Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-05-15
From Washington City.


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an end yesterday. The Senate now goes
into consultation on the case, and before
this gets into print. the result will be
known throughout the country. If the
President is acquitted, there will be no
war; if he is found guilty, as charged,
there will be no CONFUSION. How little
faith our Democratic friends must have In
the stability Of our Government to believe
that war will be inaugurated If the Con-
gress, in strict obedience TO the PROVISIONS
Of the Constitution, should find . Presi-
dent guilty Of high crimes and INSIDE
meanorsl Ii is very true that when steps
we're FIRST taken in the impeachme q move.
ment, the President received offers Of arm.
cd assistance II he should be deposod, but
oil that was "fuss and feathers" from cor
tain fighters Of the Don Quixote pcrsua-
sion. / will venture TO guess that every
one OF those same Democratic fighters in
franklin County were Of the number Of
those whose only trophies of war we're OBJ
tanned In opposing volunteering in the
iutt Wuft Huu III thltut1 w uknt ~
should be enforced. These are they who
opposed any appropriation for encoursg-
ing volunteering, but who. when the draft
came, made most lavish expenditures from
the County funds to save themselves and
their friends from the draft. Under that
unjust an& uppatriotic but Democratic
football tho peoples necks are now held,
and the labor Of their hands made 10 pay
tribute TO such left.handed patriotism.
the way is so plain. The arguments 10
the case were closed yesterday by Mr..
Bingham for the people. had the good
fortune 10 hear the close of this speech.
The entire speech occupied nearly three
days. Ile spoke two hours yesterday.
The effort entities Mr.. Bingham TO rank
with the ablest orators Of the day. His
voice Is clear, his enunciations distinct
and his gestures graceful. But above the
manner was the matter. This speech Of
oil the others will be the most demanded
for popular reading. With II NIL there
was such an earnest plea for liberty, aud
for saving to loyalty the triumphs Of the
war, that the crowded gallery was undis
turbed by even . whisper during the de-
livery OF this unsurpassed price OF oratory;
aud with 30 many soldiers and sufferers on
account OF the rebellion present, IL IL not
much wonder that whom Mr.. bingham
closed, they forgot all proprietiss, and
clappcd hands, and cheored, and waved
handkerchiefs. OF course that was an Of
fence, and the Chief Justice, waking up
for once, ordered the galleries cleared
Forgetting that IL would require some
minutes for the galleries TO be cleared
even If the house was on fire, he grew ex-
cited, and exhibited some petulance at
tho delay when Grimes OF Iowa, moved
that the order be enforced. 1t was car
ried, but the people were getting, and 9TH
erwso yamosing, as fast as possible. Some
of, the ladies went singing "Old Father
Grimes, that good old man." &c. While
all admit the improperly Of cheering, and
the propriety of clearing the galleries, yet
very few see why there was any particu.
larly necessity for anybody getting worse
excited than the happy folks in the gal
llery, who were 7savlng as fast as they
could aud in the most perfect good hu-
NOR.
copy a reference of Mr.. Bingham TO
"liberty Of Speech in reply to Eyart's
charge that the accusation against the Pres
ident for his SANDERS against Congress
was to abridge his liberty Of speech;
II believe in the freedom of speech
the liberty which respects the rights Of
the nations and the rights OF individuals.
1t is called that virtuous liberty-a day
an hour Of which is worth whole eter-
nifty of bondage. That is your American
constitutio nal liberty, the liberty in de-
fence Of which the poblest and best Of our
race--men Of whom the world was not
worthy-suffered hunger and thirst, cold
and nakedness, the jeer Of hate, the frown
of power, the gloom Of the dungeon, the
torture Of the wheel, the agony Of the
faggot, the ignominy of the scaifold and
cross. aud by their living and their dying
glorfed human nature and attestcd its
claim to Immortality. | stand, Senators,
for that liberty; but | stand against that
sedition which would disturb the peace Of
nations, and disturb the repose Of men in
their graves"
During Mr.. Bingham's closing hour he
made reference to the hero of the century
(meaning Grant, and the sacrifices aud
triumphs Of our armies under that hero
TO secure the liberties now attempted 10
be turned over to tho conquered. Charac-
.eristic of Grant, he had come in the gal.
lery as private citizen, and saw him
sitting on the floor in one Of the aisles,
CROW ded, but much interested in the
speech, aGd perhaps in the eulogies on the
ahoro Of the century" Of whose presence
the orator was utterly unconscious. lie
paid the penalty of his niCdesty BY hay'
ing to share with all Of Us in tho clearing
of the galleries. Good for him.
Every body is glad that tho end Of the
long trial is close at hand, as everybody
feels that the country needs the benefit Of
some legislation that should have been at.
tended to long ago. BE the verdict what
it may, the people will acquiesce, as no
one will claim that the trial has not been
legal and the attention OF the Senate all
that il could be. j. IL. q.
The Logansport Pharos says: "In the
Wayne District, where Julian is again
nominated, there is general bolt. Col.
Parquhar's friends refused to 90 into con-
vention." This is news to those who live