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Year: 1868

adopted his policy, voted for that same reso-
luton (that he had no power to remove and ap-
point Secretary of War Gd interina) declaring
his doom. Will any of them vote for his
acquittal on the ground of its unconstitution-
ality? know that Senators would venture to
do any necessary act if endorsed by an honest
conscience and an enlightened public opinion;
but neither for the sake of the President nor of
any one else would one of them suffer himself
to be tortured on the gibbet of everlasting
obloquy. Nothing is, therefore, more certain
than that it requires no gift Of prophecy to pre-
dict the fate Of this unhappy victim"


This, then, in other words, is the way in
which Mr.. Stevens clinches his argument:-
''Here are your votes, Senators, on the Tenure
of Office law and on its violation Here are
your names on the record. Look at them;
they all commit you and bind you to give judg
ment against Andrew johnson. Mark and
remember. Bolt, if you dare; but be warned
that If you do bolt you will be tortured on the
gibbet of everlasting obloquy; that we will hunt
you down and hang you up to dry" Under
this presentation this trial is mere formality,
an empty mockery, only resorted to in order
to meet the forms of the constitution, the Senate
having pronounced judgment against Andrew
Johnson before he was indicted by the House.
| 1t is morally certain, too, that the conviction
and removal of this officer upon the fimsy
charges preferred will be judged at the bar of
public opinion as mere idle formalities, and
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 party necessity;
that the Tenure of Office bill was the trap, and
that Stanton was employed as the dscoy to an
trap him. 1t is not the act, therefore, of voting
for Johnson's acquittal that will fix the Senator'S
concerned ''on the gibbet Of everlasting oblo-
quy," but the act of voting his removal under
the party lash of Stevens Are there any
Senators otherwise inclined to an acquttal
who will thus be frightened off? Let us watt
and see.
Year: 1868

Our Panama correspondent complains Of the
irregular and evidently careless fashion in
which the mails are made up and sent from the
New York Post Office. He cites two instances
which are certainly Incompatible with the
proper performance of public duties in that es-
tablishment. One is the arrival at Panama,
instead Of at London, of a mail bag containing
dispatches for Mr.. Charles Francis Adams,
American Minister at the Court of England.
Another Is the receipt Of letter from this
Office to the HERALD correspondent at Panama,
dated in January last, which had been sent to
Bremen and returned to Central America.
There must be great indifference and misera-
BILE system in the New York Post Office when
such things as these can occur, and we shall
have to look forward to the advent OF Greeley
to the Office of Postmaster General under Old
Ben Wade in the hope that he will give us
better Postmaster in New York. But it Is not
alone in Panama that causes of complaint lie.
We have something to say about the negligence
practised at home. II frequently happens that
when European steamer arrives here at five
or six o'clock in the afternoon the foreign papers
for this Office, which contain most valuable mat


ter, are not delivered to us until near midnight,
and even our more important dispatches and files
from our correspondents abroad, containing ma
rine news and late political events do not
Year: 1868

GREELEY IN HURRY.-Greeley is in great
hurry to get his Cabinet appointment under Old
Ben Wade, and he cannot afford to wait
moment in his eagerness to push on the trial Of
Andrew johnson. He is as irrepressble as .
fiery steed in the circus. Therefore his cry Of
con to Richmond" has assumed the tone Of
con to conviction" He will not have the
President get either time for preparation
or mercy or 'beneft of clergy" when he il
convicted. He must be ousted at once to
make way for the President ad interim, who is
expected to put Greeley into the Post Office
Department. So howls the radical organ.
Year: 1868

content themselves to see the national finances
in ruinous condition; for no one could expect
safe remedy from any man now in place.
But let no man suppose that all this record is
not every day weighed and tried in the brain
of that great, quiet man Of the people who is
beyond the reach Of the demagogue and the
promiser Of offices. The people are quiet
enough now; but suddenly, some day, over
the whole North and West they win rise with
the same energy and discriminate purpose in
the determination Of great questions they have
hitherto shown, and will sweep away like a
whirlwind all the corrupt, selfish, dangerous
men who now believe they are so near to abso-
lutte, supreme power. So have the American
people always made themselves felt. They are
patient because they would wrong no one,
would never judge one party by the denuncia-
tion of another; but they who aim at the vital
principles Of government must secure for them
selves the fate of public enemies. Let no one,
therefore, misinterpret the patience of the
masses or despair for the country because the
people take things so calmly.
Year: 1868

reach us until the next morning, and thus fre-
quently become Of little or 10 value.


