The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1868, Page 10

10 WASHINGTON, CONTINUED FROM FOURTH PAGE. consent of the Senate, to appoint all officers of the United States whose appointments are not therein otherwise provided f ‘be estab~ lis! by ,» and to dil up all vacancies that ay happen during the of the Senate, y granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. Nowhere, either in the consti- Vution or by etatute, has the President power to create vacancy during the sevsion of the Senate aed fill it without the advice and congeat of the Sen: y on the 2lst day of Febreary, 1868, while the Senate ‘was in sevsion, he notifed the bead of the War Dopart that pi ‘and laws, which if’: stood alone would make y Donesi and intelligent man give his for impeach. ment. The Pregidont had persevered bis lawiess ‘evurse through a long ceries of unjustifi When Abe so-called Confederate Sistes of America were con- quered, and had laid down ther arms and surrendered ‘Sbeir territory to the victorious Union, ‘end final disposition of the corquered couatry belonged fo Congress alone, according to every principle of The law of tations, Neither the Executive nor the Judiciary had any right to interfere with it, except ‘Bo lar es was necessary to con:rol it by mlitary rule, went) tb ereign powerof tne nation had provided its it administration, No power but Congress had auy y sould be admit~ entitled 10 the privileges Of the constitution of the United stat and Andrew Johnson, with unblushing bardibood, unt ‘Qo rule them by hit own power a/one, to lead them into foll communion wiih the Union, direct them what governments to epact and what constitutivas ‘to adopt, and to Fend representatives to Congress accor’ $ng to bis inatructions. When admonished by express ‘ect of Congiess more than once repeated, he disregarded the warning an¢ continued his fawiess usurpation, He fs since knuwa fo bave obstruc'ed the re-establishinent _@f those goveruments by the authority of Conpresa, and as advised) «=the §=inbabitanta § to resist =the elation of Congres In my judgment his conduct with regard to. that transaction was @ bigh banded usurpation of power which Jong ago ought to have brought bim to impeachment snd trial, and to removed him from bis posi- ‘tion of great mischief, He has beeen lucky im thus far escaping through false logic and false aw; but his tien “acis, wirich will on the trial be shown to be atrocious, “are open evidence of bis wicked determination to sub- Vert the faws of biscountry. 1 truat that when we come to vote upon this question we shall remember that, although {t'ts the auty of the President to see tat the ‘taws be executed, the sovereiga power of the nation rests on Congresé, who have been placed arouad the Executive a3 ticuiments to defend bis richts and as watchmen to enforce bis obedience to the laws ‘and the constitution, His oath ts to obey the coustit ~ #00 wad our duty is to do it—all a tre- emendous vbligation. heavier than was ever assumed by mortal rulers. We ure to protect or to destroy the | berty nd happiness of a mighty people, and to vat they progress tm civuigation and es against every kind the Uirst great political ‘be tho result of our eforts to perpetuate thi and good government of the buman race, our fothers, who iuspired them with the thought of upiversal iteedom, will hold us responsible for the Hoble ipstitutions which they projected and ex- Pected us to carry out This ts mot to be fhe temporary triumph of a political party, but 4 to evdure Im its consequence until this whole Conti Dent stati be tilled with a tree, untrammelied poople, or phall be w nest of shrinking, cowardly slaves, fhe reading of the speech was concluded + 0 min- wiles before five o'tlock. Ihe House ihen proceeded, wmid great but suppressed excitement, to vole oa the Fesolution as follows :— Resotved, That Andrew Jobnson, President of tho United Su impeached of bigh crimes and misie- Mmeanors, Dering the vote excuses wore mado for the absence of Merers, Robiuson, Benjamin, Wasnburne and Williams, and Yau Horn of Missouri, Trmible of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Doune!ly, Koontz, Maynard and Shelinvarger. The Sreaxen siated thai he could uot consent that bis constituents should be silent ov so grave an occasion, and, therefore,as a mumbor of the House, be voted aye. Tho vole resulted, yens 126, nays 47, as follows: — Yeoar—126. Lawrence, rep., of Obie. Lincoln, rep., of NY. Loan, rep., of Mo. Logan, rep, of Lil Allison, rep., of Iowa, Awes rep., of Mass Auderson, rep., of Mo. <Arbell, rep, of Teno Ashley, 1ep., of Nevada, Ashley, rep., of Odio. Bailey, rep., of N. ¥. Baker, sep, of lil. Baidwin, rep., of Mase Banks, rep., of Ma: Beamaa, rep., of sich. Beauty, rep., of Oni. Bentou, rep. of N. Binguans, rep , of Obio, Blaiue, rep., of Mo, Barr, rep, of Mich. Boutweil, rep., of Masa, Bromweti, rep., of it, Broomall, rep, of Va, Buckiand, rep., of Otto, Butler, rep., of Mass. rep., of Peon, rep, of Tenn Myers, rep, of Peng. Newcomb, rep. of Mo, Nuno, rep., of ‘Tenn O'Neill, rep., of Peua, Orth, rep., of ind, Cake, rep. of Pa. Paine, rop., of Wis, Churchill, rep. of NY. Peruam, of Me, Cherie, rep. of Kansas. —Poters, rep., of Me. Ciarke, rep., of O 110. Tep., of Me, Cobb, rep., of Wis. rep , of Mo. Coburn, rep., of lod, rep, of Ohio, Cook, rep., of IL Voland, rep., of Vt. Cornell, rep., of N.Y, Volsiy, rep., of West Va, Covode, rep., of Penn, Price, rep., of lowa, Gullum, rep., of UL Dawes, rep., of Mas " Dodge. rep, of low: Sawyer, rep., of Wis Driggs, rep., of Mich. Schenck, rep., of Ohio, Eckivy, rep, of Vaio. Eggleston, rop., of Obio. Elio, rep., of Mass. Farpsworih, rep., of LiL Ferrisa, rep., of N. Y. Ferry, rep., of Mich, Scuvileld, rep. of Pa. Selye, rep., of 'N. Y. Shanks, rep, of Ind. Smith, rep., of Vt. Spalding, rep., of Ohio. Starkweather, rep, of Conn, ef, Fields, rep. of N. ¥. Stevens, rey ravely, rep., of Mi ris of N. ¥, re Halsey, J. Tails, rep., of Nebra:ke . rep. of N. J. Harding, rep., of HL Higby, rep, of Cal. Hull, rep. ot N. J. Hooper, rep., of Masa Bopkiva, rep., of Wi 1 , Fep., of Pa. Trowbridge, rep., of Mich. Twitchell, rep., oF Maca. Upson, rep., of Bich. Vau Acrnam, rop., of N. Y. Hubvard, rep., of Lowa, rep. of Y. Hubbard, rep. of W Va Van Wyok, rep., of N. Y¥. Hulburd, rep. of NY. Ward, rep., ot N.Y. Bunter, rap., of toa. Washbura, re;,, of Wis. Wasnburee, rep., of Il. Washburn, rep., of Mass. Ingersoll, rep., of Lit 3 Woiker, rep., of Ouiv, ckes, rep., of KR. t Judd, rep., of Lit Julian, rep., of Ind, Williams, rep., of Pa. Keliey, rep., of Pa Wilson, rep.,, of lowa Ke! oN Y. Keicnaz, rep., of N. ¥. Kuchen, rep., of W. Va. of N.Y. rep, of I's. Naye=47. Adame, dom, of Ky. r. dem, of Md. McCormick, de:n., McCullough, dem., of Ma. dem., of Ohio deia., 0: N.Y. k, dem.,'of lad Nicholson, dem, of Vel. Phelps, dem., of Md. Prayn, dom.,'ot N. ¥ Raudall, dem., of Pa. Ross, dem., of It. greaves, dom, of N. J Stewart, dem, of N. ¥. S.one, dem., of Md. Tabor, dem, of N. ¥. | Frmbte, dein, of Ky | | Burr, dom., of iil, Cary, rep., of Ohio Chaaler, dem, of N. € Hidridge, dem , of Wis, Fos, com, of 8. ¥ Getz, dem’, of Pa, Haight dem. Hojmas, dom. Bowie, dem, ot Goma Bubbard, ¢era., of ¢ Hompurey, dem., Jobnson, dor. , of Cai ones, dem., of Ky, ‘Tue aunouacement of the reeuit cliciie¢ no manifes Aation, but the mmense audience which bad filed the galleries aud corridors ali the day gradually dispersed | 4uil it was reduced to less than one-fourth 1% origianl | @umber, Mr. Srevews, of Pa., then moved to reconsider the vote ‘Dy whien the resojution was agreed to, and also moved | £0 iay the maion to reconeidor on the table. The latter motion was agreed to, thie being the Pariix mpavtary