Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-08-26

| O"Ai3 OOhICoH
of California, and other now
defunct "leaders'' of the Repub-
lican party, without thinking
that impeachment was nothing
more than a scheme to get the
outs in and the ins out. Until
the middle of April the Impeach-
ers were extremely confident
johnson knew this, and I think
he had fully made up his mind
to vacate the White House.
But he never lost heart or spirit
or even appeared to do so, un-
less the following incident be
taken proof that he did: / was
talking with him one Sunday
evening on general subjects of
politics, when he suddenly in
terrupted me. Said he, "Do
you remember what kind of a
Court it was that tried and con-
victed Charles II" l replied
that, ''to the best of my recol-
lection, it was a Court appoin-
ted by Parliament, and COM
posed Of members of that body,
officers of the army and citi-
zens Of London" GLOW many
were there in it?" said Mr..
johnson. [ replied that there
were somewhere between sixty
and seventy members in that
Court. Then he burst out,
"And how many of these id
scOundrels are there overthere?"
pointing toward the CAPITOL
| replied that there were twen-
ty-seven States represented,
making fifty-four Senator's
"Well," he continued, DO you
recollect what became of the
men whoconvicted King Charles
how many of them died in
their beds--and how many run
away from the country after the
Restorationw | could not an
swer this question directly, but
/ Ipromised to go to the Congress-
ional Library next day and read
all about the subject, IT, the
History Of the Regicides. q
wish you would" said the Pres
ident, Sand | want you to make
out summary of things, and
get it into the papers. lie was
so anxious on this subjsct that
he was not willing to have me
send this particular letter to Gin
clnnati, but insisted thatit should |
be printed in a New York paper, !
so that it would get back to |
Washington in time 80 show
these id scoundreIs what fate |
is in store for them" His re-
quest was complied with, and a
few days later a New York pa
per solemnly warned the Scna-
tors Of the fate Of the Regicides.
The only charge brought a.
gainst johnson by the Impeach-
ers that seemed to give him any
personal annoyance was that he
had used his Office for the pur-
poses Of his own personal ag-
grandiZement. Ben. Bntlcr's
Committee had summoned one
of the clerks of JAY Cookies
Bank, and had put him through
a very close examination as to
Johnson's money matters; but
without discovering anything at
all tending to substantiate the
charge OF personal corruption.
One night he got forth little
memorandum-book, ,proceededto
figure mp from it what he had
before the war, what he had re-
ceivCd since from all sources,
and what he then considered
himself worth. He made him
self a loser by Il considerable
sum. Then he began to figure
on what he supposed General
Grant to be worth. Let lis
see" said he, che wasn't worth a
d-n in 1861; he got so much
naming a figure-in Philadel-
phia, and so matchmaking an
other fgure-in New York
He must be worth nearly quar-
ter Of Million Then he
named a number of Republican
who had entered public
life very poor and had become
very rich. "Now," said he, ''if
they could make me out richer
to-day than / once was, they'd
say | stole it; but these saints
at the other end of the avenue
all came honestly by theirs, of
course" In this connection he
to the fact that he had
declined the present of car
riagc and a pair of horses very
early in his Administration, and
he said that since the commence
ment of the impeachment trial
a gentleman in New York had
sent him a check for $4,000 to
helm him ont of his trouhIaS