Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-05

went on to say 1.-THE acts Of those ne,
sons who opposed me, eliminated in
conspiracy to calumniate, to blacken, an,
tear down my character. Their conspil
acy eliminated in my impeachment. Al
impeachment without q parallel IN th,
annals of either America or Enpland
First. they got all the state officers to tr,
to Dust me, and then the conspirators tut
nished money, aud 4 hired attorney. il
their frantic efforts to force conviction
upon me. They also had seven man
ayers, to make up, and follow up theil
charges against me. The consplrstors
furnished from $25 up to as high as eco
per man TO hire an attorney 10 assist the
Legislature and Senate in prosecutinp
me. IAN unheard of thingD And who
was this attorney. A MT. Cloueh. A
goou lawyer perhaps, but how does he
figure in that trial? Why! nv friends
he appeared there in no character what
ever. He was not of record as an attor.
ney in the case. He had no position O,
character in the case, except that he
was allowed to continually open his
mouth and speak in the case,
and what he said was spread
upon the records of the Senate.
This man Clcugh 10 still in the employ
Of the conspirators. He is now, I under
stand, engaged in furnishing opin ions,
forgetting that he Is not the judicial dscta.
tor Of Mss pert Of the state! My i'm.
peachmcnt trial was stupendous fraud
and farce. The votes of members were
traff1cked in like cattle or sheep. Some
were caught to vote for my conviction by
promised aid to work through railroad
bill; some to work for this measure, and
some for that, until out of the whole
body there were but 50 LETT who stood I'D
like men and voted against the iuiquity
of my impeachment"
Here Page repeated from \ paper in
his hand the piece Of sott.scaping for the
Irish, which he got off at Austin. Obi
how he admired and venerated in his
heart Of hearts, the Irish honesty and
honor, that Impelled the Irish element
to vote for his acquittal. Oh! how firm,
like rock, they had stood through ali
The storm of bribery that could not
reach their Irish integrity. Page seemed
TO almost lose control Of himself in a
gush of admiration, and We expected to
hear him exclaim in the language Of Ar.
[emus Ward, "Be still, my sole, be still,
md you hart stop cuttin' up" When
Page became exhausted by love and re.
'pect for these Irish members, he turned |
md winked at his friend Mac, ION his
'ightO as much as to say: Oh! how
'olid like q rock the Irish vote would
make Us if we could catch it, aud Mac. |
'miled approvlngly. The Judge waded |
q again, and the way he talk.
ID about tee Irish was bcauti
III. He did not say that his parents
we're Irish, but rather intimated that he
'as always wished that his grandmother
lad been Irish too. 1t must be comfort
ng to Page to lie SO deliberately about
be Irish vote. In the House the record
hows there were but five members Of
rish nativity, viz: Bohan, keenan,, Ra.
lilly. McDermott, and McBroom. The
hree first named voted for Page, the
ther two against him. But of the most
important vote of sll-the senate VOTE
'age makes no reference to the Irish re-
ord. Whya Because two out of the
hree Irish Senators voted for his convic.
ION on every important article. Surely,
ur liberty-lovinE Irish friends did moi
land very firmly for Page:-ED] It.
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