The Van Buren press., 1868-04-10
stirrinp speech Of Senator Doolittle,

semblage at Hartford, Conn. on the eve'
ming of the llth ul,,, for two hours AT
the close he "arrsigned and impeached
Congress" as follows;
In conclusion, fellow citizens, while the
impeachment OF President johnson closes
my mouth upon the subject OIL lmpeseh'
ment, while delicscy and duty forbid me to
speak upon that. my mouth is not closed 4,
and no considerations of duty and delicscy
will prevent me from speaking OF another
Impeachment and before tribunal more
august than the Senate.
In the name OF Constitutional liberty IN
the name Of our great ancestors, who iald
the foundations OF this Government to Sc
cure the liberty for themselves and for us
in the name Of all who love that liberty,
who are ready to struggle, and. if need be,
die rather than allow il to be overthrown, in
the name OF the coming generations and OF
that race to which we belong, and which
has given to the world all its civilization.
do arraign and impcach the Radical policy
of the present Congress OF high crimes and
misdemeanors.
At the bar Of the American people, in
the presence of high heaven and before the
civilized world, impeach it ; first, as a
crime against the laws Of nature. which
God, the Almighty, has stamped upon the
races of mankind, because it attempts to
force political and social, and unnatural
equality between the Artisan and CarcaS,
ian, between an alien, inferior, and exotic
race from the tropics, with the highest type
of the human race in the home OF the latter
in its temperate zone.
Second, impeach it as crime against
civilization, because 1t would by force
wrench the Government out OF the hands
of the civilized white race in ten States of
the Union to place it in the hands of the
haIi-civilized African.
Third, ! impeach It as crime against
the Constitution. because it tramples down
the rights of the States to fix Tor themselves
the qualification of their own voters, a right
without which State ceases to be repub.
! lican at all.
Fourth, impeach it as crime against
the Constitution and against National faith,
because it annuls the pardons, Constitu-
tionally granted, to hundreds of thousands
of the most intelligent white men of the
South, and in open, palpable violation Of
the Constitution dislranch ses them.
Fifth, | jmpeach it as a crime against
the existence OF ten States Of the Union
and the liberties of eight millions OF peo-
pie, because in express terms it annuls ali
civil Government by which alone those lib.
critics may be secured, and places them un.
der an absolute military despotiSm.
Sixth, impeach it as a crime against
humanito, tending to produce war OF
races, to the utter destruction of one OF
both, a result which cannot be prevented
without q largo standing army, which
neither our resources will bear, or our Ii
abilities long survive.
Seventh, Impeach it as an utter aban-
donment OF the purpose for which the wal
was prosecuted, of the idea upon which we
fought and mastered rebellion. 1t tends tc
make false all the promises and pledges
made by the friends Of the Government in
its fearful struggle to put down the rebel
| lion, and it tends to make true all the
prophecies and iorebodings Of its enemies
The friends of the Constitution and Of that
liberty it was designed to secure while they
bravey held their own and made large
gains, have won a complete victory.
Perhaps complete triumph in New
Hampshire now would have allowed the
people of other States to imagine the great
victory already won to be less wise and
less prudent, and to underrate the tremend-
Gus struggle necessary to meet and over
come the RadicaliSm which, in the name of
great and successful General, now threat
ems to destroy the Constitution, the most
sacred rights Of the States under it, and
the liberties of the people by revolution
in favor of Capitalization and imperialism
more insidious but not less dangerous than
successful itself. Yesterday, although
they were centered upon the friends of con-
stitutional liberty in New Hampshire, they
stood noblv when blows fe! fastest and
thickest, they advanced, they gained, but
not all that was hoped,
| To-day all eyes are turned upon Con,
necticut with equal eXcrtions your major
ity of last year will be more than treble,
and then if our Convention, in New York,
on the 4th of July next, will select our
standard bearers. and placing them upon
the issues ofthe present and not Of the past,
and whoever they be, civilians or military
men, statesmen or generals, from the East
or from the West, if they do not place us
upon the defensive, but give the word to
advance upou the whole line from Maine to
California, we must be victorious in the
great struggle in November, unless truth
and justice and the love Of true liberty have
ceased to rule the hearts and consciences Of
the American people.
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