The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-18
Impeachment Proceedings.


nents of the Government, and having drawn
III the powers Of the three coordinate branch.
IS to themselves, establish themselves perma
nently in power, in defiance of the voice Of
The Northern people, expressed SO recently at
The polls, against their destructive policy
Those sanguine persons who so fondly relied
upon the decency and conservatism Of Sena-
tors, sworn as jurors to try the Impeachment
Of the President, must have been sadly disap-
pointed by the proceedings Of that body on
Friday last. On that day the President was
summoned to appear before the bar of tho
Senate, to answer the charges preferred against
him by the House Of Representatives. In
obediepce to this command, the President, by
his counsel, Messrs. staphery, Curtis and Mel
son, entered his appearance and demanded
the very reasonable time of forty days to pre-
pare his answer and defence, to the numerous
charges brought against him. This demand
was of course resisted by the blood-hounds,
who are termed the I" managers Of Impeach-
ment, on the part of the House of Represen-
tatives," and the " high court Of Impeach-
ment, after retiring for consultation, "a thing
as far as we are informed, unheard Of in any
court here or in England,) entered the fol
lowing laconic order:
" Ordered, That the respondent answer to
the articles Of Impeachment, on or before
Monday, the 23rd day of March, instant y
So that the President is required in the greats
est State trial the world has ever seen, to pre-
pare his defence, which will most probably
require the attendance Of numerous witnesses,
from all parts of the country, in tan days, just
half the time the Legislature Of Virginia
thought it necessary to give the debtor, on a
notice to collect the interest on debt Of 500,
barred by the stay law.
captured Property. Once upon a
time President Jefferson Davis, of the Con-
federate States, determined to rid the service
Of an incubus, called Col. Myers, @. NJ. Genl.
Congress said he shouldn't, and made the @.
NJ. General Brigadier. Davis declined to
commission Col. Myers Brigadicr and apppint-
ed Brigadier- General Lawton, @. NJ. General.
Mr.. Davis was also guilty of other offences
against this high and mighty body. He spoke
often in public and did not mince bis words.
Impeachment" Removal" 'Lee, for Die
tater," was the talk then, in that immaculate
body, and outside too. It was rare time for
talk and buster, but the Army, the people and
General Lee, believed in and trusted Davis,
rather than body, whose only merit now is
that it wasn't quite as corrupt and mean as
the U. S. Congress" The same arguments
were used then against Davis that are now
used against johnson, but Davis had nerve;
He ruled till al was lost. To read the Radi=
cal papers takes ono back to liwar times" and
for the edifcation of the "lpyal North" VIC
suggest reference to the Richmond papers Of
that era. Certainly "extremes meet" when a
"Yankee" Radical Congress adopts the dis
carded policy of johnny Rebs' forty thieves
against their own chosen Chief. "Who'd q
thought it, Andy, who'd thought it?'
The POINT STRONGLY PUT.-Mr Swain,
one of the founders of the Philadelphia Led
ger, died recently. The following anecdote
shows that he knew how to manage news
paper, and we hope great many people in
this part Of the world will read it and profit by
it: 8 t4e
sBusiness is business, and nothing should
interfere with it, was another Of his business
principles. Consequently he would take moth.
ing off the price OF an advertisement ON the
score of friendship or beHeyolence, or any 9th
or of the ten thousand petty excuses made to
nip the printer A gentleman once called
upon him with an advertisement. of benefit
for poor widow with several helpless child
rem. How much for the advertisement, qH-
der the circumstances 2 said he. Just what
it comes to- said Mr.. s.; business is business.
sir charity is another question But to a
poor widow, sir, every dollar saved is a matter
Of serious moment to her family Business
is business, repeat sir. What 7 choose to
give in charity is my own private affair. My
business has nothing to do with it. Then
you will take no less? Not a cent, SIR
The gentleman paid the bill very reluctantly,
amounting to, perhaps, two dollars, and was
going out of the Office rejecting rather severe
" in his own mind upon the parsimony Of
Mr.. s., when the latter stopped him. DO you
know this woman Is she honest and deser-
wing? She is, SIR Mr.. S. then slipped a
ten dollar bill into the gentleman's hand"
A P1rY.-Andy johnson, more's the pity,
never had chance to read NJ. Du Chaillu's
description Of the largest sized African, called
the Gorilla, or he would have held steadier
hand when he first attacked that portion Of
the tribe, who now inhabittRe Capitol at " ash
ington. The habits of the animal, in his
native Jungles are thus described, and his
nature has not been changed by importation.
1.-The Gorilla" says NJ. pu CAaller, rare ex-
ceedingly feroeioas, generally attacking man
and animals iatTuding upon their haunts; if
wounded they are more terrible than the lion,
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