The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-27

> never was contemplated that he should
|, be impeached for mere political offens
es. The President of the United
States is the representative Of of the
majesty of thirty millions ofpeople, and
the people held him responsible for
his political misdemeanors and offens
es, and | say that ifhe had been guilty
Of all of the eleven articles charged
against him, and they had been prov.
on, yet that was not a crime and mis-.
demeanor within the meaning of the
Constitution. Cheers. lmpeach the
President, for what2 For trying to get
rid of a Cabinet Minister, with whom
he could have no personal intercourse,
and who was his personal enemy
1.-THE speaker here repeated his Ope-
ra-house speech, in some details, refer
ring to the removal of Stanton, and
that the impeachment was founded up
on that which, he urged, was uncon.
s%titutional, and he continued
/ believe, and posterity will so record
its verdict, that this was q bold, bad
scheme to rid ourselves of an unpop-
ular President, and get o man in pow
eT who would control the influence and
patronage of the Government, and
thus secur triumph at the next nation
al election.
Believing that, I dare say it now, and
you may put il OF record to be read
hereafter.
Again, my countrymcn, ] have been
censured by some Of my friends, whose
opinions l greatly regard, for voting
against Bingham reconstruction bill,
! did vote against it, and | will tell you
why. That bill provided for putting
the entire lives and property of the
people in the ten rebel States INTO the
hands of the general of the army, to do
with them as he saw fit, without let or
hindrance, lie was authorized by that
bill to appoint all officers, civil and mil.
itary, and remove them at his pleas
ure. That bill provides. also, that il
any person shall interfere with the
General of the army in his government
of the ten rebel States, or even If the
President of the United States shall do
il, he shall be liable to n fine of So, 900,
and imprisonment in the ~penitentiary
"A power that no despot on earth ever
did exercise in the world. Just think
Of that. Why, General Grant, under
that bill, could have gone down South,
and IL he had a mind to but of course
/ 4 " = bNAAtNt it NOhAu utNs uOnt IL
and the President could not have in
terfered with him he could have hung
the men and butchered the women and
children.
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Again. l am charged with voting
against the Omnibus Bill for the
admission OF tho Southern States.
l did vote against 1t, and l nm
proud of that vote; aud l will give
you my That bill propos-
cd to admit the Southern States up
on this fundamental condition that
no one in any Of those States would
ever have the right to alter or
amend the State constr tuition, SO rs
to prevent any Of those ctizons from
exercising the right Of suffrage.
Now, | believe that suffrage be-
longs to the people of each State.
l told Mr.. Ashley, of Ohio, and
some of my friends there, that when
, was prepared to force negro suf-
fragc upon OHIO, / was prepared to
force it upon other States. lie said
tina. that was iair and right; but,
SAID he, / am in favor of forcing II
on all the States. Arkansas and
Alabama we're among those States,
They were to be admitted npon that
fundamental condition.
Now Senator Morton, one Of the
giants Of the Senate, one OF the great
men Of the country, q man who, all
through tho war, wrote Il record
that will DO tho admiration Of pos
terity, one of the noblest aud great.
est and trIest men of this country.
made u speech III the United States
Senate against this principle, and
declared it 20 be unconstitutional.
lie made an unanswcrable argument
against it, yet it passed both branch
es OF Congress and went to the Pres
Ident and tho President vetoed 1t,
giving substantially the same rea.
suns that Governor Morton had.
When it came back to the Senate,
Governor Morton voted tor il. |
asked Governor Morton personally
why he did so. Why, said he, it IL
a party measure, of course, but it is
unconstitutional and therefore void,
and don't amount TO any thing for
tho reason that IL is %unc0nstltuti on
al and VOID.
Mr.. Cary elaborated this point
and then said
l am not speaking against negro
suffrage. voted tor it last tall. l
am not speaking against u, but | am
speaking against its being forced
upon any State.
Another thing | was accused Of
lodging, and that was II bill to
strike the word white out OF the
laws and ordinances of tho District
of Columbia. But l was green then
and WAS, at tho time, in the Jocu-
mont room. If l had boon in the
House | should have voted against
II.
Now you know my viows IN re-
gard to this subject. You knew
them last fall, and / have no: chan
ged them. On all OF these ques-
lions l have voted, not according to
party dictatiOn, for | say 70 you
here now hat I have attended no
party caucus or any party slnco |
have been q member Of Congress.
| have been chcered and encouraged
by letters from woIkingmen all
over tho country. | had resolutions
approving my course. There arc
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