The London journals raise a shout of ecstacy at the
selection of Senator Reverdy Johnson to represent the United States in this country,—and we should like to know why. He is a worthy old gentleman of 72, who has written good law books, and has helped to manage the Democratic party for nearly half a century, and he has been, we believe, a slaveowner, which is, of course, a sufficient claim to the sympathies of the Times and Standard. But he is a consistent Democrat, and as such will be twice as amenable to Fenian pressure as a Republican would have been, and may not be sorry of an opportunity to make political capital for his side. The idea that he was specially conscientious in voting against impeachment has no foundation whatever. He is a man of honour and integrity, but his entire party voted against impeachment, and he would have been false to the great principle of his life, the verbal inspiration of the American Constitution, if he had voted otherwise. It is not yet certain that he will accept the appoint- ment.
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