We recommend Mr.. Kelly to look after the
foreign mail bags, and have the contents, for
which we pay pretty heavily, delivered In
some time to be Of use. We are afraid that
the New York Post Office is demoralized, and
needs q thorough renovation.
Year: 1868

AFRICAN lMrRovIpENcE. The negroes on
Red River plantation, after picking twelve
bales of cotton, all quilted their work and
went to the Freedmen's Bureau Agent and
demanded six 3ales of it to be set apart to
them, without going on to pick out the res
idue. To this the planter objected that their
contract was to pick out the whole crop, and
that half would be theirs, and that they
could not demand any until all was gath
cred. The Bureau Agent agreed with him
in this view Of the contract. and babe the
negroes return and complete it, and then have
the division of crop to which they were en-
titled. The Southern negro's idea of life is
well illustrated in this action. Satisfy for
him the wants Of the hour, end he has no
more regard for his own interest, or that Of
those associated with him, than the unthink-
ing brute.-CaN.
Year: 1868

SourHsrpR CRITICISM OF GRANT.-If Bar
low and Belmont and the other wise men of
the Manhattan Club do not turn their city
organ from its present course 1t will ruin all
the chances Of any democratic candidate for
the Presidency. 1t will elect Grant by simply
making the people believe that all opposition
to him flows only from sympathy with the foe
he whipped In battle. 1t is now engaged in
writing him down on his failure to destroy Lee
without absolutely overpowering him, and
cites a. an instance against him the different
numbers with which Taylor beat Santa Anna
at Buena Vista. Taylor had Mexicans to fight,
while Grant had TO fight soldiers that have no
superiors for fighting qualities on earth, and
he had to drive them from splendidly con-
structed works. All this the people under
stand; but not so the Manhattan organ.
Belmont and Barlow ought to open its eyes or
shut Il up; otherwise people will suppose IL ID
In the pay Of the radicals.
Year: 1868

The Impeachers and the Republican Party.


The United States Senate, as the High Court
OF Impeachment, in pursuance OF the order at
its last adjournment, reassembles to-day. The
unfinished business before it is the vote on
each of the remaining ten articles of the House
indictment against Andrew johnson, and the
general belief is that if without further
ceremony the vote is taken on them each
of the remaining ten articles will 90 the
way of the eleventh. But the House Man
ayers are apparently resolved upon a further
postponement, in view Of an amended indict-
ment and of some additions from the South to
the impeachers in the Senate. They have,
too, with ''Old Ben Wade" as their favorite for
the dispensation Of the spoils, desperate
faction of followers ready for any expedient to
get Johnson out and "Oid Ben" in the White
House, for the reason that with Wade as Presi-
dent ad interim they can have all the fat
Offices distributed to their liking, and, 80 dis
tributed, the Tenure oS Office law will hold
them even against Grant. This is the game
of the impeachers, and 1t is getting to be .
very dangerous game as it begins to be under
stood by the original Grant republicans of
Congress- We have no objection, however, to
this squabble between the Wade and the genu-
inc Grant members of the two houses, be-
cause, if prosecuted as Stevens and Butler
propose, we shall have larger breach in the
radical camp than that of seven Senators.
And SO, we say, let this radical prosecution
and persecution of Andrew Johnson go on.
Year: 1868

