New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-22
THE PRESIDENT TO BE DEPosEp-sPEEcH OF BEAST
BuTLER-wHAr vALLANDIGHAM SAYS.

zen. Butler addressed an immense audlenCe at
Xena, Dayton and Springfield On Friday, and at
Hamilton and Cincinnati Saturday. Gen, Butler
advocated the impeachment of the President
because he sought to bring Congress into public
hatred, ridicule, and contempt; because he had
corrupty used the power of removal and ap-
pointments; because he had neglected to execute
those laws of Congress which were passed. over
his veto and other laws; because he had defined
the constitutional right Of the Senate to confirm
appointments by placingin power officers whom it
| had rejected; because he had coTuptly used the
pardoning power and unlawfuy restored pro.
| perty belonging by right of capture to the United
States and because he usurped the power of Con
gress by terminating the war by proclamations in
stead of by treaty by the advice of the Senate or
o law of Congress. Each of these ofenses are
high crimes and misdemean0rs in the meaning of
the Constitution
The speech concluded as follows We have
been asked the question, How can the Presi-
| dent be impeached? He is commander-in-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 i'm
peached. Therefore, if you begin the mpeach-
ment, he will order the army and navy to dispense
| Congress, and he will seize the reins of govern
ment. Where is the remedy?" Here it is
The House of Representatives, under the Consti-
tuition, is the grand inquest Of the nation-per-
haps might say, for illustration, the grandjury
of the nation. 1t prepares the bill of impeach.
ment against the President, if it sees cause, and
| it presents the bill of impeachment to the Senate
of the United States, which then becomes high
| court OF impeachment, and the chief justice OF
the United States sits in that court as its presid-
ing officer 1t is thus no longer for that purpose,
the Senate of the United States, but it is the
court of impeachment of the United States.
What shall they do? When the impeachment is
ready, the Senate sends out its messenger
nal, be he high or low, cloud ap-
plause.) They set him at the bar and
read the bill to him. If he plead guilty. then they
proceed to sentence him, which sentence is de-
| position and deprivation of Ltfice. When he is
| brought before the bar, the Senate of the United
States may order him to be imprisoned, OF to find
| bail, or any other proper order that court may
adopt in criminal case; and when the Consttu-
ton provided this mode of trial, did its trainers
mean that man who is before the court of i'm
parchment criminal, shall be at the same time
chief executive officer of the government? Byno
means. From that moment he ceases to be able
to exercise the duties of that Office until he is
acquitted And then comes the case OF the ina
/ bility of the President of the United States to
exercise the Office Of President, so the Vice Pres
dent must take the office, and there being no Vice
President, it must deyolve the President of the
Senate for the time being. {Appause) If in
any Of these steps so taken, according to the
Constitution, the President does not obey as a
good citizen the behests of the high court Of
Impeachment, then that court like any other
court in the land, can call upon the whole
body of the people to aid it in enforcing its right
full authority. Applause And now | serve a
notice on Andy johnson that when a rightful
court of the Senate of the United States calls for
aid in their behalf the people of the United States
the boys in blne," will answer. We are told
that If Congress shall proceed to exercise their
rlghtful authority, then there will be tried the
strength of the government, that the President
will call upon the army and navy, and the army
and navy will obey him. Let there be no fear
| about that, because the army and the navy of the
United States are not those few men that are in
the regular service. Applause I have no de-
sire to disparage either the patriotism the integ
rity of the army of the United States but if the
90 nph if q TT10r nf
Of it, shall so far forget the duties he owes to his
| flag and to his profession as a soldier as to
answer any but the legal call of his country, that
small body of men shall be swept from the face of
the earth as cabinet is swept away before the
rising of the morning sun. prolonged cheers.l
At Hamilton Butler, in reply to charge that
he was responsible for stopping the exchange of
prisoners, gave his history of the transaction,
and stated that he stopped the exchange under
/ the express written order of the lieutenant
general.
BUTLER's SPEECH
from the New York Express I
This is the radical programme, and it is full of
meaning. The bold lin tongue) bad men thus let
it all out
1st. The President of the United States, after
vote by majority of the House of &C. not az
States-and that Rump House. created, in part
by the expulsion Of such Northern members as
| VOORHEES,, Brooks, Baldwin, and others, is to
inpeaeh.
I'd. The thus impeached the President is to he
brought before Bump Senate of 50 members (26
States mot a. as the Constitution requires, (3G
States,) and of these So senators to Try the i'm
parchment, two are made by the process Of lille
gal and tyraniCal election of Senator Stockton
| from New Jersey-Stockton being against the
| impeaching, and the substituted man for.
Sd. The moment the rump House thus arraigns
the President, thatmoment, Butler tells u.s. twenty
seven of these ffty-tWo senator's thus made. NAV
| imprison the President
4th. Then, anybody in the Senate, whom these
tEenty.seyen senators vote to make President
ot-Chandler, or Wade, or Sumner, becomes Pres
| ident of the United States.
9th. This Chandler, or Wade, or Sumner then
becomes commander-in-chief of the army and
navy of the United States
| 9Th. The regular army, the West Pointers, etc.,
then, If not obedient to Chandler, or Wade, or
Sumner, are to be swept from the face of the
earth, y by Butler, or the Bankses, we suppose,
or the scheneks, or the Schurzes. etc.
| 18th. And all of the millions of the Democracy r
the country, with the conservative Republicans,
are expected to look on and see this usurpation
! competed
| Comment is unnecessary. We have not word
to say upon this programme-for silence is the Sc
verest and the most telling comment. But what O
| trghttul, fearful programme is in contemplation
by the radicals, the merchants, the manufacturers
the ship owners. the bankers, the capitalists, and
United States stock owners, can now read and
| see.
| WHAT MR.. vALLANDIGHAM SAYS.
In recent speech delivered in Ohio, Mr.. G. L.
| Valandigham, referring to the proposed attempt
| to lmpeach the President, said:
t' But no matter; let me warn all concerned that
this pretended impeachment, this intended depos-
ing the President will be resisted to the last ex-
tremity. He is President under the Constitution,
and has precisely the same right to exercise the
duties of the office TO the end Of his term, March
4, 1869, that the members Of the Senate OF House
or any other of the officers of the government
have, and these men will find million hearts of
oak and arms of steel TO defend him in the enjoy
ment of that right. We want no more war-above
ALL more civil war; but if they will force it, it
shall be, it will be war to the knife and the knife
TO the hilt.'h
The supreme court of Erie county, N. Y, has
been occupied at Buffalo for three days with very
ridiculous case. For the third time jury has
been summoned for the trial of the case, which
seems to be intermmable. The only question in
yoyed is title of little piece of land in the town
of Newstead, the value of which is not more than
fifty dollars at the utmost. Each party claims to
have the fee simple. and the land has been sur |
veyed and re.surveyed by dozen civil engineers.
Altogether it is said the costs of the litigation
amount to over two thousand dollars, but both |
parties are determined to fight it out on this line if
it takes forever. The action was begun in 1869,
and has thus already extended over seven years.