New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-25
TIE PRESIDENT CONVICTED BY Els 0WN


courtesy Inab sn0Olu De malnbalh0u w
tween Congress and himself, and OF the
ordinary rule of propriety and decency, ne
made and delivered with loud voice
certain intemperAte, ipfammatOry, ana
scandalous harangues, loud threats and Bit
ter menaces against Congress and its laws"
The proof of this charge submitted by the
managers of the impeachment was thor
ough, ample, and convincing; but on Fri
day last the lawyers retained for Mr.. john
sons defense attempted to rebuff this evil
dence, and to show that the famous or in
famous speeches of the President while
swinging round the circle from Washington
to St. Louis were not so very bad after all.
In this attempt they met with signal fail
ure, and their witnesses only succeeded in
proving that the language and department
of Andrew johnson on these occasions was
even more disgracefnl and reprehensible
than it had been represented to be in the
specifications of the charges against him.
In relation to the speech from the bal
IOll vi LUG 1lObCA az wv AONAaSt VIZ
following facts were ELECTED in the examin-
alton of Barton Able, collector of internal
revenue in that city, George Knapp, one
Of the publishers of the St. Louis Repub'
lean, and II. +. Zider, a reporter for that
journal. The President had been escorted
to the hotel from the steamboat landing by
large procession, and while a banquet
was preparing for him a noisy and bolster
Gus crowd gathered in front Of the hotel,
which commenced to call for the President
At th@request of some Of the company in
the hotel, and against the remonstrances
of others, he went out on the bal
cony to address what proved TO be
mob instead If a respectable as
semblage. He had spoken but
little while when the scene became SO dis
graceful that his friends who were with
him on the balcony endeavored to induce
him to retire but in vain, Mr.. johnson an
grily exelaiming, II will neither be bullied
by my enemies nor overawed by my
friends.n He went on and finished his
harangue amid the hootings, yells, ap-
plause, Kisses, and EXPLANATIONS of the
mob, bandying epithets with them, and in
dulging in language the wickedness of
which is only equaled by its fOolishness.
The next morning two reports of this
harangue appeared-one in the St. Louis
Democrat and the other in the st. Louis
Republican, sand the day following a re-
vised and corrected report was pub
lished in the Republican alone. The
first reports were uer6atim, Civ
ing the Presidents words exactly as
they had fallen from his lips-the second
report was one prepared by the reporter
of the Republican at the direction of Mr..
Knapp The only difference between che
two is that the revised report is free from
the grammatical errors committed by the
President, and which were reproduced by
the reporters with perfect accuracy. The
original report of this most remarkable
speech, as sworn to by the reporters who
teok it down as it was delivered, is as
follows:
The time has come when it seems to me
that all ought to. be prepared for peace.
The rebellion being suppressed and the
shedding of blood being stopped, the saeri-
fee of life being suspended and stayed, it
seems to me that that the time has arrived
when the bleeding arteries should be tied
up. "a Voioe-'New Orleans" ''go on.H)
At this stage occurred the interruption
arising from some one among the crowd
who called out ''.ElSdas!" which the Presi-
dent seemed to take as an insult. He went
on as follows:
Judas-Judaas lscariot- There
was Judas once, one of the twelve Amos
ties. Oh yes and these twelve Apostles
had Christ. "a voice-And Moses, too "
(Great laughter.) The twelve Apostles lad
q Christ, and be could not have had Judas
unless he had had twelve Apostles.
In the days when there aoate twelve
Apostles and when there aCdfe a Christ
while there tedre Judases, there were I'M.
believers too, yes, Wnile there were Judases
there todre unbelievers. (Voices-Hearl
Three groans for Fietcher.) Yes, oh yes,
in Christ. 1 i3
The twelve Apostles had Christ and be
could not have had a Judas unless he had
twelve Apostles. If have played the Ju-
das who has been my Christ that / have
played the.Judas With Was it Thaddeus
Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was It
Charles Sumner? (Hisses and cheers.)
Are these the men that set up and compare
themselves with the Savior Of men?
This, with much more like il, is the
speech Of Mr.. johnson on this occasion, as
sworn to by the witness whom the lawyers
brought from ST. Louis to prove that he
did not there make an Contemporaries, in
iiamnatofy, aud soandalous harancue.p
His own witnesses convict him, and this
part Of the impeachment must be accepted
By every one as proved. The proof Of the |
other speeches made by him during this
memorable tour, some ofwhich are quite as
bad as this one, is equally clear, and no at
tempt has been made TO c0atrevertit. If
It be an impsachable otfsase te do the
things which the tenth article OF impeach- |
ment charges the President with having
done the Senate can not aequit him, for his |
gailt in this respect is proved beyond ali |
question by the mouths Of his own Wit
aesaes.