The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-23

in reference to tho abolition OF slavery to the so
Ca Saea o sf.a.es erSe.si by Executive order ana
wo hate provided for. and tho Senate has con
iiiiIrmed, tho appointment Of Judges FOR thcs,
SroTdo ofg aggn take Of hG aS. wo haE
United States IN certain districts heretofore do
clared by law and defined by Inv, and not for oil,
tor the United States olcors and not for state chi
GERS: Ag ,n, we arc told IN tho samo message thai
the supreme Court Of tho United States has rceog
circuits; and using their boundaries as convenient
designations: l dcny again tho faot Tho Su.
promo , Court has nowhere given any opinion OF
Irecton on tho subject, md that doctrine cannot
bc found in its action in rny dogree. Again it If
said that the Surronc Court has recognized these
Statos from tho fact that tho Cliof Justice has
Tint a,.swor. he hold court in tho Judicial Dis
triet Of THO United States, Territorial District OF
the United States, assigned to him under the law,
state of North Carolina was % in existoneo or not @
held, held thnt court whether the State @ q North
Caronl'a had existence or not. Ito held tho
Court. in despite Of md. not in subjocfion to,
any supposed Stato Inv; and among tho vcry frat
opinions ho promulgated was one which showed
no oS no means recognized the Slate Of North
Carolinn, except Gs Stnto that Ind been in rcbcl-
lion, and was not yet brought back into tho Union
i hoI i,ns there been any recognition of them by
allowed to DO placed on its docket cases brought
iron Tom tIS TariS,is District und Circuit Courts.
Iheao Courts had, under tho laws Of tho United
States, rendered certain judgments which wcro to
be reviewed on appeal Ill the Supreme Court Of tho
United States, and nowhere bad thero arisen any
existotco not until tho State Of ATississippi mn
dortook to bring in bill in equity against high
United Is States Officers and thcEeapen tho Supreme
cation that tho Slate OF Missssippi as q Slate of
tA? Union, had no standing in tho Supreme Court
the United States 80 far from sustaining tho
and entirely opposed TO it. Tho President declares
TINT no particle OF tho land in tho Southern States
has become tho property OF tho United States
statement to 30 uhchallonged. Every foot of land
that was occuEied by tho enemy OF tho United
sescs ind Vas Iy she yaior of its soldiers ropos
tho property Of Tho United States. To say that a
ttlo by conquest pcians only to pcrsonnf proper
~ ana movoablo things is to ignore tho ontrc Inv
guerng nations to appropriate tho proprietary
tito OF tho land from motives o. public policy,
yet l think may challenge tho entire body Of
can bo found any one limo in denial of the
righmt Eight to appropriate laud thus acquired. 1
shall, therefore,, nsk tho consideration Of tho
House 70 tho fact whether or mot tho right
BY conqtest is not perfect one, to be exercised
IN our Judgment as may seom best, either in
mercy, i, elomonos, in Justice OF inrgL
thus brought before tho House these misstato,
ments OF hcts md wrong conclusions OF law I,
Tor ono, am ready TO vote that this shall boeome
law, notwithstanding tlos vetb OF tho Prcsidont
nnd then SEQ whether he will execute It, or whether
the House OF Representatives will bring him, for
his formpr violations OF the Constitution, beforo
tho 'Sonato for trial, according to the modo and
tho only mode. pointed ont by tho Constitution to
relieve the country from tho expressions OF bad
MI. Boyer iDop., Pa,) .asheds Mr.. Stevens to
How him soniutiuo md .ths lAttof consentod to
allow a. ;r him to have Ave minutes,
. Mr.. Boyer took tho floor for firo minutes.
MIR. Williams tliep., Pa.) said l,o sympatlizcl
very deeply with tho eloquent utteranccs of his
friend from Massachusetts, (Bontwoll). Tnoro wns
. nmo Wien forbearanco ceased 70 -be o virtue,
limo tho hsby o coaatr aa co aGs fs s
1.-Two Magistrate Of Tho country strodo into tho
halls a Of Congress into tho Constitutional CHAM
9er of tbs hation, and flung his mace in the way OF
defiance at tho feet of Congress-. When was this
to end What was TO Ie tho Issue T.
