The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-09
Cary and Impeachment.

Cary and Impeachment.
The citizens Of the I'd Dist. of Ohio
gave a welcome to their Representa-.
tive in Congress on the 2ardinst. Gen.
Cary made a speech in which he thus
referred to impeachment:
"Let the result be what it a the
time will come when every man, / care
not to what party he belongs, will see
that this is a terrible wrong and fear.
full precedent. 1t so happened that I
was the only Republican member who
voted against the impeachment. This,
suppose, was because / was not in
caucus, and I don't intend to be while
, ! live, and / am happy to know that
there were men who were in the eau
Gus and voted for the impeachment who
are now heartily sorry for the act.
One OF the best and purest men in tue
House, after the articles we're passed,
came and sat down by me and said,
Gary your vote on the ques Ion was
right. IwouM rather have givem mn
right arm than voted as Idid.' Oh, the
tyranny and despotism Of the party"
Abiding to the tact that President
johnson is impeached for trying to
follow the advice given to Mr.. Lincoln
by Sumner, Wade and others in the
case Of Montgomery Blair, Gen. Cary
said:
II say he ought to act upon their ad-
vice. For no matter whether the Pref
dent is u Democrat or Republican, his
advisers should be in harmony with
him. He should not have a man ia his
Cabinet who refuses to speak to him
and will not sit in the Cabinet counsel.
A voice-Kick him out Yes, and ri
Andrea Jackson had been there he wouid
have put Stanton out with the toe or his
boot. Stanton ought to have resigned
when Sherman and Grant both advis.
cd him 10 do so. But Sumner and
Wade said stick? And whyY Be
cause they wanted to get the President
to violate the Tenure.o Office bill so
that they may impcach and remove
him and get some one in his place,
that they may get control ofthe offices
and money ofthe government to con-
troll the next election"
He thinks that II great danger in
the fact that Congress is trying to
strike down the co ordinate 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 not impeached.
Some of them have already said, If he
don't stand up to us in this hour of
trial, d-n him. we wiN impeach him.
My friends telegraphed me until l had
a hatful of dispatches, saying, For
Gods sake stand by Congress and vote
for impeachment tell you, my friends
ifyou knew the facts as l do you would
feel like hanging me to a lamp post if
l had voted for it. I would have vo
ted against it if l had known my friends
would have hangedme for it."
After commenting severely upon the
course of Senator Wade, who "stoops
from his official dignity and with indie.
cent haste rushes up to take the oath
as a member of the Cour, which is to
make way for him to succeed to the
Presidency and a salary of $4,000 a
year," the speech concludes as fo!.
lows:
~ believe there are Senators who
will not be willing to put their names
on the roll of intamy by impeaching
the President. They will not be viii.
ling for their children to read in histo-
ry that their fathers, Senators of the
United States, sitting ~ a Court OF In
parchment, convicted a President on
mere political grounds, just for the
sake of controlling a few offices and a
little money"