The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-02
THE JOHNSON AND BELKNAP TRIALS
BY THE SENATE.
THE SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVES,.
Correspondents, N. Y. World ]

Correspondence N Y. World
Looking down from the gallery into the
faces of the present Senate and thinking
of the coming trial, one cannot help letting
the memory run back to that other Senate
and its attempt to Impeach Andrew j ack
son. Not many of the actors who took
prominent parts in that scene remain to
act as judges in this new trial. A new
Chief Justice will preside and thirteen
only of the fifty four who are recorded on
the final votes on the three articles on
which the Johnston impeachment was de
cided are now members ofthe Senate. These
thirteen are Senators Anthony, Cameron.
of PENNSYLVANIA; Conkling, Cragin, Ed
munds. Ferry, Frelinghuy sen, Howe, Nor
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these all but McCreery voted equity"
on each of the three articles (the
eleventh, second and third), and Nc
Creery voted not guilty on each. Two
others, however, Boutwell, and Logan, are
now Senators, who then took an active part
as managers on the part of the House. But
most of those who were prominent have
dropped out of the Senate, and many are
dead.
Some of the changes that have taken
| place are noteworthy. Sumner, Wilson,
| Ferry, Reverdy johnson and the elder
Bayard are gone, and their wisdom is
available only as their votes and counsels
| are recorded or remembered. Delaware
will still be represented by Bayard and
Salisbury but it is the SOD in one case and
the brother in the other. The change of
! the Massachusetts represen tation is decid-
eddy a change for the worse. Boutwell,,
himself under q cloud for his alleged mall
administration of the Treasury, rattles
around in the seat then filled by Sumner,
and Dawes, Protectionist aud trimmer, sets
in the place of Wilson.
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the representation from the South then un-
represented in Congress. 1t will be re-
mem bered that one of the high crimes
charged against Andrew johnson wac that
he denied the legality of the thirty ninth
Congress on account of this very non-repre
sentation. Now, with the single exception
of Louisiana, all the States are represented
in some sort, and unless l much mistake,
some of the Southern Senators will play pro
minent parts in the Belknap trials and the
| other peachments that are liable to follow.
Watching tue Sou hern delegation from day
to day, it is impossible to avoid noticing
one marked distinction between it's mem =
bers, or rather that the delegation from the
South is divided into two distinct divisions
the genuine Southerners and the carpet
baggers, between whom there is COM
parision, except it be an odious one for the
latter. The carpet baggers, Spencer, Dor
sey, West, Powell, Clay ton and that sort
are, without exception, nonentities or
worse. They take little part in the pro
Q 'dings, except to vote invariably with the
Republican party, often only arriving just
in tine to vote and then voting on instruc-
ton, without having heard the question
discussed, and apparently caring very little
, about it. The genuine .eruers, on the
other hand, are almost as unanimously men
of marked ability, men VITO fr"m their
very nature must have been leaders of the
, South during the war, Ren who must Of
necessity now lead the South within the
l Union, and who are determined to do il,
spite of the strenuous efforts of Morton and
Blaine to make them political outlaws who
have no political rights excerpts by the suf
ferance of the Rrpu blican party. Several
of these men have already won their spurs
in the Senate Chamber, aud whenever they
rise to speak command the attention of the
Senate equally with Conkling and Morton.
No face in the Sc nate is more strongly mark
, ed a! d I one more oftea inquired about than
convictions, of hrst-class ability, and a fine
orator. On the score of cratic Y, however,
none of the Southerners lead General Ran
som, of North Carolina, who may almost
divide the oratOrIcai LIQUORS with McCreery
of Kentucky, SURF" ur-t the Daniel Webster
, of the Senate. Il som it was who was
, forced by the for" t of war to surrender
, his sword to own Sherman, but he is
: none the less an able Senator for all that
, and is said TO have only one weak
ness, viz. thai his heart is great deal
larger than his pocket. He is man OF
foe appearance, squarely built, with an
= abundance of black hair and full beard,
just beginning to tinge with gray. Nor
!, wood of Georgia, is another of the note
worthy SOuthernere. Like his colleague
he is spare of flesh and has the same de-
=, termined set of the Aw, albeit he is minus
, the sign of the deep sabre cut across the
left cheek, which Gordan will always
: carry, together with the marks of fifteen
or sixteen other wounds as lifelong me-
mentoes of the rebellion. Wthers of Viz
GINA, is taking no less prominent rank
than the others, while Maxey, of Texas, q
grad uate of West Point tall, lank and over
flowing with chunks of common sense
leads the very strong Texas delegation in
the present Congress. But the list OF
genuine Southerners might be gone
through and not weak man found among
them, and, as l said in the beginning
some of them will have national re-
putaton before the impeachment trials
are over.
Aa vet tho Hn0sa mano0ars ora not