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changed. His BODY became 4, E ereot.
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mess of youth .S His cheeks flusbei, Al
through the shasiqe gray beard. IIis
memory, formerly hating and ,1l3a, M.
certain, worked With the precision s. of
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change upon the merits of 1 the oase
HE feels that ii was The m,at for;h;cal
hour In the life of the republic: that
the maintenance Of tie balanoae 81
the government between the leoiala.
tive, executive and judicial overs s :,
was az stake that had Nj. John.
son been removed the preaidencv
would have become 4 mere bureau
for CARRYING out the will of Congress-
and that the Supreme Court w,onld
have fallen as "a soon dc it suited the
purposes Of the majority al Con-
gress.
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Speaking further upon the event
upon which his mind seems ever. 10
rest, Governor Ross said s.D oualas'
said, after the passage Of the Kansas
and Nebraska BILL that he could.
travel from New York to Chicago ,by
the light of his burning effigies. If
effigies were honors i was more dis
tinguished than he. I don't believe
there was even a by. path Of a coun. ID,
try road in all the North so obscure
but it was lighted by burning efigies
Of me. OF course that was not
pleasant. Nor coald ISenioy having
many Of the men whom ii had long
regarded as my party leaders, my
associates in the Senate, refuse me
all recognition. T was made a pariah,|
q political 9leper,S a thing unclean.
But I could not help it. No man
can ever know the struggle that vote
cost me. ] went into the trial avery,
radical Republican. was Just ont
Of the army. had been through,
all the bitterness Of the .border war
in Kansas, and fighting against
Price and the Missouri guerrillas,
I was thoroughly imbued with
tho strong feeling always en-
gendered by such warfare. Ny
people were as extreme radi-
Gals as I, and in representing them /
had strenuously opposed the Presi-
dents policy of reconstruction.
When the House Of Representatives
brought the impeachment charges, I
had MOI idea but that they were we'll
founded. IL, never occurred to me
that that high remedy would be
resorted to as Q mere move upon the