The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-02-13
Bingham AgnIn-The E'SIeep and
SlumbeF'' Question.


bingham AgaIn-The EsSIeep ana
Slumber" Question.
We publish below portion of colloquy
which occurred in the House of Represen-
iaiiyes on the 2Sth ult., concerning mo
ton to refer the impeachment resolutions Of
Mr.. Loan Of Missouri to tao judiciary
Committee 1t Will be rhscr- ed that Birg
ham is sorry for the r.sh declaration wbicE
he made at =. Cairsvilc, anu wishes t,
deny eyer having made the utserance at
tribr.ed to him. 1t is true, as he saws
| mat he made the same denial of the charc,
Oh the Thursday eve ing previous to tn,
election, to public a sembly in the NJ. L
Church at Cadiz. But the point we make
is, at,he Belmont Chronicle of st. Clairs
Vile, whose editor heard Bingham's speech
at that place, has never even animated that
the charge was not true, neither has anl
person, Of any party, who heard the speech
ven,ured denial. The certificates phict
| Mr.. L4eBlond cites are from the best Of men
and to our mind, is canclu i've.
But We are glad to hOte that Mr. Bing.
ham is sorry for the utterance 1t is anoth-
sr good step in the reform which we noted
last week Any decent man should be
ashamed that he ever uttered Il word about
impcaching MIR. johnson. We yet hope
to see Bingham cut entirely loose from the
crazy Radicals and move. for the Immediate
and unconditional admission Of the SOUTH
crn Representatives, Anything short OF
this is compromising with yilliany. =
Read:
Mr.. LIZ BLOND. If | understand the
propo.tion that is now pending | certainly
am in favor of the motion made by the gen
tleman from Missouri, to refer this whole
subject to select committee that viii give
it immediate and prompt attention From
what has been said by members of the Ju-
dietary Committee they have already upon
their hands an amount 0f business greater
than they are able to dispose Of during this
81 6slon. am in favor OF select commit
tee for several reasons; one is tho fact that
certain members have been char ing, both
here an elsewhere, that the Exc utive OF
the United States has been guilty of usur-
patton OF power. Some has even gone so
lar as to say-at all events one of my col
leagues said during the late electIo. cam
paign that he would neither give sleep to
his eyes nor slumner to his eyclids until ar
ticles of inpcachmert were preferred
against the President Of the United States.
Now, sir, we have heard enough Of this.
Mr. BINGHAM | would like to know to
whom the gentleman refers?
Mr., lie BT oND. Why sir, from the pub
lie press understand the gentleman him
self 50 said
Mr.. BINGuAM. | am glad to have an
opportunity in this place to correct what the
public piess has done. The gentleman
might with equal propriety say that the
public press had announced that | was en-
gagged in drawing up an article of inpeach-
mcnt charging the President with com
plicity in the assassination of Abraham Lin
coin, than which nothing was ever publish
ed in the public press OF America further
from the truth.
Now, sir, in regard to the other state
ment, | beg leave to say that the public
press played off the same trick upon me
that certain man did unce in Scotland up
on man who had gone before him, by
stealing his thunder and using it for his
OWE benefit. There was no art of the
sncech attributed to me as recited by the
gentleman which was in fact made nv me
except the words which are familiar to MS
all, If the peonle shall vote down the
President and condemn him in the cominG
elections. Il will give neither sIecn 10 nv
eyes nor slumber to NV cyeljds mil I move
the impcacbment Of the President # he
officially declare what he has unoficiallv
proclaimed. that the Thirtv-ninth CONGRESS-
IS an Illegal boly, assuming to he the Uon-
gress hanging on the verge of the Govern.
ment." These words we're uttered in view
of the Published and unofficial language Of
the President. that ''the BODY Of men who
lcgiylate in the Congress of the United
States since the oocE:.3 of the Thirty, iuth
Congress was not the CONGRESS of the TTnif.
cd States, but was IN assumed Conrress
HANGING unon the verge of tha GoScrn.
mcnt.T did sav thrn, and 7 rcroot now
that if the President of the IIn;ted Statt4,
should officially and in anv frnlal mannn,
inter what be- said unnt4ic;sllv as as rnnorted
in the nress Of an iIIcga| Tonrtnss &c
such official utterance would be an i,uneach.
able often G, and that | would make a mo
tion IN imne.cb him. onJ / oJJol ,Lon. IL n,
no represcntatiye Of the pcople world vote
against such imneachment after tbe ncon}e's
public and swift oondemnoticn If the Pres.
ident's gross BETRAYAL of their interests,
Mr. LIZ BLOND, NV colleague insists un
on taking up my time. / referred to thi;
matter net only from what appeared in the
public press. but | have here, and will bayf
read at the CLERKS desk, statement m # O Of n n,er
who we're present and heard the gentleman,
speech. If the Clerk will read il [ will
then make a few additional remarks.
The { lprk read as follows:
ST. CLAIRsvILLE, Chic Dec, |. 1865
This i, to certify that Hon. .John A
Bingham, in a speech made in the court
bousp in s. Cla;revilia Ubio !, H. ~