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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
WILL THE CHIEF JUSTICE PRE-
SEDEl

Not even newspapers, not even
Washington correspondents of news
papers are ipfallible. a notable in
stance of this Id truth is to be found
in the statement so generally mad
and SO gen rally assented to, that Chief
Justice Waite Will preside at the trial
of the impeachment of Delknap. The
accomplished correspondent of the
Richmond Enquirer, "L. Q. W., "
goes so far even as to say that the
associate judges will assist the chi
Justice on that occasion, an assertion
that is also made in the editorial
columns of the Baltimore american.
The fact is that the associate judges
as such, never take part i'll an
impeachment trial. and the Chic f
Justice does SO only when the Presi-
dent Of the United States is on trial.
In all other cases the regular presid
ing officer of the Senate presides over
its deliberations while sitting as a
Court of Impeachment as well es
when not so sitting. The reason why
the Chief Justice is appointed to preside
in the case of the impeachment of the
President is that the regular presiding
officer of the Senate has All interest il,
the conviction of the President, being
next in the line of promotion.
In 1904, when Judge Chase was on
trial, the regular presiding officer of
the Senate at that time, Vice Presi-
dent Burr, and not the Chief Justice
of the United States, acted as pre-
siding officer of the Court of Impeach-
ment.
And SO also III the same year Vice
President Burr, and not Chief Justice,
Marshall, presided over the Senate sit
ting as Court of impeachment for the
trial Of Judge Pickering of New Hamp-
shire.
And SO. too, in our own State, under
a clause in the State Constitution
Identical with that in the Federal Con
stitution, the regular presiding officer,
Hon. E. J. Warren, Senator from
Beaufort county, presided over the
Senate of North Carolina while sitting
as Court of Impeachment for the trial
of Judge Il. w. Jones.
According to both law and custom it
is plain chat Senator Ferry, and not
Chief Justice Waite, will preside at
the trial of Belknap before the Senate,
sitting as O Court of Imneachmant
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

The exposure and Impeachment of
Belknap has surely given death blow
to General Grant and the third term,
and the most experienced political
doctorssay that it has given the death
blow to the entire Radical party also.
The first shock over, thinking, reflect
ing men will every where begin to ask
themselves whether such an out
growth of crime and CO.. upton as that
now existing in every department of
the Government is not the legitimate
fruit of the principles and practices of
the party that has been so long in
20 vel, and whether it be not high time
to hurl that party in shame and dis
disgrace from its high place Butler
ism and Belknapism mean Radioalism.
and Radicalism means Grantism and
Grantism means base, sordid corrup-
tInn
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
Hon. THOMAS :. Asne.

Below we give brief sketch of the
life and services Of the Hon. Tuos. IS.
Ashe of Arson, as found III the Con
gressional Directory.
Thomas Samuel Ashe of Wades-
boro, was born in Orange county.
North Carolina, was prepared for col
lege at the classical school of W. T.
Bingham, in Hill ,boro, North Caro-
lima; graduated at the University of
North Carolina in 1882; studied law,
and has ever since pursued his pro
fession; was elected in 1912 a
mem Der of the House of Commons Cs
the Legislature of North Curolina
from the county of Ans N; wus
elected i'll 1917 by the Legislature
solicitor of the FIFTH Judicial District
of North Carolina. and served in that
capacity for four years; was elected in
1854 to the Senate of the State Legs
lature from the counties OF Arson and
Union; was elected III 1861 to the
House of Representative OF the Con
federate States, and to the Sen tie OF
the Confederate Congress in 1864; was
one of the CounseIlors of STATE during
the administration of Gov. Jonathan
Worth in 1866; was the Conservative
candidate for Governor in 1868 bu.
was defeated;was elected to the Forty
third Congress of the United States,
and was reelected to the Forty-fourth
as a Democrat, receiving a majority
of $3.50 votes over Q. @. Davidson,
independents.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
Love After Marriage.