mode ef making « decision final. \ Mr. Staves then moved (he following resolutions :— Resolved, That o commitice to the Senate, and at the bar thereof, in the House of Representatives aad of ali tho peopis of the United Stator, to impeach Andrew Jon. won, Fresident ot the United States, of ray cries god misdeasanors im office, and acquaint the Benate chat / f atatives will ia due t low of impeachment agaiast bim that the commitios do for the appear. alg anawer said impench- Al States, with wer to send for persvus, pepore wud records, and to ke teatumony under oath. Democratic membe’s Biompted Lo resort vo Alivuster. tog, but wore cut of afer An inetect fort by a mo- tion to euspend the ruled #0 a4 (0 bring the Houseimims- lately to. vote on the resolutions The rulos were suspended aad the re adopted—yoas 124, aays 47. Tho Sreacen theo follows: — Committes of two to announes @ the Senate the ao. Hon of the House~ Messrs, Stevens, Of Penneylvaais, 4 Bingham, of Onio, itive of seven Lo prepare articiés of impench. —Meters. Boutwell, of Massachucotts; Btev nsylvania, Bingham, of Odio; Wileon, of low of Mimoie; Julism, of Indians, and Ward, of New York, two be appointed to go | the newe of | NEW YORK HERALD, TUES The Honse then, at twenty minniea past six o'clock, adjourced, BEN ATE. ‘Wasuinaton, Feb. 26, 1868. The Cwartain thie morning prayed that God would prepare Senators and Representatives for the difficult duties now olving upon them, and that the people should be guided so as to respect the law. PENTION', HTC Mr. Wingo, (rep,) of Mass., presented seversi petitions for the removal of political disabilities, Sevoral remonstrances were presented against the bill im regard te commutations of the pay of army officers. Mr, Smerwax, (rep.) of Ohio, prosented the petition of citizens of Obto praying for the exercise of economy in the administration of the government and & revision of the revenue tariff, Mr, Cartext, (rep.) of N. J., presented the petition of citizens of New Jersey praying for a change !n the ware- housing system, Mr. Jouysox, (dem.) of Md., presented resolutions of the Legizlaturo of Maryland in regard to the nghta or Ameri.an citizens abroad. PROTECTION OF THB STATES. Mr, Winttama, (rep.) of Oregon, introduced a bill to Provide in part for the oxecution of section fourth of article fourth ef tho constitution, Referred to the Com- m tee on the Judiciary, WASBINGTOY CITY CHARTER—LIABILITY OF BIIPOWNERS, Mr, ‘Sumer, (rep.) of Mass, introduced @ bill to re- new the charter of the city of Wastington. Refetred tothe Commitee on the Disisict of Columbia. Alsoa DIN concern ng the liability of shipowners, maritim> lions, salvage ayd jurmdiction of admisaity, Relerred to the Commitiee on the Juuiciary, VET ION FROM ALAB IMA, Mr. Sumvgr presented a petition of a mecting of citizens of Alabama, held February 14, praying the 1 n edidte udmirsion ot Senaiors and Represeuiativee trom AMavama, It was rred to the Judiciary Commitiee. SUIPMENT OF DISTILLED SPIRITS TO CALIFORNIA, Mr. CoLw, (rep.) of Cal, introduced @ re-olution in- quiring of the Secretary of the [reasury what amount of distilied spirits has been snipp d to California from Atiantic ports during the year 1867; also the amount bonded in Sag Francisco durimg tuat year, #licn was adopted, THR PRESENTATION OF TILLS TO THE PRESIDENT. On motion of Mr, Epatunos, (rep) ot Vt, the Senate took up tne bil to regula‘e the presentation of bilis 10 tho President and tue return thereof ‘Tho biil provides that tue ton days within which the President must return a bill witn objections so prevent its becoming a jaw be construed, “the tea days suc- en and apy adjournment pre img a return by him 13 bed to bew Gual adjourn- directed ater the adjournment to transmi. to the officers of the House or Seuate, Mr, Ditaxe, (rep) of Mo., siuted that tue bill was de- fective in allowing wom+ person outside of Congre-s, to wit, the Secretary of State, to ascertain aud de l.ro when a b.ti bad become a law, ‘The question was discussed by Messrs, Buc.al wand He dricks, Mr Davis, (dem.) of Ky., suggested that as the bili was imporant .t Bg0u.d be laid over .or further examination, assured tue senate that there was no- 1 oF revolutionary in it, did not accept tne Senator's opinion, as he did not think Lim just noy tue best judge of what was revolutionary. Mr, Eomus0s reminded the Seaa‘or that ho ha: listeaing (o several uf bis spovcues iately. (Laugater), Mr, Davis feared he nad nov profited by cuat listoming He beiieved that a bil snouid, by tue const tucion, be revurped to the House, not tue officers of tne House, and this bill was therelore an innovativa om the consti tution. Afer further debate Mr. Doourrir, (rep.) of Wis, ask d (hat tho bul be laid aside wo taxe up she pending Ubiadditiona to tig Reconstrucaun acts, Lor the purpose of sllowing biw to address tne Senaty, Mr, SUMNLR Oppy-ed the suggestion, and hoped a pro- vision would by inyerted to make the bil recruactive, 80 as tocoveruil bilis uiready pas-ed at ‘this sosaion, in- cluding, f rexample, tue bi to secure equal rights an the Disiric: of Columbia, Mr. EoMUNDS Considered that the dill meationed had already become a law, and opposed laying aside the bill. ME SAGE INO TUX PRESIDENT. At half-past one o'clock 1’. M. Cotoa.1 AL ore presented several messages ia writing frou iho President, and au- iuoon, pas-ed on the 1th February, autho: ecretary of War to employ couure! Ww defend certuin geverat- engage) in the exe- cutioa of tue Reconstruction iaws, hat beeme a law, uvt bav.wg boon retursed withia the time Hxed by int THE RECOSSTRUCTION ACTS, The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Doolittle, post- poned ali osuer orders and took up tue bit .ndicated by tim. The question was un @ motion Lo reer ib ty the Judiciary Comsnities with cer ain tstructiona Do ura, mm opposition to the bill, sa siden, the qvastion wLica has torced itself in and again, as { have listened to this long dovete, ts, Are cil ab wart Tis almost three years sin) ed roldier of the hellion surrendered, Waen war in fact ceased; and ou the 20tu day of August, 1856, tue Presideut, by procia- mation, deciared peace restored, Doves some one say be assumed to do that without authority of Congress. and, therefore, it is not binding on Edmunds, jin | oF rebellion, Copuress? We have peace in fact, and peace pro- claimed in due form ot law. Peace—blessed peace tas jod grant she Las comeiosay! dir, President, this measure, in & time of profound poaco, as if to combine all that preceded 1t into ons acs of concen. traced dospotism; to svesp away at one blow all civil civil government even, from the Potomac to rande, and to put it boyund tue power of the Executive, aud beyond the power of the Supreme Court he existence of ether in the top States of ad among cist milion people; when that measure camo from the House and asked ihe ap- proval of ibe senate, I ksow not how others f very fouudations of republican « y under my fect—the columue, Feared to constitutional liberty, crumbing around me. Not im anger but in sorrow 1 Senae to arrest it and tv modity duty as a Senator, as a citizos aud asa tricnd consirained me to do so. What gave deeper earnestness to that appeal was the tact that I toured the majority were so its policy. My iotent upon securing a party ascendancy as to bo | unable of unwilling to seo that his measure, and the kindred measures now pending, tend to produce and are of themselves @ rovolu- tion in the goverom Under tho influence of the siren song of party nocesni ep While Rome was ou fire; same fatal poison which has destroyed ali of the world and prepared the way for ¢ the imperator, The majorty, uucouscious or unwilling | to be awakened to tue