The impeachment4 of President Andrew Johnson would mark either the lowest tide-mud of degradation6 to which the Republic could sink, or its end. In this trial our system would be put to its severest strain. If a partisan7 majority in Congress could remove the Executive and defy the Supreme8 Court, stability to civic9 institutions was at an end, and the breath of a mob would become the sole standard of law.
Congress had thrown to the winds the last shreds11 of decency12 in its treatment of the Chief Magistrate13. Stoneman led this campaign of insult, not merely from feelings of personal hate, but because he saw that thus the President’s conviction before the Senate would become all but inevitable14.
When his messages arrived from the White House they were thrown into the waste-basket without being read, amid jeers15, hisses16, curses, and ribald laughter. 166
In lieu of their reading, Stoneman would send to the Clerk’s desk an obscene tirade17 from a party newspaper, and the Clerk of the House would read it amid the mocking groans18, laughter, and applause of the floor and galleries.
A favourite clipping described the President as “an insolent20 drunken brute21, in comparison with whom Caligula’s horse was respectable.”
In the Senate, whose members were to sit as sworn judges to decide the question of impeachment, Charles Sumner used language so vulgar that he was called to order. Sustained by the Chair and the Senate, he repeated it with increased violence, concluding with cold venom22:
“Andrew Johnson has become the successor of Jefferson Davis. In holding him up to judgment23 I do not dwell on his beastly intoxication24 the day he took the oath as Vice-president, nor do I dwell on his maudlin25 speeches by which he has degraded the country, nor hearken to the reports of pardons sold, or of personal corruption26. These things are bad. But he has usurped28 the powers of Congress.”
Conover, the perjured29 wretch30, in prison for his crimes as a professional witness in the assassination31 trial, now circulated the rumour32 that he could give evidence that President Johnson was the assassin of Lincoln. Without a moment’s hesitation33, Stoneman’s henchmen sent a petition to the President for the pardon of this villain34 that he might turn against the man who had pardoned him and swear his life away! This scoundrel was borne in 167 triumph from prison to the Capitol and placed before the Impeachment Committee, to whom he poured out his wondrous35 tale.
The sewers36 and prisons were dragged for every scrap37 of testimony38 to be found, and the day for the trial approached.
As it drew nearer, excitement grew intense. Swarms39 of adventurers expecting the overthrow40 of the Government crowded into Washington. Dreams of honours, profits, and division of spoils held riot. Gamblers thronged41 the saloons and gaming-houses, betting their gold on the President’s head.
Stoneman found the business more serious than even his daring spirit had dreamed. His health suddenly gave way under the strain, and he was put to bed by his physician with the warning that the least excitement would be instantly fatal.
Elsie entered the little Black House on the hill for the first time since her trip at the age of twelve, some eight years before. She installed an army nurse, took charge of the place, and ignored the existence of the brown woman, refusing to speak to her or permit her to enter her father’s room.
His illness made it necessary to choose an assistant to conduct the case before the High Court. There was but one member of the House whose character and ability fitted him for the place—General Benj. F. Butler, of Massachusetts, whose name was enough to start a riot in any assembly in America.
His selection precipitated43 a storm at the Capitol. A 168 member leaped to his feet on the floor of the House and shouted:
“If I were to characterize all that is pusillanimous44 in war, inhuman45 in peace, forbidden in morals, and corrupt27 in politics, I could name it in one word—Butlerism!”
For this speech he was ordered to apologize, and when he refused with scorn they voted that the Speaker publicly censure46 him. The Speaker did so, but winked47 at the offender48 while uttering the censure.
John A. Bingham, of Ohio, who had been chosen for his powers of oratory49 to make the principal speech against the President, rose in the House and indignantly refused to serve on the Board of Impeachment with such a man.
General Butler replied with crushing insolence50:
“It is true, Mr. Speaker, that I may have made an error of judgment in trying to blow up Fort Fisher with a powder ship at sea. I did the best I could with the talents God gave me. An angel could have done no more. At least I bared my own breast in my country’s defence—a thing the distinguished51 gentleman who insults me has not ventured to do—his only claim to greatness being that, behind prison walls, on perjured testimony, his fervid52 eloquence53 sent an innocent American mother screaming to the gallows54.”