The following lines, called by their
author Ga distinguished barrister, by
tbs way), IAN old piece of doggrel,
may already be familiar to some of our
readers. The lines were written years
ago, it is said, and constitute the con-
GLIDING portion of d reply to your g
lady who had expressed to their writer
Il desire to know something about love,
and are said by those expert in such
matters to be "all right-beautiful:
''Gon1iusicu wherein lies che mo. ai.''
All this, knew curmTdgeons i'll chile,
Aid thus, of their NAL C, my views viii deride
- quarrel and :. kiss lear and a Laugh;
II joy and sorrow abOut half and ina I.
8awili Z, <Iuail,ng, p~rhAEs a tuiing.
franking, ST ark1nL tie" cats rwau.ins,
a tiny dol house, a little wee garbage,
And such, ssy they, is love after mari ,ge.'
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
SAVED FROM TIL a. HAND OF HIS
ENE1aHES.

"As soon as Minister Schenck got
safely out of reach of the criminal pro-
cess of England, and was no longer
under fire; at the very time that that
eminent diplomatist was leaning Over
the vessels side, pouring forth lis
soul to tn" wild Atlantic pillows, just
ut that moment did General Grant ac-
cept his resignation.
So says the Baltimore Gazette And
thus did the President save from the
hand of his enimies, from the hand of
all that hate Inn whether native born
Amer .cans or "biarsted BrItishers" the
the man who had brought shame, re-
proach and disgrace upon The country.
Saved from American fire, saved
from British tirt, and is there than no
fire that eau reach him
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
SHUT YOUR MOUTH Or 60 IT

As soon as the President accepted
| Belknap's resignation he became We
hement and frequent i'll the expression
OF his determination to prosecute to
the bitter end all persons concerned in
bringing SO great disgrace on the coun-
try. He has been especially particular
to repeat IN substance, if not in form
Ais purpose to let mo guilty man es-
cape, but to prosecute and punish all
concerned, accomplices as well as prin-
cipals; the bribers az we'll as the party
bribed. 1t was under this policy that
Babcock was acquitted.
Viii it succeed in Belknap's case
also? 1t looks SO, for it is reported
that Marsh, the witness who testified
before the committee in regard to Bel
knaps sale of the Post leadership at
Fort Sill, has fed to Canada. What a
spectacle it would present to the world
If Mr.. Belknap should escape convic-
ton and punishment because MIR. Marsh
having been Frightened from the country
by the Presidents threats of prosecu-
ton, should fail to appear and testify?
The country at last begins to see plain
~ what the President meant when he
said let no guilty man escape. He
meant to say to accomplices, shut your
mouths or go to jail. The President
knows that in cases of this sort the
testimony of accomplices is necessary
to secure conviction. Is Grant crazy,
or is he only corrupt?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
where made against him. The law

| where made against him. The law
says that sane men intend the natural
| and probable consequences of their
acts and holds them responsible, Grim
inally, for those consequences. Tried
| by this test. the test applied to almost
| every criminal, in what position Is
| President Grant placed ? Was it not
the natural aDd probable pnsequence
of the Presidents precipit.te accept
apce of Beiknap's resign alton that
Belknap would be shielded from i'm
parchment ard trial before the Senate
of the United States
It is true the acceptance of his res
| icnation would be no bar to indict-
ment and tria. for bribery in the Fed
eral Court, but what vast difference
| there is between Impeachment and trial
before the Senate with Democratic
House of Representatives prosecuting
and a trial before a Federal Court
| where both the Judge and the Marshal
| and the pros. cutting officer would be
creatures Of the President The Pres
ident could not hope to control the
managers of an impeachment elected
| by Democratic House of Represen-
tatives. What influence lie could ex-
ercise in a prosecution before Federal
Court the verdict of the jury III the
late Babcock trial plainly shows. I'm
less therefore Grant be an insane man
we are forced to tie conclu sion that in
accepting Beiknap's resignation SO pre-
cipitately he sought to save his friend
and Secretary from a prosecution he
could not cotrol to subject him to one
he could control.
Bat is the man insane and has he al
ways been thus precipitate ii accept
ing designations of officers who have
been forced by the pressure of public
sentiment TO tender them? Far from
it. No man was ever more persistent
in his refusal to accept designations
the reason as gwen openly in the case
of Secretary 'ano, that no man ought
to resign under fire." And was not
Mr.. Belknap under the heaviest sort OF
fire? But the reader will note this diff
ference between Brlknap's case and
Delano's case. When Delano offered
his resignation and the President re-
fused TO accept it because be was under
fire, he House of Representative WAS
Radical and there was no danger 10 be
unprecedented from an investigating
committee. When Mr.. Belknsp rff-red
his resignation and it was accepted, 81
though he was under murderous fac,
the House of Representatives was
Democratic and one of it's commute s
had III its possession full proof of NJ.
Belknap's guilt. President Grant knew
perfectly well what he was seeking to
accomplish when he accepted that re-
signation with great regret"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
Is GRANT CRAZY Oss as aE saNLE
CORRUPT

