The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-04-12
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.

importance, the impeachment tflai gets
but brief mention at the hands OF the
reporters. We are left to make such
differences as our fancies may dictate +;
and may conclude, with an equal
amour. of reason for SO doing either
that tie trial itself is merely decent
form preceding the expression, by the
requisite two-thirds OF the Senate, of
q foregone conclusion against the Pres
iien. or that the nine days wonder
has ceased to attract attention and
evoke excitement. The whole country
is as we'll informed as to hat the Pres
ident is guilty of and is charged with
as the Senate itself, and it is natural
enough that Interest in the incidents of
tie trial should in great measure sub
side among people who are simply
waiting for the verdict. But we should
ike to have more complete knowl-
edge of VIA, is going on. There seems
TO be mystery surrounding the matter.
Some days passed during which the
fact that the President Of the United
States stands as prit a. the bar ofthe
Sanate seemed to kave been forgotten.
After this lapse in the current of infor
,n.tioa we get dozen lines or so from
Washington in which we are informed
that Mr. Butler examined two witnesses
and that Mr. Curtis talked awhile and
then, getting tired, stopped for breath |
aud go: leave from the Court 10 have |
:: - Continued in our next What are
We to conjecture Was the attack by
The Managers SO vigorous and well
directed as to silence all the Presidents |
gus at once? Ii would seem that so
t might have been. \ man charged !
win an ordinary uisdsmeanor against |
whom the proofs OF guilt were as plain
aad ineontrovertible as those against
tle President, would, a 5 general prac-
::ce. find himself convicted and SEN
-eaced. IN common magistrate court,
n isss than al hour. 1.-THE facts which
have been elected regarding the Presi-
dents infraction of the Tenure of Ofice
Aos proved as susceptible OF demon
st-ation to the Senate as they were to
ne people, we cannot imagine what
sort CT defense can be employed in his
1ehaif A simple story, brief aud EN-
brncing a relation OF transactions that
have taken place within less than sixty
DAYS and which is as incontrorertible
as that Stanton was suspended from
the War Office, was reinstated and then
served witt. notice TO quit by the
President, constitutes the gist of the !
case at bar and we cannot compre-
ieud how ii verdict in accordance with
Is ,urro-t can By any possibility be
withheld. &" To break the provisions
If thi. enactment " says the civil Ten
re law, with regard 10 itself, is a {
punishable &c" The I
resident boldly avowei that he had $
,olatei it. He assumed the right to =
10 SO for the purpose of making 80 test 5
ase." Butler is merely corroborating I
&c President svowal when be calls !
p other witnesses to prove that John I
On has broken the law in causing :.
heir removal from Office. No amount a
f argument can disprove that the n
resident did break the law, and we c
annot conceive of any logical basis n
,r an assumption that he was guiltless :
a misdemeanor in SO doing. And I
he other charges are as easily proyable
8 this one. So much for the material
u. OF which the case is made. Facts ;
, patent caunct be gainsaid. The only a
az out Of e verde. against the ac d
,sed is through some other course II
ian following the letter of the Con- 3
tuition and the law tina. has been Y
oxen The momeutous question a. a
EN- arises Will enough Senators d
,cuse the Presidents guilt to let him M
E? The all potent sway Of political