The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1868, Page 5

NeW YORK HERALD, TUBSDAY, APRIL 28 1668—QUADRUPLE SHEET. . : rete . Was dors it make difter- | the averring of the fact che: carries with it all | it, and it would hardly lle in hig mouth after that to | President were true and not a mere au to | violatea of oMce and his- constituti TMF ACH MBN T, | Se sietecee thet scat, | Rea ce Sem alah | Sapien clea | ra eee | ert ct am ree nl 2 so cu as te make po ly eS ihe dee 60 you might as weil call on Map tase care thar tae ee ee i he for Sovorument a8 would demand bis = “against that ine “taw, sitking' a settied an é take care ws executed. misdemeanor, usagain | an rsistent : ; ; Jurious ‘and rous to the, publle | the prosesution to pfove th On the 2d of March, 1807, he returned to the Senate | fora moment into some of the ‘circum. | States into, Congress on’ bis, ows: wermen tn the const dat punishinont upon ‘con. | at coneaua that no corrupt wicked, motive nocd | had passed by atajorey of mone shoe teetuinas | Secretary of War by Air: Linesin"'y “Ruwe | Haterese of the trailors, “and” in deilance of welfare. The . e Wrial of President Andrew Jo%inson for wetion ‘only to removal from ‘and if Henig the ate for hick npenchn is rong, wit feasons elaborately given, wh ft should nat gontinned hold ndes Mr donnson, which, United Staten” sue specie offetces ged bere, Hi Crimes and and wicked the culprit is oe fren at The ponnael Baws great stress upon the neces- | unconstitutionality, it by @ vote of 35 yeas fas he a faithful rang was he Fmores for cor- | of a Tong. seri fF usarpationncone ‘an unlawful at- igh Misdemeanors. Santen he bo pursued by a new prosecution in | sity “proving were wilfully done, It by | to 11 nays, in the House of Representativ at | supe purposes? ,AteE the death of Mr. Lincoip, An | tempt ta reiove the rightful Socrevary of War and to Wea the sustive af the apondent gut be’ tng agree wih hla 4 mere accidental trespads ‘would | when the ‘vote was announced, the cer, as | tics and policy, and instead of ing the will of | the advice and consent of the Sonata, aishough then Tepeasea acts of malfeasance in omtcet “Mere mintake not pa samtelent toconvict. But that whi B 1s vol- bat Ri concen. procialined, £58. woes 8 pn aaaTed Rane who but im into qower, node eine AO crm a seasons ® cons; iracy to hinder and prevent him vention persevered in after untarily done is wilfully done, accordi ever: n ‘o-thii party - um! r said afte! Bitter Speech of Old Thad] ui Msghist upon the community, ie auite | honest Geftnition; and whatever Mmalfeassace ts wil | of each nouse having voted for it notwithstanding | Hous purposes. For every oust. purpose of the | retusa of tne Senate to ences in Me kagenatees ak sumicient removal of the officer from lingly perpetrated an officeholder is @ misde- | the objections of the ident, it has become a law.’ vernment, and for epeeg Roncet palpone for which seize, take and posgess the property of the United Stevens. lace Where he is working mischief by his continuance | meanor in office, as Be may Alles was his in- | I am Ssupposieg that Andrew Johngon was at this . Stanton was appoinied by Mr, Lincoln, where | States in said department; aa attempt to debauch . in power, The q to be considered, ia the | tention. The President justifies him: yy assertii moment waiting to take the oath of office as Presi- a man be found? None ever organized | an officer of the army from his allegiance by incul- ms respondent viola! the law? His perseverence in | that all previous Presidents had exercised the same | dent of the United States, “that he would obey the | an army of a million of men and provided for its sub- | cating insubordination to the la 3; in uch violation, al it shows @ perverseness, ES of Femoying for canse to be dodged of ponsmason Oat take care that the iawa be meee setence aud eae soton. more eee Oe <. jl pene spdiect, the attempt to set aside ‘abso! vit President alone, there been uted.’ aworn - nton jecessor, uthorit; moe tt ian remot Ca A ces prohibit it when Mr, Stanton was removed the cases | gels tpohey the constitution, and being about to de- | propriety be said erenis omcer than of the celebrated | public odium and cantons and t ek: 44 phd ‘ance to its laws by the open and public ‘dalivery of Denunciation of the President Fike’ pu injuries which, he fs talcing "upon Would have been parallel, and the one might be ade art, he turns to, the person administering tne oath | Frenchutan, that he orgauized victory.” He ratsed duced as an srgument. ia favor of the other. But mony , Ihave a further oath, Ido solemnly | and by his requisitions distributed mare thane billion indecent harangues impeaching {ta acts and pur- — hose whose interests and Threats to the Senate. —_{ singie charge which Thad th Tam | since the action of Presidents to which he t Lwili not allow the act entitled ‘An Act | of dollars annually, ‘without ever. having ‘and full of threats ‘aad me ti - catced cyspelinitts ‘has duty. ic @ light ‘one refers, & law had passed ps Con- Regniating the Tenure of Certain Civil Ofices,’ just | charged or ee with the malappropriation of @_laws enacted by it, to yee i a eaall rmed, and which I will be a ith the | passed by Congress over the Presidential veto, to be | a single dollar; and when victory crowned his efforta | degradation of his own sigs office as President, and found mpoastbie for the to answer or deny’ that right and prohibit, | executed; but I will prevent its execution | he disbanded that immense army as quietly and | the devising and contriving of unlawful means to evade, len Andrew Johnson took upon if | ing it in fature, imposing severe penalty virtue of my own ‘constitutional power.” | peacefully as if it had beena summer parade. He | prevent the execution of the Tenure of Office, Arm: ARGUMENT OF MANAGER WILLIAMS, the duties,of his high office he swore to con- 2 execu of who should e. low shocked Congress would have been— | would not, I suppose, adopt the personal views of | Ap| pean and Reconstruction acts of March stitution and take care that the laws it: And too, ‘etter je! what would the country have sald to | the President, and for this he was suspended until | lsd’ allof these which relate to the attemp' fully executed. Thi int 0 iin soeae sonal And been defeated. scene equalled only by the unparalleled action of this | restored by the emphatic verdict of the Senate. Now | removal of the Secretary of War, the answer ” alwi been the cl duty the nt jo pretext, theref< tes existed such | same when sworn into office on that fatal 5th | if we are right in our narrative of the conduct of | first, ti the case of Mr. Stanton is not SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. of the United States. ‘The duties of ht was vested in the lent by virtue of his | day of March, which made him the successor of | these parties and the motives of the President the | wittiin the meaning of the first secuon of the a mae and adjudicat the laws of his country inno | office. Hence the attempt to ld himself under | Abraham Lincoln! Certainly he would not have | very effort at removal was a high-handed usurpation | Tenure of Office act Second, that if it be, the act ts unconstitutional and void so far as it undertakes to abridge the power claimed by him of removing at any and all times all executive oficers for causes to be Judged of by himself alone, as well as of suspending them indefinitely at his sovereign will and plssares and, third, that, whether the act be constitytional or otherwise, it was his right, a8 he clans it to have been his purpose, to disobey and violate it witha WasHineton, April 27, 1868. wi touts lot. obey the commands of the sover- | such practice is a most lame ev: of the question | been permitted to be inai ted as Vice President | as well as a corrupt misdemeanor, for which of itself Another fruitless effort was made to-day to secure en wer of the nation, and to see that others igsne. Did he ‘take care that this law should be | or