken on the
eleventh article, etc
This is a fair sample of the feathers
light as air upon which MIR Butler
throughout this report, seeks to damage
and destroy the character Of Republican
Senators voting for acquittal Mr. Fuller
is an old friend of MIR Ross, who aided
his election, aud that is foundation
enough for the pillar of trash that
Butler seeks to build up upon it.
1t is also alleged that $500 were
raised in the Baltimore cgstom~bouse
and 5000 in Philadelphia for the al
legged purpose OF paying the president
counsel which is certainly 40 great
crime Woolley and his mysterious tel
egrams are again resurrected, and an at
tempt made to show that Woolley and
his dinners had something 10 do with
Senator Henderson, asserted change Of
mind in regard to has vote One General
A. w. Adams is alleged to have called on
Mr. Smythe and Mr. Weed in New York,
with the proposition tc sell the votes OF
three Senators for $4,000, although