The fight was ended only by an order from the old Commoner’s bed to Bingham to shut his mouth and work with Butler. When the President had been crushed, then they could settle Kilkenny-cat issues. Bingham obeyed.
When the august tribunal assembled in the Senate 169 Chamber55, fifty-five Senators, presided over by Salmon56 P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, constituted the tribunal. They took their seats in a semicircle in front of the Vice-president’s desk at which the Chief Justice sat. Behind them crowded the one hundred and ninety members of the House of Representatives, the accusers of the ruler of the mightiest57 Republic in human history. Every inch of space in the galleries was crowded with brilliantly dressed men and women, army officers in gorgeous uniforms, and the pomp and splendour of the ministers of every foreign court of the world. In spectacular grandeur58 no such scene was ever before witnessed in the annals of justice.
The peculiar59 personal appearance of General Butler, whose bald head shone with insolence while his eye seemed to be winking60 over his record as a warrior61 and making fun of his fellow-manager Bingham, added a touch of humour to the solemn scene.
The magnificent head of the Chief Justice suggested strange thoughts to the beholder62. He had been summoned but the day before to try Jefferson Davis for the treason of declaring the Southern States out of the union. To-day he sat down to try the President of the United States for declaring them to be in the union! He had protested with warmth that he could not conduct both these trials at once.
The Chief Justice took oath to “do impartial63 justice according to the Constitution and the laws,” and to the chagrin64 of Sumner administered this oath to each Senator in turn. When Benjamin F. Wade65’s name was called, 170 Hendricks, of Indiana, objected to his sitting as judge. He could succeed temporarily to the Presidency66, as the presiding officer of the Senate, and his own vote might decide the fate of the accused and determine his own succession. The law forbids the Vice-president to sit on such trials. It should apply with more vigour67 in his case. Besides, he had without a hearing already pronounced the President guilty.
Sumner, forgetting his motion to prevent Stockton’s voting against his own expulsion, flew to the defence of Wade. Hendricks smilingly withdrew his objection, and “Bluff Ben Wade” took the oath and sat down to judge his own cause with unruffled front.
When the case was complete, the whole bill of indictment69 stood forth70 a tissue of stupid malignity71 without a shred10 of evidence to support its charges.
On the last day of the trial, when the closing speeches were being made, there was a stir at the door. The throng42 of men, packing every inch of floor space, were pushed rudely aside. The crowd craned their necks, Senators turned and looked behind them to see what the disturbance72 meant, and the Chief Justice rapped for order.
Suddenly through the dense73 mass appeared the forms of two gigantic negroes carrying an old man. His grim face, white and rigid74, and his big club foot hanging pathetically from those black arms, could not be mistaken. A thrill of excitement swept the floor and galleries, and a faint cheer rippled75 the surface, quickly suppressed by the gavel.
The negroes placed him in an armchair facing the semicircle 171 of Senators, and crouched76 down on their haunches beside him. Their kinky heads, black skin, thick lips, white teeth, and flat noses made for the moment a curious symbolic77 frame for the chalk-white passion of the old Commoner’s face.
No sculptor78 ever dreamed a more sinister79 emblem80 of the corruption of a race of empire builders than this group. Its black figures, wrapped in the night of four thousand years of barbarism, squatted81 there the “equal” of their master, grinning at his forms of justice, the evolution of forty centuries of Aryan genius. To their brute strength the white fanatic82 in the madness of his hate had appealed, and for their hire he had bartered84 the birthright of a mighty85 race of freemen.
The speaker hurried to his conclusion that the half-fainting master might deliver his message. In the meanwhile his eyes, cold and thrilling, sought the secrets of the souls of the judges before him.
He had not come to plead or persuade. He had eluded86 the vigilance of his daughter and nurse, escaped with the aid of the brown woman and her black allies, and at the peril87 of his life had come to command. Every energy of his indomitable will he was using now to keep from fainting. He felt that if he could but look those men in the face they would not dare to defy his word.
