New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
Obe NoUersber Magazines.
Reminiscent of Jacksons nauguraonBen Butler and the
johnson achmentThe Countrys Debt 10 Jay Cooke

from of the most monumental briefs ever
submitted to court OF law, utterly ohliviOus of
the hunor Of hurting authorities at tribunal
supposed to be "a, law unto ITSELF This pTellm-
mary fiction was, however, only q forerunner Of
those that TO follow, and. starting with the
proposition that Johnson was merely filling out
Lincoln's uneNpired term. the champion casuist
argued that Stanton could not be removed from
Office under the Tenure of Office act because he
had been appointed by Lincoln, and the law pro-
tected all officials during the term Of the Presi-
dent by whom they had been appointed john
sons term being Lincoln's term, the President
had violated the law by removing the Secretary
of War, and thereby forfeited his office. The
jury exhorter than turned to the more familiar
field of cheap inVective, and the bored and sleepy
audience reused itself to listen to gusty eIo-
uuence in which the Presidents opposition to the
Congress was denounced as criminal, and wordy
chastiEement administered for the sin OF criti
cising political opponents. little Of this diver
zion, however, soon palled upon the galleries
and at the end of three hours the orator relieved
the suffering visitors by closing with a pane
gyric on the great example which the American
people were about to afford the wondering ma
tions Of the earth by peacefully removing an OBJ
noxous ruler, while your king, MOnarchist!
if he becomes a tyrant can only be displaced
through revolution, bloodshed and civil war!"
This absurd fustian must have fairly disgusted
those Senators who knew in their heart of hearts
that the power Of impeachment was being mis-
used for party purposes. Indeed. before the
weary day ended there some evidence of a
reaction in the Presidents favor and the case
had already begun TO totter-Frederick Trevor
Eill IN Harper's Magazine.
II the time ever comes when the history Of
wars shall be written on their financial side, It
will be clearly understood how much
armies and navies. too often made the fulcrum
of every calculation, must depend upon the
ergy, determination and strategy displayed IN
assembling the great sums Of money needed
in modern warfare. The world has growE larger
in many ways, but forty years does not make
Jaw Cookies task seem the less gigantic.
The American Civil War added to the debt
of the Union nearly 50, 800 00000O exclusive OF
all that could be obtained by heavy ordinary
and extraordinary taxes. We raised in five
wears by long loans and virtually without for
efcn aid almost as great sum Great Britain
borrowed and put TO her national account be-
tween the years 1893 and 1915. the period of
her prolonged struggles with Napoleon and her
second war with the United States.
Besides all this, there the debts Of the
Ioyal states and municipalities. well as a
great mass of obligations which never were
and never will be paid, representing the pc
cuniary sacrifice of the people of the South.
Indeed the most careful and expert of statisti-
clans cannot compute the full money cost OF the
Civil War.
The vast expenditures OF these years could
not be met by any method known to the govern
,nent of the United States. Robert Morris
accounted to have achieved a great triumph
when he sent Washington $50 600 for his opera
tions around Trenton and borrowed S2O0OD
from Rochambeau TO set the ragged Continental
army before Yorktown, Stephen Girard.
other Philadelphia fnsncer, had assisted tina