The advocates of Impeachment were denounced as rash, hot-headed, sensational, bent on leading the party into an indefensible position; while its opponents were spoken of as faint-hearted, as truckling to the Administration, as afraid to strike the one blow imperatively demanded for the safety of the Republic.

But outside of this quarrel of partisans the great mass of quiet citizens and more especially the manufacturing, commercial, and financial communities, were profoundly grateful that the country was not, as they now believed, to be disturbed by a violent effort to deprive the President of his great office.
The prophets of Peace were disappointed in their hopes and their predictions.

A train of circumstances, not unnaturally growing out of the political situation, led in the ensuing month to the renewal of the scheme of Impeachment because of the President's attempt to appoint a new Secretary of War.

The President himself narrates what he had done to secure the resignation of Mr.Stanton: "I had come to the conclusion that the time had arrived when it was proper for Mr.
Stanton to retire from my Cabinet.

The mutual confidence and general accord which should exist in such a relation had ceased.