Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-05-13

President states that his only purpose was to
institute proceedings in the Supreme Court to
test the validity of the law. What would the
honorable Senator from Maryland, Mr.. john
son, full of learning and years as he was, say
to this2 He would say that it was impossi-
ble-that the President could not of his own
motion institute these proceedings. Why,
then, insult the people with this bold and hyp-
ocritical pretence2 This declaration of the
President is but another one Of his ialsehoods.
They say that the President did not remove
the Secretary of war and that he cannot be
punished for the attempt Are we to hold
that man in this District of Columbia who
attempts your life is to 90 acquitted because
he fails in the attempt, and give him an OPP
portunity to renew il at some more favorable
1t has been settled for more than
a century by the higher courts, not only Of
this country but of England, that an attempt
to commit crime or misdcmeanor, either at
common or statute law, is the same as if the
act had been committed The only question
that remains is the tenure Of office act valid ?
and no matter what may be said, there is not
a man in America who does not know that
the Prcsidcn, has committed high crime and
in violation of the statute, and
it is idle to wrangle about it. Now as to the
question whether the act was valid and that
question ought to be considered closed II
was passed by Congress acting under the re-
sponsbility of their oaths The Thirty-ninth
Congress passed that law, as they believed be-
cause if was necessity. and. as they believed
within the requirements of the Constitution
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with his objections. and being rcconsidcrrd
,g,in nossed in accordance with the proyi.
s;ons. oF the Constitution. and il was then a
law il now a law and viii remain law for
an time unless repealed or annulled by the
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