New York Times, The (Newspaper) - April 28, 1868, New York, New York VOL 5177 NEW-YORK TUESDAY APRIL 28 1868 PRICE FOUR CENTS Continuation or fie Arguments for the Prosecution of Managers Stevens and Williams Mr to Speak for the ident To-day Dispatch lo Times Monday April 37 SESSION The Sonata but half an hour tho propositions of Hours and Ihla though It came to no conclusion both Ibs on both aides aro The votes on Ibe propositions that fead however are regarded aa quite significant In the first place a direct voto was had on iho io allow Senators fifteen minutes on article waa fay 19 you to Tho next proposition waa lo allow an hour on the dual deliberation bo Senator to speak morn once Tbu was lost by yean IB nays 31 regarded as Iho most Vote yot taken in Ibo as It that a large majority probably of tbo little If sny debate and that most of them bavo so nearly made up aa to require no er discussion The Republicans who m Iho affirmative aro Messrs US and It dops not Ibat mean to vole for acquittal although Ibo only Voto in tbo negative regarded an certain for is that of Mr VAM Pnt Mr on Ihp other side where ho will probably ba and bring in Messrs COLE snd who did not vole and perhaps you two tbo final volo on or Ibe articles as nearly ai my one can now 11 It entirely Tbo proposition u postponed gives escb Senator a total of fifteen on all the no more not go this Mr new pn hia own an SPEECH At Mr began tbe reading of his from printed voice was vorr Went he almost inaudible in ror ho wag ro- hy Mr who complete 1 Iho speech from Mr slips by half past one Ita delivery having occupied nearly an hour The ch of van of lit author ware and forcibly put Mr run h In Ihc technical lie's o ilie law although lit made some vory much but very tle vituperation in il Mr fin slated at tbc out- nt ihal vituperation would nol become tbo occasion Among the bold positions by Mr wsn tint il was unnecessary to prove intuit o ol a violation of icw u was waa violate I f r inch an act ilio became of a misdemeanor birn 10 TUP io rv attentively anil wan tbo Hf veil Mr In the ini M It enabled to heir of It or WILLIAMS Mr biB which very well written an I conceited lo b- able waa to hiu bad At 1 ibi Mr not I but tbe y He 111 au dour rn ha f will be it by Mr who will wn iv THE A- IT Tho Courl in dno form at noon tte wua to br tho or Ihal trio bo In lie tatu ihc to bv willi Ihc Mr to by g ibt How lug at Dm Dot no than once nor such Mr fur the reading of rule It vsa read Mr will bo rm Mr moved to amendment by after the on ono question The by ho following W Draho Furry a Davis Dunn non- Grimes 9 r rao urry of Mamo anont KOBI Sherman Van Winkle The question on Mr to by tng out 15 and K Tbo was rejected hy Ine Corhett Ban fowlor of ha with a calm determination nothing can divert and csn reduce to mockery Buoh Is the great It lic as looked Upon by an and wondering IUE or u m T The offices of Impeachment In Eneland and lea are very different trom each other in tlie uses matte of them tor the punishment of offences and he will undertakes to make out an an- between thorn either tn tho mode ol trial or tbe Dual In England the highest crimes may be tried be- tho High Court of Impeachment and ihu evon lo imprisonment flue and death may be Inflicted When onr Constitution was framed all these sonal were excluded from tbo ment and iho defendant was to be dealt with just so far as the safety required snd no It was made to apply simply to political of- persona political positions either by appointment or election by tbe THUS It la apparent Ibat no crimo containing nant or Indictable higher than ors waa necessary either to ba alleged or proved If respondent was lo bo abusing nla official Irust to the Injury of tho people for whom ho was discharging duties aud ir such to tbe Injury ol bla constituents tho mode of dealing with him ABB to impeach him for crimes or misdemeanors land only tbe lailer U necessary and thus him trom thu office which bo was Nor does it mako a or difference er snob arose Irom malignity un- negligence or from depravity so repeated as to mako hla continuance tn injurious to iho people snd lo tbo public wollare Tiia punishment which tno law under nur lo bo inflicted lully demonstrates Una conviction extends only to removal from anil i Ibo crime or misdemeanor charged be ono ol a and wicked dye tho culprit la allowed lo run at larue unless ho should bo pursued by a now In dinary couris What dooa It mailer then what tho iho respondent ho In his repeated acts ol malfeasance In Merc In in- If ao persevered ui after proper warning aa lo bring the community iu quito to Ilia removal of ihu o nicer Irani Iba ha is working mischief hy his con- in power Tbo only question to bo considered Is the re- violating Ibo lawT Ills In a violation although It a is lint necessary to bis conviction great object la Iho from unii arrest of tbo public injuries which tio m mulcting upon those with whose Interests bo la OF The single I bad Ilie honor to I am to maintain lint duly H a light ono easily performed and I It will be Impossible lor the respondent lu answer or evade When took upon himself Ibe of his office ho swore lo obey Iho Con- and take care tuM rhe laws be Tbat Indeed is aud has always been the chief duty of tho President of United Ibo duties of legislation anil adjudicating tbn laws cf bia country ju uo way lo hia lot Tu tbo commands of the sovereign power of tbo nation and to see Ibat should obey them was his which bo escape and auy attempt lo do so wonld bo indirect ol his official in older words s of perjury I him in tha nsme of tho o of having that Ion I oil ucu a in nut Ibo laws and of his Country Ou tho It day of March Cong oaa a law over Iho veto ol President An set to regulate tbo ol certain Uic section of which is as Di il Ay As ant af th t of in every holding any civil lo he hat Lien by anil With tbe and consent uf Inn Senate and every Demon who mav Lo ar- to any lucb thai i la la and shall be entitled tu bold shall have