President. Yet such fn effect has been his con- | he ought to be impeached ‘and thrown from the place the passage of the resolution admitting the oMcial should 0 them his whole '—& duty which | faithfully?” executed? He answera that acts that | duct, if not under oath, at least with less excuse, | he was abusing. But he says that he did not n he cor attem} 80 Would | would have vielated the law had it existed, were | since the fatal day which inflicted him upon the | remove Mr. Stanton for the urpose of defeating reporters to the deliberations In sécret session of the | pe in t viol of his oMcial oath; in other | practised by his jecessors, The President says people of the United States. Can the President hope the Tenure of Ofice law. Then he forgot the Sra Se icant estos bencens | Seahol eelea et earner mei | Reamer eae APL ania | Reeetee cia t Hnks tania is | uh mM atone in, Tae aoe name of the r= ut as mn done of 5 use the Gene: ree, Saha Neary ie, Ceiene : panei A inst ute | decision, He has already eeen ft tested dad decided | he expect a sumclent nufaberot hae tiers 40 Pee | Cot Ak Ang And wecause, the General did ANeen or thirty minutes in the debate also went | ests of his a eit 24 day of March, 1807, | by the votes, twloe given, of two-thirda.of the Seus- |:nounce that law unconstitutional and wold—those | to ald iim in resisting that law he rated upon iim | view to the settlement of the question of its over, Conese paerers lar over the veto of tie President | tors and the House of ntatives.. It | same triers having upon its’ validity upon | like a very drab. 1 counsel for the respondent | validity by the judiciary of the United States. Mr. ‘Stevens began his speech in a feeble voice | entitled “ anh A eg Lan tenure of certain civil | stood as a@ law upon the statute books, No | several occasions? The act was o1 ally Di by | allege ‘no removal of Mr. Stanton ever took place, | And, frst, as to thé question whether the ‘ 1 offices,” the first section of which is as follows:— case had ‘arisen under that law, or is referred | 29 yeas to9 nays. Those who voted in the affirma- | and that therefore the sixth section of the act was | present retary of War was intended to from behind the Clerk's desk, and labored bravely to it enacted by the ‘and House of Re) wea | to by the President, which required any judi- | tive were Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Cattell, | not violated. ‘They admit that there was an order of comprehended ‘within the first section of the act ‘accomplish the reading of the whole, but was forced | of the Canes Sisies of ‘Americn ia Congres aeseerti ee interposition... If there. had ion of his commission; but as he | referred to, ‘The defendant Insists ‘that he was mat i been, or should Chandi Conca, Cragin, Edmunds, _ Fogg, | removal and a rec to succumtwhen about half way, and handed over | °¥¢! erere baat i ty Sse et tae aeeok the courts were open to oe Who. fels Foster, ‘linghuysen, Grimes, Harris, Hender- sa Sokobes say it was no removal. That suggests the by the in- | son, Howard, lowe, Lane Mo! Morrill, it used tobe thought that “when the =~ slips to Mr, Butler, who rattled quickly through and every, ho may heresfiee beappolntedic any suck Sed of extoreine toes jaw, he takes advantage of | Poland, Kams¢y, Sherman, juraner, Van | brains were out the man was dend,’? That idea is e remainder, have Manager Williams followed, and also read his | eeu ride’ teat of iting, as the Executive of the United, Sta the bill with amename an the Senate disa | by the order of temov I—the recision of his cominise speech, which was a tolerably plausible one on the Biaie ofthe ron ary of War, of the Kary and of the Inte- to see that the law was fai executed, he cas amendments, which the by the order of removal—the recision of his commis- not, for the reason that he derived his commission from Mr. Lincoln, and not being removed on Mr. Johnson accession continued by reason thereof to hold the oftice and administer its duties at his pleasure only, without at any time having re- ceived any appointment from himself—assuming, as greed to, and the bill was afterwards referred to a | sion—and his head was absolutely cut offby that gal- | L understand, either that under the proviso to the whole, the. chief point. consisting in along array of | Tor, the Postmaster fe ph oarnmer Beymer root paina and perpetrated the acts in this | committee of conferrence of the two houses, whose | lant soldier, General Thomas, the night after the | first section of this act the case was not provided charges other than those in the articles of impeach- | President eiiees aren Cee ‘and for | article, ght 4 resist it himself, but to seduce | agreement was rted to the Senate by the Man--| masquerade. And yet, according to the learned | for, or that by force of its Sxpreee language his office pe ‘one month subject to removal by and with the az; | others to do the same. He it to induce the | agers and was adopted by @ vote of 22 veas to 10 | and delicate counsel, until the mortal remains every- | was determined by the exp Tuhon 9 the fret term ment, and which, the Manager averred, he would | Vice and consent of the Senate. General-i army in nays. Those who voted the. affirmative were | thing which could putrify was shovelled out and | of the President who appointed him. The body or enactory clause of this section provides that every person then holding any civil office, who had been appointed thereto by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate, or who should be thereaster: appointed to any such ofiice suould be entitled to hoid until a successor is appoinied in the like man- ner. It is evident, therefore, that its object was to provide for all Sr, either then existing or to hap- pen in the futuré. It 13 gbjected, however, that so mitch of this clause as feierred to the heads of de- partments is substantially repealed by tue saving clause, which is in the following words:—‘Provided, that the Secretaries of Siatc, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy and of tie Interior, the Post- master General and the Attoruey General, shall hoid their offices, respectively, ior and during the term of the Presideut by whom they may have been appointed, and for one moath thereafter, subject Lo removal by and with the advice and consent of tie Senate.” “This provision was the result of a conference of the disagreeing have incorporated in the articles if he had had the ‘The second section provides that when the Senate control of the matter. These charges are known to | oimder of the President ial de ont be everybody who has heard a radical speech of late | suspension, he Tay. be susper led until the next years, accusing the President of collusion with rebets, | meeting of the Senate; and that within twenty days . after the meeting of the Senate the reasons for such abuse of the pardoning power and other such accu- | suspension shall be reported to that body; ‘and, if the gations, Mr. Williams did not interest his hearers peat oo go sack — ve Pa es wae ig vl oad by ioe Botha hye ae cas eons nh he pene oe of the connect a cone he find i very deeply, and a visibi tion of the audience | 8u8) remov: al con- Was Vol for follow! ators: — uty to search out for defective Jaws that biore pr a after he pone Mr. Williams sidered removed from his office; but ifthe Senate | hand, was it not a high and bold attempt to obstruct | Messrs. Anthony, Cattell, Chandler, Conness, Oras in, | stand recorded upon the statutes, in order that he bs shall not deem the reasons sufficient for such suspen- | the laws and take care that they should not be exe- | Edmunds, Fessenden, Fogg, Foster, Fowler, Freling- | may advise their infraction? Who was aggrieved by may be agreat light in Pennsylvania, but his bril- | gion or removal the officer shall forthwith resume | cuted? He must not excuse himself by saying that | huysen, Grimes, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Kirk- | the Tenure of Office bill that he was authorized to Mancy seems under a cloud in presence of a court | the functions of his office, and the ee ppointed | he had doubts of its constitutionality and wished to | wood, Lane, Morgan, Morrill, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy, | use the name and the funds of the govenment to such as he addressed to-d; in his bar! shall cease to disc! such | test it. What right had he to be hunting up excuses |. Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, | relieve? Will he be so good as to tell us by what au- y ay. - | duties, mm the 12th day of August, 1867, the | for others, as well as himself, to violate law? Is | Trumbull, Van — Wade, Willey, Williams, Wil- | thority he became the obstructor of an unrepealed Manager Williams will conclude his argument to- | Senate not being in session, the President | not this confession a misdemeanor in itself? The | son, Yates—35. The ‘ident contends that by vir- | law intstead of its executor, especially alaw whose morrow, having delivered two-thirds of it to-day, | Suspended Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of | President asserts that he did not remove Stanton un- | tue of the constitution he had the right to remove | constitutionality he had twice tested? If there were He will be followed by Mr. Evarts, who is expected the Department of War, and appointed | der the Tenure of Office law. This is a direct contra- | heads of departments, and cites a large number of | nothing else than his. own statement, he deserves . J Pi U. 8. Grant, General, Secretary of War ad interim. | diction of his own letter to the Secretary of the Trea- | cases where his pre‘lecessor had done s0. It must | the contempt of the American people and the pun- 0 occupy a part of to-morrow and Wednesday. Mr. | On the 12th day of ber, 1867, the Senate being | sury, in which, as he was bound by law, he commn- | be observed that all those cases were before the pas- | ishment of its highest tribunal. If he were not Stanbery will read, or cause to be read, his argu- | then in seasion, he reported, according to the require- | nicated to that officer the fact of the removal. This sage of the Tenure of Ofiice act, March 2, 1867. Will | willing to execute the laws passed by the American Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Gopneas. Fogg, | hauled into the muck yard, there was no removal. Fowler, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane, Morgan, | But it is said that this ‘took place merely as an ex- Morrill, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart. Sumner, pecleiens: to make a judicial case. Now, suppose ‘Trambull, Wade, Willams, Wilson and Yates— | there is anybody who, with the facts before him, can 22. After the veto, upon reconsideration of the | believe thatthis was not an afterthought, let us seo bill in the Senate, and after all the arguments | if that palliates the offence. Tue President is sworn against its validity were spread before that | totake care that the laws be faithfully executed. In 4 ments of the act, the causes of such suspension to | portion of the answer may, therefore, be considered | the Tespondent say how the having done an act when | Congress and unrepealed, let him resign the office | houses on the amendment of the House striking out ment on Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday the Senate, which duly took thie same into considera- | as dis) of by the non-existence of the fact, as well | there was no law to forbid it justifies the repetition which was thrown upon "him by ahorrible convul- | the exception in favor of the heads of departments, Manager Bingham will close the case. tion. Before the Senate had concluded its examina- | as by his subsequent report to the Senate. ‘The fol- | of the same act after a law has been passed expressly | sion and retire to his village obscurity. Let him | and was suggested, if he may be exdused the ego- tion of the question of the sufficiency of such reasons | lowing 1s the letter just alluded to, dated August 14, | prohibiting the same? It is not the suspension or | not be so swollen by pride and arrogance, which | tism, by the individual who now addresses you, and removal of Mr. Stanton that is complained of, | sprung from the deep misfortune of his country, as sthed im compliance with the requirements of the acten- | but the mafiner of the suspension. Ifthe President | to attempt an entire revolution of its internal ina- re- | titled, “Ax act to regulate the tenure of certain lviloitices;” | thought he had good reasons for suspending or re- | chinery and the disgrace of the trusted servants of to whom, as the mover and advocate of the amend- ment, was very natarally assigned the duty of con- ducting the negotiation on the part of the House, for he attempted to enter into arrangements by which | 1867: PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT, | te night obstruct the due execution of the law, and 8 thus prevent Edwin M. Stanton from forthwit! Gor nine, suming the functions of his office as Secretary of | 70h sre notified that on the 12th inst, the Hon. Edwin M. Stab: | moving Mr. Stanton, and had done so, sending those | his laurented predecesso the purpose of advocating the objection taken ia de- ‘Twenty-fourth Day. , War, acoording to the provisions of the act, even If | Conetst te Grant sain rio ener el te cadena! | reasons to ihe Senate, and ten obeyed the decision | "the peuticnmae tafe Groesbeck) has spoken of the | iy,Pt*9O8e of advocating the objection taicen An de- Unirep SraTEs SENATE CHAMBER, the Senate should decide in his favor. And in furtiter- | taryart inte ton of the Senate in their finding, there would have been at Purity of the President in his transaction with | Managers that the elfect of the amendment WASHINGTON, April 27, 1868, ance of said attempt, on the 2ist day of February, Hon. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. no complaint ; but instead of that he suspends him lack and others. J admit that is fair subject from | would be to impose on an incoming President a Cabinet that was not of his own selection. I may be excused for speaking of its actual history, because that has been made the subject of comment by the learned counsel wio opened tuts case on the part of the President. If it was intended or expected that it shouid so operate as to create exceptions in favor of an officer whose abuse of power was the proximate cause, if not t!e tinpeiling motive, for the enactment of the law, | did not kiow it. It will be judged, however, by itself, with- out reference to the particular intent of him who pened it, or to any hasty opinion that may have been expressed in either jouse as to the con- 1868, he appointed one Lorenzo Thomas, by letter of Wretched man! a direct contradiction of his | indirect defiance of the tenure of office law, and | which toinfer general purity of conduct, I will The Court was opened tn due form at noon. The } guetiority or commission, Secretary of War ad (n- | solemn answer | How necessary that ainen suora | neitTet tatamce & arrangement, or attempts to do | examine that alittle, It was held by Socrates and pending question was stated to be the order of Sena- | terim, without the advice and consent of the Senate, | have a good conscience.or @ good memory! Both | go, in which he thought he had succeeded, to prevent | Plato to be among the most atrocious offences to cor- tor Epmunps, that the official reporters be admitted ea the same was then in session, and ordered | Would not be out of place. How lovely to con- | the due execution of the law after the decision of the | rupt the youth, because that tended to overthrow to the secret session to take down the debates on the | 'm (the said Thomas) to take possession of the De- template what was 80 senuonalynoniome’ by a | Senate. And when the Senate ordered him to restore | the soild forms of government and build up snarohy final ment of War and the public ee appertatn- | celebrated Pagan into the mind of his son, “Virtue is | Mr. Stanton, he