Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-12-05

Congress, and calculated to subvert the
government of the United States.
In that, 10 accordance with said declara-
ton, he has vetoed various bills passed by
Congress for the pacifcation and govern
ment ofthe States recently in rebellion, and
their speedy restoration to the Union, and
upon the ground and for the reason that
the said States had been restored 10 their
places in the Union by his aforsaid Illegal
and unconstitutional proceedings, thus so
interp0sing and using a constitutional pow
er of the Office he held SO as to prevent the
restoration of the Union upon constitu-
tional basis.
In that he has exercised The power of re-
movals from, and appointments to, Office,
for the purpose of maintaining efectually
his aforesaid usurpation, and for the pur-
pose of securing the recognition by Con-
gress OF the State governments, so Illegally
and unconsttutIonally set up i'm the States
recently in rebellion, such removals and
appointments having been attended and
followed with great injury to the public
service, and with enormous losses 10 the
public revenue.
In that liz the exercise Of the pardnning
power, he issued an orJlcr for the restora-
ton of 1913 men belonging to West Virgin
Ia, who, upon the records OF the War De-
partment, were marked as deserters from
the army in time of war, and this upon the
representation of private and interested
persons, aaa without the previous investi-
CATION by any officer of the War Depart
ment, for the sole pupose OF fenabling such
persons TO vote in an election then pending,
in said State, and with tb. expectation that
they would so vote as to support him in
his aforesaid unconstitutional proceedings.
He then well knew that the men so restor-
ed, and by virtue ofsuch restoration, would
be entitled TO large sum of money from
the Treasury of the United States.
In that by his message to the House of
Representatives on the 22d of June, 1865.
and other public and private means, he has
attempted to prevent the ratification of an
amendment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. proposed TO the several States
by the Houses of Congress, agreeably to
the Constitution of the United States, al
though such proposed amendment provi-
ded. among other things, for the validity
of the public debt, of the United States,
rendered the payment of any claim for
slaves emancipated, or of any debt incur
red in aid of insurrection or rebellion
against the United States impossible, either
by the Government of the United States or
by any of the States recently ip rebellion.
He we'll knowing that the provisions in
serted under and by his dictation in the
said illegal Constitutions for said States,
were wholly inadequate to prOtec; the 10y
al people of the United States against the
payment OF claims on account Of debts in
CURED by such States in aid of rebellion.
thus rendering il practicable and easy for
those in authority in the aforesaid illegal
and unconstitutional Governments thus
set up. TO tax and oppress the loyal people
of such States for the benefit of those who
have been gagged in the attempt to over
throw the Government of the United
States. In Oh. he has made official and
other public declarations and statements
calculated and designed to injure and
impair the credit oil the United States; to
encourage persons recently engaged in re-
bellion agaidst its authority; to Obstruct
and resist the reorganization of the Rebel
States, so called, upon Republican basis
and calculated and designed also TO de-
prive the Congress of the United States of
the confidence Of The people as well in its
patriotism as in its constitutional right to
exist and TO act as the department of the
Government, which, under the ConSitu-
ton, possesses exclusive legislative powers,
and all this with the intent of rendering
Congress incapable of resisting either his
said usurpations of power, or of providing
and enforcing measures necessary for the
pacifcation and restoration of the Union,
and that in all this he has exercised the We
to power, the power of removal and ap-
p0lniment, the pardOning power, and other
constitutional powers of his office, for the
purpose of delaying, hindering, obstructing,
and preventing the restoration of the I'm
ion by Constitutional means: and for the
further purpose of alternating from the
government and laws of the States those
persons who had been engaged iE the Re-
bellion, and who, without aid, comfort and
encouragement, thus by him given to them,
would have resumed in good faith their al
iegiance to the Constitution, ard all with
the expectation of conciliating them to
himself personally, that he might thereby
finally prevent the restoration of the
Union upon the basis of the laws passed by
Congress, and further, that the said An
drew Johnson, President of the United
States, transferred and surrendered, and
authorized and directed the transfer and
surrender ofrailway property of the value
of many millici.s Of dollars to persons who
had been engaged in the Rebellion, or to
corporations owned wholly or in part by
such persons, he well knowing thatin some
instances the railways had been construct
ed by the United States; that ON others such
railways had been constructed by the Uni
ted States; that in others such railways
and railway property had been captured
from the enemy in war and afterward re-
paired at great cost by the United States,
such transfer and surrender being made
without authority of law aud In violation
of law. In that he directed and authoriz-
ed the sale of large quantities of railway
rolling stock, and other railway property,
OF the value of many millions of dollars,
the property of the United States by pur-
chase and construction, TO corporations
and parties then known to him to be una
bic 10 pay their debts, then matured and
due; and this without exacting from said
corporations and parties any securities
whatever. In that he directed and order
ed subordinate officers of the Government
to pespone and delay the collection of
moneys due and payable TO the United
States on account of such sales. In appar-
ent conformity to an order previously made
by him, that the interest upon certain
bonds issued or guaranteed by the State of
Tennessee in aid of certain railways then
due and unpaid for period of four years
and more, should be first paid out of the
earnings of the roads in whose behalf said
bonds were so issued or guaranteed, in
that in conformity TO such order and di-
rection, the collection of moneys payable,
and then due to the United States. was de-
layed and postponed, and the interest on
such bonds, of which he himself was a
large holder, was paid according to the
terms of his own order, thus corruptly
using his Office to defrausl and wrong the
people of the United States, and for his
own personal advantage; in that he has
not only restored to claimants thereof
large amounts Of cotton and other aban-
doned property, that had been seized and
taken by the agents of the Treasury, in
conformity to law, but has paid and direct
cd the payment of the actual proceeds OF
sales made thereof and this in violatior