Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-29
impeachment was worse than blunder-a
wretched and fatal crime.
From tbs Boston Pos:-Democratic ]

CONSERVATIVE SENTIMENT.
From tbs Boston nPost-Democratic.l
Thus far this game Of impeachment
is brought to nOught by the upright
and conscientious action of the few
men in the Senate who hold their country
ut a far higher worth than their party
Justice is established firmly in her seat, and
judgment has not fallen in the streets. Our
country is not yet byword of reproach
abroad, because handful Of wicked men
may suppress one branch of the government
at pleasure, depose the Executive for
party reasons, override law with military
force, and consolidate in their own hands
the powers which were intended for use
only in distribution. We may hold our
heads, since we have been spared the dis
grace which these seditious plotters had
prepared for our endurance. The country
cannot thank those republican Senators
enough who remained true to their solemn
oaths and refused to outrage their con-
sciences. AS it looks back to this critical
period, it will realize more and more Wv
idly what perils it had escaped. The pro-
liabilities that went with the removal of
the President will startle us more and more
with their momentous magnitude. With
the entire government in the hands of
these confessed revolutionists, outside of
the constitution, fouting every sacred OBJ
legation of justice and every obstruction of
established law, invading the States, dis
franchising the intelligent portion of the
populations, rulinga whole section through
secret party machinery acting On the ig
nOrance of i-barbarism, corrupt, ex-
travagant and reckless in expenditure,
feasting and fattening themselves on the
general revenue-what a fate have we all
boS, Ill a ~ Loo
to rise in concert against this band of Jac-
obins, by the deliberate vote of the hand
ful Of republican Senators whom neither
their menaces nor their abuse could shake!
[From the Albany Argus-Democratic.1
Let this hell broth boil and bubble a
while longer. We shall see if those who
have dabbled in it will reap anything but
delusion and despair What chapter for
history! What theme for the satirist !!
Cataline rebuking rapine, and Cethegus
sedition, pale before brazen, laundering
Butler, exposed but now for secret compli-
city with rebels, supplying them with
stores, &C.; Ashley. broker in perjury; the
judicial murderer Bingham; Logan of the
mock jewelry, and the malignant Stevens,
arraigning the President for the most in
nocent act Of his life.
The trial has been so managed that the
Judgment of the Senate falls upon Wade,
upon Stanton, and upon Grant, who obtru-
ded himself into the controversy only to
encounter the shame ard disgrace.
We rejoice that the country has escaped
the stain which the success of this conspi-
racy would cast upon its history. We re-
joice that this trial, instead of being pre-
cedent of abuse for years and provoca-
ton to retaliation, will now stand as a
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graced promoters point the moral for mis-
guided ambition for an age to come.
[From the Philadelphia Age--Democratic]
We hail the signal triumph of the right
in no spirit Of party exultation. 1t is full
our country and her institutions. Let it
strengthen every mans faith to put his
trust in truth and justice, against which
1.-The gates of hell shall not prevail
From the Washington Intelligencer-D Democratic
The votes of the Senators who secured
this result will be cherished with affection
and veneration when the intelligence and
virtue of the country shall scrutinize theil
service which they have rendered in the
hour of the gravest peril. Fessenden
Grimes, Trumbull, Henderson, Van Wrinkle
Ross and Fowler deserve the public graft
tude for their manly independence anC
self-sacrifcing devotion to duty in pres
ence of difficulties and temptations such al
rarely confronted public men. They can
not be too highly honored or too mucl
commended for their courage, their fidelit,
to honest convictions and their noble stanc
against arrogant party dictation. Wha
political reward could compensate the los
of that proud consciousness Of right whicl
these Senators now enjoy, sustained as the.
are by the appreciation of the calm judg
ment of the nation ?
| Judge T'rumbuIl
Concerning the late action of the abov
eminent jurist, the Chicago Tribune (rep.
has the following:
The gentlemen who demanded that Jud1
Trumbull should vote for conviction, whether
believed johnson guilty or not. onght rather
do has judicial duty as he understands t-one VIII
has the high courage and manliness to go MfOug
the Red Sea Of 0Ol0quy and odiu4n for cOnsctenC
sake. Whether they will find another after he
, crucitted may well be doubted. One thing is Gel
tain, the republican party not only cannot carr
the next Presidential election on a verdict obtain
ed by and terrorism, but it cannot carr
an election at any future time with such record
Let it be well understood by the people that tn
republican party demand the conviction of Ar
drew Johnson, right or tcr0ng, E1 or mass, an
there eoM be the deUH to poy and no pitch hot =
Why, ask, did not gentlemen make their III
conditional demand upon the Senate before Ser
ators had declared their vieWs OF the case? Wh
did they preach about an impartial trial before
hand? Why did they fool each other with tn
idea that the impeachment was trial? Why di
they not declare then that the trial intende
to be a farce, fraud and lie, instead of waitin
until now? Why did they not pass resoiutio
} before hand like this: ResolUed, That Andre
Johnson must be convicted, whether guilty c
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