American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-12-04
SMisrtllaneous.
IMPEACHMENT REPORTS.


nv Western Associated Press.
sYNoPsIsIs OF THE MAJORITY REPORT
The charges made, and to which the
Investigations of tho COMMITTEES have
been especially directed, are usurpauon
of power and violation OF law in the cor
rupt abuse of the appointing, parionlnS
and veto powers, in the corrupt interier-
epce in elections, and generally IN the
commission Of acts amounting to high
crimes and misdemeanors under the Con
stitution aud upon this rectal II "as
CHARGED with the most general duty OF
inouirinp into the official cohduct OF the
President Of the United States, ami OF
reporting vhethcr he had been guilty OF
any acts which were designed or calculae
ted to overthrow, subvert or corrupt the
Government of the United States, or
which, in the contemplation OF the on
stitution, would constitute high crime
or misdemeanor, requiring the interposIN
ton of the constitutional power OF the
House
1t will be observed that the great SAL
iout point of the accusation, standing out
in the foreground and challenging the at,
tsutiou Of the country, Is usurpntIon OF
mower, which involves Of course a 'loIa-
tlon OF l.H, aud here it may be remark cd
that perhaps every great abuse, every ma
grant depaitue from the well settlen pr'n'
cioIea Of Government which has been
brought home to its present adminlsira-
sion, whether discovering itself IN special
infractions of the statutes or IN the proi.
Igate use Of the high powers conferred
by the Constitution on the President, or
revealing itself more manlestIy IN the
.yssematic attempt to seize upon Its SOW
eraignty an disparage and supersede the
great councl, to which that s)vsrei gnty
has been entrusted IN ye'crence to the
ans rrraf pu,p,se Of rec"nst. ucilon "l
she sh,t;e.ei Cove HnICa,s n the rehcJ
Sta.es in acnortauce wttG his own Wlshe'
~ the interest oi the great criminals who
carried them ipto the rebellion, and 10
sush a way as to deprive the people oI
,ba lov.I SITES &C. all chances of lndem
p;tv for the past ami security Tor the III
ture, by parloniug their officers anu re-
storing their :ands aai bringing then
back to their hearths unrepentant, anI
their hands yet red with the blood OF on
neonle, INFO A condition where they couI'
once more embarrass and defy, 1t not ao
solutc,y rule, the Government which the!
had yaiulv epdeavored to destroy.
1t is around this and as auxiliary t
that great special idea, that the spec'a
acts of nal administration we have VIII
messed will be found to gravitate and re
yoiye. and it is to this point, therefore
N, the great master key which unlock
apd interprets all of them, that the at
tentiop of the House will be first directed
The report then goes into a recital
events since the Inauguration OF efes'
dent J johnson, and concludes a. follows
In accordance with the testimony here
with submitted, and the view Of the ia'
herein presented, the committee are q
opinion that Andrew johnson, Presiden
of the United States, is guilty ot hig
crimes and misdemeanors, requiring tn
iuterposition of the constitutional power
of this House, is that upon the hnal SUI
reaSsr of the rebel armies and the ovel
throw of the rebel government, the SAL
Andrew johnson, President OF the Un
led States, neglected to convene the Coz
gress of the United States, that by II
aid and authority legal aud constitution
measures might have been adopted il
the organization Of loyal aud constitution
al governments in tho States there f.
cently in rebellion, and that in his pro-
lamaiion to the people of North Carollt
of the Goth day of May, 1860, he a'
sumed that he had authority to deci'
whether the government OF North Car
lima and whether any other Govenme
that might be set up therein was repu
lican in form, aud that in his oth1e
President it was his duty and within h
power to guarantee to said people a
publican form of government, contra
TO the Constitution, which provides tr
the United States shall guarantee to e'
cry State in this Union republics
form of government; contrary also to
deliberate opinion of the Supreme Cou
which declares that Congress is vest
exclusively with the power to decl
whether tho government of State Is
publiosp or net; in that he did sher'