The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-04-29
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
From last evenings Virginia Trespass.

Court opened at noon. The Cnlef justice
announced the pending question to be the
admission of official reporters to the secret
session of the Court, to take the debate on
final proceedings.
Several amendments we're offered, and
rejected. The final consideration - the
subject was postponed until after the final
argument of the Managers and counsel for
the President should be concluded.
Additional rules, offered by Sumner, were
also laid over until the conclusion of the ar
suments.
Stevens then commenced his argument,
reading it from printed slips.
He began by saying he did not intend to
make long speech. He considered long
speeches a mark of presumption and igno-
rance, and would therefore pass over other
articles of impeachment and confne his re-
marks to that article which he himself had
proposed: and this, he considered, was
amply sufficient to secure conviction of the
President, even if no other charges were
preferred. When Andrew Johnson sue
ceeded to the Presidency he took a solemn
oath to support the Constitution and to see
that the laws were faithful executed. How
he has kept this oath, let his public acts for
two years past answer. He would not refer
to what he might term his minor crimes,
but would glance for moment at his last
grand and fragrant violation of those laws
which he had sworn to execute he referred
to the removal of Secretary Stanton.
The Speaker then entered into general
discussion of the Tenure of Office Act
but at this point becoming exhausted from
physical inability and weakness, was com
PEELED to cease reading-whereupo General
Butler came forward and volunteered TO read
the remainder of the argument.
Stevens thanked him, accepted his prof
fered assistance, and Bntler proceeded to
read the speech in clear tone.
He read " The iearRed counsel for the
President had contended that Mr.. johnson
upon succeeding to the Presidential Office,
had entered upon a new term. This he de-
MED in toto. He was serving but the unex-
pired term of President Lincoln. Johnson,
in defense of his past cause, had cited the
actions of his predecessors. Had there
been no law passed by Congress, then his
action would have been parallel with those
of his predecessors. Since they sat in the
White House, Congress had passed laws
making it criminal for him to remove Of
fcers without the advice and consent of
the Senate. The President has declared
that he did not remove Secretary Stanton
under the Tenure of Office law; and then
in letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
contradicted his own statement.
The speech proceeds at length to discuss
the eleventh article of impeachment, con-
Guiding with the statement " that no peace
can come to the Country until Johnson is
removed from the Presidetial chair
After Stevens speech was concluded,
Williams of Pennsylvania, the Managers,
addressed the Court.
He began by saving that this issue had
never been sought by the representatives, of
the people, but that it had been forced upon
them BY the Execetive, by long series of
bold usurpatiou of power. He said the
master-key of his johnson s) administra-
ton, was in his attempt to force rebel States
into the Union, by means Of his Executive
To accomplish this object what
has he left undone? Let your records an
swer! They will say, that instead of COM
ing to Congress in this momentous crisis
of the Country, he issued his royal procla-
nation for the assembling Of Conventions
and the reorganization Of State Govern
ments, providing for the qualifications of
voters, and settling terms Of their adnlis-
sion to the Onion. He has created Offices
unknown to law, and filled them with men
disloyal and disqualified, with .
salaries fixed at his own mere order. He
has caused to be paid those officers salaries
in cou,cInptuous disregard of law, and paid
them too out of the contingent fund de-
partment. He has supplied the expenses
Of his new Government by turning over to
it the spoiIs ofthe dead Confedracy, end has
aut lor:zod his satraps to levy takes from
people. He has passed away
millions of property to rebel
.aiIroad companies without consideration, or
'old it to them in clear violation OF law,
lpon long credits, and at a valuation of his