. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . he second and third articles;the result was the same—35 to 19—one vote wanting inorder to convict! It being thus demonstrated that a con-viction was an impossibility, the Chief Justice announcedthat as Rule XXII provided that if Upon any of the arti-cles presented, the impeachment shall not he sustained bythe votes of two-thirds of the members present, a judgmentof acquittal shall be entered, he thereupon ordered thejudgment to be entered by the clerk, and that The Senate,sitting as a Court of Impeachment for the trial of AndrezvJohns
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . he second and third articles;the result was the same—35 to 19—one vote wanting inorder to convict! It being thus demonstrated that a con-viction was an impossibility, the Chief Justice announcedthat as Rule XXII provided that if Upon any of the arti-cles presented, the impeachment shall not he sustained bythe votes of two-thirds of the members present, a judgmentof acquittal shall be entered, he thereupon ordered thejudgment to be entered by the clerk, and that The Senate,sitting as a Court of Impeachment for the trial of AndrezvJohnson, upon articles of impeachment presented by theHouse of Representatives, stands adjourned zvithout closed the great trial, midst a deathlike stillness. I personally felt convinced long before the first of thevotes was taken upon the question of guilt that the verdictwould be in favor of the President. I hope my reader willnot deem me unduly egotistical in stating that I had madea prediction in writing that the identical seven Republican 206. NATHANIEL P. BANKS, M. C, OF MASSACHUSETTS EX-SPEAKER_, U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; EX-MAJOR GENERlAL, U. S. VOLS. Civil-war Echoes—Character senators who voted for acquittal would do so. I had forseveral years during the sessions of Congress made a care-ful study of the temperaments and characteristics of these,as well as other senators; I seemed to be able to penetratetheir inmost habits of thought, and I wrote out their nameson a sheet of paper and explained to my father why I wascertain their votes would be cast as they were. It waspurely inductive reasoning from facts gathered at oddtimes and occasions. The vote of one of these seven Re-publican senators I know positively was given in favor ofthe President purely out of personal gratitude to him forpast favors and kindnesses rendered the senators invalidand dying wife by the President and his family. Thesource of this state secret is forbidden me to disclose. Thats
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