The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-10-17

n the civil service, ss it had done in the mil itary-prohibiting even the removal of his own Cabinet officers, tho adiutants through whom he gives orders and receives reports
 And 1t crowned its Bsurpations by an im- peachment founded on a statute it had pas sed, enactinR the glaring and fagitous lie that It ls A high crime for the President to discharge the duties of removal imposed on him by the Constitution, as interpreted by the uniform usage Of Government. from ths administration of Washington down, lap plause :; or even tO SO far attempt to exer- else 1t ss to bring the question of his consti- tutiOnsl power of removal tO decision by the Supreme COurt-that high arbiter fixed by the Consultation to settle every conflict over boundaries of power between the States and the United States, or between departments of the General Government And, after having impeached him, and while giving him lynch,lsw trial, the party, with fero- city unparalleled even in the violent cOntro- yerslee Of the day, brought it's almost ire sistible power to bear, through its leading men, it's press and its conventions to fOroe Republican Senators to commit moral per- jury by an insincere verdict. So foul an act this nation.
 Had Andrew Johnson consulted his own interests, and become the instrument of lawiess faction, these essential executive pOvers would not have been disturbed. nor he arraigned as a criminal at the bar of the Senate. But to his eternal renown, lap plAuse he stood by the Constitution when 1t was asssilsd by his party ss boldly and grandly ss he had stood by the Union when the storm of war burst over and around 1t: "UnEhAken. unsedneed. unterrihed
 His loyalty he kept bis love. his zeal;
 Nor number nor example with him wrought
 To swerve from truth or change his constant
 mind"
 Three cheers for Andrew Johnson. Three cheers for President Johnson. Tumultnous cheering
 Gentlemen, in any Government but ours usurpations 90 fragrant and fundamental would result in revolution; in Ours they can be overthrown by the people st the ballot box Iee s,.rs.esl te the people this fall will decide whether the Radicals shall retain or surrender the power ther have thus nsed. and are using for the destruction of the Union and of cur form of national Government
 APPEAL TO THE PEoPLE-
 II we could 90 take our appeal as to pre- sent Co the people the living issuez between the parties, free from the rubbish of past issues, who could doubt the resuitY If the Democracy could give Us a candidate who would unite as thoroughly tho opponents oi Radical rule As General Grant uniies its sup p0rtsrs, that candidate would carry nine ienths of the electoral college. IApplAusal The strength Of the Radicals is not in their cause, but in the divisions of their sdversa- ries
 The war =ss s;soosS=-not a failure. fa2- plAuse- IT settled the heretofore disputed and doubtful question Of secession. against the right to seoede. IL settled, too, the sub lecs of slavery. These. however, were unset tied questions in 1864. and were thought 10 be involved in the political contest of that year. Now, the passions Of the war and of that rlltfteal t.svfa. these issues in which they played their part From them come all the hopes of the Radi- calls and Si the feRrs of the friends of ths Constitution and the Union. Housing these slumbering passions Of the war, and led on by one Of its foremost generals, the Radicals hope to fight over again the political battle of 1884 Shall they do it t'sNo, nor An gentlemen, wish this Convention could de- eide that quession-but if is for the Demo cratic Convention Co decide. By it's chnioe Of leader it will determine the battle ground and decide whether the Democracy shall tri- umph on living is-ues, or be ronted on dead ones lapplanse ! iel.-faeT tse Radio0ls slaI be dTTaigfied ard tried for sslaf fsssy gre d0- f;57 ar ass Is7is0tTacy los- ,i2sn aaey did or Jfaaed Co do four yeays ago
 or million and half Of present voters who served tn the Union army or navy. this Convention represents Ai least a half Voices. More than one-half, two thirds three fourfhs :" or these 70 represented half or more-Gmong whom wish Co be reckoned as one-wiil support any Of the Democrats whose names have been mentioned for the Presidency: but the remSipdsr. numbering several hundred thousand voters, will be won or lOst to the cause, as the nomination proves wise or Othegreise. Laughter and appause This Convention has assembled in no spirit Q! a.ctatlnn, but animated hy devotion to the Constitution and the Union and kind efs .fl utss "a ts in securing an harmonious nomination, and organizing certain victory. I cannot suffer myself 10 doubt that the Democratic party has assembled this day in 9tse same patriotic spirit aud will present A candidate, xbo, whether he fought for the Union or not, thoroughly sustained the war, lgreat ap- pisase and whom all the soldiers and sailors of the Union can support without even seeus- ing inconsistency.
 THE TWO PARrIEs
 The Republican party represents no pFin- ciple for which we fought We thought not of Degro suffrage. lapPlause and cries of "No, no,"l or of whiie disfranchisement-o forcing on the Southern States unequal fellow ship in the Union Never. never, of changing our henedcent form of Government f"N0, never, or of perpetuating the Re- publican party. (" Never, never."l Out of the five hundred thousand Union soldiers, Democrats and Repoblicans, who sleep on uelNt NhAhe1 bN tue Ahatttlc and Ne Gun, not one lad down his life for any such end Of the fifteen hundred thousand Of their surviving comrades, not one will say be would have risked his life for either Of these ob- jects. And these measures of the Republi- can party are not only not the object Of the war, but are 90 prosecuted as to defeat those objects and to infict on the nation evils as great as those the war was waged to prevent ishea;z That's sa-"l
 The Democratic party is now the only party true to the Constitution and the Union lApplanse. 1T we would accomplish the pifpOsos of our soTyies and sacrifice, If NO would save the Union. the states. their liberties. and laws, we must unite with ths Democracy. Long continued applausel We must not ask what men hare been, but what they ore; not who lately defended the Constitution but who n0ic defend it lGreatapplAuse In the path which the Demo cratic party tTeads we see the footprints Of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and all the heroes of the Revolution of Web ster Jackson, Clay. Wright and all tho giants of the generation just gone before us and while t keeps that line of march, and