fact, seemed to press on | into the very jays of @ reolution which thi to inguif all worth having in repnbli stitutions They are steeping upon the of Vesuvius, aad are not awakened by tha urst jets of its eruption. str, by this bit! al! power over the army and over the exccution of the laws in nearly one- third of the States and over eight million people is taken away from the Presidons in opoa, p tion of the constitution. Tua couse executive power in the Pro take an oath to see that the | on vests ail font. It roquires him to are faithiully executed. In express ords, so, it makes him fom- manderin- hief of the Army. ‘nis bili mokes it a crime in him to perform toe duties of gither, All power, also, 18 to bo taken away frova the Supreme Court to take avy appeal or to recoguizs the existence of any civil government in those states. Nut only toe President but the Supreme Court is to be | mauacted, and made to wear the ball and chan, liv Yhe to be placed under the absolute control of ‘a init - tary dictator, And ali that usurpation and ali toat despotiam is—for what? For the purpose of forc- ing universal negro suffrage upon teu Stator and six milions of oor own race and tueir will, in order, as some of ine radical leaders avow, to secure through nogro vot electoral votes of those States for the radical candidate for the Presidency ; and that candidate, isto be tho very General into whose uands this dea od, enad ing him to secure ty cleotoral votes, Mr. arnumonts of Mr, Trumbull, hittie tuea fepliod to t Mr Wilsoa aud Mr. Mort that the true i¢sue waa whet! or wrong. fact. The (oundation upin which he speoch is uusouad, For we maintain as estiy ag he does or can that the rebellion was wrong and that ita supprossion was right. Thore is no such ‘aguo im fact, He can mako no such issue o\.ber were or before the country. His paramoun! idea the rebellion was rlent is his :—""That,’ by their rebel. ‘ibe robela forfeited their civ aad political rights, can Mer be restored to them upon suc the nation may prescribe Hove we begin to differ, Thi partly true and parity fase, I apeake of two things. frat, of forfeiture of rights; second, of conditions of | restoration. As to forfeiture, lot us Orat inquire what wa forfeited by treagon or rebellion? The comsitation dec'ares in what treasou shall consist and that ‘the Cougress shall bave power to declare ¢ aishment of treatoa.”” It algo deciares indor oF rx pot facto shall bo refore, by passed, " the xpress words of the constivution ag well as by th cutened conscieace of civ.ized man fo all ages ros and penaities of an offence offence is committed—before, aot a! t to thia power and ia performance of ungross a1@ bably deciare by law pe aument of treason and rabollion, and the pre forfeituros gud all the forfeitures PRI TS nf party should be suvjected when convicted of that offence. Tho law of July 17, 1862, provided that very person mbo should ther after commit the crime ox treason against tne Unied States and should be adjudged guilty thorsof siould @uffer death, and all hig aiavos, if any, svould be declared aad made free or, at the discretion of the court, be should be impri: oned for not less than Sve years and Oo ten thyusand dollers, and all i Me be declared and it farther pri if @&y person should therealior incite, set on foot, assist of engi io febellion egainet the authority of tl United States, and be con. vietod = thensof, should be impreoned not more thao Jam years sod fined not exceeding £10,000, or both, at the discretion of the court, and his slaves abonid be set free, And it was further provided Wat for either tHe offence of treason or rebeilion he should also be for@ver Incspable and diequaiiied to hold of | any office under t@ United States, Here, sir, are the 4 the ely forfeitures, ins These forfeitures do upon conviction, By she very la declaring ‘heer forfeiiuver @ forfeiwures, &ppeaied to the | ity seemed to | pudle viola | liberty and property of eight mirlion people are | eople aga'nat bolder | Doo- | latier of whom assorted | the rebellion was rigue | ‘The issue thus stated by tim is untrue | baitds | &@ condition precedent to any forfeiture tak! effect, ‘The constitution deciares that no person not in the iand or naval forces, or tho militia in actual service im timo of war or peblic danger, shall be held to answer tor a cupiial or otherwise in amous crime unle-s upon & presentment or indictment of a grand jury, and that he shall be enti:led to a fair and public trial by an 1 partial jury, and, confren'ing b users, shall bave compul- sory process nesses in his favor and the assistance counsel for his de‘ence. Tue indictment, the public trial, {he teat: mony of witnesses, the assistance of counsel, the verdict of whe jury and the judament of the court are all necessary too nvict the accused. Until trat judgment is prowounced no forfexwure whatever takes eect upon the accused. Ihave spok nihus clearly in order, if possibie, to asceriain the precise iruth upon tbis matter of forfeiture, This view leads logicaly to this result, Lhe forte) we inourred by the people of ‘bo South bas been precisely what Congress by law de- clared it should be be‘ore the offence was commilied, and Congress nas no power, by expos: fac o lawe or b liv of attuinder, to de lare any new or any otuer forieiture, And now, sir, secondly, ag to the coaditions of res.ora- tion, Tbe same law of Congress, in the thirteeath sec- tion, authorized the President, at any tune thereatter, by pr ciamation. to extend to persons who participated in rebeition pardon and amuesty, with euch excepiions at such time and on such conditions as he should deem expedient for the public welfare, By virtue of this express authority of Con- Breas, as well as by his paramoont authority undor tho Constitution, resident Liucoln and President Johnson, following his example, reztored hundreds of thousands to ther civil and poiitical Ce whieh Congress has no power to take away by bills of attainder or ec post Facto wwe, As to what is meant by those forbidden acts of Congress we are not leit to conjecture. for the Suprei Court say, 1a the case of Cummings ve. Mre- ‘a vill of atlamder 8 a legislative act whieh S punishment without judicial trial, If the wmont be less than deain the act is termed a 1 Of pains avd penaiticy, Within the meaning of tho constitution b.is uf attarnder include bills of pains and penalties”? Lhe court also ay. epom the authority of the creat commentator upon the common Iaw, that a disability to hold office’: is a panighment, If there could be any doupt upon that point, whocher d sability to hold oitlco is to be deemed a+ 8 punis ment within the mean- ing of tue constivution, that doubt vanishes instantly as we cull to mind (he fact that euch disability is declared by Congress io be a part of the punisl ment of twseason and rebellion; and therefore aster the offel has been committed for Gongre ¢ bv law to uwpose any such disability 3 an open, palpable Violation of the constitution, which forb'ds ex po t facto punisbments and bide of atiainder, inciuding blils of pains and penaltioa ibis power to pardoa vested in tbo Pre ident, beyond the power of Congress to limit or take away, of necessity lies at the very fouadation of all restoraion or reconstruction at the south. In tuis is the power to wipe out the olfenco; in this 18 the power to blot out of existence the guilt of the offenders, ag woll as to re- Jease fiom ioreiture. lt isa power reste! in the Ex ecutive which Congress, in every elfurt it makes to take, it aaay, makes itso.f. ew war opoa thy constitution a the Executive, pf Congress, of no I mean the power to make war and to put down the rebellion and then to disband we «ray. If the constituven bad not