Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-06-27
genli- ateeklp Murld.
1yUynELL pH1LL1Ps IN A RAGE.


neaehment scheme in his own organ,
the New York Anti-Slauery Standard.
lie says: p ts< M
No matter what Mr.. Justice Chase
announces; thirty-five Senators out OF
fifty-four have pronounced President
johnson guilty. Poll the nation and
seven out of every ten say Amen to that
verdict. A technical rule of the Con-
stitution--requiring two-third vote
may save him his office; but the Judg
ment of the nation is recorded against
him as a criminal. Thus far he leaves
the tribunal set to try him free from
any punishment but infamy. The only
difference between this and conviction
is that convicted, he would have gone
forth bearing his disgrace alone. BY
this. which men call acquittal, he drags
half a dozen Senator's down with him
to infamy. Liberty knows nothing but
victories. Our whole success, for thir
tv wears past, has been fed by just such
defeats as this. The annexation of Tex
as. the compromise of 1860, Kansas
trampled in blood, Bull Run, the second
election of Lincoln, his murder; all these
seeming defeats were victories III dis
euise. The traitors who plotted these
successes" were the only men who
died by them. Polk, Seward, Pierce,
Webster, Clay and their fellow-conspir-
ators, all died by their own hands. In
the light Of such history we should read
this hour. Men who walked then proud
sco.n now hang their heads in the pity
or contempt of the world, and are OBJ
iects of the special hate Of the parties
they led To ruin. Poor Pierce and Bu'
chanan stood as vaiu-glorious and fiat
tered, Wanting their "consclences' rs
loudly in days gone by as TrumbulI
and Fessepden do to-day. One may
fancy those half-forgotten wrctches ris-
ing up from their living tomhs at Ian
caster and Concord TO cry out to these
fresh comrades, Are We, too, become
like unto us??a while MarShfcld and
Ashland, scorning such fellowship,
proudly claim that, if they fell. they at
least fell, before temptation OF "a more
decent level.
We care comparatively little for the
results Of this acquittal at the North.
K only intcnsIiics little the atoncmCut
We deservedly pay Tor our long comp.ic
ity with the slave power. \ little more
business prosuation, little more sui
fering by the laboring classes; and We
have all richly deserved hundred
times as much. But when we think #
the unsheltered heads Of Southern loyal.
ists, white and black; when We think
Of It's Pacha OF Assassins again let
loose: Of Andersonville rcopened: then.
putting Fcssenden and TrumbulI's name
side bv side with the Infamous ones If
Lee and Davis, and handing them down,
b!OOd-stained, to the bathing Of history.
we cannot but remember that those
Aych-fends Of Mississippi and Virginia
were angered to that horrible revenge
by the defeat of great revolution
which they had nursed for years. But
these. their mean allies from Maine aud
Illinois. steep the South in murder from
motives which make even treason nd.
Litionally contcmptiblc Wcbc@ pard-
on even Of Lee and DAVIS for associat-
ing such despicable crime with theirs.
We never supposed Fesscnden would
vote for Impeachment His associates
long ago charged him with such shame
less and greedy nepotism as shocked
even the corruption Of Washington:
prostituting his high place to crowd
hungry kinsmcn into Office. Whether
this be true or not we have 10 means
of knowing But the Senator whose
character was such that his comrades
could even 50 suspect him would, of
course, be wholly unable to stand the
pressure Of an hour like this. Such a
mans speeches are the last source we
should resort to for a measure Of his
motives We will read his argument
the moment any man will show W. the
slightest reason for supposng that il
had the least influence on his opinion.
We should always bear in mind that
the trcachcry of these two men is amp
ly sufficient to account for the Senatc'sI
action, without our condcscending tot
speculate as TO their comrades; men Of /
50 little repute that journalists discuss
the probability of their bpinp actually |