Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-04-16
Cary and Impeachment.

Cary and Impeachment.
The citizens of the Cd Dist. of
Ohio gave welcome to their Rep
resentative in Congress on the
2Srdinst. Gen. Cary made a speech
in which he thus referred to i'm
parchment:
sLet the result be what it may,
the time will come when every
man, I care not to what party he
belongs, will see that this is a
terrible wrong and fearful prece-
dent. 1t SO happened that | was
the only Republican member who
voted against the impeachment
This, l suppose, was because !
was not in caucus, and l don't in
tend to be while / live, and | am
happy to know that there were
i in the caucus and voted for the
impeachment who are now hearth
lily sorry for the act. One OF the
best and purest men in the House,
after the articles were passed, came
and sat down by me and said, 'sCa-
ry. your vote on the question was
right. l arould haze rather giren
my right arm than voted as l did"
,Oh, the tyranny and despotism OF
the party"
Abiding to the fact that Presi-
dent Johnson is impeached for
trying to follow the advice given
to Mr.. Lincoln by Sumner, Wade,
and others in the case of Mont
gomery Blair, Gen. Gary said;
81 say he ought to act upon
their advice. For no matter
whether the President is a Demo
!crat or Republican, his advisers
should be in harmony with him.
He should not have a man In his
Cabinet who refuses to speak to
him and will not sit in the Cabinet
counsel. IA voice-Kick him
out Yes, and If Aradreao jack
son had been there he aoould hare
pat Stanton ont a0iM the toe Of has
boot. Stanton ought to have re-
signed when Sherman and Grant
both advised him to do go. But
Sumner and Wade said 'stickp-
And why? Because they wanted
to get the President to violate the
Tenure-ofO Office bill so that they
may impeach aud remove him
and get some one in his place,
that they may get control OF the
offices and money of the govern
ment to control the next election. ="
! He thinks thai one great danger
is in the fact that Congress is try
ing to strike down the coordinate
branches Of the government, the
executive and the judicial" and
goes on to say that,
"You need not be surprised if
this trial fails through the rulings
of the Chief Justice, if he is
impeachsd. Some of them have
already said, IF he don't stand up
to us in this hour of trial, d-n
him, ne aoiU impeach HIM My
friends telegraphed me until | had
a hatful Of dispatches, saying, 'For
Gods stand by Congress and vote
for impeachment | tell you, my
friends, if you knew the facts as /
do you would feel like hanging
me to a lamp post if l had voted
for it. would have voted against
| it if had known my friends would
have hanged me for IT,"
After commenting severely up
on the course of Senator Wade,
who "stoops from his official dignity
and with indecent haste rushes
up to the oath as a member of
fhe Court which is to make way
for him to succeed to the Presi-
dcncy and a salary Of $4,000 a
year," the speech concludes as fol-
lows:
81 believe there are Senators
who will not be willing to put their
names on the roll of infamy by
impeaehing the President. They
will not be willing for their chill
dreu to read in history that their
fathers, Senators of the United
States, sitting as Court of I'M
parchment, convicted a. President
on mere political grounds, just for
the sake of controlling a few Offices
and a little money"