Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-02-27

question whether Andrew Johne0n
should be removed from Office. There
were other aud greater intercsle IN.
volvcd, The question was, whether
the Union spirit in ten States should
be crushed ont, and rebels again have
the supremacy whether the Govern
ment should be maintained and the
trophies richly won during four years
of bloody war shall be wrcstcd from
the hands Of liberty loving people,
or kept and maintained.
lie cared little for Andrew Johnson.
For months past he never had a doubt
that the man would be impeached.
He had believed that the evil in the
man would come out, step by step, and
develop itself until he capped the cli-
max by violating the supreme law of
the land, the Constitution of the Uni
ted States.
lie said the President had acted in
fragrant violation OF the law regulating
the tenure of office, and if he had look
ed all over the laws to court impeach-
ment lie could not have succeeded
better than he had on this occasion.
Both the law and Constitution had
been violated by him. When the
President took the oath to support
the Constitution, il was also his duty
10 see that the laws were faithfully
executed. Who was this Andrew
johnson, who sets himself in defiance
of the Constitution and laws?
A gentleman, near Mr. Farnsworth,
answered that johnson was one for
whom his party voted.
Another said johnson was q Repub-
lcan President
Mr. FARNswoRTH replied say, so
were we deceived. ] repented of my
vote. The Republican party were
cheated into his support, and the un-
grateful, despicable, mean, traitor
President, turned his back on the
men who elected him, and the friends
who rallied around him. He turned
his back on men, including those in
Tennessee, who supported him, and
went over to the party he had fought,
not only at the ballot box but in the
field. Who is this Andrew johnson,
that he should set himself up against
Congress, the courts and the people 7
By what authority did he take il upon
himself TO oppose the law passed in
accordance with the constitutional
forms Was it because God gave
him more brains and moral character,
and clearer judgment than He had
given to other meny scr
Let this House and the Senate
teach Andrew johnson that there is
power stronger than the President,
namely: the power of the people, whose
representatives were speaking here
to day. The gentleman from New
York says if we enter on the trial,
the term,ofthe President would expire
before the trial was concluded. The
Presidents letter to Mr.. Stanton and
Thomas presents complete, perfect
case. We need swear no witnesses
and take no testimony. Read the
law read the Constitution, and the
case isall there rs plainly as if the
President had confessed the fact.
trust the Senate will do its duty fairly
and completely. If the President
could remove Stanton, he could re.
move every other member of his Cab
met and all other officers excepting
the members of the Judiciary. We
see by the newspapers that the Pres
ldent has Created u new department,
the Department of the Atlantic. We
now see that failing to make tool of
Gen. sherman, he resoinds so much
of the order as assigns that officer to
command. We hear that he has q
plant tool for the command. No
doubt he will find other tools. Why
create an additional department now,
ignoring General Gmnig The Presi.
dent issued his orders direct to hissub-
ordinates. Ii the President did that,
when he had plant tool he might
order General Grant into arrest
Who doubts his purpose, that when
be has the War Department and the
army at his back and Grant under ar
rest where are WEI If ho can turn
out others, he can turn us out.
Here is where the shoe pinches.
You are yet in Washington, iobbing
the people of their liberty and their
money But according to your de-
serts, and the dogmas of A. Lincoln
q Co, you ought TO lose your head,
or at least end your days in bastile
or pcnitentiary The handwriting
is on the wall if you are too blind
to see it, you will be compelled TO feel
its effects ere long haa