The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-03-05

ORDERS SO1xC1IED.
eject the incumbent +. M. Stanton,
then in lawful possession OF said off
ice. If this act stood alone. it would
be an undeniable official misdemean-
or per Sc, but declared to be so by the
| act itself, and the party made indie.
| table and punishable in criminal
proceeding. IF Andrew johnson es-
1 capes with . bare removal from OF.
fice, il he be not fined and
| incarcersted in the peniten.
tiary eafterwards, under criminal
proceedings, he may thank the weak
ness Of Congress, and not his own in
nocence. We shall propose to prove
on the trial that Andrew Johnson WIS
guilty of misprison of bribery by
Offering to Gen. Grant, if he would
unite with him in qis lawless violence,
to assume in his stead the penalties,
and to endure the imprisonment pre-
scribed by the laws. Bribery is one
of the offenses specifically enumerated
for which the President may be imS
peached and removed from Office by
the Consultation, Article 2, Section
I'd. "Thc President has power to nom
nate, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate to appoint, all
officers of the United States whose
appointments are not therein other
wise provided for, and which shall be
established by law, and to fill all va
cancies that may happen during the
recess of the Senate, by granting
commissions which shall expire at tho
end of their next session. Nowere,
within the Constitution or by statute,
has the President power to create a
! vacancy during the recess ofthe SEN
ate, and to fill it with the advice and
consent of the Senate, and yet on the
21st day of February, 1868, while the
Senate was in session, he notified the
head of the War Department that he
was removed from office and his sue
cessor ad interim appointed. Here is
a plain, recorded violation of the Con
stitution and laws, which, if it stood
alone, would make very honest and
intelligent man give his vote for i'm
peachment. The President has per-
severed in his lawless course through
long series Of unjustifiable acts
When the so-ca!led Confederate States
of America were conquered and had
laid down their arms, and surrender
ed their territory to the victorious
Union Government, the final dispo-
sition of the conquered country be-
longed to Congress alone, according
to every principle Of the law Of mas
tions. Neither the Executive nor
the Judiciary had any right to inter-
fere with it, except 80 far as was
necessary to control it by military,
or until hesovereign power Of the
nation had provided for its civil ad-
ministration. No power but Con-
gress had any right to say whether
and when they should be admitted to
the Union as States, and entitled to
the privileges of the Constitution of
the United States, and yet Andrew
johnson, with unblushing hardihood,
undertook to rule them by his own
power alone, to lead them into full
communion with the Union; direct
them as TO what governments to en-
act, and what Constitutions to adopt,
and to send Representatives to Con-
gress according to his Instruction.
When admonished by tho express act
of Congress more than once-repcat-
edly-he disregarded warnings aid
continued his lawless usurpations.-
He since is known to have obstructed
the establishment Of those govern
ments by the authority of Congress,
and has advised the inhabitants to
resist the legislation of Congress. In
my judgement, his conduct in regard
to that transaction was a high hand
ed usurpation Of power, which long
ago ought to have brought him to
impeachment and trial, and to have
removed him from his position of
great mischief. He has been lucky
in thus far escaping through false
logic and false laws, but his other
acts, which will, on the trial. beshown.
to be atrocious, are open eevidenoe Of
his wicked determination to subvert
the laws Of his country. / trust that
when we come tovote eupon this ques-
ton we shall remember that although
it is the duty Of the President to see
that the laws be executed, the soy
creign power of the nation rests on
Congress, who have been placed
around the Executive muniments to
defend his rights, and as watchmen
to enforce his obedince to the laws
and the Constitution; his oath is to
obey the Constitution, and our duty
to compel him to do it--a tremendous
obligation, heavier than was ever as.
sumed by mortal rulers. We are to
protect or destroy the liberty and
happiness of a mighty people, and
take care that they progress in civil
ixation, and defend themselves against
every kind oftyraanny. As we deal
with the first great political malefac-
tor, so will be the result ofour efforts
to perpetuate the happiness and good
government Of the human race. The
God ofour Fathersiwho inspired them
with the thought Of universal frees
dom, win hold us responsible for the
noble institutions which they pro-
jected and expected us to carry out.
This 10 not to be the temporary tri-
umph of the political party, but it is
to endure in its consequence until this
whole continent shall be filed with
free, untrammeled people, or shall be
. nest Of shrinking, cowardly slaves.
Train, in his account of his arrest
and imprisonment at Cork, says:
"My cell 10 nine feet square, walls
two feet thick, lock one foot square,
key ten inches long-weighsa pound,
straw bed, no pillow, no mat on cold
stone floor, no candle allowed Hence
from 8 p. IN, to .. M, fourteen hours
in dark. No clothes since arrested.
Body searched, but not examined to
zee if was = Hebrew"
In rcply to the question '.shall We
have new State House" the Buchan-
an county Bulletin says: "The people
say yes, but not at present. The pres
ent State House is an abomination,
but it was furnished by Des Moines
spectators and let Des Moines put
.~sel sA a,,~cl,. ALc CxnAo r~n