The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-09
President JOhnSOn's Fare|ei
Address.
LCnnclnded.

While public sfenhoh hAS oeeh Careiut'.
and c6,stastIy turned to the past aud ex
nosad ans Of the south, the servants of th'
leooie in high places have boldly outraged
their trusts, broken their oaths of obedience
and undermined the very foundation Of lib.
erty, justice and good government
When the rebellion was being suppressed
by the volunteered services of patriotic sol
diers amid the dangers Of the batt!Q field
these men crept, without question, into place
and power in the national councils. After
oil danger had passed, when no armed foe
remained when Pentent people bowed
their heads to the flag, and renewed their
allegiance TO the government Of the United
Stated, then it was that the pretended patr
OTIS appeared before the nation, and began
to pirate about the thousands Of lives and
millions of treasure sacrificed in the sup
preston of the rebellion.
They have since persistently sought to in
flame the prejudice engendered between the
sections, and to retard the restoration Of
peace and harmony, and BY every means tc
keep open aud exposed to the poisonou,
breath Of party passion, the terrible wounds
Of four years war.
They have prevented the return Of peace
and the restoration Of the Union in every
way, and rendered delusive the purposes
promises and pledges by which the army
was marshaled, treason rebuked and rebel
ion crushed, and made the liberties of the
people and the rights and powers of the
President objects of constant attack.
They have crested from the President his
constitutional power Of the supreme com
maul Of the army and navy.
They have destroyed the strength Of the
executive department by making subordin
ate officers independent and able to def
their chief magistrate.
They have attempted to place the Presi
dent under the power Of bold, defiant an
treacherous cabinet officer.
They have robbed the executive of th
prorogatiye of pardon, rendered null aur
void acts Of clemency granted to thousand
Of persons under provision Of the constitJ
ton, and committed gross usurpations b
legislative attempts TO exercise this powe
IN favor of party adherents.
They have conspired to change the sy
TEN Of our government,by prelerring ohargt
against the President in the form of articb
Of impeachment, and contemplating, beto
hearing OF trial, that he should be plac
became their pleasure TO pronounce his Sc
tence, driven from place and power III d
grace.
They have, in time of peace, increas,
the national debt by reckless cxpenditu
of public moneys, and thus added to i
burdens which already weigh upon the pc
pie. They have permitted the nation to 81
fer the evils of deranged currency to Il
enhancement in nil o. N Oh, .s.
of life.
They have maintained large staudin
army for the enforcement Of their measure
Of oppression.
They have engaged in class legislation
built and encouraged monopolies, that tn
few might be enriched at the expense of tt
many.
They have failed to net upon importar
treaties, endsngering our peaceful relation
with foreign powers Their course of usu
patton has not been limited to luroads upol
the executive department by unconstitutior
al oppressive enaCtments.
The people of ten states Of the Unto
have been reduced to q condition nor
intolerGble than that from which the pair
OTIS Of the revolution r5belled. Millions
American citizens can now say of their eI
pressors, with more truth than our father
did Of the British tyrants, that they hay
forbidden the government to pass laws {
immediate and pressing importance unit
their assent be obtained, and that they r
fused to pass other laws for the aocommod
ton Of large districts Of people unless Il
people would reiuquish the right of repr
sentation in the legislature "a right inestlr
able to them and formidable TO tyrants onl
that they have made Judges dependent
their will alone for their tenure of Office, at
the amount or payment OF their salaries
that they have erected a multitude of ne
offices, and sent hitber swarms of officers
harrass our people and take out their sui
sIsteuce that they have affected to rende
the military independent and superior TO tn
civil power, and combined with others t
subject US TO q jurisd ction foreign to GU
constitution and uuncknowIedged by OF
laws; quartered large bodies of armt
troops among US protected them by moe
trial from punishment for murders whic
they should commit on the inhabitants in
posed taxes upon us without our consen
deprived ms IN many cases Of trial bv iur
taken away our charters, excited domest
insurrecuon among US, abolished most vail
able laws, altered fundamentally the foru
OF our government, suspended our own LEI
features and declared themselves investe
with power to legisate for us in all CASE
whatsoever.
This catalogue of crimes, long es it is,
not complete. The constitution vests tn
judicial power of the United States in on
supreme court, whose jurisdiction shall ex
tend to all cases arising under the constitu
ton and the laws Of the United States z,
Outraged by this promise, refugee from
tyranny, a citizen Of the United State,
who, By the order Of military CON
mander given under the sanction Of
cruel and deliberate edct Of Congress, ha
been denied the constitutional rights of col
science aud freedom of the press aud {
speech, personal freedom from military Al
rest, of being held TO answer for crime oul
upon presentment Of an indictment, of trl,
by Jury, of the writ Of habeas corpus al
the protection Of civil and constitution
government--s citizen thus deeply wronge
appeals to the Supreme Court for the pr,
lection guaranteed him by the organic Ia
OF the land at once a fierce and excite
majority by the ruthless hand of legislativ
power stripped the ermine from the iudgeI
transferred the sword Of justice to the ger
eraI, ana remanded the oppressed citizen {
70 depreciation and bondage worse tina
death
Il will also be Recorded as one of The ma.
yeIs OF the times, that a party claiming 70
itself monopoly Of Consistency and patri