done #80 the (ays passed by Congress auchor- fwed aad dir 4d iim to do both, From time to time Congress authonzed h m, 1irst, to raise (wo iilnons of armed mea and (0 expenu $6,000,000 000 to put down the rbeilion; and second, wheu ne bad done that work, to disband that immense army, return then to thor hoiee and ceage that oxpendit li a word, the Pre- s.dent was clothed Wik the rower to make war and ma\e peace, granting amnesty uponsuch terms and to such persons as ho dvemed proper, By the de the rupreme Court, as Conmander.in was vesied witn ail the nuch esiablish — provisios al ovcraments, He — bad | 0 power, Cov4res has.n» power, to estabiisn nsiuvaNs tor Sta 2s, for itis of the very exsonce of 4 ‘publican governwest tha, the people themselves suould turm their own cons.itutions, The Vresident, howseve, veore he willdiew the army from those States, bad tne power, indeed it was bis duty, to know that the governments leit bebind Sim should uot raise a yebyilion; aud theretora 1% was that bo preseribod an oath of allegiance a d excepted ¢ rian leading rebels from taking part in their reorganization, He did nut acsums to OX te qualifications of voters nor to form con-tituiion3, but only to see that those who vod and took ‘pars in restoring the iachincry of government under thetr constitutives had renounced their rebellion, — Tis cretion, under the c Congress, both in granting }a don There is auothe be | necessary to | ty as the organ of clemency, and in judging and deciding whea the reoelhon was suppre-sed waen 1 was sale to with. draw and disba d ihe sriny as Commanuer-in-Cuiel ; 1 shor, 10 make peacy and thn to sheathe ‘the Nalivn’s sword, But the Sena'or fam Indiana says he has teen “ ducate!” Perbaps le has been educawed up to the p int of main aning with the Senator from Massacnuseiis thut Ure sates ol toe Soutn as Siaw- rebelled If that assumption be true it does nol Change or le-sen the powers of tve Prosident un: the constitution nor under the laws of Congress at all it woula give them a wider moaning, If he was dealing with States as rebela when, as Com ine bief, he Was directsd by Congress to draw tne sword to put the revels iowa, aud when he bad ddne that to sheathe the sword, his power to take the sareeuder of States, ir States wore the rebels, was of necessity implied. The work he was directed todo was to put down the rebels, and when (hat was done (o return the sword to th: scabbard. It States wore rebels iu arms hoe bad as much power to take their surrendor as ho had to tae the furrender of their armies. All 1 desire further io say upon this point is, the recoustrac. Moa policy of Conzress whic ussimes to annul the par- dons iegaily and consiitucionally given 14 au intolerable injustice, a paipabie Violas.on of the constitution wh ch no prise:ple caa justify and 2» goad policy excuse. Im- Acta. b sbory will record itas # Vtolation of the pational faitn, Win IL spoke of the great injustice of forcing oro suilrage Upon the States of the South against their wil the Senator barliy attempts to anewer that, He puts .t aside ax an appeal to the prejudice of race. Sir, does not tne Seaator kuow that if Congress should tempt to fore) negro sn‘ravo upon the States repre. sened bere agsmst ther will ic would prob abiy overturow the goverumont? Doos not that senator kuow tnat in some things the senti- ments, tho instincts, the prejudices even of men are stronger and truer thay reason? Does he not know that in legisieting, especially ja efforts to pacify a country disturbed by civil war, uo'hing Is to be more carefully considered than tne sentiments and feciings of apeopie? In pacifyiog tho Indian Lerritory we pro. vided by treaty that if the Choct and Chickasaws would not allow the negroes among them to have the | right of suffrage the negroca showld have @ territory set apart for tb mseives. Can we not have equal respoct | for the deep-seated prejndices of white men in the Siates of the South, if prejudices they are? Making peace is, doty, after war with a foreign negotiated with the repre- sonta ives of by the President and rati- fled by the Se aftor war against our own States or citizens to suppress rebellion, not by a new treaty—for tu tution 18 @ trealy avd more than & treaty—but ing the taws made in porsuance to the consii- and compelling ovedience thoreto; for obedtonte tothe laws is peace. He is clotued by the constitntion with the power to pardon, and, as we have seen by tho decisiou of the court, that power ia not subject to legis. | lative re triction, Ta that {3 involved the whole power to make p nce with all citizeus or persons within the Joriediction of the Usited States amenable to its laws. Tn addition to that, by his power as Commander-in-Chiet, under (he constitution and laws, he waa made the jodro Pow-r, by of the time when the silion ceased, whetner the rebels are to be regarded ay States, as the Senator trom Massachusetts contends, or as citizens levying war | against the United states, as | have always maintained, The senator's speech of 1865 (Morton’s) demonstrated | the tdontity of Mr, Johnson's potley with that of Mr, Ijncoln, and iu all thiags Justified the policy of restora~ tion commenced by Me and continued by Mr, Jchuson uneil the meetiog of Congress in December, 1805 Tt war then the senajor from Masea:nuseys j Dogan to ploy his grand rie as masier in the | radteal schoo! of —raco ion in the Senate, He then —prastivally upped his first — tes fon, It was the saine idea tor which the Sena’ or from Indiana now 49 ably comands; the came idea which now control* ihe majority —u rantes c’auso of the c netituticr #0 hegra suffrage as the basis of republi overnmonts Thea the Secaor from Massachusetts | ood almoat aiove, Now every 5. then here and y, that mnder the gua- ‘ho supported Mr. Lincoln's tration, 6% J “©, Lave renounced Mr. Linestn y and adopted policy of the Senator from Maagachueetis. They | one over to him aod stand by bis 6 too far, por * when 1- gay he mae, for be ' was anpported by the ale hed forces of the Senator Obie (Mr, Wade) | on bis right and of the Senator from Kentucky (Me, vowell) oo bia left, Hts right wing. tnciuding bimselt, constvied of five radical Senators, and bra ieft of mx or | eight members of the oppovition, S | #taali force the Senator from M: tly aud successfally aeorsit upon this asure of Mr. Linooln’# adm‘ and tminigtored bis rat teen to the majortt | The prowress they have mate wil seen hereafter. J all amdiguity it f* pri * 4 should remind ¢ Sowate the: upon the great ia of the oegro and the rights of tho States to deal with there have been three dietinet eohoole:-—Firat, the eoloo! of the South. ero radicals, which T willeall the evhool of Calhoun; seorad, tue scnool of the Northern radicals, which 1 wt all the school of Samuer; and ‘vind, tue sahool of Jafar 608 and Madison, based upon the (rie philosophy of (aaa aad of human gor mn he two fest schools are aimed by thie (Mr. Sam radicaimboth, in some reap , fadically wrong. The turd, or the schoo! of Joteron and Madison, and ate lavsr'perind of Webster, Ciny, Rwing, Benton, Wright | and General Jackson, standing midway botween, ro- | j Joctiag the truths of both, ia, on ing judgment, the | true achooi of the statesman, In tae firet or Calhoun | school megroes bound to rr Their normal that of al » And in that ech fetorsl government fay powor to force State to obey the constitution against ite will and « Brite May secede at iteown ploutire In the second oF Sumner sohool, wegroes in a commuaity of white mea bave not onlp & right to their \iberty and person and property, but ht to be placed apo @ footing of | potlucal equality, laciuding the right of a and to hold oMice, and, &s @ matter to fo low Inevitably, #Oclal