makes a second removal by virtue of | and despotism in their place. If tt were so in an oll- question, to be reported with the proceedings. | ing thereto, and to disch the dutles thereof, We | truth and truth is virtue.” And, still more, virtue of | what he calls the power vested in him by the Con- | garchy # how much more would it be so in a govern- Senator WILLIAMS moved to amend by inserting | charge that, in deflance of frequent warnings, he has | every kind charms us, yet that virtue is ‘strongest | stitution. ‘The action of the Senate on the messa; ment where the laws control and where the laws the following at the end:— since repeatedly attempted to carry those orders into | which is effected by justice and generosity, Good | of the President, communicated his reasons for the | should be pure, if that government is expected to be ! execution, and to prevent Edwin M. Stanton from | deeds will never be done, wise acts will never be | suspension of E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, | conducted with purity and to survive the temporary But no Senator sball speak more than once, nor to | executing the laws appertaining to the artment | execu except by the virtuous and the conscien- | under the act entitied ai act to regulate the tenure | shocks of tyrants. If iv is proved or known that An- exceed fifteen minutes during such deliberations. of War, and from discharging the du #e ome, Hous. ay He peo le of this repuplic remember | of certain civil ofices, Was as follows :— drew Johnson attempted at any time to corrupt the Senator Jonnson called for the reading of rule 23, | The very able gentleman who 4 ae is éa8e fo! good old ring when t! legal voters of the United States so as to change them hey next meet to select In Exrcorivr 8E6at in ON, the respondent has contended ti Mr. Stanton’s | their rulers, and may they select only the brave and ‘Jan, 13, 1868, from thelr own true opinions to those which he | struction of which it might be susceptible. ‘The and it was read, case is not within the provisions of the act “ t- | the virtuous. Has it been proved, as cl to Resolved Tht Cetarenakasres eh elaine pl a himself had adopted. ere are few who | argument of the defendant rests upon the Senator Jonxson—That will be on each article. ing the tenure of certain civil offices,” and that re- | this article, that Andrew Johnson {n vacation sus- given by the President in his report of December 12, Pe cor pretend that he was not guilty of a high misde- | of the word “appointed.” That word has both a in of f tcwin’| meanor. We need hardly cali witnesses to prove a technical and a ular one. In the former, which by inserting after the words “fifteen minutes” the | {Bat act. His argument in demonstrating that posi- | duly appointed and was then executing the duties ‘M. Stanton, the Senate do not concur in such hich ever: body knows and nobody will deny. PoP as nomination and confirmation Secret e fact wh tary of the Department of Wary without the And the’ same was duly certified to the inn pete Does the sun ? It would hardly involves the idea of Senator HowARD moved to amend the amendment | fore the President cannot be convicted of violati ded from office Edwin M. Stanton, who had been the suspension from the oflice of Secretary of ob of tY post of coe in the constitutional way, there was no appointment, tion was not, I think, ‘ite equal, to his cl ‘Words “on one question.” diseovering where ine g sWizength of the prose- | advice and consent of the Senate; did he report the | in the face of which he, with an impudence thought necessary to answer question by proof, | certainly, by Mr. Johnson. In the latter, which is the Yi The amendment was rejected by the following | CUtion was lod; ee ontended that the | reasons for such suspension to the Senate within | brazen determination to usurp the powers of the | and yet there is just as much necessity for it as to | sense in which the people will read it, there unqnes- vote: proviso which em| the of War did | twenty stare from the mecting of the Senate; and «id | Senate, again removed Edwin M, ton and ap- | prove that Andrew’ Johnson had changed his whole | tionably was. What, then, was meant by the em- ye. hot include Mr. Stanton, because he was not ap- | the Senate proceed to con#der the suificiency of | polnted Lorenzo Thomas Secretary ad interim in his | principles and policy and entered into the most dan- ployment of the word? it is @ sound and well YEas—Senators |, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, | pointed by the President in wifose term the acts such reasons? Did the Senate declare such { stead. The Se with calm maniiness, rebuked | gerous and damaging contracts with aspirants for accepted rule in all the courts in ex- Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Grimes, | Charged as misdemeanors were trated; and in | reasons insuttictent, whereby the said Edwin M. | thé usurper by the following resolution:— = omice to induce them to aid him in changing the | piaining the me: of the Jawgiver, and Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, reery, Norton, | order to show that he contended it the term of | Stanton became authorized to forthwith re- In EXrcorive SEsston, rinciples of those who sought office. Who does not | especially in cages of remedial statutes, as I Patterson of Tenn, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Vickers | office mentioned during which he was entitled to | sume and exercise the functions of Secretary | - SENATE OF THR UNITED ined Feb. 21 13be.} Betteve that the patronage was put into the hands of | think t ts—if it is not rather to be considered and Willey—19, hold meant the time during which the President who | of War, and displace the Secretary ad interim, | _ Whereas, The Sonate has received ahd considered’ the com- | Doolittle, Cowan and that tribe of men for distribu: as only a declaratory one in this particular—to look to Naye—benacors Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conk- | appointed him actually ata hold; whether dead or | Whose duties were then tO Cele * ad te ae ee oa een Wee aan had, removed fA. | tion on precisely such terms and conditions as they | the old law, the mischief and the remedy, and to give * in, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Har- alive; that Mr. Lincoln, who appointed Mr. Stanton, | minate; did the said Andrew Jo! in Xie Geeetee (a8 ty del te oa chose make? Show me a more shame- | q iincral coustruction to the language ta Jsavorem Jan, son, Howe, Mo! , Morri!l'of Me., Mor- | and under whose commission he was holding indefi- | his official Soascies ot siden off e United States, ad dntertn: tabetore, . less perversion of patronage in any coun- | (éertatis. In order to repress the mischief and ad- rill of ¥t., Morton, Nye, terson of N. H., Pome- | nitely, being dead, his term of office to had | attemne td obstruct the fetifn of nd said Edwin M. Resolved by the Senate of the United States, ‘president nk try bb government, however cor- | vance the re: taking the words used in their or- y Ramsey, Ross, Sherm: Ster jumner, | expired, and that Mr. Johnson was not holding durin stthtén and his resumption forthwith of the func- Constitution and lawa of tho United Stator, the Fres|dent a6 | gine Fad acdittia, tnd I Will Bdmilt that | dinary and Siar wensé hud Varying the mean- Waver, ‘Tipton, Van Winkle, Wilson, W and | & rt of . That depends upon the co-,stiti | tions of his ofilcé as Secretary of the Department of | 20 power to remove the Secreta: ‘ae an‘, 10 designate | Andrew Johnson is a8 pure as the icicles that hang | ing ag the intent, which is always’ the polar star, ates FoR te nt ion ant the law thade ander it By the constitution | War; and hag he continued to attemnt to nravens «5 | any 0! Baik Seperlerm the cities of thint oleoud imerim- | On Diana's temple. He had. before that. api ared | im require—testing the case here by thie, what is to ‘The qudstion recurring ‘on Senator Williams’ | te Whole time from the auleption