Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-08-06
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESI-
DENT

Mr.. Boris proposes to prefer against the
President. Mr.. Bolts has publicly declared
that he stood alone in the move.
lst. ! charge John Tyler with a gross
usurpation of power and violation of law,
in attempting to exercise controlling in
huence over the accounting officers of the
Treasury Department by ordering the pay
ment Of accounts that had been by them
rejected, and threatening them with expu-
sion from office unless his orders were
obeyed
I'd. charge him with being guilty of
high misdemeanor in retaining men in Of
ice for months after they have been re-
iected by the Senate as unworthy, incom-
petent, and unfaithful, to the great detri-
ment of the public interests, and hazard of
loss to the public Treasury; the Govern
ment having no security for the faithful APP
plication Of the public funds passing
through their hands, and he thereby de-
feating that provision Of the Constitution
which requires the advice and consent of
the Senate to all nominations made by the
President.
8. charge him with gross official mis-
conduct in attempting, in spirit Of re-
venge, for constitutional exercise of pow
er by the Senate, in the rejection of one of
his nominees TO office, to remove large
number of faithful and meritorious subor-
dinate officers from the Customhouse Of
Philadelphia, with whom no fault was
found save that of a supposed political pref
erence for another, and who had discharged
their duties with entire satisfaction to the
collector of customs. and for attempting to
substitute in their stead men having no
other recommendation than that of sup
posed acquiescence in his views.
4th. charge him with the high crime
and misdemeanor of endeavoring to excite
a disorganizing and revolutionary. spirit in
the country, by inviting disregard of, and
disobedience TO law of Congress, which
law he has himself sworn to sec faithfully
executed.
5th. charge him with the high crime
and misdemeanor in Office of Withholding
his assent to laws indispensable to the op-
erations of Government, involving no con-
stitutional difficulty on his part--of depri-
wing the Government of all legal sources of
revenue--of assuming to himself the
whole power of taxation-and of collect
ing duties from our citizens without the
sanction or authority of law.
9th. charge him with the high crime
and misdemeanor of open prostitution and
profigacy in a willingness to barter away
the offices of Government, and the princ-
pies he professed, to obtain the support of
one of the parties in Congress to which he
has heretofore been opposed.
18th. charge him with gross official mis-.
conduct, in having been guilty of shame
less duplicity, equlvocation, and falsehood
with his late Cabinet and Congress; such
as has brought him into disgrace and con-
tempt with the whole American people,
which has disqualified him from admins
tering this Government with advantage,
honor, or virtue.
sth. charge him with an arbitrary and
despotic abuse of the veto power, to graft
fly his personal and political resentment
with such evident marks of inconsistency
and duplicity as leave no room to doubt his
total disregard of the interests Of the peo-
pie or Of his duty to the country.
9th. charge him with the high inside
meanor of arrayng himself in open hostil-
ity to the legislative department of the
Government, by the publication of SANDER
GUS and libelous letters under his own sig,
nature, with view Of creating false and
unmerited sympathy for himself, and bring.
ing Congress into disrepute and odium with
the people, by which means that harmony
between the Executive and Legislative de-
partments so essential TO good government
and the welfare of the people has been Ut
terly destroyed.
10th. i charge him with an abandonment
of an acknowledged constitutional duty, in
refusing to render such aid to the constitu-
ted authorities of Rhode Island, when
called on, as he had himself previously
promised in his letter to Gov. King, as a sa-
cred constitutional obligation resting upon
him.
18th. l charge him with pursuing such q
course of vacillation, weakness and folly
as must, if he is permitted to remain longer
at the head of the Government, bring the
country into dishonor and disgrace abroad,
and force the people into state of AFFECT
misery and distress at home.
10Th. | charge him with being utterly
unworthy and unfit to have the destinies
of this nation in his hands as chief Magis'
trate, and with having brought upon the
Representatives of the People the imper-
ious necessity of exercising their consttu'
tional prerogative of impeachment, or OF
surrendering the Government to him to be
used as a plaything and toy, for his spor
on the one hand and his malignity on the
other.
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