[Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) by James Gillespie Blaine]@TWC D-Link bookTwenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) CHAPTER XIV 30/88
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.
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