The Chicago republican platform on the two
leading questions of the day-the money ques-
ton and the negro suffrage queston--is
thing of two faces, yea, we may say, Of four.
On the money question it has face looking
East and a face looking West; and on the
negro suffrage question it has face looking
North and face looking South. We have
shown that on the national debt this double
faced platform may be claimed by Butler as
calling for greenbacks, and by Greeley as
demanding gold for the fve-twenties. On
negro suffrage thus reads this two faced
platform:-''Thatt the guarantee by Congress of
equal suffrage to all loyal men in the South
was demanded by every consideration Of public
safety, of gratitude and of justice, and must
be maintained; while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to the
people of those States" This is a shabby
back down from the grand radical ideas
of universal suffrage" Impartial suffrage"
and ''equal rights" Congress, having forced
universal negro suffrage upon the late rebel
Southern States, is bound to maintain 1t over
them; but Ohio and New York last fall, and
Michigan this spring, having each by heavy
popular majority repudiated universal negro
suffrage, Congress will not touch them nor do
ANYTHING for their colored populations. Mr..
Senator Summers bill providing by act of Con-
gress for universal negro suffrage over all the
States must be held back for more con-
venient season, and Wendell Phillips and his
radical pioneers are left to mourn over or
revolt against the treachery Of the Chicago
Convention. The genuine equal rights radi-
Gals North and South, If not double dealers
themselves with Sambo, will show their scorn
and contempt Of the double dealing republicans
by putting an independent Presidential ticket
in the field without loss Of time.
Year: 1868




SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH AND THE POWER OF
WHIsKEY.-A number of religious assemblies
and conferences were going on in various parts
Of the country at the time of the sittings Of
the Chicago Convention. One of them, in
Michigan, we perceive, suspended its regular
proceedings on hearing of Grants nomination,
and, full Of the spirit, sang the standard Dox-
ology amid great enthusiasm. Another, q
Southern Baptist conference, more on the cold
water principle, as Baptists usually are, re-
Trained from expressing its sentiments; while
the Old School and New School Presbyterian
Assemblies held up on the fight about reunion,
and after rolling the nomination like deli
cious morsel under their tongues, braced up
their muscles and went at it again, endeavor-
ing
To prove each doctrine orthodox


by apostolic blows and knocks.


Grant will, no doubt, receive some opposi-
tion from strictly pious men on account Of bis
reputed occasional happy moods; but on the
whole 1t Is q question whether the spirit Of the
Church will overcome the power Of whiskey,
and between the two Grant will stand about
an even chance. with all the heavy weights In
his favor.
Year: 1868

The Excitement In Government Securities.


The sensation of the day in Wall street is
the rush to buy United States bonds and the
consequent rapid advance in prices. The
home investment demand is unusually heavy,
while. the purchases on foreign account since
the Senate vote on impeachment have taken
the dealers by surprise, and their great diff
Guilty is in supplying the demand. The Eng
lish, the German and the French bankers are
buying fve-twenties and ten-forties; but the
call for the latter just now is particularly ac-
tive, owing to the last of these bonds-if we
except three hundred thousand dollars-having
been sold by the Treasury, as well as to the
still more important fact that they are the only
bonds the principal-alike with the interest
of which is payable in gold under the
authorizing act. Moreover, they run for forty
years from their date, whereas fve-twen-
ties only run for twenty, with the privi-
lege to the government Of redeeming the
former after ten years and the others after
five years from the date of their issue. Yester-
day there was further general advance of a
half per cent in prices, and the excitement in
the dealings surpassed anything that has been
seen in Wall street since war times. AS yet
there are no signs that the eliminating point
in this movement is approaching; aud as our
national securities are still the cheapest IN the
country and money is superabundant, prices
bid fair to rise considerably higher. Railway
shares, although little more active than usual
of late, are comparatively neglected, and even
the heavy operations going forward in Pacific
Mail fail to divert attention from United States
bonds. This is a good sign of the times.
Year: 1868

Th0 Impeachers and the Telegraph.


The conduct of the impeachers in seizing and
examining private kilograms is no less illegal
than it is atrocious. The law is exceedingly
strict which protects the rights of all who inter
change communications by the telegraph. If
it be impossible to reach directly the insolent
nquisitors-Butler and his compeers, who
have betrayed by this glaring instance what
they would venture upon in the violation Of
private rights, if their party only possessed
full despotic power-and to infiict due punish
ment on them, it is both possible and desirable
for those individuals whose kilograms have
thus been seized and examined to indct and
prosecute the telegraph companies which had
the weakness to yield to the preposterous de-
mands of Butler & Co., and which are re-
sponsible to their patrons for the inviolability
of the private messages entrusted to them.
The Western Union Telegraph Company now
protests, but too late, against the conduct of
the impeachers, and refuses to deliver kilograms
to them unless legally constrained. When at
the time of the Orsini attempted assassination
of the Emperor of the French Sir James
Graham violated the secrecy of private letters
all England was full of excitement and indig-
nation. But the apathy with which the
American people submit to an equally fragrant
outrage on the part of Butler-who evidently
imagines that he is strutting over again his
brief hour of. authority as military governor
of a Southern town during the war-this apathy
indicates less delicate sensibilty and less vigi-
lance for individual liberty and rights in our
republic than are to be found in monarchical
Great Britain. The rumored seizure by the
Impeachment Managers of Minister Thornton's
dispatches to the British government among
the indiscriminate bundles which they recently
carried away may lead to serious international
difficulty. The British government is fairly
entitled to demand explanation and satisfaction
for 80 high-handed an act.
Year: 1868