orth’ government | discharge of thé dutled of said Stice by sald Wdwin | Yet hé Gutlntied him tn omce. And now this of | with Abraham Lincoln. in the Senae chamber to | atue canstrucion here’: The old raw, was wot the tends 4.4 pixyieg, Inte equal Presidential | M. Stanton, Secretary of War, notwithstanding the | spring of assaasination turns upon the Senate who ce the yath of office; ety took if at the same time } constitution’s, but a victous practice that had amendment, Senator BAYARD moved to amend by and fi ” "was technically | Senate decided in his favor? If he has, then the acts | have thus rebuked him in a constitutional manner fu th he , having bome st varia- wh out of a precedent involvi an wate striking out “fifteen” and inserting “thirty.” aod 0 Gesignate ng tials 0%, b oa " ~_ in violation of demichag in this article are fail cin linge ge mag oom an he Sine ested at Hon ain the meanest ae Me = oe tool pia ant errSiico comnlrue oe of "chat Fugirament od by tit rst section je secon lg of the stitution } and complete. The proof lies in a very narrow com- q 0) such variati nd it was inten 80 ral The amendment was rejected by the following | provides « that the exécullve poweF shail be vested | pass, anid depends npon the credibility. of one or two | bays surrounded by a cordon of living men, each with | {ends hoped that such variations had not obliterated Chet ‘was, this practice had rendered the Vote: in a President of the United States of America. He | Witnesses, who, upon this point, corroborate each | the axe or an executioner uplifted for his just pun- | taken, and when he came to reflect he would still “Yeas—Senators Bayard, Buckalews Corbett, Davis, | shall hold his oftce during the term of four years, | other's evidence. Andrew ennson in his letter of | ishment. Every Senator now trying Laos! exe abide by all he had sworn to observe, not- Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Hen- | and togethor with the Vice President, chosen for the | the 3ist of January, 1863, not onty declared that such | such as had already adopted his policy, voted for this | withstanding his then condition. Unfortunately the aricks, Johuson, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of | 8ame term, be elected ag follows,” &c. Then it pro- | was his intent!on but, reproached U. 8. Grant, General, | 84me resolution, pronouncing his solemn doom. Will | President was taken away and & temptation ior the Tenn., Sauisbury and Vickers—16, vides that “in case of removal from office, or of his | in the following language:— any one of thein vote for his acquittal on the ground | higher aspirations of Mr. Johnson. Instead of being Na¥a—Senators Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chan- | ‘leath ation, or inability to digcharge the du- | You had found in our first conference “thatthe President | Of its unconstitutionality? 1 Know that Senators | content with positions tlie people had given him and @ler, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds,’ Ferry, | tles of satd office, the game shall devdlve on the vice | war deatroms of keeping Mr. Stanton out of oflice, whether | Would venture to do any necessary act if endorsed by | which he had gladly accepted, he sought to become Frelinghuysen, Se Er Howard, Howe, | President, and Congress may by law provile for the | sustained fn the suspension or not.” You knew what reasons | @M honest conscience and an enlightened public | thereafter as well as then the chief Executive of the Sfortid of Mé., Morrili ‘of Vt., Morton, Nye, | case of removal, death, resignation, or inability both | had Induced the President to ask Trom yous promise; you | opinion; but neither for the sake of the | nation This he kaew could only be done by chang- yn of N. H., Pomeroy, Ramsey, Ross, ‘Sher’ | Of the President and Vice Presidente designating | sito knew that in case your views of duty did notaccord' with | President nor of any one else Would one of them Ang principles and creating @ new party to sustain Officers of the goverument, and amot them the heads of departments, the most powerful and ero of ali, from their assumed position of advisers of the President, by the ary. dependency of their tenure, the mere ministrs of lis pleasure and the slaves of his imperial witi, that could at any moment, and as the reward of aa honest and inde- pendent opinion, strip them of thelr employment and send them back to the ranks of the peopie. The remedy would change them from minions and o his own convictions it Was his pu fo ll your place by | suffer himself to be tortured on the gibbet After sonfe little hesitation he resolved upon 7 ing tb fr Stewart, Sumner, Th: . ‘Tru what officer shall then act as President, and suc! " 1 the . afer nian. 801 lon pol flatterers into men, by making them free, and Van Wuley, Williams Wisou and Yates as | omlcer shalt act accordingly unt’ the “dis. | arotenappowiwent,, Even ignoring the existence of & post | Of everlanting obogny, tow long and dark | that course, and perpetrated a betrayal of the party | to sccure their. loyaliy 10 the law by protec'- ability be removed or a President shall be } deducible from our various ‘conversations. It is ceriaia, | Would be the track of infamy which must mark | that had elécted him and the prineipies he professed. | ing them from the power that might constrain On motion of ‘Senator Monton, seconded by Mr. | elected.” The learned counsel contends that | however, that even under these circumssnees you sid uot | is name and that of his posterity! Nothing 1s there. | BaseB than tue. betrayal by dudes Iscariot, who Howakgp, the further consideration of the subject | the Vice President, who accidentally accedes to | oferto return the place to my possession, but, according to | fore more certain than that it requires no gift of | yetrayed only .a single individual, Johnson sac- was postponed until after the argument is con- | the duties of President serving out a new | Jour, own pen ty uy Ltminy @ aly, agreed [ptcomest to predict the fate of this unhappy victim. | rifled @ whole nation and the holiest of principles; mt " | Presidential term of his own, and that, untess Mr. | Selle tn nek of you; asl was compelled to irpre, | Lave now discussed but one of the numerous art! | in order to build up ® party upon which he their assent to its violations. To accomplish this it was necessary that the law should cover all of them, high and low, present and prospective. That it conld have been intended to except the most cluded, Stanton was appointed by him, he is not’ within the | Hecessorin the War Bepartmentsm lelter of resignation’ or | cle% ail of which I believe to be fully sustained, and | was’ to rely it. became” nesemary for TIM 10 | eee eae ee oe eae ose. furvetiomarioss ‘The additional rules offered by Senator Scuxer | provisions of eset Tehappened that Mr. Stanton we, resort to the more Snorschie expedient sped few of the almost innumerable offences charged to | proclaim entirely new principles and a new | either with a view to favor the present Executive or algo upon his motion laid over until the cl was appointed by Mr. Lincoin in 1862 for an indefinite | !g you by # euecessor. this wayward, unhappy oficial. Ihave alluded to | policy, and to bring about him an entirely new set | for che purpose of subjex tung ine Only head of depart- Riven Le ae of time, and was still serving as his appointee, He thus disunctly all that the General had a | two or three others which I could have wished to | of politicians, as loose men enough already in the | ment who had the coniidence of Congress to his ‘of the argument. By'ana with the advice and consent of the Senate. | full kno’ that such was his deliberate inten- | have had the to present and discuss, not for the | republican party could not be found to carry him | arbitrary will, is unreasonab.e and Linprobable, as edge UsTK , of tion, Hard words and injurious epithets can do of punishment, but for the benefit of the | into power. Corruption, therefore, became a neces- ‘The