SENATOR LYMAN TRUMBULL OF ILLINOIS
SENATOR JAMES W. GRIMES OF IOWA
SENATOR EDMUND G. ROSS OF KANSAS
SENATOR JOSEPH F. FOWLER OF TENNESSEE
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SENATOR WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN OF MAINE
Impeachment was of course a matter in which personalities and personal ambitions played a large part. Without Benjamin F. Butler and Thad. Stevens, there never would have been an impeachment trial, for impeachment was chiefly a scheme to get place and power for themselves and their friends. Like many other politicians of selfish aims, they flourished under the peculiar conditions following the war—conditions in which the sole inquiry was, “Is he loyal?” and not, “Is he honest?”