The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-26

.NNuNNOA Win HIS Itlhon Al lut lilUCllat
rebels OF largo means and large estates, for
the purpose of moulding them " his pur-
pose, after threatening them that their
lands should be divided aud distributed
among the poor loyal men Of the South, so
as to put them in terror, he brings them TO
him aud then pardons them. More than
that BY the use of this pardoning power,
and by his direct order, lie has restored
much property captured in war, the title OF
which was in the United States, and which
went TO swell the assets of the Treasury of
the United States. Many millions of dollars
Of property of the Government havo been
thus given back TO mon who to-day are in
fact and in heart rebel enemies of the Uni
ted States.
DrEAcuNENT-TuE FIFTH srEclFicNrIoN ; FAIL
INC TO ENFoRcE THE CIVIL NIGHTS BILL.
We impeach the Vice President of the
United States in this, that, being sworn to
execute the laws of Congress, the laws OF
the land, in violation of that oath OF office,
he has failed to execute the duties of prcsi-
dent of the United States has in more than
one instance not only refused, aud has ne
elected to enforce the laws OF the United
States, but by direct order has nulllicd
those laws; and we specify this, that
whereas the Congress of tho United States
passed a law authorizing direct taxes to be
collected in the South, aud yet while proper
ty for non.paymcnt of taxes was being sold,
the President of tho United States Ivy his
order directed those sales to be stopped
without authority of law, in violation of
law, and left the taxes to stand uucollccted.
More, we specify this, that the Civil Rights
bill being passed, that the President not
liking tho provisions Of that bill, not being
satisfied with them, has wrongfully and
barbarously prevented its exccution-has
not in any way carried out its provisions,
which, if executed would protect every
citizen of the United States in every State
yet he allows citizens OF the United States,
loyal to the Government to be murdered,
their property taken, others to be restrained
of their liberty, and ali their rights taken
away without any attempt to interfere to
protect them or to punish the wrong-docrs.
IMPE EAouMENT-TuE SIXTH SPECIFICATION: COM
PLICITY IN THE NEW ORLEANS RIOT.
And if any further specification is want
cd from us, we point to the great and dam
ming fact that in the State of Louisiana
where under his own theory the State had
rights within the Union-a convention duly
elected by the people proposed to meet and
hold SESSION to discuss qlestlOns OF mo-
appl cation of the Lieutenant Governor Of
the State and the Attorney General of the
State who had been lately in arms against
the United States, and upon the application
of the Mayor of the city of Now Orleans,
who he himself had to pardon in order to
qualify him to hold Office, deliberately in
cited, provoked and caused TO go on AZ II
portion of tho support of his policy, the
massacre of white and black citizens, then
and there assembled in Convention. And
for testimony upon this point We refer as
well to the dispatches sent 20 aud received
by him from that Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General, and Mayor, as to the dis.
patches of General Sheridan, and still more
lately to the official report Of the Military
Commission appointed to Investigate the
circumstances of that riot Aud we further
say that, although months have passed since
that riot was melted and tool; place since
these murders were committed, although
the innocent and unofending members OF
| Convention were arrested aud held to an
swer for some supposed participation in
that riot, yet, with the Civil Rights Bill
giving full power to the President of the
United States, no one of those murdercrs
has ever been arrested, or held to answer
to the justice of the country whose man.
dates they had violated. And, therefore,
we say that when the President of the
United States seek in a popular harangue
to throw those murders and that massacre
upon the Congress of the United States, it
is strong evidence that he feels the neces.
sity of shifting the guilt from his own
shoulders to those of innocent mcu.
THE PROCESS OF IMPEACHMENT.
| Without, then, waiting until the President
of the United States shall commit any other
overt act of mischief to the Government of
the United States, has there not been stated
here, sufficient number of vi 'lations, p IL,
palpable and direct in the judgment of the
people, for which he can be impeached
The difficulty is this: A court of impeach-
ment sets only when the true sense of the
people is outraged. The question must,
first of all, be submitted to the people, and,
last of all, it must be submitted to the peo-
pie. 1t is for the people to demand of their
Congress tha. justice shall be administered
to the President of the United States or it
can not be done.
have been asked this question: How
can the President be impeached? He is
COMMANDMENT Chief of the army and navy,
and the Constitution of the United States
says nothing whatever about who shall
hold the Office while he is being impeached.
Therefore, if you commence an impeach
ment he will order the army and navy to
disperse Congress, and will eeize the reins
of Government. How is the remedy to
be applied? The House of Representa-
tives under the Constitution, is the grand
inquest of the nation perhaps might say
for illustration, the grand jury of the ma
ton. 1t prepares bill OF impeachment
against the President, if it sees cause, and
presents that bill of impeachment to the
Senate of the United States, which then be.
comes high court of impeachment, and
the Chief Justice of the United States sits
in that court as it's presiding ollicer 1t is
thus no longer for that purpose the Senate
of the United States, but is the High Court
of impeachment of the United States. What
may it do? When the bill is found, the
Senate sends out its messenger or sergeant
alarms to bring in the criminal, be he high
or low. They set him at the bar and read
the bill to him. If he pleads guilty, then
they proceed to sentence him, which SEN
tence is deposition and deprivation of Of
fee. When he is brought before the bar
and pleads not guilty, the Senate of the
United States may order him to be imprs.
Oned, or to fnd BAIL or make any other
proper order that court might adopt in a
criminal case. When the Constitution pro-
vided this mode of trial, did its trainers
mean that man who is before the Court
of impeachment as a criminal shall be at
tho same time chief ex, cut!ve officer Of the
Government? By no means. From that
moment he ceases to be able TO exercise
the duties Of that Office until lie is acquitted
And thus comes one case of inability of
the President of the United States TO eXer-