Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-02-25
Impeachment of the President.

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The New York Sun. edited by c. A.
Dana, Assistant Secretary of War in Lin.
coins Administration, arraisns President
Grant bsfor. the public tribunal on the
following charges:
1. Because he has destroyed his own
honorable fame as a patriotic and able
soldier, BY the incapacity, folly and cor
ruption of his civil administration.
II. Because he has appointed men like
a. T. Stewart and Hamilton Fish to high
Office when they were not Republicans,
without regard to whether they were capa-
bic, or even legally eligible, because they
had given him presents.
III. Because he has selected men for
office with utter contempt for the public
interest, and to the injury of the Republi.
can party and of the country, giving places
to unfit persons who had made him pres.
ents, or had iDgratated themselves with
his military favoritcs.
Nv. Because he has appointed crowd
of his own relations to office, notwithstand.
ing their notorious incapacity. and the
fact that most Of them were Democrats in
politics.
V. Because he has retained Bancroft
Davis in power as Assistant Secretary Of
State for months after the Legislature of
Massachusetts had published the proof
showing that while director and counsel
Of the Erie railway, Davis had taken a
hriho from, outs;do eDoovl,<o,, % bo..o,,
and defraud that Company.
vi. Because he has violated the law
whenever he has chosen to do so, as 10 or.
dering feet to threaten war against Hayti,
and to interfere in the pending of civil
contest in San Domingo without authority
Of Congress taking the census of New
York and Philadelphia second time; in
appointing Internal Revenue officers like
Augustus Ford, who do not reside ia their
districts as the law requires; and in sur.
rounding himself in the White House with
body guard Of Generals of the army as
secretaries and ushers, when an act of Con.
gress expressly prohibits army officers from
performing any civil functions.
VII. Because he has basely betrayed
the cause Of liberty in Cuba and used the
authority and influence of the United
States in favor Of the perpe. uation there OF
African slavery and all the woes of Spanish,
dcspotism.
| VIII. Because he has done his utmost
to force upon the Republican party and
the people of the United States the an.
nexation Of San Domingo, in defiance Of
public sentiment and the voice of Congress,
being stimulated thereto by the expectation
that cronics and military favorities of his
would make great deal of money out of
the transaction and because for their
benefit he is willing to destroy the Repub.
lican party and engage the country in a
civil war in a West India Island where
France and Spain have in turn been de
fcated.
TX. Because, coming into Office without
political knowledge or experience, he has
not even tried to acquire either, but has
proved himself weak, lazy and foolish, and
as Mr.. Stanton expressed it, Lincoln etent
to govern this people,"
X Because be has degraded and dis
eraced the Government of the United
States, and, so far as his example and in.
fuence have availed, has spread and
strengthened political immortality and base
ideas of public life and public duty among
the American people.
Here are reasons enough why not only
Mr.. Roberts, but every other good citizen
should be against President Grant. What
has his mail clad organ, The Times, to say
to them