not have been complete If America had not
had to do with it. Cause for wonder and amaze
ment would have been less had it not been for
the enterprise of the NEW YORK HERALD. What
had America, what had the United States,
what had the NEW YORK HERALD to do
with Abyssinia, with the British expedition,
with Theodorus or with Napier? Why should
a New York journal be at the expense
and trouble Of keeping the British govern
ment posted as to the condition and prospects
of its army in Abyssinia? Why should 1t be
so that what the world has learned Of that
country and of that expedition which is worth
learning has been learned at the expense and
by means Of the enterprise Of the NEW YORK
HERALD! All this puzzles sadly the peoples
and governments Of Europe, but puzzles most
sadly Of all some of our New York contem-
poraries. They cannot understand II. The
reason is obvious--they do not understand the
p ,per province of modern journalism. Our
enterprise is atrocious; we are another great
criminal" and for this terrible crime they
are celebrating whether we ought not to be
expelled from the Associated Press OF New
York. God help the mark!
Year: 1868

Movements I'm His FavOr-Opinions Of a


Prominent Democratic Politician-Chase and


Hancock the Trket for the Fourth Of July


Convention.


WASHINGTON, May 20, 1868.


Nothing strikes the uninitiated In Washington with
greater surprise than the extraordinary spirit mani
tested within the past few days among democratic
politicians to push prominently into the foreground
the claims and advantages Of Chief Justice Chase as
the Presidential candidate Of the conservative
The astonshment arises from the apparent sudden
ness OF the movement, put there are those who are
well aware that Chief Justice Chase and the demo-
cratic party have been drawing by slow but cer-
tain stages nearer to each other since the
time Andrew Johnson took his stand against revo-
lutonary Congress. A prominent democratic poll
tician from the West, and one who wieds more in
iuence with only single exception than any other
in his section, said to-day that the great aim OF
the democracy in the approaching contest will and
must be the overthrow Of the radical party and not
the success of any man or set of men who may set
themselves up or be set up as the genuine
apostles OF undefled democratic doctrines. Pen
deton and men of his stamp will have to give way
to others whose record may secure a more popular
Vote and give greater assurance OF victory m the
asSepssg nave sTSsss g ranks Hss9 y s Ss g.
ponents and take cand date from there, under
NuVrc icducislhP tucJ H8ut Hopc W WIN, thctc
be no hesitation In de!ng SO on the part Of those
who believe that the breaking down OF the power of
fadlsallsm Is fag more vital object than the trl.
umph OF partisan leaders. IL is In this mood that
some of the most vigorous men OF the democratic
party, here toby in Washington, bring forward tie
ntne OF CHIEF Justice Chase. and make no hesta-
hon In saying that they are prepared to urge his
nominau0n at the July Convention. though majority
OF the democratic party may now be unable to see
his particular fitness TO represent them. But then
the example Of Grant Is quoted who was conceded
TO the conservatives till within few months ago,
aud yet Is now the applauded candidate OF
the extreme radicals, and all because he
wrote particular Kind Of letter TO An
drew Johnson, who might have received one
IN similar tone from anybody who happened not
70 ike him personally. The democratic politician
before alluded to can see no diriculty in framing
| thoroughly democratic platform, recognizing, OF
course, the settled issues OF the war, upon which
onase win be willing 10 stand. He thinks such
ucket as Chase and Hancock, uniting Is II would
.ne West and East, the civilian and the soldier, and
repIesehtng all that IL gallant, well bred, chvalrOus
anu uignined In the American character, would
commanu the respect and favor OF the great mass OF
tne people ana lend weight and lustre to the
eAeCu'Ne department OF the government which
M Mwoula eh4ance its Importance In the eyes o. the
Year: 1868

lie calls the attention OF the Legislature
To- this important subject and recommends
the Incorporation OF society and the ap-
propria, on Of a sum of money to enable il
To prosecute the work Of linn igration with
vigor and system.
Year: 1868

