The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-25

remavsl Of Stanton, and the integrity Of hi
motives in making the removal.
As all the articles, with the exception o
the ninth and tenth, are, in substance, thu
same as the aarst the President, with the ex
| ception noted, makes general denial o
them. The answer to the ninth article de
MES Offering to General Emory any induce
ment to disobey any law. The answer &c
the tenth article alleges that the speecnes
therein referred 20 were not correc'iy fe
ported.
The case is, in fact, if decency ana com
mon sense rule the trial. covered by the first
article and the answer thereto. 1t will be
seen that the president has four points o.
1 defence, the establishment of either of which
| should secure his acquittal. 1t is doubtful
if the maintenance of all of them will do sc
before the packed and perjured jury BY
whom he is to be tried.
On Tuesday, the oath, the radical man
ayers made their replication, which simply
reasserts their former declaration. The court
then adjourned to next Monday.
The trial is mockery, and will damn its
authors to eternal infamy. 1t is political
trial. Andrew johnson is guilty of no high
crimes and misdemeanors. He is only gull
ty of adhering to the constitution and oppos
ing the dangerous usurpations of the radi
cal party. The atrociously reckless spirit il
which he is prosecuted is .contemupous O
justice and decency. He is not even treat
ed as fairly as the most notorious criminals
whose guilt is evident, but who are suffered
to take their chaces before the tribunals and
jury of their countrymen, without any at
tempt publicly to PREJUDICE the case. Tha
it is mock trial, in which the perjured jury
men have already condemned him, unheard
and with no regard to law, is evident in ev
cry step of the farce. Read the following
incident which shows the animus Of the
whole affair. A few days ago, Congressman
Eggleston, of Cincinnati, was home on Wis
it and made speech to the RAIDS of Cincin
natl, containing the following infamous sen
timents and shameless declarations:
GAN that have to say to you is that, whethe
the people of Cincinnati like it or not, Andy
johnson win be on his way to Tennessee befor'
the month of April closes. (Great cheers.) And
when you are .old that there are wesk-kneet
men in congress that will not sustain this course
when you are told that there weak kneed sen
ators who will not stand up to the public de
msnds, don't believe it, but take my word for i
that we have him the lightning train, and will
his baggage checked, and through ticket, anC
he is going. (Cheers.)'
That is exactly the spirit in which An
drew johnson is being tried. 1t is an ad
mission that his judges are perjured villains
who had made up their minds to convict, nj
matter what the trial might develop. 1t Ii
simply question of politics, not of law
is one of Office and spoils, not of justice
honor or right. The RAIDS admit that the,
have acted imprudently, hastily and withou
sufficient grounds-but the question witt
them is, whether it will injure their part
more to stop where they are or go forwar'
in their iniquity. The merits of the cas-
| have nothing whatever to do with it.