The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-02

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The Hon. Secretary Of tie Treasury. -
Wretcbed man! direct contradiction 2.
III. .olemn answer! How necessary tnss
man should have good conscience or ~
memory Both would not be ont o. p'ass'
He shows that the Senate o'.sPpsos'
I'D the reasons assigned by The President for
~ .n.nen.;on az Stanton during vacation.
81 -, Tho Senate ordered him TO re-
nu1 ~, S..aton. be makes . second re-
SUI ~ virtue Of what he calls the power
m N..sd ~ him BY the Constitution. The &C.
. sese ~ the Senate on the message OF the
pe.s;dent, communicating his reasons for the
snsnepsion of E. NJ. Stanton, Secretary Of
War. under 81, act entitled An act TO regulate
the tenure of certain civil Offices, was u fol-
lows.
In EXECUTIVE SEssIox,
senate or THE UNITED States,
January Is. 1888. J
Resolred. That, having cousidsred the evi-
dence and reasons given BY the President In
his report Of December IL. 1867, for the sns>
pension from the office Of Secretary Of War
Of Edwin NJ. Stanton, the Senate do not con-
eur in such suspension.
And the same was duly certified to the
President; in the face Of which he, with IN
impudence and brszen determination to usurp
the powers Of the Senate, again removed Ed
win III. Stanton, and appointed Lorenzo
Thomas Secretary ad infer1N ia his stead.
The Senate, with calm manliness, rebuked the
usurper by the following resolution:
Is ExEcuTivE SESSION,
SENATE OF tbs UNITED STATES,
February II, 1868.
WHEREAs, The Senate has received and
considered the communication of the Presi.
dent, stating that he had removed Edwin NJ.
Stanton, Secretary Of War, and had desig.
mated the Adjutant General of the Army to
act Is Secretary Of War ad interim; there.
fore,
Resolred, By the Senate Of the United
States, That under the Constitution and laws
of the United States, the President has nc
power TO remove the Secretary Of War, and
to designate any other officer TO perform the
duties Of that Office adinterim.
Yet he continued him in Office And now
this offspring of assassination turns upon the
Senate who have thus rebuked him in con-
stitutional manner, and bids them defiance.
how can be escape the just vengeance of the
law? Wretched man, standing at bay; sur
rounded by . Gordon of living men, each
with the axe Of an executioner nplifted for
trying him, except such as had already
adopted his policy, voted for this same reso.
lution, pronoancing his solemn doom. Will
ground of its unconstitutionality | know
that Ssnators would venture to do any neces-
sary act il Endorsed by an honest conscience
a I'd an enlightened pablo opinion but nei-
Tier, for the sake of the President, nor Of any
one else. would one Of them suffer himself to
be tortured on the gibbet Of everlasting oblo-
guy. How long and dark would be the track
IF infamy which must mark lis name and
that of his posterity Nothing is, therefore,
more certain than that it requires no
gift Of prophesy to predict the fate Of this
unhappy victim.
The honest ard heartfelt expression Of Goa
tempt and disgust for the traitor Andrew
johnson, and fur the venal crew of bread
and butter renegades who followed in his In
famous footsteps, servilely to perform his
dirty bidding for an expected reward, closes
the speech
Baser than the betrayal by Judas Iscariot
Who betrayed only single individual. John
on sacrificed a whole nation, aud the hottest
OF principles, in order to build mp party
upoa winch He WAS 10 rely " DccdHie Heee6-
sary for him to proclaim entirely new prin-
eiples and new policy, and to bring about
him an entirely new set of politicians. Gs
loose men enough already in the Republican
party could not be found to carry him into
power. Corruption. therefore, became a ne
cessiiy; that corruption was to be wrought by
oerverting the means which the Republicans
mad placed in his hands, and which be had
sworn snlemnls To execute according se their
principles. When he found that By An an.
peal to those principles he could rally but few
followers, he did not hesitate to cast them up
md seek recruits in the camp Of the enemy.
instead of enforcing the penalties of the
law, and rendering treason odiout, as he had
20 loudly proclaimed. while Vice President,
he proceeded to pardon all the large and in,
fiuen,al traitors. and to restore ito the con
qnered heiiigereu,s the property which had
been confscated by act Of Congress Of July.
1862 he thus restored confiscasad land and
abandoned estates, sufficient, had it all been
honestly converted into the Treasury, to have
paid the National debt and all the damage
done to loyal men bv rebel raiders and bv
corrupting the whole mass of those who as.
pred to office. Where he found an Office
holder too virtueus to follow his treason, be
offered h place to another whose conscience
vas less scrapnlous, or whose ambition
was greater. The removals which he
made were of Republicans who had been
placed in office by Abraham Lincoln upon
Republican recommendations. because they
held the same principles which he and John
son had protested He did NOT hesitate,
through his agents. to bargain Tor their sup |
port as condition Of their appointment or re. |
tention. He found few men of rerpecta. |
bility who had been Endorsed by respectable !
as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
Look at the trusted agents of Pennsylvani.
aud Wisconsin who contracted TO accept the |
Office Of recruiting sergeants for his shabby |
army to purchase the position Of . command. |
er Of this band of psrdoned traitors and cor,
rupted reneg.des. They consented to lay
down the 4.stars and stripes 7 and c!othe /
themselves in the faded uniform Of gray. /
The gentleman fMr. Groesbeck), in his pero-
ration Of Saturday, implored the sympathy Of I
this Senate with all the eloquence and psthos
Of Roman Senator pleading for virtue; and |
it is to be feared that his grace and eloquence t
turned the attention of the Senate upon the |
orator rather than upon the accused Had |
be been pleading for innocence his great
powers would have been well executed had
he been arguing with equal eloquenre before
such Roman Senate for such delinquent
and Cato. the Censor, had been one OF the
judges. his client would have soon found /
himself in the stock in the middle dr. the 70. |
rum, instead of receiving the sympashies Of