The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-13
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S;x weeks ago the lmpeachuenI D
pr..;leut seemed inevitable. From
- 5;rs,tious the heaviest pressure wa'
,,bt 70 bear TO compel his removal
n,hI;c meeting. of roaring and rsntine
n.,;caI moks demanded it. Loyal
,;slatures aud the G. A. r. demanded
:. Letter writing politicians from the
"a xire-wurker to the manipulation o.
n;s,rict and State politics, insisted
-, II. The mania spread to the
o,inu.roou, the BauufactOry, thu
ss,s the pulpit; wherever loyalty
,bfred, whetser in professional ol
hn.iuess life, the epidemic ragged, and
c, al classes and conditions of Radi'
= rf, came n frenZied howl for the
,.n,acement of ANDREW JOHNSON
T,s Radical press, Vi course, led off in
.ba sepseless clamor. Impeachment Is
p.,cc," said the Tribune and universal
..rati,i.u so crazsd the ''lOyaP brain,
cha, none dared ask the reason why.
So popular seemed the measure that
the Managers felt no hesitancy in COM
diving with some Of the usual forms OF
vial So confident and buOyant were
they that it was deemed unnecessary to
di.peuse with charges, aud witnesses
and speeches, especially when each of
,ha .yrcstioners desired TO win some
-apntatiog for lis drxterity in welding
,bs axe of popular retributiOn. But
,rR wanted TO transmit 10 posterity a
.,srimen of his Police Court practice ;
BINGHAM had some choice rhetoric to
hand over TO history, and even LOGAN
f.l, tie force Vi a sudden etiatus that
Uould enable him TO project the "airy
nothing" Of his greatness tar into the
mtnre. So the ten days of grace, at the
,xplration of which the President was
10 bs transferred to his Tennessee tail
or.shop. were graciously prolonged, and
Ben WADE derived assurance of his ul-
innate succession from the temporary
l.ngtheulng OF JoHNsoN's political life.
But delays are proverbially danger
Gus. The delay in this case threatens
- be disastrous. The nation took a
breathing spell after the prodigious
spasm occaSioued by the blow at 1.-THE
life Of the Republic" involved in the
employment Of another clerk in lieu of
STANTON. Somehow the country took
lis meals and rest about as regularly
after the JohnsOuian rebellion as be-
fore. A scrt of wet-blsnket sensation
began 10 thrill the nerves Of the i'm
peachment hOwlers. The first round
had been fought, and loyalty" going
in With sweat, had come back with a
chill. New Hampshire had been heard
from, and her response to the impeach-
Uent thunder was like schOol-boy's
squib, ecbolng columbiad.
a rally Was attempted. The drums
were beaten, the trumpets blown, aud
the whip applied. The press re-opened;
the stump uttered its thundcr, and the
pulpit issued duplicate instructions to
the Senate aud COD ALMIGHTY, all for
the prompt removal of the SbOm-
nation of JOHNSON. Despairing 10y
atty sought Connecticut i'll the hour of
distress. GRANTS name was plastered
up0u her vision. The Tribune assured
her people that the General of the ar
mies was finally satisfied that 'Im-
peschment is Peace" and in the name
of the Army demanded that the opin.
ion of the Army should be respected
and endorsed.
Cruel Connecticut! Nore of these
;hings move her. She explodes a
WsterspOut over the "loyap pyrotech-
MICS aud a mighty fzz becomes a
mighty fzzle. The reaction moves
with fresh impetus. The prospect of
fair trial. is discussed by the very
suthoritie: which a month ago deemed
any trial at all needless; and Radical
journals are already apologizing for the
failure of impeachment by talking
abOut "the impartiality of the Court"
GRANT authorizes a denial of the
statement that he approved i'm
peac bment. The Chief Justice cleared
his skirts from the start. Everybody
seems to be hunting soft place to fall
CURTIS has let the wind out of But
LERs balloon. The Senate by vote o.
~ to 10 has admitted the testimony OF
TuoMAs, to show that no violation o,
law was ever contemplated by the Pres
ident. STEVENS has boiled over in the
grave and reverend Senatorial presence
and even BUTLER ceuld not prevent the
Pennsylvania ghost from snorting and
damning in the most lively and sub
stantial manner over the prospective
ruin.
Meanwhile we hear, family at first,
but moro audibly with repetition, in
quiriss, aud even doubts as to the re-
suit. Away off toward sunset some in
cautious person prints the word ACQUIT'
TAI. Before it reaches the East it is re-
printed thousand times; the public eye
has grown familiar with it; the public
voice has learned to speak it; and men
talk of it in the streets. Probably he
would not be g bad interpreter who
would say that as expressed at the late
elections, tAe public ,riH demands it, and
that the partisan power which, needles:
OF warning, shall deny it, will perish
miserably and forever. The peo
pie have pondered and passed
upon impeachment. They see
In it nothing but the animus Of
party, and they have condemned il
with emphasis. After such condemna.
non, conviction weuld be the ruin OF
tHe party which should procure it. Or
Tue other hand, acquittal seals the
Goom OF Radicalism, for it is q confes