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process of justice. The Congress turns itself into a court, but it's the Congress that does the impeaching, not account of law. They are the same men. It was a Democratic Congress, but not completely so. It was a curiously divided Democratic Congress by this time, with some of them more reactionary, more conservative, more backward-looking than some of the Republicans were. The Democratic party is not all one color, all one streak of material, any more than the Republican party is for that matter. There were plenty of Republicans that I felt sure would not vote for impeachment. It's just like being tried for any crime before a court. You don't know what's going to impress the jury. It's a hard thing just to be tried anyhow. To be tried and acquitted is certainly a relief for those who have been accused, and against whom a true bill has been brought. But you never know how a jury is going to be impressed by a trifle that is of no consequence. You fear that. You see in some of the members of Congress the makings of one of the most prejudiced, ignorant, irresponsible, and inattentive juries imaginable. I never saw an impeachment proceeding so I don't know this to be a fact, but as I know what the makeup of Congress was, I said to myself, “Of course, they'll put the elder statesmen in charge