Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-07-22

en-, Some are Dead, and Other
Remain Place.
just seven years ago OH the
9th Of July the Senate of the
United States, presided over by
| the Chief Justice, sat as a coxrt
of impeachment in the trial of
I Andrew johnson. President of
the United States.
Evarts examined all the wit
nesses for the defense, and to
those of us who heard him, the
reports of the Brooklyn trial
seem familiar. He spent a half
hour one morning over a repor-
ter, asking by what system he
reported, where he sat OH that
particular occasion, where the
light came from, whether he
used pen or pencil, &c.
BINGHAM MADE THE MOST IN
TEREsTING SPEECH
(to the muititude) Of the prose-
cution. Judge Curtis, Of the
President S counsel, spoke on
ly three hours, but he embraced,
and nothing new was added to
his statement Of the case by
those who followed him. Bing-
ham called it justly "a stately
argument" and SAID Of Evarts,
who spoke for three days, that
he seemed to think "the way to
make a speech immortal was to
make it eternal" Evarts him
self was conscious Of the ex-
treme length, and apologized
for it on the third morning, that
his listeners were probably in
the condition Of Lord Ellenbo-
rough, who told lawyer when
he proposed to resume his ar
gument at his lordship's "pleas-
ure," that "the court would hear
him tomorrow, but as to pleas
ure,' that was long since out Of
the question" 1t was q sort of
proud humility that led him to
apologize, for he could have held
his audience for three days more.
THE MOST MEMORABLE EPISODE
of the trial was when he paid
his respects to the "honorable
and astl onomical manager" Mr..
Boutwell,. With impressive
ness Of manner and dignity Of
speech Mr.. Boutwell, had in ar
gument declared the earth and
its institutions provided no pun
ishment appropriate for the
crime Of which johnson was
guilty, and described a spot in
the heavens, "near the Southern
cross" a "dreary, cold dark re-
gion of space" void of stars,
and evidently left by "the Great
Author of celestial mechanism"
in "chaos." Here, if the earth
"were capable" of 'justice and
virtue" it would "have to
throw" this ''enemy of two ra-
ces of men" "to forever exist in
a solitude eternal as life," as a
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 delivering long, dry,
legal discourse, he suddenly
turned that sharp face Of his to-
ward Boutwell,, land with gravity
his own deplored his
ignorance while admiring his
opponents superior knowledge.
"wHILE OTHERS" SAID MR..
EvARTs,
still facing the manager, "were
paying attention to an unOccu-
pied and inappropriate island
on the surface of the sea-" { Alta
Vela, "Mr. Manager Boutwell,,
more ambitious, had discovered
an untenanted and unappropria-
ted 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 Ameri-
can Presidents" After demon
strating its constitutionality,
since the Constitution has said |
"removal from Office" and ''put
no limit to the distance of the
removal" he says that, as none
but the learned manager knows
where the spot is, he is the nee
essary deputy to execute the
judgment of the court. "With
the President made fast to his
broad and strong shoulders, and
having already essayed the
flight by imagination, better