been iu liko manner and duly except as harem I Ibo Secretaries of Stuto of the Treasury of War 01 the Navy and of tho In- tenor tbe and thn rhall officer or ami the term of tbu Pigment bv whom may tne Leon appointed snd for ono month subject to removal by and with the advice aud ol tha Senate The section that when tho Senal in not In session If President shall deem ino of scU which require his removal or SUB CUM on hn may be tbo next meeting of Iho Renato and that twenty alter tho of ibe Senate tba reasons lor such shall be lo lint body aud If the lor Mich or removal be shall be removed from LIs flier bin It bo hull not sufficient for such IT the officer shall luo bs ana tho appointed in ha 1 to Cn thu day ol Semite then not being In tho President WIN M ot tbr of War aud 8 Secretary nl Wared On tho lib flay of being in he ace ur ill UK IN tha ol the act ot to tho Sonata duly tlm the ItR of Ion of tuo eacy ol Ire 10 enter mto which ho iho fx uf the law nnO M from o fuH ae ol War to ot thu net oven H Uru Bouatu iu ll in or said attempt on dt bo appointed one IIT 1 it r ol authority or tbe anil consent of the the name WR then In and him film 10 of Iho ol WJT ami tlm public property appertaining and lo ilia duties thereot that In ol warn ncs be hag mure io or and lo EDWIN M TON the laws io ot and itic itu ICH ol MJI uu CASE devolve on the Vice-president What la to 0 Not the held by bla but Iho wen Incumbent on him If he wero lo take UT term he serve for fonr yean lor term is tbe only limitation to that office defined m Constitution u I hava said before Bnt Ibe counsel baa contended that ibe word term of the Presidential meana tho death of ibe President It wonld have been baiter expressed by tying Ihal President shall hold during the lern between two assassinations and tbe of President would mark tho period of tbe operation ol lliU law If ihen Mr waa serving out one of Mr I hero to bo no argument Mr within Ibe meaning 01 lite law Ot waa ao included by tho President In bis nf removal in his reasons therefor given to tbo Senate and in bla notification lo tbe Secretary of Ibo Treasury and It la loo laje when ha Is vory law under be act to turn round and deny that that law affects tbo case The gentleman treats lightly Ibo question ol estoppel and yot really nothing Is more for It la an hy Ibe parly himself against although not In the same way la Juat as potential In a case in when pleaded In a case of record Hut la still more conclusive answer Tho section provides mat every person holding civil who has appointed with advice and consent of the Senate and person tnat afler shall be appointed lo any tuch office aball bo entitled to bold such office a shall bare boon In like manner appointed and duly quail fleil except aa otherwise provided Then comos tba proviso which tbo counsel say does not embrace Mr because be was not appointed by the in whose he If bo waa not embraced In tho proviso Ihon bo nowhere specially provided ior and was embraced In first clause or section that every holding any civil not fur within tho ol this act THE QUESTION OF INTEST Tho In violation ot this law Oen according lo the ex- press terms ol the act ho wss guilty of a But whatever may bitro been hia views regard to Tenure of act knew u a law and so recorded upon statutes I dis- claim all necessity In a rial of to he wicked or Intention of tho dent and it over 10 aver It In Impeachments more than in tho averring 01 fact carries with It all that it is to ssy about Intent In Indictments you charge that by tbe Hne so anil yon aa well call on ibe tiou io prove the presence and color ul tug aa to rail upon Iho Managers in menl to provo I go than ome and contend that no corrupt or wicked motive need Iho acta for which It IB enough that they wero official of law The counsel have great stresa upon thu of proving that they wero willfully done II hy ho were done 1 witli him A mcro would not oe to thai willed Is dona IB done according to every honest d und is by sn i a lu whatever he may ga was bit The President Justifies himself by asserting that all Previous bad exercised the same right removing 10 be judged ol oy inc there uo law to prohibit II when Mr was tho cases would have been parallel and Iho one bo adduced aa an argument In tbe DHL the action of any ol tno Presidents to reiers a law bad been passed by Congress after a with tbo Executive that and prohibiting it lu future and s penalty upon any executive officer who exorcise it And that too alter iho had mndo issue on Its constitutionality and been defeated No pretext therefore any longer existed that such right vested m tne President by of his iho to shield such ia a moat lame evasion at tho question at sue Did he take earn that ihla law bo Faithfully llu answers Ihal acu that would hive violated Ihc Uw bad wero by his thai hii own although It shows tbat the President persevered In oil course of determined obstruction of the law General refused lo aid in Its tion No differences aa to the main fact ot tho attempt to violate and prevent the execution of tho hw exists in either statement both compel the conviction o the reipoudont unless ha should cape through other means than tno tacia proving ibe article Bo cannot hopo to escapo asking Court io declare Ihn law for regulating tbo tenure of certain civil unconstitutional and void lor it ao tbe hopeless misfortune 01 tbe respondent that almost every member of nss moru turoe hla official oath that law constitutional and valnl Tho man IB In Ue bu determined to obstruct that act ho has by two letters ol authority ordered to violate lust law and bo baa Issued during tho session of the Senate without the advice and con- sent of Ibo In violation of Uw to said Be muat cither deny bia own doo and fatally tbo testimony nf Oon and or expect tbat least punishment la removal from But tbe President denies In liU answer to thn first eleventh he intends aa answer to Ibo two charges that he bad attempted to contrive meana to prevent the due