The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-04-01
THE HOLE IN TIE SKI.
( Remi1iseenee OF the Impeachment
Trial OF andrew Johnson.

The present prominence of Mr..
Everts as leading counsel for Nt.
Beecher in the great scandal trial Of
Brooklyn, recalls an incident of An
drew Johuson's impeachment trial
that OF Mr.. Evarts' til. ~ Jchuson's
defense, with Boutwell,, when the
discussion took quite an astFoBOmicsl
! term. With impressiveness OF nan-
ner and dignity OF speech, Mr.. Bout
well bad in argument declared the
earth and is institutions provided no
punishment appropriate for the crime
OF which Johnson was guilty, and
described spot in the heavens ''near
the Southern Cross" 'tdreary, cold,
dark region of space" void OF stars,
and evidently left by ''the Great
Author Of celestial mechanism" in
"chaosp Here, if the earth "were
capable" Of 'justiee and virtue" it
would "heave and throw" this "ene-
my of two races of men" ''to forever
exist in solicitude eternal as life,"
as q warning to those "whO are the
enemies of themselves, of their race,
and OF their God.''
The audience received it quietly,
thought it rather good, and no further
notice was taken of it. But one
morning after Evarts had been de-
liivering long, dry legal discourse. he
suddenly turned that sharp face of his
toward Boutwell,, and with gravity
eqaaling- his-own, deplOred his ignor-
ance while admiring- his opponent's
superior knowledge. "While others, {"
said Mr.. Evarts, still facing the man
ager, "were paying attention to an
unoccupied and ndunappropriated island
on the surface of the sea Alta Vela).
Mr.. Manager Boutwell,, more am
bilious, had discovered an untenant-
ed and unappropriated region in the
skies, reserved, he would have US
think, in the final councils of
the Almighty, as the place of
punishment for convicted and
deposed American sPresideuts.N
After demonstrating its con-
stitutiouality, since the constitution
has said removal from oflieep and
"put no limit to the distance of the
removal = he says that, as none but
the learned manager knows where
that spot is, he is the necessary depu-
ty to execute the judgment of the
court. with the President made
fast 10 his broad and strong shoulders,
and having already essayed the flight
by imagination, better prepared than
anybody else to execute it in form tax
ing advantage of ladders, as far as lad
ders Will go. to the top of this great
Capitol, and spurning then with his
foot the crest of Liberty, let him set
out upon his fight. while the two
Houses of Congress-" and here Evarts
faced the Senate and raised his hither-
to subdued voice to a ringing cry,
''and all the people OF the United
States shall shout, Sic itUr al dstra. -
Then, quietly to the Court 'i'But
here distressing doubt strikes me
how will the manager get back 4? He
will have gone tfar beyond the reach
of graviatiOn to restore him. and so
ambitious wing as his could never
stoop to p downward flight. Indeed,
as he passes through the consultations,
that famous question of Carlyle ,-by
which he derives the littleness of hu-
man affairs upon the scale of the meas
ures Of the heavens, what thinks
B@otes, as he drives his dog up the
zenith in their race of sideraI fire p
will force itself on his notice. What,
indeed, will Beotes think of this new
consultation @' He spoke very quiet
IL, and with never q smile on mis- thin
lips, but there were roars OF laughter
to the very last row in the gallery, that
even the Chief Justices authority
could not subdue. .a