The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-03-13

tutionally passed over the veto Of
the president, nor have articles Of
impeachment been legally and con-
stitutionally preferred. And to this
high constitutional ground must the
president return, or vacate the Of
fice. While TINS to stultify him
self is a personal disgrace, the con-
stitution which he has sworn to sup
port impcratively demands that he
resist impeachment, ifprocured by
less than a full Senate, upon arti-
cles which shall have been preferred
by two-thirds of a full House. And
resistance in this instance will lose
much Of real merit because it will
have the semblancc of a personal is
sue inasmuch as he did not thus re-
sist all the acts passed over his We
to by two-third Of a quorum, instead
Of two-thirds Of q lawful Congress.
The country will not fail to note
that the charge Of high crimes and
misdemeanors, heretofore made
against the President, and upon
which articles Of impeachment were
prepared in the House Of Represent
atives, when allied up for the action
Of that body, had only 81 votes in
its favor. Thus did over half Of the
Mongrel members then declare upon
their solemn oaths of Office that
the charges were false. Nor will
the country fail to note with the
result of that vote in Wow. that the.
present .mbroglio, is simply mar.
rowed down to a conflict between the
President and one whom Congress
persists in designating his war clerk
Nor will the country forget that
the privileges claimed by the Presi-
dent were uniformly exercised by
every President from the time of
Washington, to Andrew johnson,
unqucstionc1. It is true that Con-
grcss in the days Of jackson sought
to tramel him with Secretary of
the Treasury that would not obey
his orders in the removal of the de-
posits from heGnitcd States bank.
It is also true that. Congress passed
a law fnrbidding such removal from
the bank. Yet that patriotic Chief
Magistrate, and bold defender Of
the Constitution and Of the peoples $
rights and interests, bid defiance to
the bold usurpations Of Congress, re-
moved tho Secretary Of he Treasury
appointing Roger b. Taney, subsc-
Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, as secreta-
ty, ordered and effected the removal
of the deposits, and was fully and
completely sustained by the people
and the courts. ..
Nor should it be forgotten that
those Of the U. S. Senate that now
deny the right of the. President to
remove . Cabinet officer, memo
rialized President Lincoln, urging
the removal Of Montgomery Blair
from the Cabinet, for the sole reason
that they did not concur upon qucs-
tions of political policy, and that
such unanimity was essential to a
succ cessful administration of the gov
erf1ment. A 355@4@ 2s4tyt.H4
The duty Of seeing tho laws faith
fully executed devolyos by the Con-
stitution exclusively on the Presi
dent. No Cabinet minister or other
inferior officer can legally be charged
with that duty under the Constitu-
tion; nor does that instrument pro-
scribe any penalty upon any subor-
dinate in connection with any such
duty for either malfeasance or mis-
fsasance. That the men who framed
the Constitution, elected to Con-
gress from the different Statos, in
their legislation upon this point
secuted any such proposition, is ev,
idsnce that they did not concede the
principle consonded for. Infactthe
idea never entered the brain Of any
Congress, but one whose entire leg
islation has been in open and ia.
grant violation of q. Constitution,
that q majority Of its members beld
for years before their accession to
power was s'a covenant with death
and . league with hell that ought t.
be immediately annulled.,'' essg3
Democrats of all classes havo been
in the habit Of declaring TO the peo.
pie, that the present ascsndency q
the Mopgrel party in Congress was
obtained by force and fraud and
is retained by the exercise Of nm.
warranted acts Of despotic power,
and yet counsel the people that they
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