execution of tho law tbo of certain civil offices or bad violated hla oath lo take caro that the laws bo faithfully executed Tet while tio denies such attempt to defeat the execution of the laws In his letter of Iho ul January 1888 he asserts and re- Oon by tbo assertion that tho eral know that bla object waa lo prevent EDWIN M trom forthwith the of hia office that tbo In his favor and tbo dent and U 8 General In their angry cor- of Iho dalo to motto an ol President asserting that tbu had him In tbe of the by preventing tho tbo functions ol Secretary of War by M and Ibat the General violated LIB promise aud U 9 ever made such promise although ho agrees with tho President tbat the did attempt to Induce him to male auch lo enter such an arrangement Now ol may have loat hia memory and found in lieu of the ruth tho vision which Issues tbo Ivory who can hesitate Ibo of a gallant soldier aud pettifogging of a political wholly Immaterial ao tar as iho against tun is concerned That is tuot ho President o Ihu oue ol Iho Tenure of Uw by en- the In tho aud unless bulb President aud tho have lost their memory and mistaken the truth with regard to iho promises each other lhan thla In made out In short if either of these has cor- of lion ol tbo tbo ban Ol violating Hie taw and ol of TilE OF OFFICE J Fr Howe On motion of Mr by Mr of the waa after the U concluded Tta additional offered by Mr were alao upon bin motion laid ino elate ol the directed Ibat the and at o'clock Mr loo ana in Orm Tolce trora printed Afier aboot len look and read o'clock Ignaor aud Mr tLe of the ITU STEVENS rat I truat lo be able lo brief In luy I find myself baa of tho which I to dis- cus 1 having thai is no prolix aa Ignorance I fear I may prove thus Ignorant sal had not pari In this on til very lately I ahall but a single one that upon tar which If proved I Ihon and still rider a quite sufficient for ibo conviction of the and lor his removal ftom U tie only legitimate object far Wulch Impeachment be During tbe vory brief period which I shall occupy I lo Ue charges against tbe In no mean spirit of or but to argno them In a manner worthy of Ue huh tribunal belore I appear and of thn exalted position or ids accused msy ba ft his or condition he ana been and his condition baa been by tbs action nt bla Bailing accusation therefore would 111 become this occasion this nr a proper ol tae of these who tola question ou tha one aide nr tho Tn aee the servant of a trusting community tho bar public Justice charged with IB To behold of a with the betrayal of emit and arraigned for crimes and la always a moat When tbe against t aim of an attempt uj bo- iray tne nigh truat confided In him and lne power of a people he may become it is Intensely lo millions of man The very able wrio argued this cam for tht baa that Mr ihc ol ae the of certain and Hiai lio c I i f acl Ilia in tint wsa not lo am tv in ibo crest of waa lie contended that the tbo of War did not in- Mr be wao not hy luc in whus i term Ibo acu charged OH were perpetrated unit in order to tnat be contended that tin term of office during which ho Cn Iho limu which Ibo who lined him did hold deal or alivo Ibat Mr who appointed ilr aOJ whoso lio was my dead his 10 dad and Uut Mr waa not during a part 01 that term Tnat tho Constitution and the laws mado under It By tho tbo whole time tbn of tno Government Into inJ the word term wan technically designate the of eaon Tbe ot Iho of the that that tho ex power shall be vested In a ident 01 thu Untied of America lio anall bold hla during tbe term of lour years and together tbu chosen fair tho tern bo elected CB ftc it provides tout ot removal from office oroi his death ignation or inability to discharge tba of said office tha abalt on tbe and may by Uw for thr caso of or inability both of President aud Vice-President vall Ojg cor ahall then acl aa President and officer shall then act accordingly until the disability be removed or a aball bo elected Tbe learned counsel Js that ibe deat who accidentally accedes to tjo of President is a term of bin own and that Mr BTANTON was appointed by uim he Is not within the ol the act It happened that Mr was appointed by ilr in 1661 lor an ol time ana serving aa Au by and with tho advice and Ilr him and hs held a valid by virtue of Mr maut he waa for throe yean during note bo expended billions nf money anJ raised hundreds of of men without any at alL To mit tills to bo done any valid commission have Deen a la Bnl if no held a valid wai it J Sot Then tn term bo serving for ho must have been la Evon If It waa In term he would hold lor lour years sooner removed lor there U no wren spoken of in toe Constitution ol a shorter period lor a Presidential term than fonr roars it makes DO difference In Itie operation of the law whether ha waa holding In or term Waa It not in ilr term T bad elected and tbo second term to commence In and Ibo Constitution declared thatthat term fonr years Uy virtue of the aud tbe uni- form ot Mr continued to hold the term of Mr LINCOLN unless sooner removed Nov does any nno that from the tin ot IBM new Presidential term not For it will be Been closo that word term marks ol tho Presidential existence ao that II Divide the different periods ol hy a well rulo ot taat become President the aani In Man of tbo of us President trom nr of or Inability to tbo and of the tbo The President tbat ba removed Mr to tost of the Tenure of law by a Judicial decision He baa already seen It decided by tie votes twice given of iwo-lbirjn of the and ol the House of U stood aa a law Iho books No case had arisen that law or Is re- ferred lo by tbe President required interposition if there had been or bo tlm open to anv one who felt aggrieved action of ing Ibat law ba liken advantage of the name and tbo Hinds af the United SiaUs to resist It and to indues others to resist It of aa the Executive of ho United Slates to teo that the law waa executed be look pains and tbo acts In hii article nol only to it himself