equalliy. Im that school, sito, (4 now doctrine of cen- (atization of ail power in Congress over the State ander the clause to gusrauiee ro ublican forms ef gov- ornment Bae ariven, as dangerous to Ibert ae weceneion iteell, Opposed to both of these radical echools fa the true schoo! of Jatierson ani Madigog, It maimaine the right of all mon tot aod that their persons, gd should be secured by ftret al no rights w teh white men aro | ‘nd true cosdition 190 { | together upon @ feat went social equality, 3% rejects poco. a ooo hand, as atterly destructive y and ¢ ion ae Sonperers to republican institutions se i is to liberty itself, It is tm this latter sohool that | wae reared from my youth up; I remain ite democratic part; the Caihoun + | land, and which go uappily sited her, and control its policy, I was compelled to separate from it and act with en. blican party until the reveliion Was Suppressed; and now that the radicals of the Sum- ner school bave got coutro! of the councils and action of the republ.can party, and ‘are driving It on to abso- jutiem and to the destruction of the rights of the States, 1 cannot go with a. 1 to abandon the whole teachings the democratic party is reorganizing upon the same Krounds where the old democratic republican party stood balfa century sgo—at least a3 I think iv is—we shall stand together ang do battle in the same cau-e, Wnen I ontered the Sovate the honorable Senator from Iiiuois was an able disciple and powerful ad- Vocate of the docirines of tho school of Jeifr- ib. He then belonged to 409 same school with myself, ir, had Congress in 1865 recognized Louisiana all the Oiner States, two yeara ago, would have been foatored to represen’ation here; their practical relations In the Uniod varmoniously resumed; the credit of the gov- ernment placed in & position So strong thet oursix per cent bonds would now command goli ata premium 1 any money centre of the world, Senatora, it isa commentary upon tbat fatal misiake. The four per cont bouds of Brazil command over ninety per cent in gold, winke the six per cents of the United Bates sell at seventy-three. What reason can be given except that one-thtd of the States, beatly three years after the war has ceased, are denied by Congress all reprosontatiop, and Con- gress seems determined to impose upon them such Unbearable degradation that white men from other ates will not go sbere to reside, and those who are now thore are driven to despair. Had ‘ ongress then recog- ized who State of Louisiana there never would have been any such rot at New Orieans, By refusing to recognize tt doubis as to the validity of the oxisting government were at once engendered, made to extend negro suffrage in that State by tou against the existing goverument there by togertier the old convention whic | formed the constitu. tion to amend it in such a manuer as to disfranchise iurxe classes of white men and eafrancuiwe the viscks, But for the failure of Congress to recognize Lowsiapa at that time po such at- tempt would have been made or dreamed of; and but for that attempt no such riot would huve bee provoked or incited to the sorrow and moru- eaticn of every true American. Mr, President, let moe not be misuadersioud, Wuen the Sevator from Litinois and the majority of the Sena’e stuod witu me, comteud- ing au earnesiy for Mr. Lin-olu’s policy, their purpoze as well a8 mine wag the re-establishment of the Union tully and consticutionally and the restoration of bar. mony and good accord between the Norti: ana the South, That was my purpose then and is still, 1 think that may be thé parpose ef the majority still, although under the educating process referred to by the vovorable Senator from Indiana they have come to think the cause of the rebellion will tri- umph in some way unless the party im power is sustained, and therefore they wili consent to no re tor- avon which will not secure their party ascendancy. In this Ido not participa‘e, Here, tnou:b always painful to separate irom politicul {riend, we must separate, Besides there is another fundameatal element of divi- Sioa catween us, ‘The manner in which Congress now pursues its pol'ey of reconstruction necessarily defeats the main purpose in which ip the ineing we all agreed, peacetul and cordial reconstruction, or restora- ton on a constitutionai basis, Congress now makes it a qiesiion of arbitrary power on one side, ef abject submission stubborn resisiauce on other, Kogiand bi tried both policies She ex- tended equal rguts to Scotland, conquered ater centuries of cruel and desolating war, and Scutland haa been for the last hundred and itty years a peacefcl aud loyal part of the British empire. She tried toe other course with Ireiand; proscribed her citizeus, per- socated her, heaped coutuwely aud reproach on ali who loved her and whom her people loved, and al! has beeo and continues to be auarchy, disord:r, mutual hatred nd mutual violence, aod th Mea, high pirited anes, al ‘buat or drive mto submission, to love those who bab.tualiy insuit and degrade them. We difier in this, Now that the rebeition is over lam in favor of law.ul, Kind and conciliatory measures, aud as lar ag tnay be Cousiment with my own couvictions, of paying due respect to the long cuerisued foeiings, opinions aud prejudices in ihe Souch—vhe cours, in short, woich Eugiand pursued towards scot- Whil- the ma- jonty in Congress speax of the South as still in rebellion, Wevounce tho.r cuaracters, spuru heir oaths of wle- giauce, treat os null their pardons granted by tue resident, favor whotesaly proscriptioa, mili- lary goverament Orst thon negro goverameat bumbling, 4he Intoligent White mab of tbe Soutn to @ condition po- livicaiiy bolow the mu-t igauraut plantation negro, tuey are, as I undorstand thom, prepared to adopt tue course which Englond wok @ aust Ireland, and tor ihe saxe of tue brie: continuance of power wnich they may hope it wil give them, take, or ra her jet the country take, its terrible consequences. Feniaa)sin is not confined w ire- Jand; tt is coutagious, for humaa n tare is the same io ail ages Of L.e world, | ILis naves +180 to humiliate an ad- versary whom the fortunes of war have placed in our power. When in the eavly ia 6 0: Romo the army, em- bracmx the flower of the oman youth, oeng led mtv @ doille were captured oy the xamnites, under command of # youthful general, he sent tu inquire of his aged unclo, a great man as woll as a great gene.a', what should be duue wita the prisonere, received for suswer, “Set them at liberty upon a pleige of peace for the future. -Send them home with honor; do nov humiliate them." This advice was too i, too far-seving and magnanimous to be nended by the young Hotspur in tho Mush aud pride of his great victory, He did humil- jaa them, From that muient peace became impossi- ble between Rome aud the samnices; it was war to wl doa h, whieb did not cease until che name of that peop perished, mir, if we would bave peace, a peace worth bat lot us give to the poople of the States of the South tho san nstitution, Uie same laws, the same rights which we claim tor our-elves. As States let us not bumilate them, and b causo they are jw weak and wearo sirong, place them upon a footing n- ferior tv other Siates, They are sisters of ths same family, and though they have been in deadly feud with us, in Wich the Wrony bas Deon witn them, now tha. the :oud bas ceased, now that they have renouu ed ther error, let Us treat tuem as disters and equals once more, You Know, sir, that the Staies represented here would hot consent to have Congress forve upon suffrage agaiuat their will, Shall we hum Hous of Ourown race, brave, high spirited though they once were, by forcing upon the wil hot take upon