e recognized by his friends and his enemies--and he had a
full quota of each. Mr. Bingham, Mr. Boutwell, Mr. Wilson, General
Logan, and Mr. Williams represented the strength of the Republican
party in the House. Each was well known at the bar of his State, and
each was profoundly convinced of the necessity of convicting the
President. The most earnest--if there was any difference in zeal among
the Managers--were Mr. Boutwell and Mr. Williams. Mr. Boutwell, for a
man of cool temperament, thoroughly honest mind, and sober judgment,
had wrought himself into a singularly intense belief in the supreme
necessity of removing the President; while Mr. Williams, who tended
towards the radical side of all public questions, could not with
patience hear any thing said against the wisdom and expediency of
Impeachment. Mr. Bingham and Mr. Wilson were the only Managers who on
the first effort to impeach the President had voted in the negative.

President Johnson was well advised during this exciting period in
Congress and betrayed no uneasiness. He was guarded against the folly
of talking, which was his easily besetting sin, and he sought to
fortify his position by promptly submitting a nomination for Secretary
of War. On Saturday, February 22d, the day following the removal of
Mr. Stanton, he sent to the Senate the name of Thomas Ewing (senior)
of Ohio as his successor. The Senate had adjourned when the
President's Secretary reached the Capitol, but the nomination was
formally communicated on the following Monday. No name could have
given better assurance of good intentions and upright conduct than that
of Mr. Ewing. He was a man of lofty character, of great eminence in
his profession of the law, and with wide and varied experience in
public life. He had held high rank as a senator in the Augustan period
of the Senate's learning and eloquence, and he had been one of the
ablest members of the distinguished Cabinets organized by the only two
Presidents elected by the Whig party. He had reached the ripe age of
seventy-eight years but was still in complete possession of all his
splendid faculties. He had voted for Mr. Lincoln at both elections,
had been a warm supporter of the contest for the Union, and was
represented by his own blood on many of the great battle-fields of the
war. The Lieutenant-General of the army, with his illustrious record
of service, second only to that of General Grant, was his son-in-law.

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