New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-24
NUMBER 2s6.

10y enlltitu 70 nOla the sAld office 8gainst
! the will of the president Of the Unifs6
States. He denies that the said order for
slt she removal of the said Stanton was unlaw-
Iully Issued. He denies that the said order
Va. WSs Issued with intent to violate the act en-
tltled an act TO regulate the tenure of GER
taln ciVll othoes.' He denies that the said
oroer was violation of the constitution Of
the United States or Of any,law thereof Or
| OF his oath of Office ~ I.[TFF Ff
He denies that the said order was ihs,1ed
with any intent to violate the constitution
OF the United States, OF any law thereof, or
TINS respondents oath OF office. aud he re-
specttully but earnestly insists that net onlE
was il issued By him in the performance of
what he believed to be an Official duty, but
in the performance of what this honorable
court will consider was in point OF fact an
imperative official duty. And he denies
that any and all substantive matters in the
said first article contained, in manner and
form as the same. are therein stated and set
forth, do by law constitute a high misde-
meanor in Office within the true intent and
meaning of the constitution of the United
States"
Answering the second article. he says.
Flrst-Ihat at the date and delivery or
said communication there was a vacancy
existing in the Office Of secretary for the de-
partment of war.
second-That, notwithstandi1s q sen
ate OF the United States was tlen % ss-
7.
and well established usage tc pftgyt and
authorize the said Thomas u .ecre-
tarv of war ad interim.
Third-That if the said act res ting the
tenure Of civil office be hsl1 q oe a valid
law, no provision Of the sans was violated
BY the issuing OF the said order or by the
designation Of said Thomas to act as secre-
tary of war ad interim
In the answer to the third article allud-
ing to the order given Thomas, he denies
that the same amounts to an appointment
and insists that ii is only a DESIGNATION Of
an officer of that department to act tempo
rarily as secretary fer the department Of
war ad interim until an appointment should
be made. H
Included in the answer to the fourth
article is the following
| This respondent states that his sole par
| pose in authorizing the said Thomas to act
| as secretary for the department Of
war ad interim was, as is fully
stated in his answer to the first article.
| to bring the question of the right of the
said stanton to hold said office notwith.
standing the said order OF removal, and
notwithstanding the said authority of the
said Thomas to act as secretary of war ad
4 interim, to the test of final decision by
the supreme court of the United States in
the earliest practicable mode by which the
question could be brought before that
| tribunal
The president repeats the following in
| effect to all the specifications regarding his
| speeches.
" But this respondent does not admit that
| the passage therein set forth as an extract
from a speech or address of this respondent
upon said occasion correctly or Justly pre-
sents his speech or address upon said oc-
casien, but on the contrary this respondent
demands and insists that if this honorable
court shall deem the said article and the
| said first specification thereof to contain
| oil nf rnrrreivabIn Inv FbiR
honorable court as a high nlisdemeanor in
office within the intent and meaning of the
constitution of the United States, and shall
receive or allow proof in support OF the
same, that proof shall be required to be
made of the actual speech and address OF
this respondent on said occasion, which this
respondent denies that said article and
| specification contains, or correctly or justly
| represents" .
He adds on the subject f" And this re-
spondent, further answering, says that ne
has always claimed and insisted that ooth
in his personal and private capacity Of
citizen of the United States and in the po-
litical relations of the president OF the
United States to the people of the United
States, whose servant, under the duties and
responsibilities of the constitution of the
United States the president OF the
United States is and should always
remain, this respondent had and has
the full right, and in his office as president
of the United States is held to the high duty
of forming, and on fit occasions expressing
opinions of and concerning the legislation
of congress, proposed or completed, in re-
speot of its wisdom, eXpediency, justice.
1 worthiness, objects, purposes, and public and
political motives and tendencies, and with
in and as a part of such right and duty, to
form, and on fit occasions to express opin-
ions of and concerning tine public charae-
ter and conduct, views, purposes, OBJ
iects, motives, and tendencies Of all
men engaged in the public SERVICE
as well in congress as otherwise.
and under no other rules or limits
upon this right of freedom of opinion, and
| Of freedom of speech, or of responsibility
for the actual exercise of such freedom Of
opinion ndfreedom of speech than attend
upon such rights and their exercise on the
part of all other citizens OF the United
States on the part of all their public serv-
ants.
MThe presidents answer covers seven COLI
During the session to-day Mr.. Butler apoI.
ogized for inadvertently calling the senate
The The presidents counsel would habituaaiy
say "Mr. Chief Justiees and Court, the
managers "Mr. President and Senate"
Il Rlver EntsaHgenes.
| VICKsBURG, March 23,--Up last night:
Alice V at ii p. NJ; Belle Lee at 2 A. N /.
LOT IouIsyIIlr. March %. River falling fast.
fifteen feet nine inches in the canal.
Weather clear and very warm.
4 FROM Southwest Pass. 81
SOUTHWEST Pass, March %, 6 P. NJ
Wind southeast, light. Arrived; British
ship Advance, Morrison, Mobile, salt TO j.
G. Robinson; ship zouave Whitmore.
Liverpool, general cargo to Lowell H.
Bailey. French bark Jeanne, TOrlois, Bar-
| deaux to COuturie & Bros; schooner An
gelina, Ward, Utilla, fruit to j. B. Pigniolo
& Co. Nothing sailed.
The schooner Angelins reports the brig
Jane of st. Johns, New Brunswick. dis
masted and abandoned latitude Is, longi-
tude s9.l2, bearing south BY east, sixty
miles from Southwest Pass. Two steam
tugs of the Tow Boat association lett South
west Pass this evening in search OF the
abandoned vessel.
miscellaneous News Telegrams.
COLUMBIA, s. c., March 2S.-Sergeant
/ Rates left Columbia this morning for Char
l lotte North Carolina. He expects to arrive
in Richmond on the ninth Of April, and to
reach the capital by the fourteenth Of April.
ATLANTA, March 23.-Letters have been
received here from Governor Jenkins coun-
selling non-aetion by the people, and have
had powerful effect. The state committee
viii probably act on the advice.
| BALFIMURB, March 23.--Ar. Davis arrived
today in the Cuba, from New Orleans va