Cate J Ce ee Tne | eee oMeelaaee tae Wee Oa, eine, | mgeuitg to aberonerare or tO tubure thd Character of o | souatiy, "Ome OF MAAMG wae Ua iE chore sity; thins corruption was to be wrought by pervert. proceed, and at half-past twelve o’ciock Manager appointment, he was acting for three years, during | Witness; but if Andrew Johnson be not wholly desti- | the President with the legislative | ing ‘the means which the republicans had placed in ‘THADDEUS STEVENS mounted to the Clerk’s desk and | which time he expended billions of money and raised | tute of truth and a shameless falsiter, then this ar- | power of the nation and” attemptin 18 hands, and which he nad soleuiniy sworn to ex: f sands com | ticle and all its charges are clearly made out by his | usurpations. With regard to usurpation, one | ecute according to thelr rinciples. hen he found read his argument in a pretty firm voice from print- | hurireds of thou: of men, without any com ung PI mission at all., To it this be done withont | OWn evidence. Whatever the respondent may say of | single word will explain my meaning. A civil | that by an appeal to those principles he could rally ed slips. After about ten minutes he took a chair any valid ol gd have been a misde- | the reply of U. 8. Grant, General, only goea to Sontem wor of gigantic FN reg covering sufficient | but few followers, he did not hesitate to cast them and read sitting. At five minutes before one o’clock | meanor in itself, But if he held a valid commission, | the fact of the President’s lawless attempt to ob- | territory to constitute many States and nations. | oi and seek recruits in the camp of the enemy. In- ion it . | struct the execution of the act specified in the arti- | broke out, and embraced more than ten millions of stead of enfoi the penalties of the law, and ren- his voice showed signs of weakness and Mr. Butler | Whose commission was it? Not Andrew Johnson's. reing the pen , Then in whose term was serv! for he must | Cle. If General Grant’s recollection of his converaa- | men, who formed an_ ind ident government, dering treason odious, as he had 80 loudly pro- grad the remainder of the argument. The following | nave heen In somebody's term? tven if it wasin | tion with the President is correct, then it goes | called the Confederate States of America, ‘They rose claimed while Vice President, he proceeded to is Johnson’s term, he would hold: for four years | @firmatively to prove the same fact stated by the | tothe dignity of an independent belligerent, and m all the large, ‘influential traitors Manager Stevens’ Argument. uniess sooner removed, for there is no ‘term | President, although it shows that the l- | were so acknowledged by ail civilized nations, a8 | and to restore to the conquered belligerenta the pro- MAY IT PLease THE CouRT—I trust to be able to be | Spoken of in the constitution of ashorter period for a | dent | persevered in his course of deter. | well as by ourselves. After expensive and bloody | perty which had been coniixcated by act of Congriais i i dential term than four years. But it makes no | Mined obstruction of the law. while the General | strife we conquered them, and they submitted to | of july, 1862 He thus restored confiscated land and brief in my remarks, unless I should find myself less | Airerence in the operation of the law whether he was | refused to ald in its consummation, No differences | our arms. By the law of nations, well understood Sando ‘sumMicieni, had it all been honestiy master of the subject which I propose to discuss | holding in Lincoln’s or Johnson’s term. Was it not | @8 to the main fact of the attempt to vioiate and pre- | and undisputed, the conquerors in this unjust war covered mints ean to have have paid the na- in Mr. Lincoln’s term? Lincoln had been elected and | Vent the execution of the law exists in either state- | had the right to deal with the vanquished as to them | tionai debt aud all the damage done to loyal men by than I hope, experience having taught that nothing . Lim lected an‘ f re-elected, the second term to commence in 1865, and | Ment; both compel the conviction of the respondent, | might pena pope. only to the laws of | repei raiders and by rebel confiscation. He set de- 4s so prox as ignorance. I fear I may prove thus the constitution expressly declared that that term | Unless he should escape le other means than a ey had a it to confiscate their prop- Uberately about corrupting. the whole mass of those ignorant, as I had not expected to take part in this | should be four years. By virtue of his previous com- | the facts proving the article. He cannot hope to es- | erty to the extent of in ~~ themselves and | who aspired to office. ‘here he found an oiice- debate until very lately. I shall discuss but a single | Misston and the uniform custom of the country, Mr. | cape by asking this high court to declare the “law | their citizens; toannex them tothe victorious nation, | poider too virtuous to follow his treason he - sep Stanton continued to hold during the term of Mr. | for regulati tue tenure of certain civil offices” un- | and pass om such laws for thelr government as they | ogered his place to another whose consctence article—the one that was finally adopted upon my | Tincoin, unless sooner removed. Now. docs an one constitutional and void; for it so happens—to the | might thiuk proper. ‘This doctrine is as old | was less scrupulous or whose ambition was earnest solicitation, and which, if proved, I con- | pretend unt from the 4th of March, 1865,a new Presi. | hopeless misfortune of {he respondent—that almost | as Grotius and as ‘fresh as the Dorr rebeltion, greater. ‘The removals which he made were sidered then and still consider as quite sumicient for | “ential term did not commence? For it wiil be seen | every niember of this high tribanal has more than | Neither the President mor the judiciary had'| of republicans who had been laced in upon close examination that the word “term” alone | Once, twice, perhaps three times, deciared, upon his | any right to interfere, to dictate terins oF | office by Abraham Lincoln upon republican recom- the ample conviction of the distinguished respondent, | marks the time of the. Presidential existence, | oficial oath, that Jaw constitutional and ¥; The | to aid in reconstruction, further than they were dl- | mendations, because they held the same principies and for his removal from office, which {8 the only | so that it may divide the different periods of ofice | Unhappy man is in this condition:—He has declared | rected by the Cag ae Pp That sovereign | which he and Johnson had projessed, He did not Jegitimate object for which this Impeachment could | bY & well recognized rule, Instead of saying | himself determined to obstruct that act; he has, | power inthis republic is the Congress of the United | hesitate, through is agents, to bargain for tHeir te “pede that the Vice President shali become President upon | by two several lettera of authority, ordered tates, oever, besides Congress, undertakes to support a4 a condition of their appointment or reven- ‘be instituted. During the very brief period which I | pis death, the constitution says, ‘in case of the remo- | Lorenzo Thomas to violate that law, and he has | create new States or to rebuild old ones and Hx the | tion, He found a few men of respectability who had shall occupy I desire to discuss the charges | val of the President from ofice, or of his death, resig- | Issued commissions, during the session of the Senate, | condition of thelr eltizenship and union usarps | heen endorsed by respectable Siwies—such as Wis- against the respondent in no mean spirit of , nation or inability to discharge the 8 and dv- | Without the advice and consent of the Senate, in vio- | powers which do not belong to hin and Is dangerous | consin and Pensylvania. Look at the trusted agents P OF | ties of the sald ofice, the saine sh lation of law, to said Thomas. He must therefore | or not dangerous according to ¢ if rl enngyivura and