The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-03
senator Doolittle--congrsss Impsashsd.

senator Doolittle--congress Impsaahsd.
A few days since, Senator Doolittle, Of
Wisconsin, closed speech, remarkable for
its power and briliancy, with the following
Impeachment of congress, and which we
place il our columns - expressive not only
of our own opinion but - that of our readers
also. THs PEoPLE say anon to every word
of it: y
an conclusion, fellow-citizens, while the
Impeachment of President johnson closes
my mouth upon the subject of his impeach-
ment, while delicacy and duty forbid me to
speak upon that my mouth is not closed,
and no considerations of duty and delicacy
will prevent me from speaking of another
Impeachment, and before a tribunal more
august than the senate. In the name OF
constitutional liberty, in the name of our
great ancestors who laid the foundations of
this government to secure liberty for them
selves and for us, in the name of ell who
| love that liberty, who are ready to struggle
and if need be to die, rather than allow IT to
be overthrow; in the name of the coming
generations, and of that race to which we
| belong and which has given to the world all
| its civilizations, / do arraign and impeach
| the radical policy of the present congress oil
| high crimes and misdemeanors. AT the Oar
| of the American people, in the presence OF
| High Heaven and before the civilized world
| I impeach it, first, as crime against the
| laws of nature which God the Almighty has
| has stamped upon the races of mankind, be
cause it attempts to force political and so
| cial and unnatural equality between the
| African ard the Caucasian, between an alier
| inferior and exotic race from the tropics
with the highest type of the human race II
the home of the latter in the temperate zone
| Second, impeach it as a crime against civi
lization,s because it would by force wrench
| the government out of the hands OF tbs
civilized white race in ten states OF thu
| Union, to place it in the hands of halfciviliz
ed Africans. Third, I impeach it as crime
| against the constitution, because it trampleS
down the rights of the states to fix for them
selves the qualifications of their own voter
| "a right without which state ceases TO b.
republican at all. Fourth, impeach it a
| crime against the constitution and agains
national faith, because it annuls the pardons
constitutionally granted to hundreds O
thousands of the most intelligent white mel
of the south, and in open, palpable viola
ton of the constitution DISTINGUISHES them
| Fifth, | impeach it as crime against th'
existence of ten states of the Union and tn,
liberties of eight millions of people, becaus'
in EXPRESS terms it aunuls all civil govern
ment, by which alone these liberties ma,
be secured, and places the m under an abso
lutte military despotism. Sixth, | impeacl
it as a crime against humanity tending u
produce war of races to the utter destruc
ton of one or both, result which cannot b
prevented except by large standing army
| which neither our resources will bear no.
our liabilities long survive. Seventh, l i'm
peach it as an utter abandonment of the pnr
pose tor which we fought and mastered
rebellion 1t tends to make false all tn
promises and pledges made by the friends O
the government in its fearful struggle to pu
down the rebellion, and it tends to max
true all the prophecies and orebodings @
its enemies"