Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1872-08-24

Andrew johnson for violating the ten
ure of office law but Grants Offences
against the laws have been more nu-
merous than Jonnson's. IF there was
legal ground for the impeachment of
the one. there is far more for the i'm
peachmen at of the Other We chaltenge
even Mr.. Boutwell,, with his CELESTIAL
rhetoric borrowed from a,the hole in the
sky" to prove Grant less guilty. tban
johnson of naked violation OF law. J It
was in violation Of law that the Presi-
dent. without the authorization of Con
gress, emptoyed the navy in warlike
act against Haiti. It was in violation
of law that he sold arms to one Europe
an nation to be used against another IT
Wos iosviolation Of law that he disp sed
of the Secor and Chorpenning elatns-
Il is now in daily and notorious viola
ton of law that he surrounds himself
with military instead of civil seeretar-
| les.
THE PRESIDENTS VIOLATION OF LAW.
These are types of his violations of the
plain letter OF written statutes. Scores
Of eases can be added wherein h. has
violated what MonteSqpieu called The
spirit of the laws He has violated
the spirit Of the Supreme Llw by usurp
ping for himself functions which that
charter reserves To the states alone He
has vi lated self government by suspend
ing the operation of Local Inv He has
violated public liberty by intrading
himself into political conventions I" con
troi them in the interest Of his admins
tration and rcnominttinn lie has vi
olarcd the moral sense Of the people by
snch arhiirar, di>piaccments from ro~
sition as that Of Mr. Sumner from m,
ch1irman~hip of the Committee ON For
elgn Relations aud by such retcn'.on~ IN
I'll ,e as that of Lcet and Stncking and
other lceches oa rhe public revenur
| He has violated comm n morality b.
t,king private gifts aud rcwarling the
river with public emolu uneutS. lie
| has violated tha 'lcc.nt usage Of gentle
manly breeding by entering newspaper
Offices and demanding the removal ~
| offensive editor u hn have fallen int,
his dr~flvor hy criticism "n his mal-
administrator He has violated tn
common s'audird of private character
| nv over addiction TO the wine-eu
TUE SILLY EXECUTIVE
The shallo ,es; of all answers % the 50
charges is that he was rc-nominaied
unan mon<lv But unanimously bs
whom? Not by the rep plhllcan party
Will, he has severed in twain Ike n
house DIVIDED a1ainst itself Ever,
man who has partisans-and no pub
Iio man is without them can get n
unanimous vote form his own friends
Three years ago the President had "a
party; now he has only part of one
That noble. royll invinchle party no
longer exists. The President has put
al end to it Almost any other man
could have united il. Almost no other
could have DIVIDED it. To it's chosen
chief was reserved tie sad distinction
Of destroying it, He has wrought more
mischief to eur politics than ten Aodrew
Johnsons Nay, m0re--if the House
and Senate had contiu"d in the sstne
sensitive and intamed temper toward
law breaking Exc, utive as they nnt-
ifcsted in May, 1868, President Grant
would have been inPeached at Wash
iugton instead of being renominated at
Philadelphia
HIS NOMINATION A CALAMITY
There are two aspects in which this
denomination is especially calanIity to
the'conntry; one q sad blow at oflici bon
e-iy, the other as bio" ut popular lib
crty
As. to public. honesty, il an Aneri-
can President can enrich whole army
of relatives ny bestowins on them the
public funds. why may not other pub,
lie officers do the same? For instance.
if the President gives lucrative posts to
bis father, his brother, his brothers-in-
law. his cousins. his nephews, and his
wife's connections, why not Mr..
Tomas Murphy in like manner call to-
gether the whole circle of his kith and
| MID, duu ppItIou out Among Lnem the
salaricd and fat places of the Custom
House? Why may not Mr. Patrick
Jones do the same with the clerkships
of the Pos Office Why not Mr.. Case y
the same at New Orleans? WHY not
every other principle office holder the
same everywhere-so that the $4,000
offices in the gift of the Administration
shall thus be considered the family
property Of a lew favored apponteeSl
10 other words. why should not the
, whole government be turned at once
Qikc the presidency itself) into con.
tental gilt enterprise.
As TO public liberty, if in time oI
peace the military power is to reign su-
pteme over the civil, then farewell re-
pubicansm! Indeed, the republican
party itself, as one reads its debates in