The eager preoipitate haste with
viii 80 the President accepted MIR.
Belknap's resignation is, under the
circumstances, applicable only on one
of two grounds that IS to say corrup-
tion or insanity. MIR. Bristow had
notified him that the whole atmosphere
of Washington was filed with rumors
that high official near the Presidents
own person had been discovered to be
guilty of most criminal conduct. that
the rumors were also in definite shape
and form in the columns of the
Baltimore Gazette then being circu-
lated in Washington. Not Statistic
with this, however, Mr.. Bristow adj
vised him as a means of further and
fuller information to send for Mr..
Bass. Republican Congressman from
New York and a member of the
Committee then known of all the
world, to be engaged in the task of in
vestigating the affairs of the War De-
partment. This was before 10 o'clock.
About 10 O'Clock Mr.. Belknap called
and made confession in person to the
President himself and thereupon pre-
sented his resignation, which, at 20
minutes past 10 o'clock, was accepted
in the following words written by the
Presidents own hand.
EXECUTIVE MANSION March 2, 1876.
DEAR SIR: Your tender OF the resig-
nation as Secretary of War with the
request to have it accepted immedi-
ately is received, and the same is
hereby accepted with great regret.
Yours, etc.
u. s.. GRANT.
Wherever these facts are known it
will be idle for the President or for
his friends, If he now has any, to con-
vince the public that he accepted Mr..
Belknap's resignation in ignorance of
the fact that charges of the very
frayest character were being every
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
q OVE az n MEN t'AE GElsFEsIx
ENStE.

MIR. ingalls, OF Kansas. introduce d
into the Senate at Washington, an
amendment to the National Bankip e
law providing for tie organization of
banks of small capt. Il in small places,
and it was rejected by the Committee
of Finance because Mr.. Knox, the
Comptroller of the Currency, has said,
first, that there are plenty of these
small banks now; and second, that the
increase of them would weaken other
banks. and not prove profitable to the
stockholders.
| Commenting upon the action of
Comptroller Knox and the Senate COM
mittee, the New York Enening Post
says with much force:
Who made Mr.. Knox Judge in such
| cases 1t seems to us that if the peo-
pie of little village or town think
they want banking facilities they
ought to be permitted to have them,
just as much as they ought to be per
mstted to have more butcher shops or
more groceries. Banking is a business
like any other, and they who desire to
engage in it are the only proper judges
of the need they have of it, and it's
probable success. Mr. Knox and the
committee might just as we'll object tc
the increase of shoe shops, or tan
neries,. as to the increase of money
Ghnv1cf tIo -
hood, or the traders of rural settles
ment, think that they would be bene-
fitted by investing their spare capital
in government bonds. and appointing
one Or two of their fellows to receive
their deposits and to discount their
bills, they are the men to decide-not
an agent of the government at Wash
ington. What means has he of deter
mining whether a projected enterprise
is likely to be profitable or not ? 1t is
for those who are willing to risk their
money in it to settle that point.
The national banking system is said
to be the best we ever had; and it m v
be so, but if it be the best, III parts |
OF the country and ali classes of the |
community ought to he allowed to |
share IN its benefits. It does not per-
tain to the functions of any Great
Mogui, or any conclave of Great
Moguls, several hundred miles AWAY
to select the parsons and places which
alone shall participate in it's advan-
tages. The great objection which has
been raised to the national banking
system, by those who are hostile to it.
is that 1t Is monopoly; and it gives
force to this objection, to multiply the
and restraints of the law
On the other hand, to lessen these
and restraints is to rem ,ve
the objections and commend the law to
more general approval. The truth is
that the freer the business of banking
can be made, the sooner it will be con-
formed to the real needs and require
4uirements of society, aud lose that
exceptional and mysterious character
which has rendered it as often an OBJ
struction as it has been an assistance
to commercial progress" |
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

