The daily gazette., 1879-04-05


read from the record and show him an
instance. On the ID of March, 1867, An
drew johnson had signed an army ap-
preparation bill under protest, feeling, a.
he sad, constrained to return the bill
with his signature but accompanying it
with his protest. Was there no coercion
there? Why the record was full of in
stances. He found that IN the Thirty
ninth Congress that had occurred which
would never fade from the minds of the
American people. He referred to the ef-
nigh resulting Impeachment Of the Chief
Executive of the country. The Execu-
tive hal been impeached of high crimes.
misdemeanOrs and usurdation, of viola
ton of law
First-"In that he IL corruptly used the
the appointing po wer. Had the gentleman
frem Ohio intended to impeach him for
that? The gentleman knew that he had
not.
Second-"In that he has corruptly used
the pardOning power" Had the gentle
Every body knew he had not.
Third-"In that he has cOrruptly used
the veto power" There was where the
sting came in. 1t was the exercise OF
that preogative, 1t was the employmen mt
OF that veto power, for which the House
voted those articles of impeachment.
F0urM-"In that he has corruptly dis
dosed Of public property" That was a
mere formal count 10 the indictment.
FVh-"In that he has corruptly inter-
fered with the elections" Those were
two counts in this Indictment on which
1t was proposed to impeach the Execu.
tive. One was the exercise of the veto
power and the other the interference, not
In elections, but 10 prevent the interfer-
ence of army power in elections. The
counts had been voted upon more than
once, and the gentleman, from Ohio was
on the record every time as voting in
their favor, and he had been supported
in his action and had had standing by
him voting side by side with him to i'm
peach the President for the exercise OF
the veto power one then comparatively
obscure, and who but for a com mbination u
of accidents would have remained 10 this
day, and until his dying day, in that OBJ
security for which nature and his Creator
seemed to have designed him-side by
side with the gentleman from OHIO had
stood and voted Mr.. Hayes of the same
State. Applause on the democratic side
and n the galleries.) And now by what
sort of authority had the gentleman from
Ohio come to threaten the House with a
probable action of the Executive? What
DIOVlSlOu vi buc lcuCldl COuSIitutioA
dertook to clOthe anybody, either the
President himself or one of his prvy
council, even including his Premier, the
Secretary of State, to sit, as he had done,
on the floor of the House last Saturday,
and by his presence aud approval seem
to iutimidate, overawe ami brOwbeat the
American Congress? (Derisive laughter
on the republican side.) Who had COM
missioned the gentleman from Ohio to
tell the House that IL had better be care
ful, because the issue was made and the
President would not obe cOerced into a
message of approval? Did the gentle
mau from Ohio or any other gentleman
put such a low estimate on the self-re-
spect, the integrity, the courage and the
manhood of the House, without regard to
party, as to believe that such threat, SO
fiouted, was TO intimidato the lawmak-
ing branch of the government and shape
its action on measures Of Legislation?
DEMOCRATIC INTENTION.
For the first time In eighteen years
the democracy is back in power in both
branches of Congress. We propose to
celebrate her return to power by wipinE
from the statute book those degrading
restrictions on freemeD, and by stricking
away the shsckle which partisan legis-
lation has imposed. We do not intend
to stop until we have stricken the last
vestige of your war measures from the
statute books dixie those which were
born of the passions incident to civil
strife and which looked alone to the
abridgement of the liberties Of the citi-
zen); until we have an untrammelled cleo
ton and an unsupervised ballot ard an
absolute free right for the citizens to de-
posit his ballot as the conditions pre-
cedent which we offer to you for the
passage of this bill. If the gentleman
from Ohio is to be excused (for certainly
he cannot be justified) for parading be-
fore this House the drgumentum in tor
rorem of IA veto that is cut and dried to
be put upon bill which has not passed,
anu If he is to be pardoned for warning
the House that the Executive branch of
the government will never yield its as
sent to this measure in its present form,
ask whether | may not be- warranted and
justified IN employing equal candor in
assuring that gentleman and his asso
ciates that the dominant power in this
Congress, the ruling element in this body
Is also equally determined that until its
lust demands, sanctioned by all laws hu-
man and divine, protected and hedged
around by precedents without number,
demanded by the people of this land
without regard to section, clamored not
for by the South alone but in Philadel-
phla as well as in New Orleans, in San
Francisco and Boston as well in Charles
ton and Savannah, are compiled with,
this side of the Chamber, which has de-
monstrated its power, never means to
weld or surrender unless this Congress
shall have died bv virtue of it's lmita-
tion? tWild applause on the democratic
side, A principle cannot be compro-
missed. 1t may be surrendered, but that
can only be done by its advocates giving
proof to the world that they are cravens
and towards and lack the courage of
their own convictions. We cannot yield
and we will not yield. Applause and
seusation)
Soon after the conclusion of Mr.. Black
burns speech, at haf-past four, the
Ii ouse took a recess until half-past seven
p. m.
plnTOlR ApHING THE POLICE.