The order, dignity and solemnity which marked the proceedings may therefore be realized with pride by every American citizen.

From the beginning to the end there was no popular menace, or even suggestion of disturbance or violence, let the trial end as it might.

If the President had been convicted he would have quietly retired from the Executive Mansion and Benjamin F.Wade, President of the Senate, sworn by the Chief Justice in the presence of the two Houses of Congress, would have assumed the power and performed the duties of Chief Magistrate of the Nation.

During the original agitation of Impeachment in the House of Representatives some imprudent expressions had been made by hot-headed partisans, in regard to the right of the President to disperse Congress and appeal directly to the people to vindicate his title to his office.

But these declarations were of no weight and their authors would have promptly retracted them in the hour of danger.
The time within which the trial of the President was comprised, from the presentation of the charges by the House of Representatives until the final adjournment of the Senate as a Court of Impeachment, was eighty-two days.