Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-31
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON. March 2Sth. 1868.

WASHINGTON, March 2Sth, 1863
On Monday next, the 30th We are again to
be d0sed with the impeachment tomfoolery =
1t may be though, that, notwithstanding it
looks like SO much tpmtoolery, something Sc
rious may be the result: for am prepared for
anything now, no matter how amazing or
stupendous the fraud may be, after what has
tlanspired within the past few days, which l
will aude to hereafter IN ecteas0. But on
Monday last while the Senate was organized
into High Court of Impeachment, could not
help considering the proceedings as so much a
farce The supposed or assumed gravity of
the scene on the floor of the Senate was turned
into ridioule in the galleries. of which, more
hereafter Tie only thing imposing about the
proceeding is the dignity with which Chief Jus
tice Chase presdeS. And the courtly demba1-
Or of Gen. Stapsbery, Mr. Evarts and Judge
Curtis, when they arlse t9 Fepiy to fustian and
spluttering balderdash Of the rough and I'm
couth bearing OF the impeachment managers,
is very apparent to any eae who knows or has
seen anything of the cultivated manners of for
eign society or the higher walks of American
life When | say American life,' | have no
reference whatever to Western Shoddy and
Petroleum circles, or the Goldfish aristocracy OF
New England, Of which blue bellied and blue
nosed Charles Sumner is a specimen of as
sumed refinement and cultivation, but who, in
reality, is vulgar chartaaa StaGsherry,
Evarts and Curtis in Striking manfer show
the company they have been accustomed to,
that of intellectual, cultivated and polished gen
tlemen, and in no less degree DO the mana
gers of Impeachment betray their extraction
and the company they have been used to, in
their manner of department. Williams. of
Penn, looks like travelled caterer and picked
up right smart from the gentlemen whom
he has waited upon when he had on his white
apron and awaiting the orders Of his masters.
Wilson, OF Iowa has Western ground hog ap-
pearance, and troubled. or rather affects.to be,
with some mighty subject of no importance to
any one but himself. Wilson looks also like a
retired prize fighter Of the more genteel order.
Boutwell, has the unmistakable appearance of
fanatlcal, egotistical blue-law-ite, regular
praise God bare bones who sees nothing
good outside Of the Goldfish State, and a one
idea MAD, for he can speak hardly a dozen
words without arding it over with something
about Urea son, rebellion and republican"
government (llke the dead Duck" writes
and which he does not understand. Bingham
is a genuine politician-that is, there is no de-
pendence to be put in him, and the only rea-
son why he is in so strong for impeachment
now, is owing to the fact that the Radical
Rump House has made him prominent pros
ecutQr IN the Observation-Disclosures, it old
Buckeye Wade steps into 4. Us shoes, blus-
terng Bingham expects as q regard for his
services the vacant Judgeship on the Supreme
Court. In case he ever gets there, his decis-
ions will outstrip his nose. Logan, of ILL.,, is a
man with small amount of brains, but any
quantity Of assurance and impudence to put
himself forward before the rabbIe as ''some-
body to be Looked up to. He is one of the
most overrated blather-skites | nave ever had
the misfortune to lay my eyes on. For a deli
cheney of brains he endeavors to make up by
stralning Of his lungs and believing (while
sporting like bull of Bashan. forgetting
all the time that it is not the thunder that kills
but the flashes of lightning. Thad Stevens
and Spoohy Butler are too we'll Known to tie
reading public to be described. But is it not
hard that a man acting from conscientious con
victions has to submit to the most hardened
william and the greatest thief the world ever