but to io do Iho aamo tic lo induce tho ol Iba army to aid him lu an open avowed obstruction ol tbo law as it stood Iho hook Ho could no one In with him In perpetrating an act nutil ho sunk down upon tbe A of the army Ia Ino Uws bo Is stt to carry them Into effect by according to his On til was It noc a an I bold at- to obstruct ilie Lawa and earn that they d uot be Do must nol by fining that bo liad ol Its nilly nnu to teat It right bsd he to tin ox for others as well BK lo Is a or lu Tim asserts Ihal he did nol remove tho ol i taw a d of own lutier tn the ol in an he s by laiv lie communicated to officer tho lurt ol ro- This ul iho may aa tfl UB well aa by hla to Uio following is the letlor Just alluded lo dated In with tile of ha act entitled an act In tha of curtain civil you urn ban by that on tlie inn lion M wnn bis aa m War anil ieu U h and act aa ud interim Honorable Secretary af tuo man I a direct contradiction of bin How thai a man a good or a Rood I would not be out of place Uow lovely to what waa so Inculcated bv cd into the mind ol hla Virtue Is ami truth Is virtue And still more virtus of kind charms ua yet that la strongest which is by stid will nevar bo douo WIBO acta will never bo by the and conscientious Mny Ibo people of Iho Republic remember thin old when they next meet o select their rulers and may they only thu snd Ilia virtuous Han it been proved an In thin that in vacation suspended from EDWIN M bad bcon duly appointed and was executing the of Secretary ol tho War and consent of tho Senate dlu bo report the for such suspension to Boost o dayu Irom tlm and did the ceed io consider tha ol such T DM tbo Senate declare such reasons Insufficient whereby ibe and EDWIN II became sui homed to forthwith snd exorcise tbe f of Secretory of War and displace ibe tary ad interim duties wele then to and did tlie said JOHNSON in character ol President of the Stairs to Ibo o tbe Baitl U STANTON and bia resumption forthwith ol tha liana ul his as Secretary of the of War and baa lie continued to attempt to prevent Iho discharge of Uio dui lea of said by said EDWIN M Secretary of War notwithstanding mo decided In hia Jl ha has tbon tbo mala in violation ot law charged in this article are lull and complete THE PRESIDENT HIS INTENTION Tbo proof lies In a very narrow com pans and de- tho ol one or two who point corroborate lUch other's dence In his totter ol the o f arv not only declared wsa his tion out reproached D S General In following had fennd In onr first conference that tke wu of Ur STANTON not of oBce Yon knew what bad Induced the President to aik from a promise yon also Knew that In case jour views of QUIT dla not accord wun It L onr Il certain that sven yon did not to ro- w or oat to own statement placed In a position where coald I But Die President alleges his right la ilie the tenure of c civil ho tbo aime wss Inoperative snd void In or of the United Dien it Ua In bis month to Inter- poso this lie bad acted that law and of both or the long and short term to persons It and li would Uo in his mouth after that lo Ita validity lie himself guilty of by Let ns here look at accepting to take care that the laws be On the id of March 1807 he to alo ilio of Office where it and had by a majority of more than two reasons elaborately given It should not pass Among these waa Ibe ita I passed by a vole of 36 yeas to 11 nays In the Douse of It by more than a two-thirds majority and when Iho vote was announced tbo aa was his custom proclaimed tbe voto and declared In tbe language of Ibe Constitution that of each House voted tor It notwithstanding tba objections ol the President li has a I am supposing thai JOHNSON waa at this moment waiting to isku of as Ine Dulled Stales he would obey Iho Constitution and take caru thai the laws be been on Ibo Holy to obey the Constitution sad being about to de- part ho turns lo Ibe person tho oath and gays I have a I do swear tnat I will not allow tbe act act regulating the tenure of civil offices Juat passed by over tho to bo executed but I will prevent execution by ol my own constitutional power How shocked Congress would have wonld country have said to a equaled only by Iho unparalleled action of Ihla aamo official when sworn into office on the fatal Hub day of March made the of Abraham Lincoln I hs would not boon permitted to bo as or President Yet such In effect baa boen hla conduct if not undor oath at with leas excuse tbe fatal day which In- him upon the people of tbe Can the President lo escapo U tho lact of bis violating that law be proved or confessed by him M baa been Can bo expect a sufficient number of his t ryers to pronounce that law and baving passed upon ita upon several Tho act wu by a volo 01 29 to 9 nays tho of Representatives passed tho with which tlie Senate greed 10 ana the waa referred 10 a com- ol ol the two whose ment was Uio Sous to by the aud waa by a volo of 23 to 10 nays Alter ihc veto of tho In tho aud alter all its that body by a volo ol 35 yean tu II Premium that bv virtue of the hu had tnc right o remove heads of mid I hia had dope to It must bo wero ol tho Tenure March J Will ant nay lion having d me an set no law to it thu repetition at acl alter a law bas name? I is nol Ihu ur removal of Mr tbat lb of but Iho of llu It tbe bo nad good reasons lor or rcm Ur TON and hail done so those o the and then ihu decision ol ibu in finding would heen uo com- plaint but Instead 01 that bo suspends him in direct of tho of Office law aud then enters Into au or lo do so lu which ho thought lie had to prevent tbo due ex- of tile law alter me decision of And when the to restore Ur he mokes a removal by virtue of wan ho call the power vested In him hy tho Tho action lne on tho of Die President sla reasons tar tbo pension of E M- Secretary of wsr the acl entitled an acl io regulate tbe or IN SENATE OF TIIK I woll understood and the In unjust war had the right to deal the aa to them might seem good subject only to Ua of humanity They