Year: 1868

peTdteiy uown III tn"s uyiug uOugo JndI mas
figured all through this impeachment story
There is no piece of news comes from Washing
ton of such good augury for the country
as that announcement that Stevens is down
again; while if it declare that there is
not the slightest hope of his recovery it
is reason for universal delight Not
that we wish to see the shortening of any
mans days, for indeed this despatch has no
relation to death or burial. It merely means
that something has happened to cross and excite
the most violent spirit of the radical circle that
things do not go exactly to suit that
narrow, savage and tyrannical temper; and
therefore the tyrannical temper is ready to
snuff itself out with its own fury, as the small
boy swore he would starve himself to death
if his granny did not give him all the ginger
bread he could cram. But the proceedings in
the Senate on Monday indicated fully to the
radicals hsw futile had been all their efforts to
force their programme upon reasoning men.
Sherman, though he would vote for certain of
the articles, would not vote for that important
first article that covers the case of Stanton





the whole case Of the radicals against John
son. Grimes pronounced against the whole bill,
urged that the Presidents innocence was made
plain in the arguments Of tho prosecution, and
told the impeaohers he could not vote with
them"could not consent to 90 beyond the
worst British Parliaments in the time of the
Plantaganets. Mr.. Trumbull, Mr. Henderson
and Mr.. Fessenden went the same; and at
once the radicals saw that they had not
only been unable to prove the President
guilty on the charges made, but also unable to
bully men into voting for those charges,
''proved or not proved Radicalism dared
not imagine the extent of its own weakness.
With all these strong men against it there
might be detection Of even some of the fceble
fellows it counted upon. II ran from this into
panic, and hence the adjournment Of ycster-
day-an adjournment to avoid a vote-to
escape defeat or a victory worse than defeat.


This adjournment is until Saturday, but it is
not likely that the vote on the Presidents guilt
will be taken then. impeachment will be
weaker on Saturday than it was on Tuesday.
Moreover the Chicago Convention is appointed
for Wednesday next, and somebody will be i'll
enough to justify the Senate in deferring the
verdict that might put Ben Wade into tb"
Presidential chair until it il determined
whether Wade or another is to be the party
candidate for the regular succession. There
will be great making up of poti-
cal states between this and Saturday,
and the character of these may even deter
mine whether or no impeachment is not done
with forever 1t has been shown that the
faction which claimed to rule the republican
party has not the power it pretended and if
that faction has been taught any modesty by
its failure-it 1t accepts the result and takes
to neutrality-suspicious. may die away like
any other nine days wonder, only standing in
our history to warn factions against striking at
those very foundations of the government that
have the respect of the whole people, without
regard to individual shortcomings. But If the
extreme radicals will carry the fight to the
death-if they are not content to view the
possibility Of o great new party crystalizing
around the mon who opposed Impeachment
If they still believe that this trial affords them
an opportunity to affect the Chicago Couven-
ton "by concussion," we iaay yet see Butler
bottled up in the Senate more oifectually than
he was at Bermuda Hundred, with several
other specimens in vials of the same size.