The World latest addition to the
literature of fables is rather timely.
1t is entitled The Innocent Dog" and
runs as follows: ga shepherd once in
dioted his dog for conspirlng with a
pack of vile ours that had worried his
sheep, whereupon the faithful animal
addressed him: ''Sir, though appear
ances may be against me, yet I am
armed SO strong with honesty that,
if 1 am but accorded an opportunity to
be heard, will explain to your salts
faction all my communication with
those hounds Having said this, the
honest dog ran away and hid himself
in cave. The shepherd tried to dis
lodge him thence, but vainly, and at
last in despair, desisted and brought
IN verdict of acquittal. The innocent
brute thereupon emerged, and such of
his former companions as had escaped
hanging rendered him a serenade,
whereupon mntton broth flowed like
water. Moral-Let no guilty purp es-
cape.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
WAS CHANT IGsORANT

The New York EUsni,ag Post has no
sympathy with affected feeling of ten
derness that seeks to palliate the crime
of Mr.. Belknar, and no belief in the
existence of any peculiar circumstances
distinguishing it from an ordinary case
OF sordid bribery and corruption. It
says MIR. Belknap was intelIigently.
continuously corrupt-corrupt after
his practices had been suspected aud
almost exposed. AS long ago as Februa-
~, 1872, the story of the Fort Siiltrad.
ing contract was told by the N. Y. Tri-.
bune. The names of Evans and Marsh
were plainly printed, and the latter
'Was described as ga special friend of
the Secretary OF War" "This friend
ship" it was added, s'enahles him 70
live at his ease at New York on an in.
come of $4S, 900 a year, which is ex-
torted from the soldiers and officers ar
the fort by the actual traders, to whom
ne farms out the privilege the Secre-
tary has given him.
The New York Herald has published
the facts within less than thirty DAYS.
1t says in lis last issue:
Now if the President had read
t le New York Herald of February 10.
1876, he would have found dispatch
from Washington. a column in length.
recit'ng certain facts. He would nave
there learned that his Secretary of
War had farmed out trading stores and
posts. He would have found that the
store at Camp Supply, Indian Terri
tory, paid ten thousand dollars a year.
that the store at Fort Sill paid six
thousand dollars year (preciseIy as
Belknap cunfesses), that store
IN Kansas pays eighteen hum
dred dollars year, while tort
Dodge returns two thousand. He
would hUve learned that one of |
his wife's relations-a real Dent-has |
a store in New Mexico, while rela-
tive of Baboock controls one at Fort |
Wallace. He might have gone over
the whole field and easily calculated |
that the trading stores at the various |
forts paid to s ome one very near his |
person at least a hundred thousand |
dollars year. He would have read |
the charge there distinctly made that
the recipient of this Observation-Disclosures
mail levied upon the poorly paid officers
and soldiers of the army-was his own
Secretary of War. He would have
read In these columns the very facts
winch Belkuap confessed"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

The theory of Genera Babcock,
says an exchange, and his counsel in
regard to that envelope containing
$500, said to have been mailed at st.
Louis for the General in Washington,
took these three shapes in succession:
l. Joyce, ''or any other man, never
sent any such enclosure. 2. Babcock
received the envelope, but there was
nothing in it, except a piece of blank
paper. 3. The envelope, with the $500
in it, addressed to General Babcock,
vas taken cut of ono of the st. Louis
street letter boxes, together with
similar one enclosing $500 to chief
clerk Avery, by the ;etter carrier
McGiil. All Of which recalls the ex
,Jlauations of Airs. Maiyina Mugg
when the servant of her ntighbor came
20 borrow Mrs. Mngg's wash tub: l
be hoops are all Of and il leaks badly.
:. It is fu of ,,uds, aud [ can't empty
1t uow. B I'd be glad, tell your
nissis, to let her take it, but I've lent
it to neigh nor. 4. The fact is I've
never had any tub washes in a barr
raj. These reasons of Mrs. Mugg
would have been emineatly satisfac-
tory to Judge Dillon and his jury.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

