The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-03-31

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on either he uoder the FIRST article
va judge. also. that the answer %
the second aud third articles denies ~
statement II TACT contmuo1iu them. AMI
Therefore calls ia no testimony lbo
answer 70 the fourth artiele charging
conspiracy with Gen Thomas % en-.
ploy force in obtaining possession a
the war department raises a question
q fact upon which testimony vill be
necessary Bot the testimony would
be confined to the language and acts Of
tic President and Gen, Thomas, and
must necessarily be brief The answer
to the 5th. 6th, 7th and Sth articles pre-
sents no issue Of fact whatever In an
aver to tie 9th article, which charges
an attempt 70 induce Gen Emory TO
violate the teuure-of-ofiiCe law, the
President denies the fact, aud states
that be merely designed 10 express his
private opinion that the law is uncon-
stitutional The answer to tho 10Th
and 18th articles, based on has speech
e. made IN swinging around the circle,
raises no issue Of fact except upon the
correctness Of the published reports,
and no very serious question can arise
on that point. The testimony on the
trial, therefore, seems to be narrowed
down to the Presidents instructions TO
or interviews With Gems. Thomas and
Emory relative TO the employment Of
force and to the correctness of the pub
lished reports Of his speeches in swing
ing round the circle The speeches
will be proven by the reporters, whose
accuracy is unimpeachable. The inter
views with Thomas and Emory, and the
evident intent to use force, should oc-
cupy but few hours. All the other
issues are of law, and rest on argument
merely, and are mainly comprised in the
single point Of the constlutionality Of
the tenure-of-oflics act,
The Senate having discussed the whole
question Of the tenure-oi-ofice law far
more fully and ably before passing it
than the counsel for the President are
likely to do, it is absolutely impossible
that any argument on this point can be
brought before the Senators with which
they are not already familiar. The
Presidents point, so frequently reitera-
ted that he only desired to test the
Mnstitutionality of the act, has no very
great force, as this end would be as full
lily accomplished by his conviction and
removal from Office as by any other
judgement. As the Presidents counsel
have shown that they could prepare an
answer in eight days, for the prepare
ton of which they bad asked forty, we
trust that the manifest simplicity of the
case, in all its issues OF law and Of fact,
will cause the Senate to push the trial
to a speedy conclusion. Delay can real
" he of no benefit to Mr. Johnson, and
must be seriously detrimental to the
progress of public business and the in
tersts Of the country. The course Of
opposition in the House in raising a
question as to the authority Of the
managers to file their replication with
out previously submitting it to the
House, is but another effort to obstruct
the trial But it will fail, for nothing
is clearer than that the managers have
been clothed with full power in the
premises.
To the answer of the charges against
the President, the following replica
ton" was read by Mr. Boutwell,
Replication By he House IF Representa-
tues If He United States, 10 The aRSlCeU
II Andrew johnson, President of G,e
/ United States, 10 dte articles Qf impeach-
/ mcnt eribited against him By the House
Of Representatives..
The House Of Representatives Of the
United States have considered the sew
eral answers of Andrew Johnson, Presi-
dent Of tho United States, to the sew
eral articles Of impeachment against
4 him by them exhibited in the name Of
themselves and Of all the people in the
I United States, and reserying to them
selves an advantage Of exception to the
linsufiiciency Of this answer to each and
all Of the several articles Of impeach-
ment exhibited against said Andrew
| johnson, President OF the United States
! do deny each and every avernient IN
said several answers to either Of them,
which denies or trayerses the acts, in
tents crimes, or misdemeanors charged
against said Andrew Johnson in aid
articles Of impeachment, or either Of
them, and for replication to the said
answer, do say that the said Andrew
/ Johnsan, President Of the United States
/ Is guilty Of the high crimes and INSIDE
meanors mentioned in the said articles,
and that the said House Of Represen-
+ tatives are ready to prove the same.