The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-08-19

WYiAT HAS BECOME or THE
LMPEACHERS.

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The one event in Andrew Johnson's
LIFE that still divides public sentiment, or
rather press sentiment, toward him, is
the impeachment Very few of the men
who voted for impeachment remain in
wubljc life at all, and the careers Of all of
shem in retrospect furnish impressive
lessons. The party of impeachment, to
start with, has lost hecountry, and son
lis last term of power probably forever.
Andrew Johnson had been chosen to sit
1n the Senate that judged him; there to
find either that his judges had been re-
tared for were lingering out the residue
of terms, to which the last day will likely
be the last day of their public life. Look
at the record. The vote acquitting Mr.
johnson, it requiring two-thirds to con-
gict, was as follows
For nviction-Anthony Cameron,
ghttell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Con-
ness, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard,
Howe, Wade, Morgan, Morton, Pomeroy,
Ramsay, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Cor
att, Gragin, Drake, Yates, Edmunds,
Ferry, Morrill,, (Me.) Morrill,, (Vt) Nye,
Patterson, IN, H. Sumner, Thayer, Tip
Ton, Wiley, Williams, Wilson-95
For acquittal-Bayard, Buckalew, Da-
Wis, Dixon Doolittle, Fessenden, Vick-
.grs, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Hen
,aricks, johnson, McCreery, Norton, Pat
tgrson, Tenn Ross, Salisbury, Trum-
bull, Van Winkle-l0
Let us see what has happened to these
Enen in the order in which they are
printed. Mr.. Anthony has been re-
elected from a State in which a property
qualification is necessary to voters, and
ithe firm, Brown & Ives, which he repre-
scented rather than the State, has come to
gnaught. Simon Cameron has lost Penn
syipania, and will be of no more account
i'm politics, now that corruption has been
struck down in him. Alexander Cattell
has been left at home, and is now known
RS the naval ring is known. Zach. Chand-
At1 has been defeated permanently. Cole,
of California, is sturdy ofice-beggar,
succeeded by Democrat Mr.. ConK-
ling sees New York $4,000 Democratic,
and himself without a following except |
tthat which he keeps in office. John Con- |
gaess has followed his colleague, Cole.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen finds New Jersey and
hinoself with separate careers. Harlan
has been ruined by disclosures of Credit
Mobilier, and he is infamously rich.
Howard, of Michigan, was first defeated
and then died of horrible accident.
Morgan, of New York, was put to a
double degradation. He was defeated,
.gnd he was defeated by r. E. Fenton.
Eragin is a barnacle on the navy, and
Williams has been retired for the Corrup-
tion of his family and the incompetency
of himself. Mr.. Morton sees Indiana re.
gpdiate him and his party by $4,000 ma
5grity. Pomeroy goes out all over cor
rupt. Ramsay was defeated by his own
party. John Sherman has lived to see
Ohio 27000 Democratic on a Congress
vote. Sprague has failed both in politics
and business. Stewart, of Nevada, sur
wives as the product and horrible exam
pie of rotten borough politics to see worse
.9obbers than himself succeed him, Cor
belt has been sent back to retail shop
keeping in Oregon, Drake has been
buried in the Court of Claims, and finds
Frank Blair honored, though dead, and
himself execrated, though alive, by Mis-
souri,. Mr. Edmunds and the two Nor
fills seem exceptions to retribution. They !
have not lost their seats or their States,
but the country has repudiated their par
'ty. Poor Nye is in mad house. Ferry,
of Connecticut, is hopeless invalid, and
mis- State has repudiated his party, too.
Patterson has sretired disgraced also with
Credit Mobilierism. Sumner did works
meet for repentance, but he is dead.
Thayer, Upton and Wiley are not even
remembered. Henry Wilson is victim
0fterrible Presidential hunting, and Mas
sachusetts has parted company with him.
Wade has sunk into a senile lobbyist,
and Yates died in condition not neces-
sary to recall.
OF those who voted for acquittal, Gar
ret Davis, VIM. P Fessenden James L.
Dixon, James h. Grimes, Charles Nor
ton, of Minnesota, and Willard Salisbury
are dead. Their memories are held in
honor as men who dared to do right
when it cost much to do 50. Pennsylva-
MIA has swung back to the faith of Bucka-
lew, and Indiana to that of Hendricks.
iowa has remained steadily Radical, but
mas yindicated the name of Grimes by
hign honors. Delaware, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Maryland, West Virginia and
Illinois have either remained or become
Kansas made Ross State
Senator, and Pomeroy fingers, as said, in
corrupt obscurity, Mr.. Henderson un-
accountably went back to Radicalism,
Out Missouri did not. Mr.. Fowler holds
a high State office in Tennessee, and
wealth and even fame wait on Lyman
Trumbuil. Mr.. Reverdy Johnson retired
at his own wish, and so did Mr. Vickers.
Mr. McCreery is again in the Senate,
while Mr.. Bayard's son succeeded him
there. In recalling these facts and the
reward and retributions presiding in
them nobody need speculate about what
people thought of impeachment Brook
Ign Eqgle.