The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-23
CONTINUED ILLNESS OF sTANBERY.
TIE DEMOCRATS CARRY CHICAGO.
GAIN OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED.
MANAGER BOUTWEIL'S ARGUMENT IN THE IN.
PARCHMENT CASE.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-The House did
nothing.
In The Impeachment Court the resolution was
finally passed allowing unlimited speeches, oral
or written. by the managers and defense.
The galleries are crammed. Boutwell, is about
commencing. Unlimited speeches will probably
prolong the trial ten days.
The conservatives express intense qualification
over the election news from Louisiana, Georgia
and North Carolina.
Judge Curtis announced to-day that it is doubt
ful wheather Mr.. Stsnbery will be able TO take
further part in the defense. Groesbeck will
follow Boutwell,.
Secretary Browning and Wells visited the pres
ident to-day.
court martial commences at Fort Monroe, on
the 9th inst. Gen. Hays, Of the 5th artillery,
president, and Col. Henry, of the lst artillery,
Judge advocate.
When the SeDate adjourned Boutwell, was on
page tbirty.twO Of his fifty page speech.
ihe judicial election, in Chicago, resulted In the
success OF the Democrats by 500 majority. % 900
votes were pohed, and Democratic gain Of
2500.
SenGte.-After half dozen propositions had
been voted down. the following was adopted
That as many Of the managers and counsel for
/. the president as desire to do so be permitted to
file arguments or address the Senate orally.
Chase ordered Boutwell, 10 proceed.
Boutwell, said the chief magistrate Of the prin-
cipal republic of the world was on trial The
object OF the proceedings was notpunishment for
onenses, but the safety Of the state. The issues
between The president and the House of Repre-
sentatiyes are technical and limited. viz: Whether
johnson violated the Constitution and laws in re.
moving stanton and appointing Thomas. Bout.
well sets forth the evils probably following the
acknowledgment of the presidents power to re.
move officers at pleasure, arguing that the power
OF Congress should be maintained. Sovereignty
rested with the people who vested It in Congress,
whereas the executive and judiciary are denied
al discretionary or implied power. Congress can
AWranra Ika
tions Of national life, whereas the president is
governed by the principles which govern the
judge of q court. The president must administer
the law as he finds it, without questioning legsla
tive wisdom. The president can make no inquiry
regarding constiiutonality. public officer can
neither plead nor prove good motives for nullify-
ing a law. The president violated a law-the
Senate can enter into no inquiry regarding the
cOnst;tutionality of the violated law.
Boutwell, denies thst the president desired to
bring the question before the court, and says his
pretext is fully exposed-that his object was to
seize the Offices OF the government, and by their
influence TO reconstruct the Union in the interests
of the rebelliOus States. He says no criminal
VAS ever arraigned who offered o more unsatis-
factory excuse for his crime, and argues that
Stanton's suspension and Grants appointment
was an acknowledgment of the legality of the
tenure Of Office act, behind which the president
could not 60. The subsequent attempt to remove
Stanton was unauthorized by the Constitution,
and in violation Of the presidents oath of office.
This requires verdict Of guilty under the first
article. Cabinet advice is no excuse-it was the
advice Of servants 10 their master.
Boutwell, discussed the Constitution and the
practice Of removals, closing his argument with
the statement that none of the predecessors Of
Mr.. johnson, from General Washington to Mr..
Lincoln, ever claimed the power to remove civil
officer during the session of the Senate without
its consent he claimed that the act of '95, even
IL the rights claimed under il were valid, was re-
pealed by the act Of '63.
Boutwell, argued the constitutionaty of the te-
nure Of Office act, claiming that johnson was serv-
ing LiDcoln's term, and that the law covered
StsntOn's case. He says the president seems to
have been under the influence of a criminal pur.
pose to destroy Grant as well as remove Stanton,
and attempted to carry out his purpose by various
and trsitorous methods, attempting to seduce
Sherman and Gen. G. II. Thomas, and using Gen..
Lorenzo Thomas. The nomination of Ewing was
part of the game. Ewing was 70 years old and
would gladly vacste the Office at any time, leav-
ing il in the hands OF Johnson's tool.
There is no reason TO suppose the present secre-
tary OF the treasury would not yield to any scheme
johnson might undertake. Regarding the presi.
dents speeches, the House did not srraign him
for sandering Congress or for any purpose Of pro-
lection, but that man uttering such words is un-
6t for the office.
After narrating the presidents reconstruction
course, Boutwell, says, the House brought this
great criminal to your bar, upon conviction that
the country was In peril. Boutwell, concluded:
this criminal at your bar with equal confidence in
bis guilt and your disposition TO administer exact
justice between him and the people OF the United
states. His conviction is the triumph of law, of
order and Of justice. do not contemplate his
scquittal; it is impossible; therefore, | do not
look beyond. But, senators, the people of Ame-
rics win never permit an usurping executive to
break down the securities for liberty provided by
the Constitution. The cause of the country is in
your hands; your verdict of guilty is peace to
cur beloved land
HOuse.-Nothing done.
A close anslysis of the votes of ten of the
doubtful senators upon important questions re-
garding the admission Of evidence, gives the fol
lowing result: Anthony, % liberal votes. radi-
cal; FesseBden. "a liberal, radical; Fowler, 27
liberal 3 radical; Grimes, % liberal, 2 radical;
Ross, 10 liberal, 10 radical; Sherman, IL LIBERAL
Is radical; Sprague. l6 liberal, radical; Trum.
bull % liberal. radical; Van Winkle, Is liberal
5 radical; Wiley IL liberal. IL radical.
The radicals are discOntented with Boutwell's
speech. The more moderate depreeats its weak
ness and condemn its perversion Of facts. while
The conservatives laugh at it. II was published
In Boston this morning and here this afternoon.
still Boutwell, will have to wade through the re-
naming third Of il tomorrow before yawning
senators.
Church influence is obtruded upon doubtful
senators.