had a to confiscate their property lo the extent of in- themselves and their citizens to annex thorn lo tho victorious nation and pass just snob laws for their government aa they might think proper la aa old as fresh as the Neither the the Judiciary had any right to Interfere tn any lorms or to aid In further than they were directed by the sovereign power That sovereign power iu tola IB the gross of the United Whoever besides Con- gress undertakes to now Slates or to rebuild old ones and fix the condition of citizenship and union usurps which do not belong to and la dangerous or not dangerous according lo tbo of hla powers or pretensions An- CHEW did usurp the legislative power of the by building now Bla tea and ing in him lay ibis empire Ue directed ho defunct States to come forth and lira by of hia breathing Into their nostrils the breath ot life lie directed them what constitutions to form and Axed iho qualifications of electors and of holders lie directed them to send bers to each branch nf and to aid him in representing tho nation When Congress passed a law declaring all those doings and Died a mode for tho admission of Ibis new territory Into ibo nation he proclaimed It unconstitutional and advised the not to II nor to obey the commands ol Congress I have not to enumerate the particular which constitute ills high-handed usurpations tio say that ho all the powers ot Iho Government and had bo bean permitted would havo absolute ruler bo tn notwithstanding Congress declared moru tlian once all the Governments which bu Ibns to bo void Sad or none effect Bnt I promised to bo brief and must aMdo by Iho promise although I should Ilka Iho Judgment of tho upon his tome seeming vital phase and real of all bis misdemeanors To mo thla seems a spectacle A nation not but aa nearly approaching it as human will permit of o millions of people bad fallen into conflict among other people always ends In anarchy or despotism and had laid donn anna Ilio mutineers submitting io tbo conquerors Tbe wore about lo regain their accustomed away aud again to govern tbo nation by the punishment ot treason and tne reward of viriup Her old wero about to be restated an lar aa iher wero applicable according to tho Judgment ol thu conquerors Then one of their interior servants by ambition lo a portion of the territory according lo tho fashion of and to convert a land ot dom mto a land 01 slaves Tils tbo trailers and bavo put tho chief of them his Irial snd Judgment bis misconduct lio will bo condemned and his sentence without turmoil tumult or aud tho will UB accustomed course ol freedom ind prosperity without the aud wilti a milder he ban been accustomed to see or ought now to be Inflicted pote to nil by Ev the of a positive understanding n us these wen plainly fru Il it certain tli yon did not off sr to r bat to ro eu In a position woW lated four I would havs been I waa to sale of of or slae to tbo more hya successor He distinctly thai the baa a full knowledge that such waa hla deliberate Uoa Hard wordB and Injurious can do nothing to corroborate or lo Injure tbe ol a but If JOHNSON be net wholly destitute of truth and a Uien thin article and all Its are clearly nut by bla own evidence Whatever tho respondent may aay of the reply of D 8 General only to confirm of the President's to of the act specified in tbe article U Oen ol bla conversation with the President IB correct then U goes ww That tno and by the bin report of Deo H for ou tbe office of ol Warol iue do uot concur ID suspension Aud tnu waa aulT to tbe President In iho faco ol UD wnh an impudence and br zen o iho of tho again M STANTON and pointed Secretary ad interim In hia Tho Senato with calm manliness rebuked the usurper by the IN OF U STATEH 1 February tbs received and Ibs communication of the President stating that bs bad removed EDWIN M STANTON of War and bad the nt tbe army to Ml aa Secretary ot War ail therefore That the snd laws nl Uie United States tho dent has no power to remove tbe Secretary of War and to any other officer to perform tae duties of that ad Yet be continued him In And now Ibis spring of turns upon tbe who nave thne rebuked him tn a constitutional manner and them defiance How can bo escape Uie just vengeance of tho tew f Wretched man standing at bay surrounded by a cordon of living men -each with tbe ax of an executioner lor bla Just Every Senator now trying except aa bad already adopted bis voted for this same resolution pronouncing bis Will any one of them tor bis acquittal on Ibo ground of its unconstitutionally f I know tbat would venture lo do necessary act U In- by an honest conscience and an enlightened opinion bnt neither for the sake of dent nor of any one elae would one of them himself to be on the gibbet of How long and dark wonld tho track of which muat mark hia name and that ol bla Nothing la therefore more certain than that tt requires no gift of prophecy to predict the fate of this unhappy victim THE I have now but one Of tbo articles all of I believe io ba sustained and few ol tbe almost Innumerable offences to this wayward unhappy I allude i io two or throo which I could to havo had time to present and not lor tha Bake of punishment but for Ibs benefit of tbe try Ono of these wss BA article tho dent usurping tbo power of the tion and attempting still his With regard to ono word will explain my meaning A civil war of gigantic tions to many and broke out and embraced more than ton million a of men who formed au in- dependent government called tho Bulea of America They rose to the dignity of an pendent were ao acknowledged Dy a4 nations SB well M by After ex MB Vow oven It ilie pretext of iho and not a mere to tno viola Ion ha chanted still that wonld be such an abuse of the patronage of tbc as demand his for a high Lei us tor a moment ex- amine Into of lne of act Mr wan appointed Secretary of War ny Mr LINCOLN lu 1802 and continued ID hold under Ur by all linage is considered a he a officer or waa to re- moved