Year: 1868




by the defence yesterday has caused profound
sensation here, and not without good cause, for it
seems to be admitted generally that unless the Pres
dents counsel can discover some legal ingenuity
whereby the rejected testimony as 70 the Presidents
declaration OF intent may be made competent
the trial Is virtually at Its close, nothing
remaining but to hear the summing up
speeches OF the Managers and their opponents II
In the opinion OF the Senators General Sherman
cannot be examined as to what the President said
explanatory OF his object and intention in suspend.
ing and removing Secretary Stanton; II he cannot
relate what occurred in the many conversations pre-.
ceding the act which led to this extraordinary i'm.
peachment, II he cannot state that the President
told him no violence was contemplated and that
only peaceful judicial settlement OF the
knotty point was sought for, neither can the
Cabinet officers testify on the same point, nor
can any other of the witnesses who have been sum-
moned for that purpose, with the single exception
Of whether the case OF Stanton comes under the
Civil Tenure bill at all, and whether that being
taken as proved anirmatvely, the mere act Of au-
thorizing Thomas to take charge of the War once
constitutes violation Of the provisions Of the act,


ls question q the Presidents intention s the most
vital one involved in the trial. Supposing,
nS1.efore, as seems probable now, that the
Senate consider Stantons removal as not
only within the act, but clear violation
OF 1t, and that 1t persists in ruling out evidence
a. to INTENT 1t Is manifest that the Presidents de-
fence is completely shattered and that only one
result logically can be reached-a verdict OF guilty
and consequent removal In this view of the matter
1t would seem as If the whole case will be terminated
much sooner than predicted week ago, and that
before the end Of the next six days Ben Wade
or some other new occupant may be doing
the honors at the Executive Mansion. We live
IN fast age and things are rushing forward
with remarkable speed hereabouts. 1t need
not surprise people, therefore, If, within the brief
time have mentioned, Andrew Johnson shall
have become stripped of Presidential authority, and
Benjamin the First elevated to the chief magistracy
1t is possible, OF course that something may happen
between then and now to upset the programme; but
a. matters look at present there seems to be but
little chance Of slip "'twixt the cup and the lip"


The Presidents counsel have not thrown up the
sponge by any MEANS for they talk OF fighting the
battle over again Tomorrow having it is supposed,
hit upon some plan, since the adjournment yes.
terday, by which they intend to strive to carry
the very point upon which they so badly beaten.
what this new plan Is am unable to state, but
tain 1t is that Stanbery, Evars, Curtis, Groesbeck
and Nelson are sanguine Of achieving final triumph,
ana declare that the ruling yesterday does shut
out any Of the testimony not yet produced. They



established by Sherman's examination was accom-
pished even yesterday, by showing that the Presi-
dent offered the War ONCE to man WHO could not
be made a mere tool Of They confidently
hope they will yet succeed in having
Sherman's letters to the President declining
the offer admitted as testimony, and they predict
that the evidence to be given by Cabinet officers will
not be ruled out The idea that the defence is broken
or breaking down they scout absurd, and sarcast
cally intimate that they wifi show the bullying But
Ter and his Managerial colleagues very whether
the case Is breaking down or not Upon what these
sangune expectations are based | know not nor
IL 1t easy to see how the Senate can
80 stultfy itself after the repeated voting
Of yesterday TO admit the Presidents
declarations to other parties than Sherman on the
question OF his peaceful intentions. From the speech
OF Butler yesterday also certain that he wil
oppose the admission OF any testimony explaining
the declaration and intentions before Stantons re-
moval.


The way Senators vote puzzles everybody ex-
cept themselves, perhaps. 1t is impossible to
analyze II. One day Sumner votes black
and the next day white. One day Sprague
votes with the Chief Justice and the next against;
one hour Morgan favors by his vote allowing the
utmost latitude in establishment of the Presidents
intentions, and the next hour he seems TO have





defence within the very narrowest limits. SO it is
day after day; but in all this strange confusion OF
voting one feature stands out very prominent, and
that Is that the Chief Justice In his decisions always
carries respectable number OF republican Senators
with him. number quite sufficient combined with
the democratic eorporas guard, TO the Presi
dents acqutta. II is suggested that there is an
object in this mysterious method Of voting, and that
what Senators seek TO give to the country the idea
that they meet each question separately IL comes
up and vote on It fairly without any bias or parti.
san prejudices. That this s mere sham Seem,
Probable frof the iaci hat wheretr votes arc really
needed TO carry n point for the prosecu.
ton or TO shut out valuable testimony Tor
the defence, as General Sherman's evidence
yesterday, the radical senators are toleraby
solid. Thus Morgan voted twice Yesterday with the
democrats; but third time. when the vote seemed
close and there was danger 20 the radicals he went
uncereironiously over TO the other side The motion
which was laid over yesterday, that as many of the
Managers and counsel for tn defence shall be pcr.
mitted to speak the final agument as Shall choose
10 do so, will, in all likelihood be called up tomorrow
and passed. The Managers, all OF whom desire TO
be heard, consider It injustice to curtaii their
speeches to two on the final argument in so great
az this Logan went TO good deal Of trouble and
expense to prepare an elaborate address capable OF


filling eleven columns OF an ordinary newspaper, and
he feels naturally mortified at the thought OF not
being allowed TO deliver himself Williams wants TO
talk upon the legal questions in the case and TO
arraen the President host OF specifications not
get down In the regular BILL Thad stevens who has no
particularly great respect for the Sabbath, has been
employed all the day debating to his seer etary the
address he expects to put in. The Managers fear
ui OF Old Thad. They complain that the House acted
very injudiciously in placing him on the Board. His
speech they anticipate from the wandering character
of his memory, VIII be such hodge po1ge Of logic
and nonsense as to bring rdicue upon the high and
solemn tribunal. Senator Sherman seemed to divine
the design Of the Managers when he moved to relax
the twenty rule 80 to allow three Of the Man
ayers to speak and this would operate TO exclude
Thad, as Logan would jump nimbly up after Bing.
ham and Boutwell, and foresiall stevens. The coun