Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-05-22
The Reeusant Senators.

That the Republicans of our whole
county regard with indignation those
Senators who, owing their places to Re-
publican partiAIfty aud cOnfdsnos, now
uphold Andrew johnson in his laFF-de-
fViug career. is sufnciently well known
but the reasons therefor are not 50 well
known. We proceed TO indicate some
Of them, and first with regard 10 Sena-
tor Fowler Of Tennessee. Mr.. Fowler
Vaunts himself an abOlitiOnist Of at
least twenty years standing, though he
acted with the w big party until it was
no more. Elected TO the Senate as a
UniOnist, he early avoWsd himself q
radical Of ths radicals and a determin-
ed f,le to Andrew Johnson's iniquItOus
policy" As early as last year. When
a Committee was first engaged IN scru-
tiniZing the Presidents course with q
view to his impeachment, Mr.. Fowler
approached iG with volunteered, uus0-
/ Iicited profers Of sympathy and aid
! He mHde thoss prohsrs TO the Hon.
Geo. s. Boutwell, of Massachusetts,, who
In our authority for this assertion.
In December last an effort was made
to impeach Mr.. johnson, but it failed
I in the House, Mr.. Benton Of New
/ Hampshirs was 0ns Of those Republi-
cans who voted against it. Mr.. Fowler,
meeting him soon afterward, complain
/ ed Of this vote. Mr. Benton, IN fustlh-
/ cation responded "If we had I'M
/ tpeached hiD, the Senate would have
/ "fafled TO convict him. f'Just send us
] an iulpeachuaent.s . reioined Mr.. Fowler,
"Hnd you viii be forced to admit that
lyon have mls5uag6o as"
On the 10th Of January last meeting
I Of the Republican Congressional Gem
mittee was held at the house of Senator
/ Morgan, which Mr.. Fowler attended,
/ Brief sBeeehes zsFefe made by several
mem bers urging that funds be raised to
/ publish campaign documents for distri-
/ button, especially in the South. Mr..
/ Fowler at length took the floor and
said: ''What has been urged here to-
might is we'll but il does not go to the
'sroo5 of the matter. There is no pritec-
''tion, no safety, no peaCe for the loyal
"peOple of The South so long as Andrew
"Johns0n remains in the White House.
''If Congress shall longer hesitate to
''impeaoh and depuse this JOhuson the
tSblOOd Of thousands of loyal Southern
f'ers, murdered by blood y-m nded, I'M
"plac-tble Rebels, VIII rest upon our
ttsObls," /" etc., etc. For the truth of this
report we appealto the Hon. David G..
/ Pomeroy, the Hon. Sidney Clarke, ami
1 to every one Of the twenty or thirty
| persons who were at that meeting.
VIII any one attempts to reconcile
/ these facts with Mr. FOwlPr's present
! hostility 10 Impeachment? Have h's
/ locks been shorn by Dplilah, ar has he
been corrupted from the bag of Judas ?
| a word now of Senator Trumbull.-
He never gave bis Republican col
/ leagues hint of his hostility to iIn-
/ peachmeHt up TO the moment of his un-
masking on Monday of this week,
though he had very recently attended
meetings ofthose colleagues of a friend
/ " and confidential character. We are
| assured that his Democratic son had
| quietly made bets through third parties,
/ by which he expects to win 1000 by
| his fathers resistance tn impeachment
! The Republican party protests against
| these shots from behind. True, it lost
j its beloved President by such q one ;
| be a Republican as its present asSail-
/ ants have done. If there be more trail
tors nesting in its bosom is it too
much TO ask them to come TO the light
N. Y. Tribune.