ourselves? And what maxes the degradation of this policy 80 much more to toom ia the fact that from the wholesale disfranch ise- ment of the whites and tho universal suffrage of the blacks, furced upoa them by miitary power, in several of those States, if not in ail, tony are to be subjected in fact to a pegro government; to the goverment ef their late negro slaves. No humiliation can be con- 1 80 great ax that, or so utteriy destructive of their jaterests, present and future, It is a state of things which canaot be imp cd and caunot be upheld ex- | cept oy military power at esormous cost to the goverument Some Senator in ti plained because I read a svatcment Stephens and Mr, Fuzpatrick upon the coy South since the adopiion of the new policy 1 did so because the Souta has no voice hi Congress closes the door and reu We do not onderstand and ber true condition, I read the stasem gen- tlemen because there 1 aot a inao on this floor who will not admit their knowledge and tholr veracity, Tow appeal to the Sonate to listen fora moment to the words of one of the ablest men of our coun- try-—Goveraor Perry, offSouth Carolius He was a true friend of the Union during the whoie war. I would he wore bore on this floor to speak for her and for himself, He would state the eflecis of this ne: policy in words fo terse and clear, and it enroest as to resch the judg and move tl heart, Ina war of races thers ts nothing sacro: nothing holy, nothing resnecied, Ail the chariies of the heart and all te ordinances of God and of man are trampled down before the passions of demons tncar Fire, rapine and death encompass you one flames of your dwellings, the «| end the groans of the matron bre our midnight re- pose. The dead lie unburied, a steuch in your bigh- ways Te priest is slain at tho altar—eeble age upon | its cruteh=the infant in its cradle, Aud because I would save the South from the aloption of a poticy which tends to produce such a war as that, am [ tw be charged with cracity and inhumanity’ Sir, I am pleading for the peace, for the lives, for the exlst- ence even ef the people of the south. Because aa American and as aman I love the people of both races—tho whites, with all their ties, now severely pun! the biacks, class, thor @ miicli tess to gov Tam pleading with all my might to #avo them from a polloy which will certainly devtroy one, if not both, races, is it right to esy Lom wanting to Christian chariiy? This cbarge hae too tittle foundation to require furiher notice, I retura to my argument, Mr. President, will the South live or de under sich treatment’ To prevent = war of es a lore standing army will be required it political power ls placed tu tho ignorant mass of half civilized nogroes. Bad as miliary despotism is, the mase of white people would prefer that to negro ernmen', and that can ovly be upheld by mili heat 'ande of the - are returnii 0 otion Is paralyzed, negro suffrage y at hundreds of bear all that tm expenditure to austain negro xupromacy at the Soush? Wheat will become of ovr credit, of our resources? What will become of ort republican — institutions? Oan we a9 A republic bound to a sepeiue ; can we, 4¢ 8 nation, live at all, cusined to @ dead body? Tue Uaion far which we straggied was a anion of equal States under the constitution union with the liv’ Hot with di f this radical polior should be pura antil deatn ensue the republic, to eave itself, ery out in agony, Who shall deliver this death? who sbalt cut the cord wi more to ive ody of Dinds us oa nate to arrest, oF }, hie poliey, 0 leave the States of the south ta the control of civilized people. Tf you will not leave the question of suffrage en- tirsly to ae wo claim it for ourselves, to be determined each State for iteelf, do not, 1 Implore you, humiliate (he intelligence and civilization of the South by forcing upon them against their will, againet their long cherianed sentimente, the universal sulrage of thelr iavo ignorant and as yet bat half cvvilized African slaroe, For the clevation of the nogross themselves I implore the Senate to negro sulrage, Wye qualification ave, which the more which the mass mi Adopt substantially th roatver aap which 1 propose, and I @ uo doubtia hone Siatoe would carry it out | yathe ot Taine Order aud evil government would | place of anarchy miliary despot. A great part of = th could 8000 be withdrawn, and our expenses reduced by _ $40,000,000 per = annum ope would = revive | and prosperity begin to smile upon all paris of the re. bic, Ifthe majority would adopt that and except jm disfranchisement ail who have received pardon according to law, with al! the groat errors !t has com: mitted the last two y: , T think ft might #tn | hope ¢ rene af Me United | Place ome restrictions apon | DAY, FEBRUARY .25, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. —__—$—$—5 $$$ $$$ States would continue them tn powor, But if they wil! ‘sist upon the disfranchisement of thousands upon thousands to whom the nation’s pligbied fai bas given pardon; if they will force un:versa! negro sult upoa ten States and six millions of our own race and people against their wit), the party in power, whoever may be its candioate for Prosident, oughv-to be, ond 1taink will be, overthrown, Mr. President, ag 1 sid in the bevinoing, when this measure cam measure which, upom its face, in a Lime of proflund peace, Create", ad 1% soems to MS, 8° Qorolute, un- walified milltiry despotism oF, ven Stuice, eight mil- lions of our peop'e, and over a territory larger tan England. France and Germany ail ¢ I was filied with emotions wh oan express, I berg accustom 7 upon the United States, with written cone stiution, forming a union of wa: Staes loto ove nation, bud yet go defining and limiting its powers As to leave ‘the States thus auited independent, cach for itself under its own coustituuon, to guard the more sacred rights of its cilizoa%, as the rea- lization of ali Lal is great and good iu human govera- ment—as the true ideal As a citizen end as a Senator | have loowed upon this great republic in sis. New World not only as (he outgrot Mt the civilization of the ages, but as (he realization of the biguest sspiration of all who have preceded it and prepared tle way for its comng, a3 that higher amd better republie for man upon the earth for which the greet and good of all ages havs lonced amd prayed, and for which the brave have ug aod have not feared to die, With the or a hambte faith | nave looked upon it, also, as the very republic wh ch the prophets of old foresaw was to come—the maacuild of prophecy, the faithful and trie, in righteousness j ging and mak: 4 if faithfuljaud true to ite high mission, that Heaven, with all its omnipotence, stands pledged for iw success, Will the great republic be faithful aud true to tat mission? For is hour of wial has come Vhey come, not from Secession on the ove ad by imperialiem, on without; they come from withi baud; centralization. to be soilo' the other. We have overcome the one. That danger is already past. Are equal to the struggle necessa s; to resist and overcome the other whicu tlireatens gow That depends upon the people themscivos, God grant bey may be! At the clese of Mr. Doolitti Consideration of tie subject wus pv morro, and at twenty minates to four o’clock, on mi tion of Mr, Johnson, the Senate wert into axecutive session, EFFECT OF THE NEWS IN THE CITY. Wall Street—City Ha'l—-The Ne fices—Fighting Aldermen and Militinmen, It is gaid that history repeais itself, If wo be- lieve this, the next gouclusion to arrive mt is that the United States, once the grand republic of the West, is tending towards a monarchy, aud, worse than that, monarchy cannot be reached until civil turmoil acd internecine warfare leave their marks on a lund that was once happy, prosp2rous and free—a country developed by its peuple to the greatest extent, and which that peo- ple loved as the birthright of all that was good and noble—the ‘‘home,” as Burns would cali it, of God's own chosen friend, ‘a good and honost man,"? But to- day the people of the Empire State aud the imperial city are agita\ed, and why? The chosen dof the nation, acting and fulfilling the offices of the Chief Magistrate | of the country, is insulted by “patriots” and disobeyed by “underlings."’ Our ideas now are the ones given on the streets yesterday—in Wall and others. They caunot bo given in dialogue, nor can they be repeated verbatim as they occurred, ‘The substance and the point were that until, not aloao impeached, but found guilty, the Presi- dent was yet the President of tue United States, aud snould, from the high position of his office, if from noth. ing else, command the respec: of all true Americans, and not the ingults aad indignities wh.ch bave been heaped— it cannot be said on him, but upon his offlce—by the true (as they call themselves) patriots of this oountry. In Wail strect yesterday w was thought Mr. Johnson may bave been wrong, and many were of this opinion; but they canvassed his actions and were at fault to fud whoero he cast ignominy or contempt on the United Stares governmont, Bat they could not deny that the dearest privile.es of a citizen were ignored by a par- Nament which attempted to ura into # nonentity the “Supreme—the very highest, the last—Court of appeal in the United States, and wanted, like an old at- torney’s bill to make it act to their own advantage, At the different newspaper offices crowds gathered all yesterday, and coming towards even ng, when the im- peachment vote waa expected, the exciioment became intense, Wall street was “nowhore,”’ for its brokers and wanipulators and shysters could not operate, for paper Of. the man who would call out in the gold room or im the Stock Exchange was silenced by the voices of the newshoys, who, without great regard for truth or exaygoration, ‘hollered” “Revolution in Washington,”? and American securities wont down in New York and Philade!puia, as they also id jo Europe, and “Shoady” looked bappy and antici- pated another gay season, aud bounty jumpers looked pleasoat and anticipated ‘new business’ on the govern- ment. At somo of the brokers’ offices there was an attempt made to “rua” the gold mareet, but it ‘couldn't do,” for nobody would speculate, and Wall street took a hol!- day, walting the impeachment of the President of the country. Some of the merchants were loyal and indigaant at the way thoir ruler was treated, while others gloried in the ineulis heaped upon that official and ‘brayed’’ their support for Congress aud the laws as Congress makes them. The mor? intellig the less parsimonious agreed with the President cared litte, wlthough they were bout the resuit; for they considered, to judge from their language, that the Pr-sid:nt was the elect of the people, and consequently tho representative of the jle’s choice. Some expre«sed the opinion that mak- ing we constitution was the game as taking the bottom from a ship after she Lad gone to sea, The President, or the official, tuev say, takes his office under certain conditions, but immediately after these ore all cuang ¢; then the question is, how can he con- ecientiousiy, with recard to bis oath of office, perform his duties “according to law’’—tho new, or the newer or the amended law"—whichever may be the latest— for the law of this country at present is only a thing of to day, to bo changed and transmozrified to-morrow, Ye: others in Wall streot oxpressed the opinion wa! the President was too hasty and did not bel sumed to bimsecif powers which reall, ig to bis office; but these folks were the presout Cougress tue of Now York city. Sih the New Yorkers like Old Bon Wade just as they would admire a consistent lunatic—if théro was evor such athing—and the opimon yesterday was that that ine dividual started to make war and is bound tocarry It throughat ali hazards—to any one else but himself, Some sagacious individuals sneered at thoso who and vouched that thore Were tho words used betore the beginning of the late war, and that we wore oo the eve of « atrife far more 3 than tho last, It was said Maryland had offered her militia and that cercain coiones iu this city ten- dered tuermsetves and their men to the President, and one crackbrained Hector ordered out of bis employ- ment all the men who would not devote their persons id their money to the causo of the Fresident of the Uniied States. fhis was considered and spoken of by many as very good, and se by others was the worse than foolish offers of Governors Geary and Ogiisby, who as men of sonse ought to have made matters smoother, and not be the first to plunge our country into civil war; but it is said “tne size of the head makes up for the want of brains,’ Wall street, alihougs anxious for Speculation and all that kind of thing, can do without a lector, an (icilshy or a Geary, aod the best “gear” it can Dut on is to remain ag quiet as it did yesterday and Jet not the infatuation of mney making tea e8, oven in the height of our worse triais, m u of that street forget they are Americans and es such Gre lateresiad in the value of Amorican securities, Some geatiomen, officers, too, of good regulation, were Tash evougd to offer their services and that of numbers men whom they previously commanded, but thie jas kept as quiet as possible; yet thers was a feel! ar uae people, apparent yesterday, that Yor! city, being tho richest ip the Uuijon and tue headquar. cae democracy, would be the An oS to radical upremacy and ranny; and this idea, probabiy more thaa an; ning aise, ‘taded to th iuterest exhibited by the pecple of tn! ington Concress, aoy reiterated (he punishment and iadignities Were subjected to by the action of the Excise la retical meacire—and thinking that Cast their shadows before,” they were afraid to tr themselves to the tender mercies of the governme: the extreme—and = which changed « city io the doings of the Wasn- they to would ineult the Chief Magistrate of the country trample on the doarest rights of ita inhabitants, and merely for tho purpose of piacing thomaaives in por oF achieving (he euceens P ‘& political doctrine copied from the codes or iawe which governed slaves im the middie ages aod which are better suited to the barbaric period than to the civilization and versal suffrage, which they would bi time. Praction of th ual ity (and por offices were the latest dotai I crowded with Th ae 6 AN DOUncEM: office columns of the Telegram of reswit of the vote on | impeachment was received with immense disapprova. y the Presi. where being formed, with arms if voterans of the war, appa: ization is alread, mecervary, composed of oI Tently dex rous to eign the (ollowing declaration :— ‘We, the undersigned, are Besirods of forming a series of jon in mupport of the policy of Audrew Jobneon, ts'repe: any revorutionaty aUlemgt On (he ath of tug > repe! any revolut ‘a taned piates Yo over neow the lawtal ant iy of the nation, Mi be beid this uthor: rther meet afternoon, at fou 208 Broad: AY poesidie, placed at tho differet At the howls the subject of present iin rogilo, and the majority were uBdoubtedly in favor of tne President, The wildest kind of rumora were the afoot, It wae sald at one time that a woll known Irish officer--an ox-member of Congreas—was about to raise & brigade to inthe President, To counteract thi tho Union Lengue Ch tended, it was said, to make @ domonstrationjand raise men tor Congress; bat on inves. Liget'on Oae Flory was found fo be jut ee wntrue ag tho other, Aldermen and other