He shambled painfully to his feet amid a silence that was awful. Again the sheer wonder of the man’s personality held the imagination of the audience. His audacity88, his fanaticism89, and the strange contradictions of his character stirred the mind of friend and foe90 alike—this man 172 who tottered91 there before them, holding off Death with his big ugly left hand, while with his right he clutched at the throat of his foe! Honest and dishonest, cruel and tender, great and mean, a party leader who scorned public opinion, a man of conviction, yet the most unscrupulous politician, a philosopher who preached the equality of man, yet a tyrant92 who hated the world and despised all men!
His very presence before them an open defiance93 of love and life and death, would not his word ring omnipotent94 when the verdict was rendered? Every man in the great courtroom believed it as he looked on the rows of Senators hanging on his lips.
He spoke95 at first with unnatural96 vigour, a faint flush of fever lighting97 his white face, his voice quivering yet penetrating98.
“Upon that man among you who shall dare to acquit99 the President,” he boldly threatened, “I hurl100 the everlasting101 curse of a Nation—an infamy102 that shall rive and blast his children’s children until they shrink from their own name as from the touch of pollution!”
He gasped103 for breath, his restless hands fumbled104 at his throat, he staggered and would have fallen had not his black guards caught him. He revived, pushed them back on their haunches, and sat down. And then, with his big club foot thrust straight in front of him, his gnarled hands gripping the arms of his chair, the massive head shaking back and forth like a wounded lion, he continued his speech, which grew in fierce intensity105 with each laboured breath. 173
The effect was electrical. Every Senator leaned forward to catch the lowest whisper, and so awful was the suspense106 in the galleries the listeners grew faint.
When this last mad challenge was hurled107 into the teeth of the judges, the dazed crowd paused for breath and the galleries burst into a storm of applause.
In vain the Chief Justice rose, his lionlike face livid with anger, pounded for order, and commanded the galleries to be cleared.
They laughed at him. Roar after roar was the answer. The Chief Justice in loud angry tones ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to clear the galleries.
Men leaned over the rail and shouted in his face:
“He can’t do it!”
“He hasn’t got men enough!”
“Let him try if he dares!”
The doorkeepers attempted to enforce order by announcing it in the name of the peace and dignity and sovereign power of the Senate over its sacred chamber. The crowd had now become a howling mob which jeered108 them.
Senator Grimes, of Iowa, rose and demanded the reason why the Senate was thus insulted and the order had not been enforced.
A volley of hisses greeted his question.
The Chief Justice, evidently quite nervous, declared the order would be enforced.
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, moved that the offenders109 be arrested.
In reply the crowd yelled: 174
“We’d like to see you do it!”
At length the mob began to slowly leave the galleries under the impression that the High Court had adjourned110.
Suddenly a man cried out:
“Hold on! They ain’t going to adjourn111. Let’s see it out!”
Hundreds took their seats again. In the corridors a crowd began to sing in wild chorus:
“Old Grimes is dead, that poor old man.” The women joined with glee. Between the verses the leader would curse the Iowa Senator as a traitor112 and copperhead. The singing could be distinctly heard by the Court as its roar floated through the open doors.
When the Senate Chamber had been cleared and the most disgraceful scene that ever occurred within its portals had closed, the High Court Impeachment went into secret session to consider the evidence and its verdict.
Within an hour from its adjournment113 it was known to the Managers that seven Republican Senators were doubtful, and that they formed a group under the leadership of two great constitutional lawyers who still believed in the sanctity of a judge’s oath—Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, and William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine. Around them had gathered Senators Grimes, of Iowa, Van Winkle, of West Virginia, Fowler, of Tennessee, Henderson, of Missouri, and Ross, of Kansas. The Managers were in a panic. If these men dared to hold together with the twelve Democrats114, the President would be acquitted115 by one vote—they could count thirty-four certain for conviction. 175
The Revolutionists threw to the winds the last scruple116 of decency, went into caucus117 and organized a conspiracy118 for forcing, within the few days which must pass before the verdict, these judges to submit to their decree.
Fessenden and Trumbull were threatened with impeachment and expulsion from the Senate and bombarded by the most furious assaults from the press, which denounced them as infamous119 traitors120, “as mean, repulsive121, and noxious122 as hedgehogs in the cages of a travelling menagerie.”
