The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-18
THE SPLIT I'M THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

John NJ. Palmer, the bondholders and
negro suffrage candidate for governor CT this
state, and lot Of his associates, sent dis
patch 10 Washington with view to control
the action of men who are sworn faithfully
to determine the guilt or innocence of the
President according to the law and evidence
submitted. The majority of the signers of
the dispatch, like those Of Rock Island and
Moline, deserve forgiveness; they know not
what they do.
The Davenport Gazette, speaking of the
seven republicans who voted against i'm
parchment, says:
They viii reap their reward 10 the righteous
condemnation Of their fellow citizens They
will be forever pointed at, and their moral hon
esty suspected. They have made their bed with
rebels and copperheads."
The Chicago Journal says:
These are the men who, az trusted represen-
tatives of eonfding people, in the senate Of the
nation, have betrayed their eOnstitue nc:es, out
ragged the confidence of their best friends, aad
stabilized themselves before the country and the
world. These seven yotes viii
prove the most unfortunate and unpardonable
acts in the lives of the seven recreant men who
east them. Let their names be printed in letters
of blackness."
The little dogs Of impeachment are nov
requested to read what their thunderer, the
Chicago Tribune, says, as follows:
"The man who demands that each republican
senator shall biindlv vote for conviction upon
each article is mailman or a knaye. Why q
senator, or any number Of senators, should be ut
liberty 10 vote as his conscience dictates al the
articles, provided there he q CO nyetion on some
of them, and not be at liberty to vote consci
cntiousy unless conviction be assured, is only
TO be explained upon the theory that the Presi-
dent is expected to be convicted no matter whether
senators think he has been guilty or not. We
have protested, and soBov protest, against the
degradation and prostitution Of the republican
party to an exercise Of power revolving that
the people viii be justified in hurting it from
place at the first opportunity. We protest
against any warfare by the party or any portion
of il against any senator who may upon the
final vote, be constrained to vote against convio-
tion upon one, several or even all of the articles.
A conviction By free and deliberate judgement
Of an honest court is the only conviction that
should ever take place on impeachment conyie-
ton under any other circumstances viii be a
fatal error. To denounee such sen ators as cor
rupt, to sssail them with contumely and upbraid
them with treaehery for failing to understand
the law in the same light as their assailants,
would be an unfortunate folly, to call il by the
miidest term: and TO attempt to drive these sens
tors out Of the party for refusing TO commit per-
jury, they regard IL, would cause a reaction
that mil ht prove fatal not only to the supremacy
Of the republican party, but to its very existence
Those rash papers which have undertaken to os-
trsciSe sesstors-men like TrumbulI, Sherman,
Fessenden, Grimes, Howe, Henderson, FreIing-
huysen, Fowler and others-sre but aiding the
oopperheads in the dismemberment of our party"
The rev York Eeuening Post iradicall
very seusibly says:
off chs majority in congress is wise it will prop
just mere the whole impeachment business, and go
on with the other and important matters which
demand attention. II lie impossible to secure re-
spect for a verdict for conviction hereafter rem
dered by the high court. The irregular and IN
lawful efforts to secure that end have been too
shameless, too conspicuous.
The New York Times republican paperl
reads wholesome lesson to its brethren
Speaking of the radical attempts to overawe
and override the court of impeachment, it
says:
=, If the leaders of the republican party think
party has anything to gain by forcing the re-
.a.ray seek-by bringing about the President
d pS other means thar fair lust and in
:, uuus,et,on of his guilt, they viii not have
- ~ - Hha out their mistake. His re-
ao'ai' On the eve of q presidential election. nm.
der any circumstance avo- 20 49, ..s' 1A
80 clear and unimpeachAbIe az to leave no shadow
o OF douot or dlstrnst ON the public mind. would
have added to the weight which that nartv wo.iS
have had to carry through the canvass. But his
eonSlc'ion ana removal without the clear eonvic-
ty of the court that tries him-bronvbt ah..:. h,
party violence, by personal or political msr..ss
by coercion or outside pressure of any sort,riii
crush to the earth any party or any faction TIM,
dares to try it,"