The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-06-10
The Impeachment Failure,

The Impeachment Failure,
The following is strange language fo
lHarper's Weekly. What doestit mean?
The tone of'the New York Tribune du
ring the last days Of the impeachment tria
was insulting to every honorable American
Apparently smitten with terror lest TIL
honest verdict Of the Senate should no
agree with its own wishes, it cracked thu
party whip in the most insolent and intol
cradle manner, denouncing in advance eve
ry Republican Senator who might vote, il
obedience to his convictions, to acquit The
President, as infamous" and the same
as Andrew Johnson" It said:
| Here the Weekly copies an extract
from the Tribune, declaring that the alter
natiyeis impeachment or infamy
According to this extraordinary out
burst, the whole trial has been o ridiculous
farce, for the Senate had already accused
| tried and convicted the President. This
precious logic declares that if it be wise
for the legislature in free country to diff
| fer with the Executive and to argue agains,
his policy, therefore it just to punish
him. TIA President has not a majority in
the Senate, put him out. Every honorable
and sensible Republican hangs his head to
think that this folly appears in asleadine
journal OF the party whose supremacy he
considers essential to the national welfare
The great service which the Tribune for
merry rendered to the good cause will be
always gratefully remembered But since
its principles have been in power, with all
its experience and ability, its total want Of
ordinary judgment has constantly alienated
from it The sympathy Of very many Of the
most faithful and rejecting of the Republi-
cans. During the whole impeachment
trial nothing could have been more DANA
ging TO the party and to the cause than the
course Of the Tribune. It has done all it
coulddo to make it difficult even for Sena-
tors, who thought that the President
ought to be removed, to vote for his reno
val. 1t has screamed at them as if they
did not understand both what principle
demanded, and what was true party policy.
Soon after the trial began the Tribune
announced, in the most imposing manner
that Gen. Grant thought necessary for
the peace ofthe country that the President
should be removed and it added, "When
the General of our armies entertains this
conviction, there is no room for doubt as
to the duty Of the Senate" There was
never more outrageous sentence publish
ed in this country. The Senate, according
to the Tribune, is to register the will of
the General. At least that might not be
enough, as the trial drew to an end, it in
sisted that Mr.. Eyarts had dissolved his
connection with the Republican party be-
cause he he had defended the President.
spoke OF Senator Grimes as i indignant
and yindictiye," because he insisted that
order should be preserved in the galleries
ofthe Senate, and described him as "cow-
ering into his seat,' when he was Kissed
for his very proper effort. It said that
. Senator Trumbull, painfully conscious Of
a little brief authority" renewed the mo-
ton. These eminent Republicans were
assailed with ribald insult because it was
supposed that they would vote against the
wishes of the Tribune. It very plainly IN
sinuated that Republican Senators who
should vote for the acquittal would have
been bought with money, and would be
worthy to rank with Benedict Arnold, aud
then endeayored to excuse itself by saying
that such reports were "in the mouths Of
ell men," The Brooklyn Union, a stanch
paper, we'll expressed the feel.
ing of all good citizens in saying. "The
absardity of the Tribune's article ofthis
is only equaled by its atrocity
and that is unparalleled in Northern polit-
ical journalism, or in civilized journalism
anywhere"