The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-01-16

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lowing, which is the closing portion of
a lecture delivered in Brooklyn, New
York, by the great American Orator,
Wendell Phillips. Like all his produc-
tions, It'll terribly severe but we will
leave it to the candid reader to say
whether it does not contain too much
truth to be refuted by either facts or ar
guments:
THE XXXIXth and XLth have spent every
hour of their official lives which have not been
wasted, every hour in the in the effort to Put on
the statute book laws which would take from the
President the usual power of President. They
have patiently, Systematically been at work
building up machine which impedes the Presi-
dent, impedes him from all power such as the
Constitution endows him with, on tho ground
that the individual who holds the Office could not
be trusted with its powers and when we said to
them, why, instead of thus worrying your vic
tim, don't you strangle him. why, Instead Of like
the cat perpetually plagueing your captive, don't
you cut his head of, they said 1.-THE public won't
bear it. We are going to follow the policy of
cheekmatng the President and then it won't be
in pursuing It,, they have forfeited all the sup
port and stirred on the Presidents side all the
sympathy of the nation, 30 to-day the Congress
stands with all the evil done that Impeachment
In 1866 would have resulted In and none of the
good obtained. They have taken q course with
this affected claim Of superior craftsmanship and
tried 1t. 1t has not answered Its purpose, and
it has produced all the difficulties that the oppo-
site would have done. More than that that mo-
ment the President, looking at these statutes
passed over his head bya two-thrds vote, under
takes, in the full blaze of the nation, to tram
pie them under his foot to defy Congress aud
fling Its laws in Its face to take the very man in
whose behalf, and for whose protection this Civ
II Office Tenure bill was passed-Edwln Stanton
[applausel, and put him out of office.
Congress leaves him out of office. would not
bet slxpenRe that he would ever 90 back to office.
There Is no sign at Washington that there is any
courage in either House to vindicate this Civil
Office bill. Why, when the English Parliament
met in the days of Charles |, the very first hour
Of its session 1t took up in five minutes the net
which Charles |. had untuken TO violate. II lis
tened to nothing; II neither adj journed nor asked
for n message Il neither appointed committees
or did any other of the usual rOutines of the
House OF Commons; Its first voice heard in the
hall was "where Is the law which we passed last
session." and, II this Senate had meant ANYTHING
Ill AUuIeW JOnlhOH lltl uOJ cOWtu lUtlu Dt
meath his heels, the first voice heard In that SEN
ate chamber when they met in November Wou ID
have been, "Where Is Edwin NJ Stanton and the
Civil Tenure bill?" Applause. And Grant, If
the idol General himself lad sent them paper
from the War Office, they should have flung ii
In his face aud said, 1--WE do not acknowledge
you as the Secretary OF War; there is but one
War Secretary In the light of the law, and his
name Is Stanton, and no paper coming from the
War Department without his signature shoud
have been acknowledged by that Congress. Ap-
plause. II, trampling respect for Gen. Grant
under one foot and fear of the President under
the other the Senate had grappled with the
White House, we should have sailed out of this
difficulty on to heaven-smlllng sea. Applause.
But, Instead OF that no voice Is heard until the
day before yesterday to rebuke this defiant and
ostentatlOus attempt to balk Congress Of Its most
iaVorte purpose Well, then II had another
equally absurd notion as in 1865 and 1866 when
the heart Of the nation burned hottest against the
Pres ldent, aud you could have done anything
with him. II Congress had said to the nation as
a party, as the great Republican dominant force
In the nation there Is but one path out OF this
difficulty, II Is through negro suffrage from the
lakes down to the gulf itwoud have lloated Into
your statute-books in Ohio and In Connecticut
and our other States; but they tore II In piece
meal; they sent rag to be dipped into the local
d irt Of Connecticut, and another into tho poison
ed preludlces Ohio and ofcourse 1t was defeated
And this Is what they call craftsmanship.
This Is COngress-COngress, which has not the
courage even to vlndlcate Its own dignity laugh
teri |, which having listened to message which
might have been written during the Kansas
troubles hears In II the kncll of Its own strength
aud the glory of the President, and votes not to
impeach him. Why, II there Is any logic IN two
years; II there s any inference out OF the long
action of "a months, II Is impeachment, When
Congress went up to that door, and turned
square around II wrote fool" ON Its own logic
IL gave the President In his last message relating
10 Stanton's removal the advantage OF the argu-
ment and the mastership OF the situation, be.
cause II anything they said had been believed, lG
any action robblng him OF his Constitutional pow
ers had had an excuse, the result was lmpeach-
ment, and when they ignored the result they de-
ned the logic.
Congress stands to-day like school boy that
| has forgotten his task. II has nothing to say
| that will hold water q moment against the argu-
| ment Of Andrew johnson, because he answers
| their pretenses with their action. Congress Is
nothing but the name on the meeting -house-on-
| " tells which way the wind blows. II Is ruled
| by q dozen men, whose names, even, nobody
knows-twcnty OF that mass that wIlggle away
| up there nobody knows how; and who, when
| they go out, 90 out like rocket, nobody knows
where; those are the men that, holding the oal-
ance OF power, undertake TO drag the ermine Of
| those noble names that are trying To leave a
bright record for their children to look back
| 10, down Into this kennel Congress Is nothing,
| Iflt were anything, II even the leaders OF the
Republican party we're anything, II Is not that
miserable blunderer of the White House, upon
! whose head we should visit any OF the faults OF
the present situation. | don't think so little OF
my Ivlow.countrymen as 10 believe that mere
third rate corner politician of benighted Tennes-
see could cheukmate the American people. II Is
not that. II ls because, In the great struggle Of
"a, which resulted In the present Admnistra-
tIon, the Republican party was willing to forget
Its own principles, Its own vigilance-and sleeps
because, for the sake of what II esteemed concil-
latlon.
God cursed cancellation to the bottomless pit.
| Laughter and Cheers. Conclllatl0nl To con-
cillate somebody who cannot be summoned into
a palpable shape has been the nightmare OF the
| American people ever since 80. In order tU
| eonelllate nObOdy.kn0ws-who we sent on honest
Yankee up to Maine and we put our hands to
digging down into the blood-mxed soil OF Ten
nessee to ind being whom we put In aspot
where decent men fall down aud do him reVer-
enc. lie don't do any harm. The sot that stag
gers home In the morning twilight doesn'tdo any.
body any harm, He Is warning aud not an OK
ample Cheers II 10 the Senator and The re-
spectacle man that sits down with him side by
side In the grog-shop that does the harm, IL ls
the Wilson's aud the Fessendens, II Is the Grants
and the Stantons who--in the hour when the
people In their anxiety we're trying to peer into
the heart of Andrew johnson, and lind out wheth.
or he was q Rebel, or lstaken irlend--covered
him with the kirts ofthe Ii popularity, and said,
"Wait.H That was the laudnnln that made US
dead and put US TO sleep. Il ls Ulysses Grant
that makes Andrew johnson President to-day,
Aad the hardest slght to man, whose heart u In
this problem is the attitude of the nation beiSre