Harper's Weekly - Impeachment Articles

This edition of Harper’s Weekly begins with a mass of writing that largely relates in some way to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Titles include “The Chief Justice Presiding”, “Legislative Corruption”, and “The Evidence Against The President”. The debate that occurs in the following chapter of The Moonstone has Miss Clack and Mr. Bruff taking on the roles of lawyers, with Bruff complimenting Clack: “You would have done great things in my profession, ma’am, had you had happened to be a man.” (218)

They debate the guilt of various characters in the novel, considering alibis, truth, and justice. This particular section may have stood out to American readers embroiled in the impeachment trials.