70; and the President Tpre divided, wio as
Jude aud importance. Was Congress in . position
9 adjourn now, with an utteranco of this sort
plased upon lis record with SOLEMN declaration
made in advance tlnt the President of tho United
states tho mI4ister 9ttho Will OF Cohgrtss, would
os onSi SfeGH.e as Sa When declared i fensilp
1an iSc r1ssidSSf, Tfi nun na
vas a REMEDY III had boon widely dIsSomi-
ahtcd thrnugl, tho country that tic charges
against the Executive Magistrate woro merely
frivolous. That opinion had fonnd ulteranco OH
both sides of Tho House. but those who hold tho
contrary orinion were prepared to show, whcn-
oyor they we're allowed 10 prove It to the House
President. II was not for him 10 say what il was;
no could not do without violation OF aontidonco
ID q mcmbcr OF tho Judiciary Commiltce; but by
Tpy OF protest ngainst declarations and fsinua-
lions OF members Oh :iB sdc Of tho House, lio
would say TINT thoro was n caso la which all that
vas to be found of tyranny in tho annals OF tho
by tho present Chicf Magistrate. Io
would Say for himsolf as lawyer brod to tho study
of tho grant principles OF government and having
made himself igmiliay with tue progrcss Of oon;
rldo beginning in tho Magma Chartn, down to its
eQnsmmmntioh in tho revolution Of 1888, TINT
thero w9s no case in tho Parliamentary history Of
England in which wero aggregated as many enor-
mites ns were 10 DO found here and ho, for 'onn,
was prepared to mako good against oil comers all
hS no., had said, whenovGr M the House would afford
sites Of tho nation required Congress to ronain'
IN sossiop. Congress Ind an issue on its hands
Which j. had to meet: Tho time lad ooms whom
That was to place in powor the effective mini :
ter Of its DEGREES man who would respect its au-
thority.
MIR. Schcnck (Rop., ohiol accepted ivo minutes'
time, and said il would suffice for what no had TO
aay, Tho Secretary OF tho Trousury, in q speech
delivered some timo ago to a mob In this CITY, Ind
of tho country as sct Of tnkcrs. ,He. .(srhonok).
had sometimes boon inclined to think that Con-
RrsSss sSsi had wasted its y timo il in tinhe5ing;
bfr. schcnck proceeded without hootiing tho re.
mark. Congress had passed one law after an
other in its effort to carry out syatom Of rostora-
tion OF the rebel States, and thoso laws had boon
rendered. nugatory, had been, In effect, .strokon
down md mado imperative by tho hostility TO
them, to Congress, and to tho. policy Of Congress
on tho part OF tho Executive. The President stood
now Rs nm obstacle in tho pathway, 'Ho (Sohonck}
had ysnid before, and now repeated, that all at
tompts by acts OF Legislation, werq almost MS
nothing iwhilo that obstacle remained, and that
though gonncnlcn might think 10 dig littlo canals
around OF to burrow under it, or to climb oyer It.
y1tRrr
70 remove the, obstacle, TO put ogtof the way and
States, WHO now stood boforo tho country and tho
world defying tho attempts OF Congress to bring
about that peaco and That restoration which, by
legislation, It was onloayoring 70 obtain, He, did
not know what proofs may have Been produced be-
ioro tho Judiciary CoWmittoe, but ho did know
TINT without lobking at tho record made in tho In
yestgnton, tbero was, sproad on tho'pnblic jour
which, the nanip OF tho President was attached,
enough OF history to satisfy him IL the Presi-
dent had assumed position OF hostility TO o CO.
ordinate branch OF tho Government, and TO tho
proper .rulo Of the country, which amounted to o
great political crime, for WHICH ho might properly
DO brought to trial, and, IL Congress was iruo TO
its duty, degraded from his Office, ~
hr. Stevens lliop., Pa.l, said; agreo precisely
with tho eloquent speech Of my aninble colleague
the President Of to United States. but say to our
friends on this side VINO arc urging that measure
Tint thoy aro urging IL in vLn THO result Of my
motion the other day clearly disclosed that, and,
without attempting to mako disclosures, I under
tko TO say TINT there arc unseen agencies ut work
-thefe arc invisible powers at work in this coun-
Try which will proyont tho impeachment OF tho