lor corrupt purposes T Alter the death ol Mr LINCOLN had changed his whole coilo of politics and and Instead of will of those who put buu into power ho determined lo create a party lor himself to carry out his own ambitious purposes For every honest purpose of the Government and tor evory lor which Mr STANTON was appointed liy Mr LINCOLN where could a better mm bd found 1 Nona over ail army ot a million ot mun and fur Ita and efficient action more rapidly Mr and bis It might wuh more bo of this officer than of the thai ho Victory Uc and by bis re- more than a of dollars without ever having been charged or with tno of a dollar and when victory crowned bis ho that army aa quietly and peat fully aa If It had been a Hummer lie wonld not I suppose adopt tbo personal nf the aud lor thin be was suspended until by tuo emphatic of Now If wo arc right m our narrative ot tbo conduct of theao parties and the of iho very at waa a usurpation aa well aa a corrupt misdemeanor lor which of ha ought to aod thrown the place ho waa unt ho tbat Le did not remove Mr ior the of tho Tenure oi law Then he the truth In with tbo General of mo army Anil because General did not aid him and dually ad- mit that ho had agreed to aid him in resisting that law ho railed upon htin a very drib Tbc counsel lar ibo respondent that no re- moval ol Ur ever look place and ibat therefore the section 01 Ibo act win not lated They admit that there waa an order ol val and a uf his hut u bo did not objy it nay It Wss no removal That suggests tbe otd saying that It to bo thought that when Uio wero out tho man wag dead Tnat is proved by learned In bo absolutely the brain of Mr was taken by tbo order ot of bia his head waa cut oQ tiy soldier Oon Uie Uic masquerade And yet according lo the learned anil until tlie mortal remains which could putrefy waa out and into tho there waa no al Bui it Is that thin took merely an an to mako a judicial case Now anybody who with ina liim can wai nut an IU soa it tint palliates tne Tbe is to tika caro Uws be Iu what pan ol iho Constitution or laws does uo flud it lo hm duty to out lor laws tint upon ilic tnat bo may their Wuo waa ov Office tbat ho was u uso tho namo and tho or to Will he bo so gowl ait to Ud ny what author ly ho tho ot an law of its executor especially a law whose ho liad twico If ibali bla own ho ilie oi American anJ tbo ol Il ha nol willing to tho lawn pissed by Iho can Congress and lot him tho office was thrown him by a alon ana roliro to uia village liy Lu him not bs BO by and which sprang Irom tbu deep ol Ilia country a8 to at temp an of its chinery anil Iho tuo trusted servants ci bis In his peroration Implored tbe this ail ho ami ol a Roman Honator lor and it U to ba luared that ills grace suo turned tbo attention of the upon lhan upon the accused bo bitn pleading for bis gieu powers would executed bail ho beon with equal a a delinquent and CATO the bad been ono of Uio Judges hla would bavo soon found in tbo Blocks in iho of the forum IDS I Md ot receiving thu ol a and patriotic audience blinding continuity of the lightning ol tbe tropics aod culminating at last In a mortal challenge In tbe defence of constitutional power aa a branch ot American Congress and over tbe liberty of the people It wu Impossible for them to decline with the open defiance oi the Executive while were of course with no but to ab- or to vindicate their to make the and seo tbat It waa obeyed To this imperious necessity tbo people in name they speak a branch of tbat race whose quick sensibility to danger lias ever kect a vigil its liberties have yielded at laat with a which nothing but the weariness ot civil tho natural longing for repose bo apprehensive BOUBO Ibat It wss better perhaps to boar the Ills we had than to fly to others that we know [not of tho reflection I hat the tration muat havo an end and above all perhaps the hope that IIa head would ultimately submit to a necessity which strong aa fate could have brought alout or would perhaps bad reason ss bis show hat they do uow mistaken temper and presumed upon their Ke baa forgotten that hero waa a at wulch tbe conflict must end In the shock of two op- posing forces and the overthrow of one or tbo of ibo antagonistic elements It waa necessary perhaps In tbe order or Providence that be reach that point by anch a blow at tbe as should awaken tho aa with an earthquake shock aa to tbe that tbe toleration af no security lo nations To show however how much they bavo Dorno aud barue perhaps for tbo siko of peace aud how much they now PMS over for the sake of s speedy Bolntiou of tbc impending trouble lias Impeded iho onward and upward movement of ihu groat Government and spread and dlnur- der many of Ha and what moreover is tbe true Import and significance ol the acts for which tbe President is now I must bo allowed with your Indulgence to take up for a moment tho key la required to unlock the mysteries ol Uia position Tba man who i hat there Is but a question of tbc removal of an obnoxious officer a mere private quarrel between two belligerents at ibo end ol wherein It Is of national consequence which of iho two parties ahall prevail baa no ol iho gravity of tno case aud greatly Iho position aud Itie motives of tbo high accusers of espouses no man's quarrels ho may be It bus bnt out from the many of equal weight Iho facts bore aa both In the past and of of notoriety The hero IK between two mightier the sad Uio tbo of Iho United whom tbo of now held almost the only strong position of which they have not been It in but a re- on American soil af Ibe old tUo royal prerogative and the of Ibe plo wss closed In England tho of ilie a for ibo a temporary and tho legislative power of a fr c over the moot lias ever tho of tha Tno counsel for President reflecting of course Iho view of employer would you that iho removal at a departmental head is an affair of state ton to be worthy of such an avenger OB this we propose Standing alone of all the attendant circumstances