The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-21
Another Act in the Graud Drama, and
Probably the Last-The President
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ment, after having been badgered, en-
braced and squeezed as no mortals ever
were sefore-convened again on Satur.
day, at II. The faithful of the lower
House-failing to appear with the
promptness they were won't to do in
the earlier stages, were sent for, and
with slow funeral step soon made their
appearance. Hiram Ulysses had given
out word that he should decline to lead
the grotesque and fantastic band in the
coming campaign, unless they impeacp-
ed Andrew Johnson and got him ont OF
the way. This greatly heightened their
anxiety and fears. The scene of Hanan
and Mordecai, and the gallows, too, rose
up before them. But in the "Higher
Law" so fruitful of expedients, they
s,sn found a way, the Bible au-
tbority, "the last shall be first,
and the first last" to justify; and SO
determined to have the eleventh
last article put frs t, though contrary
to their previously established order
that the Articles should be put and Ho-
ted in the order which they stood IN
the bill of Impeachment, aud according
to uniform practice. But as the EleV-
enth and last contained all that was ma
terial in the previons articles, ana also
the additional matter, without whlch
Mr.. Stevens had assured them any coun-
ty court lawyer could upset the
case-they resolved to try this hrst;
and in case of failure TO beat n
retreat under cover of the smoke
as best they could. The Eleventh
Article was put, and on this the
President was acquitted, notwith-
standing Mr.. Wade, who was to become
the President in case of conviction, TO-
ted quiltv. A Nations thanks and graf
itude to the heroic nineteen, who In de-
fiance of such unparalleled pressure and
appliance, dared to be true to the Censtl-
tuition, their oath and their God.
But howlto retreat and still secure
Hiram Ulysses for their ieader-that
was the question with the faithful. One
moved to adjourn before the result of
the vote had been declared, but on re-
Election that the public was already in
possession of the vote, they concluded
to let the Chief Justice declare it, which
he did. 1t was then moved that they
adjourn to the Doth inst. 1t was object
ed that the order previously passed re-
quired that the vote should be then
taken on the other articles, and the
Chief Justice sustained the objection;
but the faithful took an appeal, over
ruled the Chief Justice, and adjourned
till the Doth inst; wherereHpOn the
House, accompanied by the Managers,
paced back to their quarters at the time
of the rOgue's Or dead mans march
which of the two the telegram omitted
to name-and then its Chairman, the re-
dOubtable Washburne, reported progress.
Soon after the faithful of both Houses ad
j9urned to Chicago, where the whole
distressed family is expected to be gath
cred, aud Hiram Ulysses is expected to
consent TO become their standard bear
er, upon all the faithful declaring, by
solemn adjuration, that the President
shall hereafter be convicted on some of
the ten remaining articles. So they
have got more wonders in store for us.
So we see the way this High Court of
InpeachmenU makes its decisions is no
less strange and wonderful than other
parts of their proceedings. This is in
deed day of wonders for plain Re-
publican people! but rather expensive,
when they pay the getters up $4,000
apiece for three or four months time
with travelling fees and incidentals,
which amount to at least as much
more, besides paying the immense cost
of the show.
One fact has been disclosed which has
for some time been suspected to exist ::
That the Methodist Episcopal Church
North is in secret league with the whole
proceedings, and that its share in the
spoils is to be the establishment of its
Church throughoutthe Southern States
in connection with the bogus political
reconstruction, ut the same time, and
by means of the same bayonets, and
when accomplished, is to be recognized
as the established Church of the nation.
To be satisfied of this, one has
only to read the proceedings of the Gen
eral Conference at Chicago the l4th
inst. and the use made of them by the
Radical press throughout the country,
including Apostle Greeley's and Dead
Duck" Forney's. That Conference is
represented to contain nine Bishops and
two hundred and forty-twO delegates,
and with a view to impress the country
with their importance, they claim to
represent 100000 American citizens,
anS to collect and distribute annually
to "various correctional and local OBJ
iects" SS,3ll ,662 l5-unanimouSly re-
solved in substance as follows: That,
."whereas the impeachment caseis pend
ing, and the pleddingS and erideRce hdriRg
been laid before the people, and being
deeply impressed that upon its righyat
decision will largely depend the safety
and prosperity of the Nation, 0S ,rett as
the religious pririleges Of our Ministers
and members in many parts Of the South,
and whereas painful rumors are in cir
culation that partly by unworthy Jeal-
Ousies and partly by corrupt influences
by mORey and Other1riSe most dctir6ty en-
plOyed, efforts are being made to intiu-
ence Senators improperly and to prevent
them from performing their high
duty" and therefore the Conference ap-
points an hour from nine to ten on
the 18th inst. to pray for the High Court
of Impeachment. At the same time the
irrepressible negroes assembled in WASH
ington in Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, echo the sentiments of the Chicago
Conference, without its guise and hy-
pocracy but in plain English, convict
Andy Johnson"
Notwithstanding the studied effort by
the Chicago Conference to conceal their
partisan purpose, and at the same time
throw their whole weight and influence
for the conviction of the President,
their purpose is sufficiently apparent;
and if there was any doubt on the face
of their proceedings, the immediate and
pointed use made of them by their con-
federates, the Radical press of the cOun-
try, withoat any rerbGl correction or erplG-
nation on the part Of the authors, confirms
it. 1t is another exhibition, though on
far greater scale, of the all-grasping
sectarian power, that recently by like
false and hypocritical pretences, di-
verted the money given for the purpose
of instructiDg our young farmers and
mechanics in knowledge OF agricul-
ture and the mechanic arts, to the sup