Year: 1868

that the law and the evidence in this trial have
nothing to do with the verdict of the court;
that Johnsons removal was contrived and re-
solved upon beforehand as a party necessity;
that the Tenure of Office bill was the trap, and
that Stanton was employed as the decoy to an
trap him. 1t is not the act, therefore, of voting
for Johnson's acquittal that will fix the Senators
concerned con the gibbet of everlasting obo-
guy" but the act of voting his removal under
the party lash of Stevens. Are there any
Senators otherwise inclined to an acquittal
who will thus be frightened off? Let us wait
and see.


Our News from hbyasinia-The End Of


The0dOrus.


The Abyssnian expedition has reached a
point which few even in England believed
could have been reached in so brief space
Of time and with so little cost of blood and
treasure. The country was so far off and 80
little known, and the knowledge, which came
slowly and from 30 many unexpected quarters,
was Of such character that few felt encour-
aged to believe that the expedition, doubtful
to many from the outset, would not prove in
many important respects q failure. The news
which has reached us, most of il in the form of
special cable dispatches to the HERALD, shows
how timid everywhere, here and even in
England, calculations were. The result, which
has proved satisfactory in the extreme to all
those most Immediately interested, has at the
same time been most gratifying to all who
pay any attention to the cause of human pro-
gress. Civilization had been defied, civiliza-
ton was pleased to assert itself in spite of all
risk, and civilization has, happily, been triumph
ant. In this case unquestiOnably the cause
of Great Britain was the cause of the civilized
world, and, fortunately, in the interests Of the
civilized world, Great Britain has been sue
cessfnl even beyond expectation.


The tclegraphic news which has appeared
during the last three days in the columns of the
HERALD has put us in almost absolute posses
sion of all the leading facts of the case, and
days have been found sufficient to do what in
and even years to accomplish. The COM
mencement of this struggle was due entirely to
the folly and barbarism of Theodorus. Folly
and barbarism have again, and in very en-
phatio manner, been taught at what level to
place themselves in the modern world. The
supposed impregnable fortress of Magdala
has been captured, the prisoners are
at liberty, and Theodorus, the fool
and the tyrant, is no more. All this has
been accomplished, and amid difficulties be-
lieved by many to be insurmountable, without
the loss of single life, so far as we know the
result is triumph not only to civilization, but
to something within civilization-to skilled
generalship and first class military training.
All the world rejoices that the prisoners are
free; few regret that Thcodorus has perished,
and fewer still have sorrow that the original
accomplished.


Our dispatches inform us that the Queens
army was to set out on its return imme-
diatcly. Why should it be otherwise -? 1t had
done its work and done it well. 1t had seen
and made its own all the treasured wealth of
the Abyssinian monarch-four crowns of solid
gold, including, perhaps, the crown Of the
Queen of Sheba, with much gold and silver
plate aud jewels and other articles of value.
We have no doubt at all that the wealth thus
captured will go to England, that the crown
jewels will receive an important addition, and
that the British Museum viii be enriched
thereby. We are not so sanguine, however,
that Abyssinia is to be abandoned at once and
forever. The rains will soon he on: the noun
tain passes will soon be raging and impassa-
BILE torrents; communication with the lower
ground and with the sea will soon be impossi-
ble return, therefore, TO their base of opera
tons is absolutely necessary. 1t will not even
surprise us if Sir Robert Napier sho''l turn
for season to Bombay. We cam. believe,
however, and we can discover no reason why
IL should be so, that Abyssinia should be aban
doned at once and finally. The previous history
of British conquest renders such conclusion
in the last degree improbable. The prcsump-
| ton is that the troops, for the present, will
| leave the higher grounds that they will oc.
| cupy some secure and entrenchcd position in
the neighborbood of Annesley Bay that The
| rains and the foods will be allowed TO come
and go and that then some final measures
will be adopted, If not for the permanent oc
| cupation Of Abyssinia, at least for the conver.
| sion of the Red Sea into q British lake. SiI
Robert Napier has, meanwhile, won COLDER
opinions and has proved himself not only
worthy of the illustrious family to which he be
longs. and worthy Of his day and generation, bu
worthy, too, of o first place In the front rank


of the military commanders of all times. HI
has proved himself master Of the grandest o
all economies--the economy Of human life.