that explain Iho act and deadly by which U IB inspired It Is not thai are some havo been Induced lo think with that a remedy BO as was more loan adequate It la only under the particular issue by antecedent Mvu now Into history that Uio tions ol can be lully soon il arc not made now by ant tone of the President and tbc formidable Blon net up by him In his aud and to you aro a to another Ton aro a lo a Too are an lo ilic are no longer a hu had the aimo part bv over the country and in B assailing Iho conduct snd the tives ot Congress inculcating -o authority by endeavoring to bring it publicly ol one of its that a traitor and of r tint lio waa an assassin and of Iho that for lulu in and bloodshed whirn had lor lif murder Orleans by a bv cor- Its Ilio witu the IB correct men It goes and bloody alrtle wo conquered and Uia aamo laot stated Uj the President I to onr B tio law of SPEECH OF MR WILLIAMS Mr of another of tbe followed Mr m a speech ho road from manuscript u Mr ANU or THE UNITED Not to the conflict of ino lorum I appear in presence to-day to to the command of the of tho American people under a of responsibility which I have never lelt beloro Tho august tribunal whoso Judges ore tbe elect of mighty provinces tho presence at your bar of the of a domain that rivals lu extent ibs dominions of the and of s civilization that transcends any that the world baa evor Been to demand Judgment tho high delinquent whom they have arraigned in the name of tbe American people for high crimes and against thr State tbe dignity of tbo quent himself a king tn every thing hnl and tbs heritage ot royally the crowded ana more than tnat greater word aide which atanda on tiptoe aa tt strains Ita ear lo catch from tbe Iba first tidings of a verdict which U either lo end a thrill of Joy throughout an land or to rack it over with ibe throes or anarchy and Ina convulsions of despair all remind me of the colossal proportions ot ibe issue yon are assembled to try THE TUX ISSUE I cannot but remember too that scene before me Is without an example parallel In tbe human history Kings It la true have been uncrowned and royal beads hava fallen upon the but In two only have the formalities of law been Invoked 10 niva a coloring of order and Justice in the bloody tragedy Uia only in the free land that a tribune hu been charged for tbe with tho sublime task of vindicating an outraged law against tne highest of its ministers and passing Judgment tbo question ibo ruler of a nation aboil be tho Uw and without or violence ol tbo power be abused Thin great occasion wan not by ns The world will tba Representatives of the people witness that they havo noi come here for light ana transient causes bnt for tbe reason only that tbs has boon upon them by a lone series of bold of powers on the part of tbe following each oilier with almost the and THE PRESIDENT S OFFENCES The not la hua been hy nuu ol lux couin I an it has bom hy aud m liio same way by himself by who lio was and what ho bad dono be lorn tno of loyal Slates so generously him with that contingent cower which wan luado only lor load of and treason by Uie derous of an I will not atop now to i i aa 10 scenes on Ibis Hoar and by Iho counsel for iho with two of so opposite a Character me or even to whether bin to tbo Ibo Southern was not merely a being iho to tbu of a this cular time Tho occurs liero to it as it Is put by allowing wuo as lo what he bas been smco Ihu hour ol i bat im- provident and gilt bow changed 1 Uow that lugh thai Won lor him t or a oo Would that it could luto of aa of that spirit who nab hurled and fiom crystal ia full Lo had yot 1081 all his original no lona lhan tlie sr change i I'll neuter key to ibo whole history ol his administration not a mcro opinion ai ono of counsel 10 think n might afford to u but lone and to bo in tuo lad of on ol iho rebel Ibe by oi ol mcu had it by and lu oi tbo will uf tlie loym ui tbo BUICH ihur accomplish th B bow has lie nol borne and Uow much J not over and ul most without Ic recor Is which aro only ol history aud 1 ot u u- ilio in af iho State ho Laa Indued bin lor at ami ilio ul Stitu tuo in ilic ru sud ho ui u Into for tum oe iuil to tbo law and itn in UHU notoriously by law ut il by hid own mero will lur fnu ho paid m gard at law anil paid Ion ou ul con- tingent Hind ol 01 lor Ibis lio hati 11115 of by bringing over 10 of tho Confederacy and oin to evy rum au lur ho passed away of tbu to railroad con- or sold it to them in clear Jii of law on long at a of own au I any security lor he boil stripped tbe Bureau ul and of lu lij from It tho land by to lenat ut anJ justly alui vested by law tn Ibu ol Ihu States for his he hail wub s hand the very ol and dered its lur iho benefit ol by ordering the ot Iho oi of captured ami properly bod been lu IIK by law Fur bo had tlm pardoning power on him by Ibe lu reloading tho moat Ilia leaders of the rebellion a to their in of bla policy and evon lor the cu to men who Indebted to its exercise for thulr own from Fur ibis hu of public only by to tbo laws for of iho rebellion snd tho punishment of lint by going Into iho courts snd turning Iho greatest ot the public loose and all control of by tbo restoration to of estates For IhU he bad abused ihu appoint power by tbe removal on of meritorious public officers for uo reason than because they would not in attempt lo overthrow and usurp Ibe powr ot Tor this be had invaded ibo privileges ol tbo Senate by lo send in or by him during tho recess of that body OLd after who bad been rejected by U as unfit for tho places for they hail been For this he had broken the privileges of land Ibe of thn United by them that tho work of belonged to him only and that they hod no legislative right or duty In tbe promises out only to register hla will oy throwing open doors to ancA might come there sions from pretended that wero substantially bis own For tins that on their refusing to obey his Imperial rescript he had them aa a aod uot a legal without tho