Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-18
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IN COnneCIlCub, tOclioUh 3DooiiCciO az
dressed an immense audience in Hart
ford, and Of that speech the following
closing portion is copied from a late
Hartford paper. Senator Dooittle saids
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, while
the impeachment Of President johnson
closes my mouth upon the subject OF
his impeachment, while delicacy and
duty forbid me, to speak upon that. my
mouth is not closed, and no considera-
tions of duty or delicacy will prevent
me from speaking Of another impeach.
ment, anibefore a tribunal more august
than the Senate. In the name OF con-
stitutional liberty, in the name OF our
great ancestors who laid the foundations
of this Government to secure liberty
for themselves and for us, in the name
of all who love that liberty, who are
ready to struggle and if need be to die,
rather than allow it 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
it's civilizations, | do arraign and inn
peach the Radical policy Of the present
Congress of high crimes and misde-
meanors. At the bar of the American
people, in the presence of High Heaven
and before the civilized world, Iimpeach
it, first, as crime against the laws of
nature which God the Almighty has
stamped upon the races of mankind, be-
cause it attempts to force political
and social and unnatural equality be-
tween the African and the Caucasian,
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 thetemperate zone. Second,
impeach it as a crime against civiliza-
ton, because it would by force wrench
the Government out of the hands of the
civilized white race in ten States OF
this Union, to place it III the hands OF
the halfcivilized African Third, inn
peach it as crime against the Consti-
tuition, because it tramples down the
rights of the States to fix for themselves
the qualifications of their own voters
4 right without which State ceases to
be republican at all. Fourth, l impeach
it as crime against the Constitution
and against national faith, because it
annuls the pardons constitutionally
granted to hundreds of thousands OF the
most intelligent white men of the South,
and in open palpable violation of the
Constitution DISTINGUISHES them. Fifth,
| impeach it as crime against the ex-
istence of ten States of the Union and
the liberties of eight millions of people,
because in express terms it annuls all
civil government by which alone those
liberties may be secured, and places
them under an absolute military despot.
ism. Sixth, / impeach it as crime
against humanity, tending to produce
a war of races. to the utter destruction
of one or both, result which cannot be
prevented except by a large standing
army, which neither our resources will
bear nor eur liabilities Long survive.
Seventh, I impeach it as an utter aban-
donment of the purpose for which the
war was prosecuted, Of the idea upon
which we fought and mastered re-
bellion. 1t tends to make false all the
promises and pledges made by the
friends of the Government in it's fearful
struggle to put down the rebellion, and
it tends to make true all the prophecies
and forebodings Of its enemies The
great struggle in New Hampshire has
been upon the advanced Lines. The
friends Of the Constitution and Of that
liberty it was designed to secure, while
they bravely held their own, and made
large gains, have won complete vic
tory. Perhaps complete triumph IN
New Hampshire now would have al
lowed the people Of other States to. ina
CINE the great victory already won to
he less wise and less prudent, and tc
nnderrate the tremendous struggle nc
ccssary to meet and overcome the Rad
icalism which, In the name of great
and successful General, now threatens
to destroy the Constitution, the most
sacred rights Of the States under it, and
the liberties Of tho. people, By asevola
ton in favor Of Capitalization and i'm.
pcrialism, more insidious, bat not less
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