The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-05-13
The National InteIligeneer ON
the tsChlef Manager.O


The old National IatelhgAoer. perhaps
better known than any paper in America
has no very high opinion Of the "Chie
ConspiiatOr's' speech in closing impeach
ment:
That speech like that Of Mr.. Bingham
| full OF defamation, not really addressed tC
the Senate, and intended to reach them on.
| IL by its effect in the first instance upon
packed audience, that which should have
been brought to an end. is matter of public
c0ngratulation, even though followed by the
applause of these appointed cldquers, male
and female. The general public are not
aware how this ticket system has been
worked. They know that they were them
selves excluded, but they have not consid-
cred, probable, that the effect was to pack
the galleries with Radicals in the propror>
ton of three or four to one. During Mr.
Bingham's speech even this was not deem
ed sufficient, and by one hocus poc'ss or an
other, the same tickets have been made to
serve the purpose of introducing two or
three Radicals for each ticket. In this way
the galleries have been filled by set of par
tisans ready at the proper time TO applaud
sentiments and demagogue appeals at which
every fair-dealiug mind revolts. 1t il well
that the people of the country should un-
derstand this whole business. First came
the impeachment, borne in haste of party
malice, put through the House of Repre-
sentstives under pressure, without oppor-
tunity for fair debate. Managers are Sc
lected, some with characters repugnant to
Christendom, and pronounced by each 9TH
er to be wanting in integrity. Butler, OF
all others, is to champion decency, and de-
mand Judgment against the President. -
Then comes pressure upon the Senate,
menaced by the leading and most Influential
manager both in the House and to the Sen
ate in person, and style of bullying by Mr..
Butler that whould have characterized the
lowest police court in New York. Daily
insults AMI impertinence to the members of
the Court, the Chief justice, and to the
Presidents counsel, are kept up, and the
latter only ended Yesterday with the end of
Mr.. Bingham address.
But this is only part, even, of what meets
the eye. There have been continual threats
by the Radical press in order to prevent the
Senate from acting jadiciousy. and to
alarm them into the commission of perjury.
Senators have been beset by Radical carpet
baggers, and report says approached by al
ternate bribes and threats to vote for con-
viction. The main part of the game, how.
ever, has been to carry impeachment thro'
by hurrah-a sort of mob or town-meet-
ing proceeding. individuals of both sexes
were at hand ready to supply the demand,
and on yesterday they displayed themselves
10 the Senate.
Dir. Binghams references to Mr.. Evarts
have been of a nature to provoke part Of
this onslaught of malgnity He began
with an undigei6ed comment upon the time
consumed by Mr.. Evarts, and remarked
that he had endeavored to ''make his
speech immortal by making it eternal"
After this elegant allusion, he proceeded to
lnAict hasngue of nearly three days, re-
deemed neither by logic nor propriety, and
remarkable only for its length and turgid
rhetoric. Nor was Mr.. Bingham allusion
to the Presidents counsel appearing for
pay very proper remark under any cir
cumstances, and especially if it be true, as
alleged, that he declared, when impeach-
ment was limited at few months since,
that it the President would give him 500
900 he would resign his place, and defend
him. Such was then his idea of profess
ional and political duty, and such his mod
est valuation OF the trash which makes up
the woot Of his speeches.