Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
Thaudeus Ssevens' New Em-
 peaCsamemt Articles.

ditional articles ofimpeachmenta against Andrew. Johnson, prepared by Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, and by him presented to the House of Representatives M
 WHEREAS, A high court of impeach- ment has lately been in session to- try Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. for high crimes and misdemeanors, and has adjourned without completing it's judgment; and whereas, it is proper that additional articles should be filed, if the House deems it expedient; therefore,
 RESOLVED, That a committee Of be appointed to prepare additional ar tieles of impeachment, and report the same, in substance as follows:
 Additional Articles of Impeachment
 exhibited by the House of Represen-
 tatives, in the name of themselves
 and of all the people of the United
 States against Andrew Johnson,
 President of the United States, in
 maintainancc and support of their
 impeachment against him for high
 crimes and misdemeanors in office.
 FIRST ADDITIONAL ARTIoLE.--That the said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did abuse the pat ronage of the Government, which, by virtue of his high office, had been en- trusted to him, and did peryert it to improper and selfish purposes, inas- much as he used it to corrupt the peo- pie of the United States, and to induce them to abandon and renounce the principles which they conscientiously held, and 10 adopt others which they did not approve, ill order to promote the selfish purposes of the said An drew Johnson. The President of the United States came into power and re- ceived his office because he professed to hold the principles of the Republi- can party, and Zealously avowed his determination to carry them into eff feet. When he came into power. he found the offices of tho Government, many thousand in number, filled with men protesting the same Republican principles, and who hand been ap- pointed expressly 10 carry them into effect. When. by a fatal accident, he became the Clief Executive of the na- ton. he determined to seek an election for the same office at the next Presi- dential term. He foresaw that it WOUlN fBtEOtliC lttcsS1il tO ItHouilGt the principles of the Republican party, and to establish a new personal party especially devoted to himself, and he did not hesitate to apply to that object the profits of thousands of offices, and millions of revenue. He set deliher- ately about turning faithful officers out of their places, because they would not renounce their principles, and of appointing others to office because they pledged themselves to support him aud his principles. The removals and appointments were avowedly made for no cause of merit or demerit, but for the purpose of adding recruits to his new party.
 SECOND ADDITIONAL ARTIcLE.-That the said Andrew Johnson being the chief Executive of the United States, and being assigned by law to the du- ties to take care that the laws shall be faithfully executed, and having no ju- dicial or legislative power confided to him by the Constitution, all his duties being strictly executive, did, on the 29th day of May, 1865, and before and after that time, usurp to himself the powers of another branch of the Gov ernment, and did do acts and exercise functions which belonged to the legis- lative branch alone ; and in pursuance of such claim, having at the time the army and navy of the United States at his command, did establish and erect into separate government that por- ton of the United States from the late- ly so-called Confederate States of America, and which was lately em- braced within the boundaries of the State of North Carolina, and did by his own usurped authority create a State and form of government hitherto unknown to our constitution, and ap- pointed thereto all officer whom he called Provisional Governor, and di- rected him how to construct and carry out said government. He fixed, and by his own will decreed the qualitca- tions of electors, and who should be eligible to office i'll the new govern ment, which he by proclamation de- olared was deprived of all civil govern ment by the armed forces of the inde- pendent belligerents with whom we had been at war; and he appointed w. W. Holden to the office of Proyis- ional Governor of North Carolina, and directed him to administer the offices of the newly-created State.
 On the 18th of June, 1865, he usurped the same powers, and without any di- rection from Congress, to whom alono it belonged, erected into an indepcn- dent State that part of conquered formerly known as the State of Mississippi, and appointed Wm. l.. Provisional Governor thereof. And on tho l7th of June, 1865, he in like manner erected portion of said into what he called the State of Georgia, and appointed James John son Provisional Governor thereof. On or about the l3th, ltsi and 20 of Jnne,