Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-26
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New YORK, November Zo.-Ueherai
Butler delivered lecture at the Acad
envy of Music, Brooklyn, last evening"
which was attentively listened to, on the
subject of the reorganization OF the
South. He said that neither political
expedients, conventions, Presidents nor
Congress could compass it. All de-
vices of State craft must fail; even
universal freedom cannot accomplish 1t;
and universal or impartial suffrage will
only add to the danger. The only safety
is in universal education, intellectual
and religious. The common school or
church are the only basis upon which
the South can be safely and permanently
reconstructed.
Butler argued that there is power in
Congress to establish schools in the
South under clause in the Constitution,
which says Congress shall have power to
nroyide for the common defense and
general welfare of the United States.
On the subject of the impeachment of
the President, he claimed that an i'm
proper public speech of high official is
impeachable; that the Senate, from
which members from eleven States are
excluded, and some of them expelled, is
the legal high court of impeachment;
that if the accused neglects or refuses to
appear before the Senate when sum-
moned, he may be tried, convicted and
deposed from his Office in his absence
that all powers of impeachment are de-
rived from English law and that accord
ing to all law and precedent, the Presi-
dent, if impeached, must be prevented
from exercising the functions ofhis office.
Mr.. Butler then enumerated the charges
he had to make against the President as
impeachable offenses, viz: First, drunk
enness in office; second the making of
indecent and infammatory harangues
third, tyrannically and unconstitution-
ally, as chief executive officer, usurpating
the lawful rights and powers Of Congress
in appointing Prvisional Governors for
the South, the reorganization of State
governments, and assumption Of power
to state who should vote in recon-
structed States; fourth, the corrupt
use of the appointing power; fifth,
improperly using the constitutional
power of pardons for ofenses against
the United States; sixth, appointing
rebels to Office seventh, refusing to
execute the Constitutional laws of Con-
gress in the insurrectionary States;
eighth, conspiring with John I. Monroe
to prevent and dispense lawful conven-
ton of loyal citizens in New Orleans,
and melting Monroe and his associates
to dispense said convention and kill the
members thereof
The address was very long and undis-
turbed.
FoREIGY-Baron Bruck will be Aus
trian ambassador at Florence.
Intelligence received at Florence, from
Rome, states that it has been decided at
a recent Consistsry that if the Pope be
obliged to quit Rome, he will seek an
asylum at Malta. The ecclesiastical au-
thorities of Malta have received some
official notification of the decision.
The Emperor of France has invited
Prince Napoleon to take part in the la
bors of military reorganization commit
tee.
The French iron clad squadron is or
dered to be ready for sailing on the 18th.
1t is stated they are to bring back the
French troops from Rome.
The cholera is reported in Paris.
The Emperor, Empress and Prince
have left Paris for Compeigne.
The Secretary of State has proposed a
reward of el5,OOO to Snyders family for
his breech loading invention.
The cholera has diminished in London
The Paris Constitutional denies the
statement by the Gazette de Franco that
insurrection has broken out at BARGE
Iona. The only plot had been discov-
cred at Saragossa Public order had not
been disturbed in Switzerland. The In
dependent party had triumphed in the
elections. The Grand Council is now
composed of sixty-three Independents
and fortr.one Radicals