Examples+of+Courage

== = = http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ptzqDrL2RGk/TNwp-NOa_bI/AAAAAAAAC28/pOQ_Ac0JMEA/s1600/veteransday06_1_.jpg = = =Example 1: =


 * //**"When the impeachment resolution had passed the House, Senator Ross had casually remarked to Senator Sprague of Rhode Island, 'Well, Sprague, the thing is here; and, so far as I am concerned, though a Republican and opposed to Mr. Johnson and his policy, he shall have as fair a trail as an accused man ever had on this earth.'”**//// (Pg. 122. Paragraph 3) //
 * This quote represents Ross' courage by showing how he wants to be fair, despite the fact that many of the other Senators thinks that the trial should just be over with and that Andrew Johnson should be impeached.

=Example 2: =
 * //**"[Ross] later wrote, 'not a day passed that did not bring me...appeals to stand fast for impeachment, and not a few were admonitions of condign cisitations upon any indication even of lukewarmness.'"** (Pg. 122-123)//
 * This symbolizes how much pressure was put under to vote to impeach Johnson.

=Example 3:= > //(Pg. 125. Paragraph 5)//
 * //**"That morning spies traced Ross to his breakfast; and ten minutes before the vote was taken his Kansas colleague warned him in the presence of Thaddeus Stevens that a vote for acquittal would mean trumped-up charges and his political death.**//
 * This passage further exemplifies the pressure that his own colleagues are trying to put Ross under, and it is courageous that Ross still does what is right.

=Example 4:=
 * **//"But when the second and third Articles of Impeachment were read, and the name of Ross was reached again with the same intense suspense of ten days earlier, again came the calm answer 'Not guilty.'"//**. //(Pg. 128. Paragraph 2)//
 * This statement really shows how Ross ignored the pressure from his fellow Republican Senators, and listened to the facts and proof to make a right decision.