The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-04
THE IMPEACHMENT Of CONGRESS-

Pending the impeachment trial Of President
johnson, Senator Doolitt1e, of Wisconsin, adj
dressed vast assemblage at Hartford, Conn,
and at the close of his remarks he arraiyned
and impeached Congress as follows
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, while the i'm
parchment of President johnson closes my
| mouth upon the subject of his impeachment,
while delicacy and duty forbid me to speak
upon that, my mouth is not closed and no con-
sideration of duty and delicacy will prevent
me from speaking upon another impeachment
and before tribunal more august than the
Senate. In the name OF constitutional liberty,
in the name of our great ancestors who laid
the foundation Of this Government to secure
| the liberty for Themselves and for us, III the
name Of all who love that liberty, who
are ready to struggle. and, if need be, to die
| rather than to allow it to be overthrown III the
name Of the coming generations and that race
to which we belong and which has given to the
| world all it's civilization, ] do arraign and i'm
peach the Radical policy Of the present Con
| gress of high crimes and misdemeanors At
| the bar OF the American people, in the presence
| of high heaven and before the civilized world,
iinpeach it, first, as crime against the laws
| of nature which God the Almighty has
stamped upon the races Of mankind, becau ie
| it attempts to force political and social, and
unnatural equality between the African and the
Caucasian, between an alien, inferior and ex-
otto race from the tropics, with the highest
| type OF the human race in the home OF the
| latter in the temperate zone.
Second. ! impeach 1t rs crime agalns
civilization, because it would by force wrench
the government out of the hands of the civil
! lied white race in ten States OF this Union to
place it in the hands Of the half civilized Al
| rican Third, impeach it as crime against
| the Constitution, because it tranples down
the rights Of the States to fix for themselves
| the qualifications Of their own voters, right
without which State ceases to be Republican
at all Fourth. impeach it as a crime against
the Constitution and against national faith, be-
cause it annuls the pardons constitutionally
granted to hundreds Of thousands of the most
| intelligent white men Of the South, and in open
| palpable violation of the Constitution disiran
chises them. Fifth, I impeach it as crime
against the existence Of ten States of the Union
and the liberties Of eight millions Of people,
| because in express terms it annuls all civil
government, by which alone those liberties
may be secuted, and places them under an
absolute military despotism. Sixth, l I'M
peach it as crime against humanity, tending
to produce /: war Of races. to the utter destruc-
! ton OF one or both, a result which cannot be
prevented without u large standing army,
| which neither our resources will bear nor our
liabilities long survive. Seventh, [ impeach
| it as an utter abandonment OF the purpose for
which the war was prosecuted, OF the idea
upon which we fought and mastered rebellion.
1t tends to make false all the promises and
pledges made by the friends of the Govern
ment in its fearful struggle to put down the
rebellion, and it tends to make true all the
prophesies and forebodings Of its enemies
Since the great speech of the eminent Sena-
tor, Congress has been on trial before the
country, and an unqualified verdict has been
rendered agains. its entire political conduct
Its administration of the Government has been
rebuked; its financial policy pronounced
failure, whilst its reconstruction doctrines have
been repudiated and stigmatized as cruel and
unjust, unwise and impracticable. The peo-
pie have signifel their disapprobation, and
have driven from power and place those I'M
worthy, corrupt and falthless public servants
who hays dishonored the high mission en-
trusted to their charge: