The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-06-11
Editorial Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, d. c..
May 81, 1868.
DEAR COURIER

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May 81, 1868.
DEAR COURIER:
The past week OF
my visit to the Federal Capitol, being
the first for two years, has not been
without a series of exciting events
OF national Importance, ofmuch more
than ordinary interest to the Amcri-
can people. First came the vote in
the Senate on the second and third
articles Of impeachment, which oc--
Cured on the Goth inst, and on which
jealous, and ! might add gullible Re
pnblicans, had hoped, almost against
all hope, and the evidences of their
better judgment, that at least one or
two Of the recreant Senators stung
to the quick by the merciless castiga-
tions of their outraged, and indignant
constituents, and the action of the
Chicago Convention, might hedge in
their regulations, and vote guilty
This hope and the great desire to wit
ness the closing scenes in this nation
al drama so soon to terminatcin in such
a disgusting farce filed the Senate
galleries at an early hour to their ut
most capacity, with the supposed to
be elite of the nation.
The interest reached its culmina-
ting point, when Chief Justice Chase
clothed in the regal robes ofhis judi
cial Office, standing in his, place, with
his peculiarly rich and impressive
voice, had reached the R'sin tho list
ofSenators, and put the usual inter
rogatory "what say you Senator
Ross ? Is the respondent, Andrew
johnson, President of the United
States, guilty, OF not guilty, of high
crimes and misdemeanors as charged
in this article andwhen the weazen
faced, !illiputian Senator from Kan
sas, upon whom the eyes of tho i'm
inense audience were Immediately
concentrated, with painful intensity,
arose in his place, with a sheepish,
hang-dog appearance, and answered
anot guilty the curtain dropped on
impeachment forever and it became
a thing of the past and had "gone
glimmering through the dream OF
things that were, a school boys tale,
the wonder Of an hour" for he made
the sixth Of the Republican Senators
who had repeated their trcachery,
and there only remained the name of
Van Wrinkle at the bottom of tic al
phabet, an obstinate old pig-headed
man who expects to go to Trumbull
when he dies, and about whose con
tinuation in wrong doing, when once
started in that direction, there seem
cd to be no good reason to doubt, and
whose final vote of "not guilty" when
his vote was reached, fully justified
the confidence with which he was re-
lied on by his army of new found con
federatc friends.
The general opinion here is that
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Grimes, Fessenden, and Trumbull, are
above the suspicion of corruption and
beyond the need ofmoney, and there
fore not governed by such considers
ations, but that they voted against
impeachment, and against the unan-
imous instructions of the press, and
people of the party that made them
on account of their intense personal
antipathy to their rival Ben Wade
and the jealousies, animosities, &c.
that rage with such intense fury ir
the breasts of disappointed Presiden
tial office seekers. OF Henderson
Fowler, and Van Wrinkle, there are q
greater diversity Of opinions; of Ross
have heard but one opinion express
ed. and that is that he was bought
up, body and soul, by the most dam
nable corruptring of democratic whis
ky and internal revenue thieves, that
ever disgraeed mankind, in this OF
any other country. This man Ros,
is the accident of an accident, having
been lifted out Of his native obscnrity
in Kansas, by an appointment from
Gov. Crawford to fill out the unex
pired term of Jim Lane, who had for
tunately for the country, and himself
enough sense left to go and blow ou
his brains, after having become TIN
obsequious tool of Andrew Johnson
Senator Ross has lived at Washing
ton. at the house of one OF Vinni,
Ream, notorious and irresistabl,
LOBBYIST and sculptress, who managed
to diddle the Congress of the United
States out of ten thousand dollars las
session for statue of Lincoln, bu
which tits generally understood here
| is being made by Clark Mills son.
This Winnie Roam is the sister-in-lay
ofons Perry Fuller the Imperial Kin,
OF the Indian Ring, who has made al
| immense fortune out of his Indial
trading agency business, and, who j
is we'll known has run all the admin
istrations OF Indian affairs for man,
| years, with the exception Of Mr.. Han
Ian. He is moreover violent Cop
perhcad. This gushing maiden
well known here as the next bes
friend Of Dan Voorhees,, of indiana
|. who is retained in Washington b
, the democratic Internal Revenue an
whisky ring swindiers, at the prince
~ annual salary Of ten thousand do
lars. When it is added that the cont,
,, macious Wooley, who acknowledge
the organization Of q monetary rim
to purchase Senator'S, and which EN-
braced in its numbers Thurlow Wee,
Collector Smythe, the Presidents pr
!. vate secretarics. and other Conse