History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)
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History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868
Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 -- Impeachment
California-Cornelius Cole, (R)-John Conness, (R). Connecticut-James
Dixon, (D)-Orris S. Ferry, (R). Delaware-Willard Saulsbury, (D)-James
A. Bayard, (D). Illinois-Lyman Trumbull, (R)-Richard Yates, (R).
Indiana-Oliver P. Morton, (R)-Thomas A. Hendricks, (D). Iowa-James W.
Grimes, (R)-James Harlan, (R). Kansas-Samuel C. Pomeroy, (R)-Edmund
G. Ross, (R). Kentucky-Thomas C. McCreary, (D)-Garrett Davis, (D).
Massachusetts-Charles Sumner, (R)-Henry Wilson, (R). Maine-William Pitt
Fessenden, (R)-Lot M. Morrill, (R). Maryland-Reverdy Johnson, (D)-George
Vickers, (D). Michigan-Zachariah Chandler, (R)-Jacob M. Howard,
(R). Missouri-John B. Henderson, (R)-Charles D. Drake, (R).
Minnesota-Alexander Ramsay, (R)-Daniel S. Norton, (D). New York-Roscoe
Conkling, (R)-Edwin D. Morgan, (R). Nevada-James W. Nye, (R)-William M.
Stewart, (R). Nebraska-Thomas W. Tipton, (R)-John M. Thayer, (R).
New Jersey-Alexander G. Cattell, (R)-F. T. Frelinghuysen, (R). New
Hampshire-Alexander H. Craigin, (R)-Jas. W. Patterson, (R). Ohio-John
Sherman, (R)-Benjamin F. Wade, (R). Oregon-Henry W. Corbett, (R)-Geo. H.
Williams, (R). Pennsylvania-Simon Cameron, (R)-Charles R. Buckalew,
(D). Rhode Island-Henry B. Anthony, (R)-William Sprague, (R).
Tennessee--David T. Patterson, (D)-Joseph S. Fowler, (R). Vermont-George
F. Edmunds, (R)-Justin S. Morrill, (R). West Virginia-W. T.
Willey,(R)-Peter (3. Van Winkle, (R). Wisconsin-James R. Doolittle,
(D)-Timothy O. Howe, (R). [Forty-two Republicans and twelve Democrats.]
The House bringing the Impeachment was three-fourths Republican--the
Senate that tried it was more than three-fourths Republican--the managers
on the part of the House were all Republicans--the counsel for the
President were three Democrats and one Republican--the President on
trial was a Democrat--the interrogatories propounded to witnesses were
generally received or rejected, according as their probable answers
would make for or against the President--the people of the country at
large were, as a rule, rigidly divided on party lines relative to
the case, Republicans demanding the conviction of the President and
Democrats urging his acquittal. The Chief Justice presiding in the trial
was the only strictly nonpartisan factor in the case.
The answer of the President to the Articles of Impeachment having been
presented on the 23rd of March, 1868--the replication of the House duly
made, and all the preliminary steps completed, the proceedings in the
actual trial commenced on the 30th day of March, 1868. Gen. Butler, one
of the managers on the part of the House, made the opening argument for
the prosecution, from which the following extracts are taken:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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