Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-11
BOUTWELL'S HOLE IN THE
SKY.


An AMUSING Episode Of tao Great In.peach-
nsens Trial.
A writer In an Eastern publication, in
giving some "reminiscences OF the i'm
parchment of President johnson, says:
wish to give one other description
from this famous trial so full of interest
that relating to Gov. Boutwell's "Hole
in the Sky Having had the good fort
une to be present, can say, with all
truthfulness, that never have, before
Or since, witnessed large audience SO
convulsed with laughter as was the
whole Senate and the immense crowd of
spectators ON the occasion of Mr..
Evarts' reply to Gov. Boutwell,, touch
ing this astronomical wonder.
In the course Of his elaborate and
able argument, Gov. Boutwell, said:
"Travelers and astronomers inform
us that in the southern heavens, near
near the Southern Cross, there is a vast
space which the uneducated call the hole
in the sky, where the eye of man, with
the aid Of the powers Of the telescope,
has been unable to discover nebule, or
asteroid, or comet, or planet, star or
sun. In that dreary, cold, dark region
Of space, which is only known to be less
than infinite by the evidences Of crea-
ton elsewhere, the Great Author Of &C.
lestial mechanism has left the chaos
which was IN the beginning. IF this
earth were capable Of the sentiments
and emotions Of justice and virtue,
which in human mortal beings are the
evidences and the pledge of our divine
origin and immortal destiny, it would
heave and throe, with the energy of the
elemental forces of nature, and project
this enemy of races Of men into that
vast region, there forever to exist in
solitude as eternal as life, or as the alb
sence of life, ,emblematical of, if not
really, that outer darkness Of which
the Savior of man spoke in warning to
those who are the enemies of them
selves, of their race, and Of their God.
But it is yours to relieve, not to punish.
This done and our country is again ad-
vanced in the intelligent opinion of
mankind"
Here is what MIR. Evarts, when he
came to make his argument, said in re-
ply:
"1 may as conveniently at this point
of the argument as at any other pay
some attention to the astronomical pun
jshment which the learned and honora-
BILE manager, Mr.. Boutwell,, thinks
should be applied to this novel case Of
impeachment of the President. Cicero,
I think it is, who says that lawyer
should know everything, for, sooner OR
later, there is no fact in history, In sci
ence, or of human knowledge that Will not
comeintoplay inhis argument. Painfully
sensible Of my ignorance, being devoted
to profession which s'sharpens and does
not enlarge the mind I yet can admire
without envy the superior knowledge
evinced by the honorable manager. In
deed, upon my soul, I believe he is
aware of an astronomical fact which
many professors of that science are
wholly ignorant of. But, nevertheless,
while some of his honorable colleagues
were paying attention to an unoccupied
and unappropriated island on the sur
face of the seas, Mr.. Manager Boutwell,,
more ambitious, had discovered an I'M
tenanted and unappropriated region In
the skies, reserved, he would have us
think, in the final councils of the Al
mighty as the place Of punishment for
convicted and deposed American Presi-
dents.
eat first Thought that his mind had
become so enlarged that it was not
sharp enough to discover the constitu-
ton had limited the punishment, but on
reflection I saw that he was as legal and
logical as he was ambitious and astron-
omical, for the constitution has said 're-
moval from Office, and has put no limit
to the distance of the removal, so that it
may be, without shedding drop of his
blood, or taking penny of his property,
or combining his limbs, instant removal
from office and transportation to the
skies.
A LADY of Holyoke, Mass, has built