The President's cause was represented by an imposing array of ability and legal learning.

The Attorney-General, Henry Stanbery, had from an impulse of chivalric devotion resigned his post for the purpose of defending his chief.

His reputation as a lawyer was of the first rank in the West, where for nearly forty years he had been prominent in his profession.

But though first named, on account of his personal and official relations with the President, he was not the leading counsel.

The two men upon whom the success of the President's cause chiefly rested were Judge Curtis and Mr.Evarts.
Benjamin R.Curtis, when he appeared in the Impeachment case, was in the fullness of his powers, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.