to far tho States excluded and as at the other end of tbe line In actual rebellion against Uio people they bad For this be had grossly abused Ibe veto power by disapproving every measure of legislation that concerned the rebel in accordance with hla tlon that he would voto all the measures of the making power whenever camo lo him For this he bad deliberately and confessedly exercised a dispersing over the Test by appointing notorious rebels to Important places in tbe revenue service on the avowed ground that iho of wildcat regard was not lu ance with his opinion For this be bad obstructed the settlement of tba nation by exerting alt his in- to prevent the of ibe rebel States from accepting tbe constitutional meat or erganulng the laws of and Impressing them that Congress was bloodthirsty and implacable and that only waa with him For this lio hod brought ibe patronage or bla office with freedom of elections by allowing and bis lo travel tho attending and no people in of bis policy For thin n hu li t part af a by tbe Halls of the of tic a wora no Jon addition to the resulted from pointed til citizens in Ne else of or a la city an aci of io suppressed by violence ami commanding tho of the tion of iho of It fs not loo much o sav lu of wrong anJ and the cry ot bat coma up lo ua upon Iho Southern thai nod in tbu war anf once more ol nod bate when aa wo mildly our had overthrown him m ami murder Irom thn lint and ol an w of the f n ul South nury patriot graves blood of And because for ill bo has D0 Wu railed lo r au account for iho hav ed it ifl now and In a tl ruin for ilic on record in psn timt nlv Is of course nol to tlon but of me on port of Iho In Ifie and motives of hm to Into SH a criminal But all tin not enough to Iho cup ol forbearance overflow ono o IIPP act should ream ol tint nation anil inaka bo to a ce ruin to UH all ami act WSB done tlie at lo by forco or on tint Dei of through li trolled Ji but a or before list of tho eerie or all looking io Ihc great If dnf thn of many of hy which il wai in but im could not uo mistaken Il wax an KV ibal upon Hie oar of Iho in aurb a way an io ronier It It lie concealed or as ned blowa ol tint lud lie u Km nl the Jt bourd snd foil all our domain ukr ibu of Uio guim their upon nur flag si and it liau tho o people llin rin power lo Ibo nl labuc ibat amar yr to or a to m here through ita on jour and in your in tho aliko ol ihc erana wno nave been scarred by and ol tbo anil wive daughters of bavo that it lnr mo ot wil in of i the ol a nation's th ii 1114 li in THU Ami now us to Hut unin I poso o In tho an I rbn nl a1 n marked all tnm Ia list hu lmn li f ami tilK hv itic anil and HU Ui up will of Inw unking a hi 1 o forcing SICH into hlj in oi the ruit-irs and In nl Will of tho il people nt ita In rr sro hut lio and llm last a lone ol arc an attempt to remove tlic S of to iu Ins a un- t in ovin out ilio and f then In acanlon A lo Kinder and him tram or sal I the of Uio ID in hm mid to selz ami thi of tlie United In An to au ol thi by Io tLe II e o J i to 01 aud lo it un and to to IIH iho opru of c it ns acia uid lull ot aud u in I tin hv to ilic jinl i e aa and ol uu IUN io th l- nl tbr I anil nets of J load of relate io Ihu i 1 r ui iv il ol thn of War n that tuo of Mr in not Ilia ol thr c 1011 ol thn Tenure of act ll it ho act 19 l 1 8 i ir an it ui io ai mi liy him of at my and ill uli i c imc fur caum H hi ol nv 1 al n u Im will and inure and llu r lit ur it v In i in lin r it to hav IMS u l ill v vinl ilJ n j to Hi Uli i u ot tli noil of its bj Hit of ill 1 un sr And first a to tlm n ol War I to i li il tin m- art d Hi that was or n i Hint hn Ins Mr 111 not on a c i i I by reason f lo liol I tV dt asi a r i a only it it any inn mv ir ir in i n i- uiK UM I nml T to Ihn Of linn Ilie nol fui or i tori i nf its n -i i who him 7 i i of HUH Hi I inu wuo 1 1 bv au I witti a ivic -in l i u hn r 1 d lo 1 lu tin liL r that Its general t or to lian i n t n linM d Hi i 5 isle or hi I my i nut I 1 it clear o for ill in Uio U is ver til it HO in u li ot d io oi ills n suli 1 by Ihu IB in Ibe Tint llin nf nl Ihn ury nf nf Hi r ihn i and llin All inn nhall hoM fnr an 1 nf liy n and fur ono month f dj anJ wilb and oi ti wan thu n sn 1 of a conference of tho lloiiscn 1111 inn mini in of tbo out Iho In lavor or tlie of n I if Ju nny be ilio liv In ullo now you and lo an llm mover ol tho it WAH riry Iho duty of thn on tho tlie 11 inn ior tbo of Ilie objection In on this floor liy ono of the Managers that tho effect of thn amendment would ba to on in incoming President a that was not JIM own selection I rosy ho lor speaking ol ila lhat bcon made tho ol comment tiy the learned counsel who opened this on tho part of the If It nsn or that aa to In favor of an whoso power wai Ilio if not tbe Impelling motive mr thn of Uw 1 did know it It will hn judged itself without reference to tho him who penned It or to any opinion mat may bavo been In r to construction of It proceeded at to hla of tbe Tenure or and It clearly applied lo Mr as well as lo ol llu X hero la nothing In tho Having is at all With what goes li Tho that Ukes every out ot power o ths dint is from In Unt clause All u that iho shall he a determinate ono In cases that Uli within it- If Mr waj by tbe moaning or tha ao hoi la nf course thn ol his If uot he holds ct to oilier officers under Ilio It has been no often to generally accredited lut the oi act waa to protect I da nut affirm t 1101 consider it lo xay that I or deem II Important to tbe cane whether he ins passage of tha or nut It ba pre- b'y anybody he was intended to bn from in operation nor li case helped by to the fourth 01 set thai nothing herein be construed to extend ibo term of mn tha duration ol which by law Thr lu question wu wu one of of which waa Tao upon by mr does not extend IL Tbo only u to away tbe power of removal the at and reatore li ihu tha it should he AD that thn raar of Mr t u tLt law ice Is ai o ua en IN SPA PERI JEWS PA PER I