Wisconsin who contracted to Mee, devolve on the Papas fh malignity or vituperation, but to argue them | Vico President.” What is to devolve on the Vico | either deny his own solemn declarations and falsify | power and his pretensions, Ani finsoh did | f tie Bale of recruitine ants for his in @ manner worthy of the high tribunal before | President? Not the Presidential commission held by | the testimony of General Grantland Lorenzo Thomas, | usurp the legislative power of the nation by building | gyal by army to purchase the ition of a com. whiqa I appear and of the exalted position of the his predecessor, but the “duties” which were incum- | OF expect that verdict whose least punishment is re- | new States and reconstructing, as far asin him lay, | mander of this band of pardoned traitors and z= ofthe ac- | Denton him. it he were to take dr Lineue': erm | moval from ofce. But the President denies in iis | this empire. He directed the defunct States to come corrupted renegades. Tiey consented to lay down cused. Whatever may be thought of his characteror | he would serve for font years, for term is the only | answer to the first and the eleventh ariicies (which | forth and live by virtue of his breathing into thetr | the Stara and. Stripes and clothe themselves Condition, he has been made respectabigAind his con- | limitation to that oflice defined in the constitution, as | he Intends as.a joint answer to the two charges) that | nostrils the breath of life. He directed them what | {nthe iaded uniform of gray. Tne gentleman aition has been dignified by the acti if his fell Lhave said before, But the learned counsel has con- | he had attempted to contrive means to prevent the | constitutions to form and fixed the qualifications of (Mr. Groesbeck) in his peroration on Saturday im- i! y action of his OW | tended that the word “term” of the Presidential | due execution of the law regulating the tenure of | electors and officeholders. He directed them to send splored the sympathy of this Senate with all the e!o- citizens. Railing accusation, therefore, would {ll be- office means the death of the President. ‘Then it | certain civil offices, or had violated his oath “to take | forward members to cach branch of C ngress quence and pathos of ® Roman Senator pleading for come this occaston, this tribunal or a proper sense of | would have been better expressed by. ing that the | care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Yetwhile | and to aid hin in representing the nation. virtue; and it is to be feared that his grace and elo- ‘the position of those who discuss this questi the | President shail hold his office during theferm between | he denies such attempt to defeat the execution | When Congress passed @ law declaring all these quence turned the attention of the Senate upon the . beter eed two assassinations, and then the assassination of the | of the laws, in his letter of the dist of January, | doings unconstitutional and Axed # mode for the ad- | drator rather than upon the dceused. Had he ben one side or the other. To see the chief servant of a President would mark the period of the operation of | 1868, he asserts, and roaches General Grant | mission of this new territory into the nation he ading for innocence his great powers would have trusting community arraigned before the bar of pub- this law. If, then, Mr. Johnson was serving out one of | by the assertion, that the General knew that | proclaimed {t unconstitutional and advised the ts weil executed; had he been arguing with equat Ue J ) charged with nigh Crtpee is inter. | Mr. Lincoln's terms, there seems to be no argument ile ‘object was to prevent Edwin M, Stanton | people not to submit to it nor to obey the commands | ejgyuence before stich & Roman Senate for saci a esting. To behold the Chief Executive Magistrate of inst inciuding Mr, Stanton within the meaning of | from forthwith reautning the functions of his oitice, | of Congress. I have not time to enumerate the par- | Geiinquent, and Cato the Censor had been one of the ® powerful people charged with the betrayal of his | the law. He was so included by the President in his | notwithstanding that the Senate might decide in his | ticular acts which constitute his high-handed usur- | jyagey, his cient Would have soon found Mmself in 1 nl + ie 3 in his nol lon to the Secretary of | in their angry corres; lence of the date heretofore | ers 0! celving the sympathies of @ Virtuous and patriotic cle. When the charges against such pu lic ser- | the Treasury; and it is too late when he is cart referred to, made an issue of veracity—the President | he been permitted, would have become their ba audience. ve D it is at variance with the trath aud with the obvious general purposes of the act. For the Pres- ident of the United now, after having voluntarily retawed Br. Stanton for more than two years of his adiainisiration, that he was there only by sufferance, br as & mere movable, or heir loom or incumbrance, tiat had passed to him with the estate and not by virtue of his own spectat appointment, if not pothering with the people in a double sense has very mucit the appearance of a not very respectable quibbie. ‘The unlearned maa who jsTeads tne proviso, as they for whose perusal it is in- tended wiil read it, who 1s not accustomed to handle the metapliysical scissors of the professional casuisis who are abie to divide @ hair 'twixt west anc northwest side, while he adinite the ingenuity of the advocate, who wil! not stand amazed If he not scorn the officer who would stuop to the use of such a subterfuge. Assuming, however, for tie sake of argument, that the teciinical sense is to prevail, what is to be its effect? Why, only to make the Jawgiver enact a very unreasonable and imposslbie thing by providing in words of the tense that the commission of the officer shall expire nearly two years before the passage of the law, which is a cop, struction that the eral rule of law forbids. To test that let substitute for the general denominative phrase of Secretaries of War, of State, of the Navy, the names of Messrs. wrt fae rN Goad and for that of the esident who ap) re name of coin, and the clause ait Bev ded that esers. Seward, Stenton and Weilles shall hold their oMfces yeuecti y for and during the term of Abrahaus finesin and for one month thereafter. 6 effect will then be to put you in the positfon of enacted not only an absurdity, but an eet but on bs i] 9 fe jeast et rules of interpretation at start = up It'ts Wok respectful tothe ‘Legislature “to. pres it ts not respec’ 0 pre. sume that it ever intended to enact an absurdity, if the case is susceptible of any other cone in, and the second that acts of Parliament that are im- sible to ve performed are of no validity, and if ‘nere arise out of them collaterally any absurd con- seqnence manifestly contradictory to common reason they are, with regard to these collateral conse- quences, void. (1 Bl. Com, 91.) If the eifect of the proviso, however, upon something analagous to joctring of cypres, or, in otier words, getting a8 neat to the as was to aaa see ace & the time of (he passage of the law, 5 ‘ the retention of the officer by the ar for five vant -acense him of an attempt to tray the | violating the very law under which h asserting that id his jute rater, This he persevered in attempting, hich trust confided In him aug usurp the power of m | met te term rome and deny thar tat lav arfeots the | i defeating the execution of ihe town ty preventing | withstanding Congress declared. more tien once all Argume' Ree erate bine hitnd "te ie bored Whole people, that he may become their ruler, it is | ease. ‘The gentleman treats lightly the question of | the immi Fesumption of the functions of Secre- | the governments which he thus created to be vold | Mr. WiLLLAMS then took the oor. After speaking | Constese without a commission OF even @ nomina i Lo pet to an of men, and should estoppel and yet really nothing is more powerful, | tary of War by Edwin M, Stanton, and that the Gene- | and of no effect. But I promised to be brief, and | of tio august character of the tribandt and the in- | YO" ane taal which a4 So hardly DI 14 discussed with @ calia determination, which | for itis ees by the party himself agai ral violated his promise; and U.S. Grant, General, | must abide by the promise, although I should like ask you to afirm-against the ral presumption of made such’ promise, | the judgment of the Senate pon this, to me, seem- | tense interest which is felt all over the country by nothing can divert and nothing can himself, though not ‘able in the aame den: ng ever havin; mockery. Such is the condition of rep is Just as potential tn a case in 18 as when pleaded mito fe agrees with the ident that the Presi- | ing vital phase and real purpose of all his | the entire people who were awaiting with anxisty Tenn, kee of mpearnment th engin and | ie ateee” Renu aeomgramtaentrecane | ent it atten ty indies hm, to make, euch | mihvemeunry TO, MS tu ger, h MAU; | the verdict wilch i olnet to ¥end talsof J '0 . o 3} ny re answer. 