The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-05-12
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RICHMOND. IND J. MAY 18th 1868.


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The Washington telegraphic CORES
pendent of the Enquirer is responsible
for the following report Of Mr. tEvarts'
speech:
The indictment made the impeachers
look wild when he reached the question:
els the Senate q Court?''
Manager Butler disappeared. 9th
or Managers looked like poor men on a
frolic
The speaker introduced the opening
paragraph Of Judge Spencer, acting
Manager in the impeachment of Nj.
Peck, which was a lbombshell. Mr..
Spencer said no party feeling entered
into the cohsideration-hes should scorn
himself If he could allow party, feeling
to influence him upon such an occasion,
Mr.. Evarts leaning forward, remarked,
Eyes scorn1himself' Mr. .Evarts con
tinued commenting on the argument of
Manager Butler, that the Senate was
not q Court. and stepping forward ex-
claimed, eff this is not Court it is a
scaffold. and you Senators are heads
men," A feeling Of awe ran through
the whole chamber and thrilled every
nearer. "Ah, Senators, you are told by
the Hon. Mr.. Butler, that you are not
bound to observe your judicial oaths
81 tell you," said Mr.. Eyarts. ''and I
tell you upon high authority, that thou
shalt not take the name Of the Lord thy
God in vain, for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless who taketh His name in
vain The effect of this quotation
can better be imagined than described.
A more solemn scene was never wit
messed in Court or Senate, and under its
influence the Senate adjourned.
We do not wonder that Manager But
Ter disappeared when the honorable
counsel converted the Senate Chamber
into stage; but when he reached the
point where he erected the Court into
scaffold, and appointed the Senators as
headsmen, he y should have had the
"Beast" brought in instantly and made
an example Of. A
The reference TO the Scriptures,
though perhaps little out of the coun-
sells line, must have had a telling effect,
as the Court instantly adjourned. Per-
haps if he had quoted from Shakespeare
such sentences as these: "Shake not
your CORY locks at me, thou canst lot
say that did it, or, Treason has
done its worst" or, better still, Lay on,
Mecduff, and id be he who first cries
Hold. enough" they doubtless would
have settled the matter for President
johnson, and been more pertinent to
the points Of law under discussion.
led Gin. Chronicle.
The action of Senator Yates, in max
ing public confession and renewed vows
of reform, has been criticised somewhat
harshly by many, journals as unbecom-
ing, and an evidence Of weakness and
lack of pride. But it can hardly be
looked at sincerely@in that way. The
leading weakness was that of only too
many men (who live in, or often visit
glass houses), and, if he was earnest, in
his late resolve, il was not-when we
remember the repeated references to
his habit in the Illinois, papers--either
especially weak or uniting that he
should make public answer and apollo
gy, both in justice to his constituents
and himself. Had he merely resigned
he would have retired to private life
with public stigma that no after Free
dom from the habit could have removed,
and this would, as he says, have been
unjust to his family and his own repu-
tation. Now, however, if he does his
public. duty and keeps his public pledge
(Which is private also }, he may not only
retrieve his unhappy personal record,
but make and keep a good public one.
There are many who have the weakness
of Senator Yates land they have good
James in the public mouth, who have
merely the certain strength that
holds them above the consequences of
such weakness.-Cin. Chron-