excuabio individusia whe bad never “smelt powder” volunioered “purse and "but they probably kuew that uewher want and up toa late hour tuis morutog, althoug wugress had voted the impeachment uf our Prosidt Now York ig tranquil, and the whole country is obediet to the “Vive la MISCELLANEOUS WASHINGTON NEWS. Wasuxcron, Fed 24, 1808. Reception at the White House=The President Serene, The reception the Executive Siansion to-night wae targely atveuded, more so than on eny similar occasion during the season, notwithstanding the disagreeable weather, Tho President did not soem to be disturbed by to-day’s action of the Hous: uf Representatives, but received mauy of his {riends 1 418 usual manner. Among the visitors were attorney General Btanbery, Secretaries Seward and McCulloch and Postmaster Gea- eral Randall. Sta Abridgement of Political Rights ef Citizens. Senator Williams to-day introduced @ bill providing that no amendment of any State constitution abridging of curtailing the political mghu privileges of the citi zens of the United States shail Le valid until the same ja submitted to aud approved by Congress, which was referred to tho Judiciary Committes. The Soldiere aud Sailors’ Presidential C vention. Tho Executive Committee appointed by the Soldiers and Sailors’ Convention which met at Cleveland Sep» tember, 1866, convened in this ci'y op Saturday last, and agreed to bold a dotegate coaven:ton of ail the white soldiers and sailors who have houorably served in the Union army and navy and who are opposed to the revolutionary conduct of the radical party, at the Cooper Institute, in the city of New York, om the 4th of July next, to take such action as may be considered for the public good. Navy Gazette. Commander Charles H. Green, Unttod States Army, bas been detached from duty as Lighthouse Inspector of the Ninth Lighthouse district, headquarters at Ne Orleans and embracing Louisiane aud Texas, and placed on waiting orders, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasuinuron, Feb. 24, 1868, In the Supreme Court of the Un ted States to-day the following d2cisions wore rendered. — No. 287—United Stat plait, ce tiftcate of division of opiuiva betwee the Circuit Court of the United states Massachusetts, ‘.r. Jus!ice Swayne delivered the opinion of the court, answering the first question certified 1m the affirmative aud the second tu the negative, The Case involved the question whether a cork in the office of the Suo-Treasurer at Bostou was indictable under the Sub Ir Of 1546 or impr por use oF divers sion of public ox The court in effect say the clerk came withiv the provisions of tue ww, such Clearly being the intent of Cou,ress, according to the rules overning tbe interpreiauon vl statutes, Associal tice Miller for biusel!, aud Justices Grier and Fields, 4iskented trom the opinion of the majority of the court, holding that the clerk was appoured by the Sal ‘Treasurer, with the approval of the Secretary of tl ‘Treasury, and was uot one of the officers specified in the act as required to give a bund for the faithful perform ance of duty iu the custody, trausfer aud disbursement of pudlic moneys. 'o, 102—United States vs. Cook. —On certificate of division of cpinioa between the judges of the Circult Court of the United states for the Soutuern district of Ono, tir, Juatice Swayne delivered the opinion of the court, answering the frst ana third questions certified ta the ailirmative, aud the :ecuus question, “that the in- dictmont is sutticieut,” aud deciping to avswer the fourth questiou, no such q.estivy arising upon the in- The dictment. No, 308—Miilpgan, plamuif un error, #8, Heartuple,~ Case distissed, No, 203— iiver, ministra‘or, &c., plaintif? in error, and Ladd, and No. 210—Marsball et al., administrator, plaintif? tn error, vs. Ladd,—Cave di<missed. No, 209—Mersiall et al, admioistiator, plainul in error, vs Knott — ase di<mised No’ 184—Griser, plaintiff im error, ve, McDowell, —Case argued. GEXERAL NEWS ITEMS, ‘The Methodist church ia Grafion street, Halifax, N. 8., was burned on Sunday olgbt, The loss is $25,000, and the insurance $9,000, om London and Laucashire offices, ‘The cause of the fire was a defective chimney, Robinson's paper mills at Belchertown, Mags,, were destroyed by Greon Sa:urday night, The disaster was caused by the breaking of a lautern, which fell among some straw while Mr, Robinson was showing the mill to a friend, The loss is about $7,000; insurance, $3,600, The suit between the Troy and Boston Railroad and T. W. Park bas been setiied and counecitons by the way of Bennington, Manchester and Rutuaud, Vi, are to be re- sumod imumodiatoly. ‘The afternoon train from Waterbury, on the Hartford, Providence aud F.sikil! Katlroad, yes:erday, when mear Conn., rag over asien containiug twe men named Piatt and Harris, cattle buyers. Both were killed, Mr, Harris instantly, aud Mr, Plate living naif hoor. Peds bes . 4 . ° ° ° . . A. S—A—R—S—A-P—A—R—|~L—L—1 —-A-N. IDDEN yuasu BROUGHT n For 300 years the curative properties of Sarnaparilia jain dormantina part of the rvot thatg bas escaped u Rotice of chomists. By the new proves receutly discovered. by Dr. KADWAY in extracting the medicinal properties from vegetable substan tion of RADWAY'S RENOV . T (SARSA- PARILLIAN) the crystalline p inciple of Saraaparilla wae found to pos-ese the true virtues ascribed to this root, and obtained rescues, ehromie, now isunder Dr. KADWAY'S new is wonderTu, curative power over all’ forme ot scrofulous und uncured secondary diseases, re of Sarasparilla frou the unfavorable opinions OF Uae medical bully, RAUEAPARTLE LAN, SA TSAPARILLIAN, associated with other Ingredients of extraordinary curative Properties, enters imi the composition of KADWAY'S KENOVATING RGSOLVENT, and this remedy may now be considered as the most effec. tual aud quick eurative ‘remedy in ‘al, chronle landular skin, Kidney, badder and uriuary diseaves. in seaves of F it uffords immediate the lungs, Diouehs, throat aa inediate 8 thro lowed’ it “nl the eapuision of {) tepatre the waste of the rk of er corr m the ood pody With round and healthy material and secures func- tional harmony of each dupraved organ in the nutural secre apt tion of {is proper constiiuents in cases where there is ditheulty Ip the kidneys und diabetes gravel, catarrh or irrle tation of the bladder, Bright's disease, &c te present, this remedy will give immediate rele. aud insure a cure, Question. 4, “Will your Resolvent make a pers manent cu rel secundary disease? If 90, have © ‘y proofs? Anawer.—We have a number of cases of persone that were unsuecrsstully treated on the Iarisian piano of vay beths of mercury, arseule, sulpaur and the »dministration of di where you satlsfacts ing Resolvent, as pre were cured and, since married, hive trace of disease or impure blood b their children up to this time, We instance of the reappearance of treated by the Resoivent under tts new mode of prepara- tion. As itis now propared, its power over all diveases generaicd im the blood, or’ where there «re polsono Slements im t sorofuia, kin diseases, pimples, pustal ir sores wort! salt rhoum, cancerous ulcers or tumors, positive mt " tho evi effects of mercary or imperfect digestion, this remedy will cure, if it 14 in the power of huovan agengy to do no, ‘Ihe experience of over twenty. five years gives us confidence in the curative eflicacy of our Termgelen And Justides us le making these promises to the 9, Dr, Radway can be consulted at No. 87 M, 12109 P.M. free of charge. BR. Resolvont (Sarsapariiiian). $5 for jon Jane from RY bottle, a 87 Maiden ane, and by dru AY'S RESOLVENT and see that each botti has (be word SANSAPARILLIAN on the outs bel. 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