CarbOnic acid, now extensively used for
various purposes, besides the preparation
of soda water, is made cheaPIy on a large
scale by the following process:


A number of retorts are placed in a fur
mace precisely as for the production of coal
gas, and filed with mixture ofsulpbate OF
lime or plaster of Paris and charcoal the
latter in quantity sufficient to absorb all
the oxygen of the sulPhate Of lime. The
plaster of Paris is converted into sulphide
Of calcium. and carbOnic acid gas escapes,
and after purifcatiOn by passing through
water is conducted into gasometers. A cur
rent OF air passed over the hot sulphide Of
calcium reconverts it into suIphAts Of lime,
and the process may thus be repeated in
definitely.
Year: 1868

The truth is, an editor cannot step with
out treading on somebody's toes. II he
expresses opinions fearlessly and frankly
he is arrogant and presumptious. If he
states facts without comments, he dares not
avow his sentiments. If he conscientious
" refuses to advocate the claims of an indi-
vidual to office, be is accused of personal
hostility A jackanapes, who measures
of words into verses as clerk does tape
by the yard-hands him a parcel of stuff
which iiugles like q handful Of nails and a
gimlet, and il the editor is not fool enough
to print the nonsense-"stoP my paper !;
won't patronize man that's no better
Judge of poetry" AS if it was patronage
to buy paper at about one half more than
so much waste paper would cost. One
murmurs because his paper is too literary
another, because it is not literary enough,
One grumbles because the advertisements
engross too much room-sHotheT complains
that the paper is 200 large, he can't fad
time to read it sll--another that it is too
small, even if the price be no more than
the cost of chew OF tobacco or q pinch Of
snuF-or says lady, it won't make a
sieve pattern. One wants a type SO small
that microscope would be indispensable
in every famiTy--another threatens to dis
continue tbs paper, unless ths letters are


half an irch long--Ons old lady actually Of
fsred an additional price for a paper that
should be printed with such types as are
used for bandbills


Every subscriber has a plan of his own,
for conducting journal. and the labor Of
Sysipbus was RECREATION, when compared
with that Of al editor who undertakes to
please all
Year: 1868

Some persons fall on the highway of life
because they cannot be this or that eminent
person. Why not be willing TO be them
selves p? No person, who ever has or will
live, is without influence. Why not make
the most of that2 Since you cannot grasp
that which you wish. why let what you
have slip through your fingers? No per-
son in the world is exactly like you. You
have your own excellence. Give them air.
Because you are not poet should you not
be a good merchant? Because you osnnot
60 to college, should you therefore for
swear the alphabet? Because you cannot
build palace, should you not rejoice in
your own humble roof, and that because IL
is your own?
Year: 1868

In the course of human events, it is ex-
Pected that the next gubernatOrial election
in this State will be held early in August,
1869. It is some twelve months off yet
bat there's nothing like being in the field
early. Therefore our contemporary Of the
Sbelbyvills Union hastsns TO say:


So far as We are concerned We have but
one choice, and that is Andrew johnson, Of
the county Of Greene, and BOW President of
ths United States. Would Mr.. JOhnsoR
accept such position We are certain
that he would. and We repeat that We are
for him. Hereafter we shall have muoh
more to say in regard to the matter.
Year: 1868

The radical organs point with an assum-
sd air Of triumph to the fact that those men
in the South who were in the rebellion pre-
fer the Democratic to the 4adical party
Why should they not prefer the Democrat
ic to the radical party-Prefer the party.
which. since they resumed their allegiance,
have been in favor Of securing to them their
civil, personal and political rights, and
treating them like white men, 10 q party
that Is for stripping them Of all rights and
even the means Of livlibood and putting
them under the long black heels Of negroes?
Extraordinary preferencs-isn't it?