The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-04-01
Impeachment Of Congress.

Senator Doolittle addressed d vast as.
semblage at Hartford, Conn, on the even.
ing OF the 18th inst, for two hours. At
the close he "arraigned and impeached
Congress" as follows
In conclusion. fellow-ctizens, while the
impeachment of President johnson closes
my mouth upon the subject ofhis impeach-
ment, while delicaey and duty forbid me to
speak upon that, my mouth is not closed
and no consideration Of duty and 'delicacy
will prevent me from speaking Of another
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 foundation 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, ifneed be, to die rather than
allow 1t to be overthrow, in the name Of
the coming generations and that race to
which we belonged and which has given to
the world all its civilization. / do arraign
and impeach the Radical policy. Of the
present Congress of high crimes and misds-.
meanors. At the bar of the American
people, in the presence Of high heaven and
before the civilized world. impeach it,
first, as crime against the laws Il nature
which God the Almighty has stamped
upon the races of mankind, because it
attempts to force a political and social,
and unnatural equality between the Afri-
can and tina 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 the temperate
zone. Second, impeach it as a crime
against civilization. because it won'd by
force wrench the government 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, I i'm
peach it as a crime against the Constitu-
ton, because it tramples down the rights
of the States to fix for themselves the
qualifications of their own voters, right
without which a State ceases to be repub-
lican at all. Fourth, impeach it as a
crime against the Constitution and against
national faith, because it annuls the par
dons 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 q crime
against the existence 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 despotism.
Sixth, / impeach it as crime against
humanity, tending to produce war Of
races, to the utter destruction Of one or
both result which cannot be prevented
without large standing army which
neither our resources will bear, nor our
liabilities long survive. Seventh, i'm
peach it as an utter abandonment Of the
purpose for which the war was prosecuted
CT the idea upon which we fought and
mastered rebellion. Ittends to make false
all the promises and pledges made by the
friends Of the Government in its fearful
struggle to put down the rebellion, and i
tends to make true all the prophesies anC
foreboddings of its enemies.