The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-12-19

CONSTITUTION, Is vested exclusively
the Congress of the United States.
All Of which acts was a usurpatio
Of power, contrary to the laws an
Constitution Of the United States, ant
in violation of his oath of Office, a
President of the United States.
1 In that the said Andrew Johnson
/ President of the United States, has, il
messages to Congress, and otherwise
| publicly denied substantially the righ
OF Congress to provide for the pacih
cation, government and restoration O
said States to the Union, and in Iikr
manner, he has asserted his exclusiv,
right to provide governments therefor
and to accept and proclaim the restUr
alton Of said States to the Union, al
Of which is in derOgatiOn of the right
ful authority of Congress, and calcula-
ted to subvert the Government of the
United States.
In that in accordance with saiC
declaration, he has vetoed variou.
bills passed by Congress for the pacif
cation and government of the State.
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 to thpil
places in the Union by the aforesaid
illegal and uncOnstitutiOnaluse of the
power of the Office he held, so as tC
prevent therestoration of the Union
upon constitutional basis.
In that he has exercised the power
of removal from, and appoint.
ment to Office, for the purpose OF
maintaining effectualIy his aforesaid
usurpatiOn, and for the purpose of Sc
curing the recognition by Congress Oi
the State Governments, so illegally
and uncOnstitutionally set up in the
States so recently in rebellion, such
removals and appointments having
been attended and followed with
great injury to the public service, and
with enormous losses to the public
revenue.
In that in the exercise of the par
dOning power, he issued an order for
the restoration of one hundred and
ninety-three men belonging to West
Virginia, who, upon the records of
the War Department, were marked as
deserters from the army in time of
war; and this upon the representation
Ofprivate and interested persons, and
without the previous investigation by
any officer of the War Department,
for the sole purpose of enabling such
persons to vote in an election then
pending in said State, and with the
expectation that they would so vote
as to support him in his aforesaid un-
constitutional proceedings. He then
well knowing that the men so restOr-
ed, andby virtue Ofsuch restoration,
would be entitled to Il large sum of
money from the Treasury of the
United States.
In that by the message tot he House
of Representatives on the 22d of June,
1868, and other public and private
means, he has attempted to prevent
the ratification of an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States,
proposed to the several States by the
Houses of Congress, agreeably to the
Constitution Of the United States, al
though such proposed amendment
provided, among other things, for the
validity of the public debt of the
United States, rendered the payment
of any claim for slaves emIncipated,
or of any debt incurred in aid of in
surrectiOn or rebellion against the
United States, impossible, either by the
Government of the United States, or
by any of the States recently in re-
belliOn. He well knowing that the
provisions inserted under and by his
dictatiOn in the said illegal cOnstitu-
tons for said States, we e wholly in
adequate to protect the loyal people of
the United States against the payment
of claims, OH account of debts incurred
by such States in aid of rebellion,
thus rendering it practicable and
easy for those in authority in the
illegal and unconstitutional
Governments thus set up, to tax and
Oppress the loyal people Ofsuch States
for the benefit of those who have
been engaged in the attempt to over
throw the Government of the United
States.
In that he has made official and
other public declarations and state
nPnts calculated and designed to in
ure and impair the credit Of the
United States to encourage persons /
engaged in rebellion against
It's authority to ObstruCt and resist
he reorganization of the rebel States,
30. called, upon a Republican basis
md calculated and designed, also, to
deprive the Congress of the United |
States Of the confidence of the people. |
Is well in its patriotism, rs in its con-
right to exist and to act as
he department of the Government, |
which, under the Constitution, posses
3es exclusive legislative powers, and |
Ill this with the intent Of rendering |
Congress incapable of resisting either J
MS said UsurpatiOns Of power, or OF !
and enforcing measures
necessary for the pacihcatjOn and re |
itOtatiOn Of the Union, and that in all |
his, ne has exercised the veto power, |
he power of removal and appoint |
nent, the pardOning power, and other
constitutional powers of his Office,
or the purpose of delaying, hinder |
ng, Obstructing and preventing the !
of the Union, by cOnstitu-
iOnaI means and for the further
purpose of alternating from the Gov
.rnment and laws Of the States, those
,ersOns who had been engaged in The
ebelliOn, and who, without aid, com
Ort and encouragement, thus by him
,iven to them, would have resumed in
.OOd faith their allegiance to the Con-
titutiOn, and all with the expe ta-
ion of conciliating them to himsel
ersOnally, that he might thereby |
nally prevent the restoration of the
JniOn upon the basis of the laws pass
d by Congress.
And further, in that the said An
rev Johnson, President Ofthe United
tates, transferred and surrendered, L