Fifty-four Senators from the twenty-seven "States" represented constituted the membership of the Court of Impeachment under the presidency of the Chief Justice. The President must, therefore, have nineteen votes in order to escape conviction. Of these fifty-four, only eight were Democrats. It was practically certain that all of these would vote for acquittal. He needed, therefore, at least eleven Republican votes in his favor. The closing of the case by the prosecution occurred on the 6th of May, and, on the 7th, the court passed the resolution to take the vote of its members upon the articles of impeachment on the 12th. On that day Mr. Chandler of Michigan informed the court that his colleague, Mr. Howard, was too ill to appear, and asked the court to adjourn to the 16th, in order to give Mr. Howard the opportunity to be present. The court agreed to this request. On the 16th, with all the members present, the voting began. The last article, the eleventh, was, by an order of the court, taken first, and the Chief Justice {191} put the question to each Senator: "Mr. Senator--how say you? Is the respondent Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, guilty or not guilty of a high misdemeanor, as charged in this article?" Thirty-five votes were cast in the affirmative, and nineteen in the negative. So soon as it was known that the President had been acquitted upon this article, a motion was made by Mr. Williams of Oregon to adjourn the court to the 26th. After the announcement of the vote by the Chief Justice, this motion was carried and the court adjourned to the 26th. On that day it reassembled and proceeded to vote upon the second article and then on the third, with the same result as upon the eleventh. Whereupon Mr. Williams moved that the Senate sitting as a Court of Impeachment adjourn _sine die_, and the motion was carried by a vote of 34 to 16, 4 not voting. The Republicans who voted "not guilty" were Messrs. Dixon of Connecticut, Doolittle of Wisconsin, Fessenden of Maine, Fowler of Tennessee, Grimes of Iowa, Henderson of Missouri, Norton of Minnesota, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross of Kansas, Trumbull of Illinois, and Van Winkle of West Virginia. The country and the Republican party itself were placed under the deepest obligation to these men for their courage and independent action. They saved the country from the direst results of the great political scandal of the age, and they saved the Republican party from the commission of a deed which would have destroyed its hold upon the people. [Sidenote: The truth of the matter.]