Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-24
Speech Of Senator Doollttle ca Imneaeh-
Mens.


HARTFORD, March II, 1868.
Senator Doolitte addressed q vast assemblage
here this evening for two hours. At the close,
he ''arraigned and impeached Congress as fol-
lows
SIN conclusion fellow citizens, while the i'm
parchment Of President johnson closes my
mouth on the subject of his impeachment, while
deGcacy and duty forbid me to speak upon that,
my mouth is not closed gnl. 20 considerations of
duty or dalicacS will prevent me from speaking
of another impeachment and before a tribunal
more august than the Senate 10 the name OF
constitutional liberty, in the name OF our great
ancestors who laid the foundations of this Gov
ernment to secure the liberty for themselves and
for US, in the name of all who love that liberty,
who are ready to struggle and to die rather than
allow it to be overthrown, in the name OF the
coming generations and that race to which we
belong and which has gwen 10 the world all Its
civiligarioa, 90 aTaign and impeach the had
ical policy OF the present party OF high crlmes
and mistlemeanors. At the bar Of the Amer
can people, in the presence OF High Heaven
and before the civilized world Iimpeachit it, first,
as crime against the laws Of nature watch 6od
the Almighty has stamped upon the races OF
mankind, because it attempts to force political
and social and unnatural equality between the
| African and the Caucassam between an AMEN,
| inferior and exotic race from the tropics, with
| the highest types of the human race In the
home of the latter in the temperate zone. Sec
ond. impeach it as crime against civilization,
because it would by force wrench the Govern
ment out of the hands Of the civilized white
race in ten States OF this Union TO place It IN
| the hands of the half civilized African. Third,
| impeach it as crime against the Constitution,
because 1t trampes down the rights OF the States
to fix for themselves the qualifications OF their
own voters-a right without which State
ceases to be republican at all Fourth, | I'M,
peach it as q 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 disfranchlses them. Fifth, l
impeach it as crime against the existence OF
ten States of the Union and the liberties ofeight
millions of people, because in express terms 1t
annuls all civil government, by which alone
those liberties may be secured, and places them
under an absolute military despotlsm. Sixth
I impeach it as a crime against humanity, tend
ing to produce war of races, to the utter de
struction of one or bO!h-a result which cannot
be prevented except by large standing army
which neither our resources will bear nor oul
liabilities long survive. Seventh, impeach ii
as an utter abandonment of the purpose tol
which the war was prosecuted, OF the idea upon
which we fought and mastered rebellion, and
it tends to make true all the prophecies and fore
bodings of it's enemies. The great struggle il
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 victory. Perhaps com
pete trumph in New Hampshire now would
have allowed the people of other States to i'm
agine the great victory already won to be less
wise and less prudent and to underrate the tire
mendous struggle necessary to meet and over
come the radcalism which in the name of {
; great and successful General now threatens tC
DESTROY the Constitution, the most sacred rights
of the States under it, and the liberties Of the
people. by a revolution in favor Decentralization
!: and imperialism, more insidous but not les,
dangerous than secession itself Yesterday, al
thonoh thev were centred upon the friends O
constitutional liberty in New Hampshire, they
stood noblv: when blows fell fastest and thickes
they advanced, they gained, but not all that was
hoped To-day all eyes are turned upon Con
necticut With equal exertions your majority
of last year will be more than trebled, and ther
if our Convention in New Y ork on the 4th O
July next will select our standard bearers, ano
placing them upon the issues Of the present
and not of the past, and whoever they may be
civilians or military men, statesmen or generals
from the East or from the West, if they do moi
place us upon the defensive, but give the wore
to advance upon the whole line from Maine tt
California we must be victorious in the grea
struggle in November, unless truth and justice
and the love of true liberty have ea>ed to rule
the hearts and consclences Of the American peo
nln