The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-05-09


lsntler. took tho floor and accuscl Brooks
fss'i a|ss asyf,I S''5s tIsSs @ aSiE;
in tllis Hog,lSr he ia not call him BytlerJss
gold robbtE; rcplicl, |, YES; y s,aal 4
81 II e a95l ~.
New ~ prk4is CrinliDntioR and Ipatipil
fSSllo@cd. The Speaker called; Brooks to or,lCrs
Brooks did NOT kAow,s&hyl thu, Spcakerllad
hot Eallcl tBntlcr.. to. order !. .Brooks did not
SlSnoW shoY ,lc- was to get. satislhctioi He
could not get it personally froji, 4 na nmn ike
;B}aEtlcr,, ;} who had been Whirpeda ut his home in
iAlasfaehasct!s. by d bricklaycr. tor. insulting
the hricklaycr's wife. The resolutions were
tabled, 20 to 20b'y 4.n,,s.g,g.,S 4 q
During the dcbuto lsdrilsc called Logan
sno gentleman, und Logan, called Eldridgc
u "blackguard." Adjourned. 5i'' 'ss
Eyarts. closed ut 3 o'clock. After recess
st;,Ibety commenced BY saying that although
be was feeble in health; an irresistible impulse
urged him on unseen, but friendly hands
sustained him, and voices, inaudblc to others,
hc, heard whispering Of hope and confidence.
and styling or seeming, to si,y, ''Fecblc cham,
pion Of the fight, hold'not back Remember,
the race is not always to the swift, nor the but
tie to tho strong. Remember, II single pebble
from a bronkr WIS enough to overthrow the
giant th:tt dcfcd the armies of Israel" The
court adjourned "sH
MAY 1.-Stanbcry concluded as follows
"But it., Senators, ,ls, l cannot believe, but it
has ebechk boldly said With almost official,
sanction, your votes have been convasscd and
Then let not that judgment be pronounced in
this Senate Chanber-just here where our
CamillnS, in the hour of our greatest peril, !,
sinslc-han,lud, met and bafilcti the enemies OF
the Republic. Not here when lie stood faithful
among the f;iithlcss /; not here where hc fought
tho good fight for the Union and the constt,,-
to,, not in this Chamber whose walls echoed
with that clarion voice, that, in the dnys Of
our greatest danger, Carried hope and comfort
to mnnya dcsponding heart. strong as army
with banners. No.not here. Seek out rather.
the darkest and wloolnirst chamber in the
subtcrrancan rcctsscs of the Capitol, where
the cheerful light Of day never enters. There
erect tho altar and innola.c the victim
MAY I'm tl,r court to-day Mr.. bingham
disayowcd partisan prcjudccs; said he was
there as the representative of the people. lie
applied the term hired frequently to the i'rcsi-
dents counsel. Said Evarts' speech had
more Latin than law morc rhetoric than logic;
more intellectual ryrotcchnics than either
He argued that Tie Pcsilent had no right to
construc laws, and that the Supreme Court
had 10 psshlc jurisdiction in the case lie
narrated Lincpln's assassination, and incidents
from fugitive slave law. operation. lie said
"l'hc gentleman who opened the case cainc,l
that The President may ijudicaly construc the
constitution for himself, and may judicially
determine. whether ycur laws are passed under
the constitution, and whether he shall execute
them" B. repeated this. that it might he
buried into the hcarts of the Senators The
llshness Andrew johnson, first king of the
United Stntcs. IF the President can do this
is insisted upon by his advocates, lie Mr.
b., Insisted that the constitution which we
had been taught To revere. as tho buwnrk of
our liberties, is constitution ct aii,rchy-a
constitution which invites violation Of tile law
not obedience to it,. And he insisted further,
TINT if Senators by their judgment should
conntcnancc this plea, they would be the
architects Of their coiintry's ruin-thcy would
give over this land to endless chaos and
anarchy. No matter what dcnagogucs may
say about it out Of this chamber, the issue is
anarchy iii this land, and the recording angel
of history is ready to,tracc j., That is Ill of
it. 1t is the head and front OF Andrew John
sons, offending that he has assumed to himself
the prerpgatlyr Of interpreting the constitution
and deciding upon the laws for himself. In
spite OF all the lawyers tricks, in spite OF ali
the tcchnicalitics, this was it, IfWit I'LL
respect to- Senators, and to tic able counsel
after tho weeks and weeks Of discussion on
this c;se, it there is ono man who does not
understand this simple proposition, then God,
i'll lis infinite wisdom, has denied him reason
MAY 5.-Bingham argued that evil intent
WIS not necessary to conviction. The counscl's
,ruumnut m, tl,e ,r.,, ,,,,,.;l, 80, 49,.