Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-28
a tyrant who hated the world and de-


that shall rive and blast his children's
children until they shrink from their
Town name as from the touch of pollu-
tion!"
| He gasped for breath his restless
hands fumbled at his throat, he stag
gered and would have fallen had not
his black guards caught him. He re-
vived, pushed them back on their
launches and sat down. And then,
with his big club foot thrust straight
in front of him, his gnarled hands
gripping the. arms of his chair, the
massive head shaking back and forth
like a wounded lion, he continued his
speech, which grew in fierce intensity
| with each laboured breath.
| The effect was electrical. Every
senator leaned forward to catch the
| lowest whisper, and so awful was the
suspense in the galleries the listeners
grew faint.
When his last mad challenge was
| hurled into the teeth of the judges, the
dazed crowd paused for breath and the
galleries burst. into storm OF ap-
plause.
| In vain the chief justice rose his
lion-like face livid with anger, pound
ed for order, and commanded the gal
leries to be cleared.
They laughed at him. Roar after
roar was the answer. The chief JUS
| tice in loud angry tones ordered the
| sergeant at arms to clear the galleries.
Men leaned over the rail and shout
ed in his face:
He can't do it,"
He hasn't got men enough"
Let him try 1t If he dares!"
The doorkeepers attempted to en-
| force the order by announcing 1t In
| the name of the peace and dignity and
sovereign power Of the senate over Its
sacred chamber. The crowd had now
become a bowling mob which jeered
hem.
Senator Grimes, of Iowa, rose and
demanded the reason why the senate
was thus inSulted and the order had
| not been enforced.
A volley of Kisses greeted his ques-
ton.
The chief justice evidently quite ner-
vous, declared the order would be en-
| forced.
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois. moved
that the offenders be arrested.
In reply the crowd yelled:
Wed like to see you do it,
| At length the mob began to slowly
leave the galleries under the impression
that the high court had adjourned
Suddenly a man cried out:
Hold on! They amt going to ad-
journ. Let's see 1t OUT"
Hundreds took their seats again. In
the corridors a crowd began to sing In
wild chorus:
"Old Grimes is dead that poor old
man." The women Joined with glee.
Between the verses the leader would
| curse the Iowa senator as a traitor and
copperhead. The singing could be dis
| tinctly heard by the court as Its roar
tho omen doors
When the senate chamber had been
cleared and the most disgraceful scene
that ever occurred within its portals
had closed, the high court Of impeach-
ment went into secret session to con-
slider the evidence and it's verdict.
Within an hour from its adjourn
ment 1t was known to the managers
that seven Republican senator's were
doubtful, and that they formed a
group under the leadership of two
great constitutional lawyers who still
believed in the sanctity of judges
oath-Lyman Trumbull, Of Illinois, and
William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine.
Around them had gathered Senators
Grimes of Iowa, Van Wrinkle, of Rhode
Island, Fowler of Tennessee, Hen
derson, of Missouri, and Ross, of Kan
SaS. The managers were in a panic.
| If these men dared to hold together
Wlln lTe Twelve btIllOCIdlS, lIlS piSo-
| ident would be acquitted by one vote
| they could count thirty-four certain
| for conviction.
The Revolutionists threw to the
winds the last scruple of decency, went
| into caucus and organised a conspiracy
| for forcing within the few days which
must pass before the verdict, these
judges to submit to their decree.
Fessenden and Trumbull were
threatened with impeachment and eX-
pulsion from the senate and bombarded
| by the most furious assaults from the
press, which denounced them as infa-
nous traitors, las mean, repulsive and
noXious as hedgehogs in the cages OF a
| travelling menagerie.'
| A mass meeting was held In Wash-
| ington which said:
| "Resolved, that we impeach FeSsea-
den, Trumbull, and Grimes at the bar
of justice and humanity, as traitors
before whose guilt the infamy of Ben
| edict Arnold becomes respectaDlllty
and decency."
The managers sent out a circular
| telegram to every state from which
came a doubtful Judge:
Great danger 10 the peace OF the
country if Impeachment fails. Send
your senators public opinion by resolu-
| tions, letters, and delegates"
The man who excited most wrath
was Ross, of Kansas. That Kansas of
all states should send traitor was
more than the spirits of the Revolu-
tionists could bear.
| A mass meeting in Leavenworth ac-
cordingly sent him the telegram:
| Kansas has heard the evidence and
demands the conviction of the Presi-
dent
ID. r. ANTHONY and 1000 others"
To this Ross replied:
| II have taken an oath to do impair
| tial Justice / trust l shall have the
courage and honesty to vote according
to the dictates of my judgement and
for the highest good of my country
He got this answer:
Your motives are Indian contracts
and greenbacks. Kansas repudiates
you as she does all perjurers and
skunkS."
The managers organised an inquisi-
ton for the purpose of torturing and
badgering Ross into submission. His
one vote was all they lacked.
They laid siege to little Winnie Ream
the sculptress to whom congress had
Awarded Il contract for the statue of
Lincoln. Her studio was in the crypt
of the Capitol They threatened her
with the wrath of congress, the loss OF
her contract and ruin of her career un-
less she found a way to induce Sen
Iator Ross. whom she knew. to vote
against the president.
Such an attempt to gain by fraud the
verdict of a common court of law
would have sent its promoters to pris-
on for felony. Yet the managers or
this case. before the highest tribunal
of the world. not only did it without a
blush of shame. but cursed as a trail
tor every man who dared to question
heir motives.
AS the day approached for the court
to vote, Senator Ross remained to
friend and foe a sealed mystery. Re
porters swarmed about him, the target
of a thousand eyes. His rooms were
besieged by his radical constituents
who had been imported from Kansas