Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-05-15


rraGOONENG SENATOR'S.
that vas, indeed, most remarkable
,.,smen, OF Senator Fessenden, OF Maine,
.rrs. session cf the Senate, to the effect
~. hand received half bushel Of let
-. sape coaxinv, some instructins, some
,A-,..sninr him with assassination II hs vo-
80 fo- the Presidents scquittal, and that
,h.,s ,hreats Of assassination has received
,nso-.emcn, on the floor of the Senate from
.brh officer Or tha, body referring 10
Jshn ". Forney, who, in his two papers.
m, been daily launching his thundsrso'es
.. every Republican Senator suspected OF
considering his oath Of more binding eject
,A.n hi. allegiance to supposed party ne
ees.i,v. The course OF very many Of the
radical journals bear undisputed evidence
n, he truth Of Mr.. Fcssenden's statement,
and would amply warrant the conclusion |
,b,t there is q concerted and arranged plan |
On tae part Of certain radical papers, not
only 10 browbeat and Dragon Senators in
TO vote FOR conviction against their oath
ord conscience, but to excite their parti-
sans even 10 the commital OF violence
against such Of them as may think them
selves bound to vote for scquittal. The 10
decent scene in the Senate at the close Of
Mr.. Bincham's haranguc, in which the
Chef Justice of the United States and the
Senate were grossly insu,ed and their au-
tAority openly dched, 10 but the result OF
teachings OF such papers ~ the New York
7yibune, Forney's Chronieis aud TSess,
etc. II these papers did not intend such .
result they mus. be strangely Ignorant Of
tae force aud intent Of the innammabls and
disgraceiu language they have used in
connection with this matter. But II oar
not be that man Of intelligence, like Hor
ace Greeley, can be ignorant Of the effsc
Of such in,smpsrats. violent and indscsn
language ~ the following clipped from IN
New York Tribune Of the 9Th instant
III Benedict Arnold rsre Senator to dd
slsctsd BY the Republican cotes and mored
~ dissst,s6ed ambition, or morbid, ~
satsste greed Of office, We hear Of him, high
lyaimprcssed with the sacredness Of I'll
Presidential Office, eager 10 discuss tn
question Of the Presidents intent, an
painful conscious of the responsibility o
his oath. A decisive amount Of money
would finish him: OF course he would ap
peal to the country. lie might find SINAI
circ'c Of friends who would believe in hi
CONSTITUENCIES, and under a possibl
Democratic Administration would b
squeezed into soms office, and die in the r.
csipt Of party charity.
Far be Il from us D. attempt to dragoo
any Senator. or TO put one straw in the We
Of the Senate approaching n righteou
Judgement. Whether corruptly moved o
not, the Republican Senators who dare
retain Andrew johnson in office, viii !
guilty Of n treason only eqlalled by that
I.nsiict Arnold. They must make VI
taeir minds 70 accept such a memory. i
all means, then, Il mony is the Inducemer
let u be five millions lett be ten. God bel
them, aud gave them heaps Q. money, TIN
they may reveal Ia gold. and g.iticr In il
fanny, and find kind Of consolation f.
havns basely wrcnged their country
Wc car pardon good deal to The dis
comfort Of men who believe that Amight
God created them 10 BE Presidents Of th
Unitol States, and tina. they are only KEEP
ont of their place by the psrvcrsensss Of
hard hearted and stiff nccked generation
We are willing to give their feelings IL
name OF "conscicntiousness," or to regar,
them a. highly regned lawyers in tho dis
trcss of statutes and pleas. But we sha
accept nothing OF this in cxtcnuation Of
failure to puni- h this man, now that "
have delivered him bound into their hands
To remaud the Americ an Republic to tn
custody OF Andrew johnson, and to Civ
him. in addition to the impulses OF his owl
disloyal nature, the triumph of an acquit
tai. would be to commit an act of trsaso
only elnallei by that of Benedict Arnold
We have no fear that this will be done
Ne snail do no Senator, in whom We hav
confidence, the injustice TO believe that b
i base enough To court dishonor, or soil,
enough to feel tina. he can make himself tn
defender and apologies, Of Andrew Johnson
wilhou, standing by him in history as th
partner OF his crimes
lsnot such language dsgracelu in III,
exiremcs' And il is not eminsntly calcu
lsie! 10 arouse ali the bad passions Of tn
reckless and bad men in the radical part,
70 the commission of violence, OF assassin
atom even, as AIMS, those Republican Sena
tors who may consider themselves boun,
by thsir oath II vote for the President
scqaittsl Can any honest man, who ha
the east regard for his rcpu tation, dare t
Justify such language.