01 : 04 5 5 S America are very different from each other in the person holdin civil omioe who ites been aap inted fea, whinnenae "at these: cebtinnio’ anaye serneatly approaching it as human institutions will | @9 aiiicted land or rack it anew with the throes of erfurmance of oflicial duty, for the purpose of shel- bring from the eoheaqvences ‘of another vio- aan of tho law. Assuming again, however, that, as i# claimed by the defence, the uses made of thein for the puuishient of offences, | with the advice and consent of the Ser ‘and | lost "his memory, and found in. licu. of tie | permit of, consisting of thirty millions of people, had | anarchy and despair, he proceeded to state tiat the | Cas? of Mr. Stanton does not ful within the proviso— e “ - 4 " id icaiment of @ pope ef ir who wuidertakes to make out | every person that hereafter shall be inted | truth the vision’ which issues from the ivory | talien into confict, which among other people | matter now presented for discussion was not a disuse Omeeig ehseeneed Is Te Bite hung like ‘tween them, either in the mode of trie! | to ahy such office, shall be entitled choose between | always ends in anarchy or despotism, and had laid " or the final result. In Englend the highest crimes | office until @ sucesteor shall have een tn Nike P) fie words $f. gallant soldier aud ths Petitfogatiug of down their arms, the imutineers submitting to the | quarrel between two officials, but between the Ex- may be tried before the High Conrt of Impeach- | ner appointed and dul: qualified, except as herein | @ political trickster?—-is wholly tumaterial, $0 fat as | conquerors. The laws were about to regain their | cutive aud the American people. Le, too, would Ment, and the severest punisuments, even 6 | otherwise provided. ‘Then comes the proviso nie the charge against the President is concerned. That | accustomed sway, and again to govern the nation | ask who 18 Andrew Jolunsont and would answer eds Wis Ane ant deatil, may be tn | the defeudant’s counsel say does not embrace Mr. | charge is, that the President did attempt to preygnt | by {he punishment of treason and the reward of | the question in & diferent tannur irom the fvted, Wii Stanton, because he was not appointed by the Pre- | the due oxecution of the Tenute of Oflice jaw byen- | virtue, Her old Institutions were about to be rein- | Presidenw’s counsel, He then intimated that Jolin th we personal punishments were excluded from | sident in whose term he was removed, if he was | tang!ing the General in the arrangement; and unless | stated so far a8 they were applicable, according to | son's opposition to secession in the Seuate was per- the ‘udgment, and the defendant was to be dealt | uot embraced in the proviso, then he was nowhere both the President and the Goueral have lost their | the judgment of the conquerors. Then one of their | laps papayied, by a doubt whether the step was with Mat 90 far as the public esfety required, and io | spe iy Provided for, and was consequently em- | memory and mistaken the truth with regard to the | inferior servants, instigated by unholy: ambition, Ee a ES ea eae hee ere oe in Mahomet’s cofltn, between the body of the and the proviso, the latter nullifying the former on the pretext of an exception, either repudiating ip the ception itweif as to or particular case fat ie obvious and {ndispufavie purpose of prod 4 ali cases whatever to be carried ont by falting on the generai enactin on kt a] ‘ould, aod eave. hig ele Of the Hit ones fuiihe.* Hence it was made to apply slinply to pa- | brace ‘he first clause of the first secti romises will " on this ch) is made | sought to seize @ portian of tue territory, according | might be, he would consider him as he ts now and | aad leave t be Htical Wences—to persone Cake | po’ Réecat p> 1 | declares that every person holding an, civil “omtea Bit. in short if eltner of thexe gontemen has our: to the fashion of neighboring anarchies, and to con- | a4 he had been since he came into power. Mr, |.to tae tenure, There is nothing \ tions, eft. er by appofatment or election by tie pro- | not otherwise provided for comes wi in the pro. | rectly stated these facts of attempting the obstruc. | vert a laud of freedom into ® land of siavea, This | Williams held that the master key to his conduct | ject of the sat all in t with ple. ‘Thas'Jtis apparent that no crime contatniug | visions of this act, The reg] mat, on Notation of | Hou of the law, the President has been fealty of | people, urned the Cg i ORE A President wae his desire to favor sud uphold | te saving isin that takes : mie Moalighant Qf indictable ovences, higher than mis- thie law, ope Genoral Thomas slat per- | the chief of them upon demeanors, wes hecesxary either to be plieged or | by, he express terms of the act, he was mee But, again, the Presiient alleges his right | mand judj ef ha iia miscondack He will be | on his own pia ‘ygainst the expressed wit trial, and de- | traitors and to force the rebel States into tie What goo where- | violating the law and of misprision of 6 Writ goos | tir the Prealdent is not hat clause. AL 1 eMacts is tiat Tf th®.respondent was shown to be abusty ‘ality of a ly Misdemeanor. But whatever mia viotwie the act lating the teuure of certain | condemued, sentence inflicted without tur- | Congress aud the loye. people; and went on te parted sr nate on fis oxictal frost & the injury of the peoyie for ioe ave been hig views with regard to the Tenure of civil otlees, Swans rays the same was in- | moil, tumult or bloodshed, and the nation will con- | & great namber of acta of the President, Nn a S canton Web ‘as by he wan dischargin,< publ’ duties, and persevered in | Office act, he knev if Was a law, and so recorded | operative aud Void, as being in violation of tho | tinue Sts fcoustomed costes of freedom and pros. | he calmed wore, usurpations and offences Agon within the meaning of the proviso he such cbuse to the usury of lus Sopgtitaents, the true jon the statutes. YF disclatin ail necessity ina trtal | coustitution of thé United Biates. Vooa it ie | perity without the shedding any further of human | inexplicable only on the 6 SUPP es Mat course Anlst tho expuratton OF Wie teent If mode of dealing wi him was to im him for impeachment to prog the wicked or udlawral ine | tm Mie mouth tA intorpose thie plea? We tad acted fo and with @ milder punishment than the world | Conti x | Mr. Willliams’sata le grea. crt @ , 0 crimes or miademeanc$ {and only the iatier is necea- | tention of the respondeiN, and it is un sary), and thus remove “Wa from the ofice whieh he | ayer iw in hapeachiments) giore than judas evea to J under that law dad isaned letters of a ‘ments, } Jor the lone and siturt term, to several thority, both | has been accustomed to see, or perhaps than be hy Andrew hnson, a already remarke!, running ecinone under | now bo be luflicted, Now, even if the pretext of tue | through al) his aliwinieirauon, ds tat } . WELITH PAGE