Grant wrote with his own hand the
letter accepting Belknap's resignation,
and SO accustomed was he to white.
washing scoundrels and such an I'M
conquerable love does he seem to have
for them, that he could not help ssying
to the confessed bribe- taker who stood
before him, that he parted from him
with great regreat." ''Great regret
at what. pray? He regretted Coifax
who was under fire. He regretted
Murphy who was under fire. He re-
GREETED Richardson who was under
fire. He regretted Delano who was
under fire. He regretted Landaulet
Williams Who was under fire. He re-
gretted Babcock who was under fire,
and he greatly regretted with his own
right hand the bribe-t aker Belknap!
Verify man of regrets. Pity the sor-
rows of poor old man.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
CHI EEK =

After the public exposure OF the part
taken by Pierrepont, if not by Grant,
in putting in Babcock's hands the evil
dence of the procedure against him
| and knowing the fact that Grant had
frightened the witness Marsh from
the country, it must have required a
deal OF cheek in his District Attorney,
Mr.. Wells. to enable him to approach
the Chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee and ask to be told what
evidence the committee had agains4
Belknap, and failing in this, to ask it
the committee thought it could con-
duct the Impeachment to a successful
termination without the testimony of
Marsh It mnst have required a great
de al of cheek to do this, yet Mr.. Dis
trict Attorney Wells did it. Bat this
is not all; for failing in this, he mas
had the members of the Investigating
committee summoned to appear before
the grand jury, hoping by that means
to get tae desired information,
But who so simple as to expect any,
thing better rom Wells and his
court. The Baltimore american.
(Republican) thus summary disposes
OF the prosecution Grant proposes to
subject Belknap to. 1t says:
"The result of the trial of the safe
burglars and the bogus bail rascal
cannot but instigate some doubt of the
issue OF the trial of any one in the
Criminal Courtat Washington, if there
are certain influences employed in his
behalf"
And nobody doubts that certain in
fuences are already at work, both to
shield Belknap and to stop further dis
closures.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

The Chicago Inter Ocean says the
committee of Investigation, if it do
sired to prevent the President from
accepting Belknap's resignation. ought
to have made the President acquainted
with the developments or to have
given him warning. Precisely! Dis
trict Attorney Dyer acquainted the
authorities at Washington with the de-
velopments against Babcock, and the
result was. Batcock was acquitted. A
burnt child breads the fire says the
homeiy old adage. But how about the
warning Mr.. Bristow gave the Presi-
dent before he accepted MIR. Be.knap's
resignation
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
And now the Presidents Washing!

Andnow the Presidents Washingto. !
City organ, the National Republican,
in its blind rage at the exposure Of
Secretary Belknap's infamy proposes
to go back and impeach Jacob Thomp-
son of MISSISSIPPI, Secretary of TIL In
terror and John B. Floyd. Secretary of
the War under Mr. Buchanan, saying
that if Beiknap can be impeached so
can Floyd and Thompson. III the first
place Floyd and Thompson were guilty
of no wrong. And thea, too, Floyd
has been dead for thirteen years! Try
again.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10

1.-The fortunate Belkuap, s'Ihe I'M
ate ex-Secretary of War;" is
what the Presidents Washington City
organ calls the sord d bride taker.
And it complains too that certain peo-
pie, not content with the public dis
grace into which the mln's misfor-
tunes have brought him, are attempt
ing TO 'blacken his private character. :"
Refreshing, isn't it?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10
COL CONKsIN'S EREDsCruoNS.


The Liberal Republican General
Committee of New York met last week,
and passed a resolution avowipg I'M
Willingness to affil ate with any party
opposing speedy re urn to specie pay
ments. Col. Z. A. Coukiin suppol ted
the resolution He was opposed, how
Ger, to any scheme that tended to
diff independent voters toward
Grantism. He spoke at len ,th Of the
humil ating disclosures relating to
Balknap. "Years ago the speaker pre-
dicted thai the r publican party
would be- forced to inceIdiarism to
cover up their maladministration
Within the past few months two fires
bad occurred in the public depart
ments in Washington. As an expert
i'll the fire insurance, he affirmed his
belief that both those fires were of in
cendiary origin. He would now reit-
crate the prediction that befole the
present Administration is swept out of
the Capital there will be fires in the
War Department, the Navy Depart
ment, the Bureau Of Public Justice,
and the Postof1ice Department"