The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-07-27
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july f9.---Insthe House he.rcading of the.
yeto z EgeT1sIgg h'ying Refg googf'Taea .9e
dent would be entered at length on the journal.
sinicomnliance with the Copstitutiop,psr8 eds /
sMres Stevens .GRep's Pas9 9cross and said chat
he was disposed toshavetheo yotapnsthelquesI
stion at once.uasd ssd:. ab;tq n7odtEca y,,s bes
o1pt [ ,q'4ffH zR sp,s3sya sd i*tar, ,,s 5 OH
Mr. Boutwell, lRep,t tMass0 asked, Mt ,stex-
chs to, yield the floor to him. ueMr.4iSteyens
complied and Mr.4i Boutwell, addressed; ,thc
House, closing as follows ;1oua kaito4ao gai2cl
Is .!aOuro oduty as eiseprcaenta history oanda an
ccstryt dgtyw ass we, contamplht the
demands, which sposteritys will make eas, i'm
smy Judgment iss1herea til sinyestiga fair
ly,ffally,, faithfully aandu,,withoutuc delay!
the charges that are made against the,
Exccutiye, Of the country, and if founded, toI
srraigp him deliberately, but promptly, prose
cuto; the trial according TO the forms Of pro-
ccedipg, and if but ono day his constitutional
term BE- shortened by the Judgment lof tc
Senate, liberty will BE- preserved p and Il The
country through i coming ages and mankind ~ kin
through centuries, win bless that people, and
the representatives of that people, who had the
courage, as they merged from great war, to
demand justice, to preserve the Constitution, I'd
protect liberty, and to transmit popular rights
to other nations C.-..,.,
N Mr. Randall ttlfah lDen,, Pa.l, would, like .lthe
ncefto moesx mNex y,lei mpoachers before the peo
pic H.c snonld like to meet them face It'd
face, right in the encnly's camp.aHe asserted
that they did not mean to inpeach, tho Presi7
dent; they. did not dare to doit.ssDW hnt had
the President :donc''tha .hc should ,,bes i'm I.
pchched Had he not becn honcstaf faithfiil,
diligentand corrcct!ins evcry; particular? ,sIiet
them, then, if thcy5darc, -nttempt to impeach
the President. a5 gt.ai .Uo4dj bas .a,ur5(
sSit* r - i*sUr *ss',.g* s72*aW
Mr.iButler Rep., Mass. )-Iradmit that the
gentleman from 1'cnnsylvania (NIr.' RandalD
uttered one truth III his srcm,arks, and that was,
that we dare not do our, duty here in that re-
spcct. With shame and confusion of t;,cc, /,
for ono, bow to the truth of that remark. And
the question is: How, soon will VIC bcircady, to
do our duty? M .. sea- a7,.if lis,4
The President declares that no particle of
thesland in the Southern States has becoule the
property of the United States BY conquest. /
cannot Tor an instant, allow that statement to
80 unchallcngcd. Livery foot of land that was
occupied BY the. enemy Of the United States,
and was by the yalor of its soldiers, reposscssed
by the United States became thereupon the
property of the United Statcs.sgT To say that
title by conquest pertains only TO personal
property and moveable things, is to ignore the
entirc law of nations !. for while it has not been
usual in conqnering nations to appropriate the
proprietary title of the land from motiycs of
public policy, yet IT think 7 may challenge the
entire body of writers of the rights of war,
and ask if there can be found any one line in
denial Of the right to appropriate land thus nc
quircd. / shall, therefore, ask the considcra-
tion of the House to the. fact whether. or not
the right by conquest is not n perfect one, to be
exercised in our judgment, as may seem best,
either in mercy, in clcmcncy, in justice, or in
Ata"S Aoe'SAJ GO ~ pA'f'SO--0uu Hot 'OtHcI-
WISE Having thus brought before the House
these misstatemcnts of facts and wrong conclu-
sions Of law, ], for one nm ready to vote that
this shall become law, notwithstanding the
veto Of the President, and then see whether he
will execute it, or whether the. House of Rep
resen.stivcs will bring him, for his former; yio-
lations OF the Constitution, before the Senate
for trial, according to the mode, and the only
mode, pointed out by the Constitution to ro-
lieye the country from the expressions Of a bad
ruler. .1 A ns
Mr. Boyer Dem Pa) took the floor for Eve
minutes h
Mr.. Williams Crop, Pa.) said no sympa-
thized very deeply with tho eloquent utterances
of his friend from Massachusetts (BoutwellJ
There was time when forbcarance ceased to
be virtue, and he thought that time lad come
For tho first time in the history Of tho country
the Chief Executive Magistrate of tho country
strodo into the halls of Congress, into the Con-
stitutional Chamber of the nation, and flung
his mace in the way of defiance at the feet of
Congress. Wien was this controversy to end