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DescriptionApathy of the Members A Race for the Wires - Energy of the Reporters The Last Speech on Impeachment.png
English: "News journals like Harper’s Weekly were so riveted by the nation’s first presidential impeachment that they documented even the minutiae of its progress. These illustrations showed A. G. Burr sleeping through John Chanler’s “loud, shrill” speech; reporters sprinting to the telegraph office as soon as the impeachment articles were published"
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