A mass meeting was held in Washington which said:
“Resolved, that we impeach5 Fessenden, Trumbull, and Grimes at the bar of justice and humanity, as traitors before whose guilt68 the infamy of Benedict Arnold becomes respectability and decency.”
The Managers sent out a circular telegram to every State from which came a doubtful judge:
“Great danger to the peace of the country if impeachment fails. Send your Senators public opinion by resolutions, letters, and delegates.”
The man who excited most wrath123 was Ross, of Kansas. That Kansas of all States should send a “traitor” was more than the spirits of the Revolutionists could bear.
A mass meeting in Leavenworth accordingly sent him the telegram:
“Kansas has heard the evidence and demands the conviction of the President.
“D. R. Anthony and 1,000 others.”
To this Ross replied:
“I have taken an oath to do impartial justice. I trust 176 I shall have the courage and honesty to vote according to the dictates124 of my judgment and for the highest good of my country.”
He got his answer:
“Your motives125 are Indian contracts and greenbacks. Kansas repudiates126 you as she does all perjurers and skunks127.”
The Managers organized an inquisition for the purpose of torturing and badgering Ross into submission128. His one vote was all they lacked.
They laid siege to little Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, to whom Congress had awarded a contract for the statue of Lincoln. Her studio was in the crypt of the Capitol. They threatened her with the wrath of Congress, the loss of her contract, and ruin of her career unless she found a way to induce Senator Ross, whom she knew, to vote against the President.
Such an attempt to gain by fraud the verdict of a common court of law would have sent its promoters to prison for felony. Yet the Managers of this case, before the highest tribunal of the world, not only did it without a blush of shame, but cursed as a traitor every man who dared to question their motives.
As the day approached for the Court to vote, Senator Ross remained to friend and foe a sealed mystery. Reporters swarmed129 about him, the target of a thousand eyes. His rooms were besieged130 by his radical131 constituents132 who had been imported from Kansas in droves to browbeat133 him into a promise to convict. His movements day and night, his breakfast, his dinner, his supper, the clothes he 177 wore, the colour of his cravat134, his friends and companions, were chronicled in hourly bulletins and flashed over the wires from the delirious135 Capital.
Chief Justice Chase called the High Court of Impeachment to order, to render its verdict. Old Stoneman had again been carried to his chair in the arms of two negroes, and sat with his cold eyes searching the faces of the judges.
The excitement had reached the highest pitch of intensity. A sense of choking solemnity brooded over the scene. The feeling grew that the hour had struck which would test the capacity of man to establish an enduring Republic.
The Clerk read the Eleventh Article, drawn136 by the Great Commoner as the supreme test.
As its last words died away the Chief Justice rose amid a silence that was agony, placed his hands on the sides of the desk as if to steady himself, and said:
“Call the roll.”
Each Senator answered “Guilty” or “Not Guilty,” exactly as they had been counted by the Managers, until Fessenden’s name was called.
A moment of stillness and the great lawyer’s voice rang high, cold, clear, and resonant137 as a Puritan church bell on Sunday morning:
“Not Guilty!”
A murmur138, half groan19 and sigh, half cheer and cry, rippled the great hall.
The other votes were discounted now save that of Edmund G. Ross, of Kansas. No human being on earth 178 knew what this man would do save the silent invisible man within his soul.
Over the solemn trembling silence the voice of the Chief Justice rang:
“Senator Ross, how say you? Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson, guilty or not guilty of a high misdemeanor as charged in this article?”
The great Judge bent139 forward; his brow furrowed140 as Ross arose.
His fellow Senators watched him spellbound. A thousand men and women, hanging from the galleries, focused their eyes on him. Old Stoneman drew his bristling141 brows down, watching him like an adder142 ready to strike, his lower lip protruding143, his jaws144 clinched145 as a vise, his hands fumbling146 the arms of his chair.
Every breath is held, every ear strained, as the answer falls from the sturdy Scotchman like the peal83 of a trumpet147:
“Not Guilty!”
The crowd breathes—a pause, a murmur, the shuffle148 of a thousand feet——
The President is acquitted, and the Republic lives!
The House assembled and received the report of the verdict. Old Stoneman pulled himself half erect149, holding to his desk, addressed the Speaker, introduced his second bill for the impeachment of the President, and fell fainting in the arms of his black attendants.
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