Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-05-30
END Of the IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
The President .4cquinsd ard The C0"Tt
Dissolved.
RETIREMENT OF MR.. STANTON


The Baltimore Sun of Wednesday
says. yesterday the grea, State trial OF mis-
country and OF this age came 10 cIose,
After taking votes on the second aau "i'u
articles, resulting in each case IN 'stdic'
of ,hr,y-fve for conviction and hihe'ee"
for acquliisl, the Senate, sitting a. cout'
Of impe achmeni, by vote OF lhi''y .!o"E
10 sxteen, adjourned size dte, anu me
whole monsrous procedure cane 10 an
abrupt and final end. As the lmpeacheFs
had on former occasion chosen 10 pass
over al, the other zen ARTICLES ana ny 'Ht''
strength on the II lh, so on the present
one they chose The same tactics, apn pas.
sing over The fire, article, which charged
high crime and misdemeanor upon TIE
Presdeu; 10 ordering the removal OF N!E'
Stanton, in violation OF the cons!hu ion
and laws, especially tie teDure-oi-o!Ace
act, .hoy now voted on the second and
third articles, which related only to the
issue of tie order to General Lorenzo
Thomas, authorizing him TO act as Sec
rsiary Of ar ad interim. which was al
so charged TO be high crime and mis-
demeanor. The charge in the first artl'
Gle was declared 10 be only high mis-
demesnor, but the fact that it was passed
over indicates that the impoachers knew
they were weaker on tina; article than the
other two selected Tor voie, and the
moral of il is thai the Senate really does
no, pretend TO sustain lis own ienure-oi-
office act. ss applied TO the cabinet appoin-
tees holding over from Mr.. Llncoln's ad-
ministraiIon.
Mr.. Sherman must inevitably have Vo-
ted "uot guilty" on tho fret article had II
been brough, to a test. as he declared IN
debate on the tenure. of-oflice bill tina, il
did no, apply TO Mr.. Lincoln's aPpoin'ees'
OF which Mr.. Stanton was one, aud II is
probable that some other republican Son"
alors were prepared 10 subscribe TO the
Same view. On some OF the remaining
articles, especially ME. Buffers tenth ar
tcle, denying TO the President that liberty
of speech which belongs 10 every citizen
Of FREQ country. the impeachment vote
would doubtless have been even less. All
tho articles thus falling with those voted
on, the Chief Justice directed that udg-
ment Of acquittaI be entered.
The vote in each case resulted as fol-
lows -
GuiIly-Messrs. Anthony, Cameron,
CaUell, Chandler, Cole, ConGling, Con-
ness, Corbe!!, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds,
Ferry. FreInehuyeen, Harlan. Ho" ard,
Howe, Morgan, Morrill, Of Maine, Nor
rill Of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson
Of New Hampshire. Pomcroy, Ramsey,
Sherman, Sprsgue, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Tipion. Wade Wiley, Williams,
Wilson and Yales-35.
Not Guihy---Messrs. Bayard, Bucka-
lew. Davis. Dixon. Doo!jule, Fessenden.
Fowler. Grimes, Henderson, HcndrIcks.
Johnson, McCrsery. Norton, Patterson OF
Tennessee, Ross, salisbury, TrumbulI,
Van Wrinkle and Vickers--lD
RETIREMENT OF Mr.. STANTON. After
the adjournment Of the court Of lmpeach-
ment yesterday, Mr.. SisnIon'senI com
munica,ion TO The Presidoat stating thai
the resolution Of the Senate OF the 2lst of
February last, declaring that the PFesi-
den, has no payer toremoye the Secfc!a-
ry of W'sr and designate 8 successor al
intevima, having failed 10 be supported by
the Senate, voting yesterday, on the ar'i-
Giles Of peachmcn,, he reiinq uishod the
charge Of The Var Department. and had
lelI the archives Of he sans subject 10 The
Presidents direction. This may DO Ia
ken as Mr.. S,arlon's last dying speech as
a public Official, and is fitting close TO
the great drama of impeachment. which
winds up appropriately, in the dnal act,
with the removal, voluntarily OF inVoiun-
,arily, as may choose to De considered, u!
him only who wss the first aud super
auous cause OF all The great trouble.