The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-29

people looked to this trial for d6aiS-
ion which would restrain that aggres-
sive branch within its proper limits.
The oath OF the President was not
merely the common oath, faithfully to
discharge the duties of his office, but in
cluded the unique and sublime oblga-
ton to preserve, protect. and defend
the Constitution of the United States.
The people have formed and will ad-
here to the determination that the oath
shall not be taken in vain. They are
converts to no theory of Congressional
omnipotence, and when they hear this
record of Impeachment is drawn, they
will wish to know the .crime Is with
which the President is charged, and for
which 1t Is sought to depose him. They
bribery are in all their ramifca-
all their list, they are told his
crime is having removed a member of
his Cabinet, and are told 1t becomes q
crime because Congress for the first
time in the history of government has
made 1t so; he undertook to make an
Gd interim Secretary of War, and now
in consequence they are to have made
for them an dd Interim President; they
also ascertain that no force was em-
ployed, and no removal was made ex-
cept on paper, and that for the purpose
of procuring decision of the Supreme
Court, to prevent which, vigorous action
was at once taken by those who bring
accusation. In short, said Mr.. Eyarts,
the people see that II Is a question or
supremacy between Congress and the
Constitution. They did not hold that
the Constitution was made only for our
infancy, but felt that It was to be
the guide and bond of our maturest
manhood, and were determined that
the law should continue to be the guar
dian ~ lfharfU Rafarrinn n fha FnRa1-
ton assumed by the Managers, that
their tribunal is not a Court; Mr..
Evarts said IL was the first time he ever
knew a prosecutor to make the asser-
ton that his case was c0rGnI non jttdice;
but they probably felt that the only way
to prevent their cause being out OF the
court was to turn the court out OF the
cause. As to the English precedents
adduced to show that this body Is not
court, he said Parliament was the Su-
preme Court ofthat nation, and that i'm
parchment was only part ofits judicial
function, in which view he was sup
ported by the authority OF Chancellor
Thurlow. If thisi Is not an altar of JUS
tiee 1t ls merely an altar OF sacrifice.
He said the managers had taken no
pains to conceal the party spirit and
party hate which had hurried through
the preparations for this procedure and
read some declarations on the subject
trial. lie called attention to the words
of one OF the Managers who spoke of
the Senators as headsmen standing on
the scaffold with their swords ready;
they having tried the culprit on the
night of February 2lst, an assertion
which he characterized as insulting to
the Court, cruel, and unwarranted; he
read from the debates on the formation
OF the Constitution, to show that the
power to impeach and try the Presi-
dent was granted with hesitation by
the Senate, and that only because of
the reliance placed upon the Observance
| Of a judicial oath.
Mr.. Eyarts then dweIt on the tre-
mendous power and meaning of the
little words "truth, oath, Justice, and
duty" and appealed to the Senators to
brace themselves by all their integrity,
truly and justly to observe their oaths,
and perform their solemn duty.
At the conclusion of his eloquent ex-
| ordium, the Court and Senate adjourn
ed at 4:2o p. M
A COPY of the new Constitution OF
South Carolina was laid before the
House, and was referred to the Recon
struction Committee.
A bill admitting South Carolina,
North Carolina and Louisiana, was
introduced, and referred to the same
Committee.
A resolution inquiring into the sale
of the iron-olads Neota and Catawba 10
Alexander Swift, by the Navy Depart.
ment, was introduced by Mr.. Wash
burne, and agreed to.
The Speaker submitted copy of the
Constitution of South Carolina, recent.
ly ratified. Referred to the Committee
on Reconstruction.
Mr.. Paine introduced separate bills
for the admission of the States OF South
Carolina. North Carolina and Lonisi'
ana. They are similar to that intro
duced by him yesterday in the case o
Arkansas. The bills were referred Il
the Committee on Reconstruction.
Mr.. Pike introduced the following
joint resolution, which was referred Il
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Be it Resolved, &e.I That the Presiden
be requested to send a sufficient mum
Der OF vessels of war to the hshini
grounds In the Gull of st. Lawrence
. adjacent to the British provinces, 70
} the purpose of protection TO America
vessels In the exercise Of their rights a
} recognized in the treaty of 1888, withil
} one marine league of the line as
; follows the indentations of the coasi
and also for the purpose of taking car
that the valuable property on ship
shall not be confiscated for the ALLEGED
infractions of the provincial rights
the fishing grounds and that Whateve
punIshment for tresPRss inflicted shal
be In proportion to the pecuniary inju
~ occasioned by the ohense.
The House then accompanied tn
impeachment managers to the Senate