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
Thomas: "I shall require the mails of the War Department to be delivered
to me and shall transact the business of the office."
Stanton: "You shall not have them, and I order you to your room."
No. 3.
On Tuesday, April 2nd, the prosecution put in evidence a letter from
the President to Gen. Grant, dated Feb. 10, 1868, in answer to a prior
letter front the General. The President's letter, as introduced in
evidence, purported to contain certain enclosures relating to the
subject matter of the President's letter. The following is that portion
of the President's letter which speaks of the enclosures accompanying
and included therein:
GENERAL: The extraordinary character of your letter of the 3rd instant
would seem to preclude any reply on my part; but the manner in which
publicity has been given to the correspondence of which that letter
forms a part, and the grave questions which are involved, induce me to
take this mode of giving, as a proper sequel to the communications
which have passed between us, the statements of the five members of the
cabinet who were present on the occasion of our conversation on the 14th
ultimo. Copies of the letters which they have addressed to me upon the
subject are accordingly herewith enclosed.
Counsel for the President objected that the letter introduced by the
prosecution was not evidence in the case unless the managers should also
produce the enclosures therein referred to and made a part of the same.
The following was the vote on sustaining the objection:
Yeas--Bayard, Conkling, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fowler, Grimes,
Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Morrill of Vermont Norton,
Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Sprague, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers and
Willey--20--10 Republicans and 10 Democrats.
Nays--Anthony, Buckalew, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conness,
Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen,
Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire,
Pomeroy, Ramsay, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Williams, and
Wilson--29--28 Republicans and 1 Democrat.
So the evidence offered by the prosecution was admitted as offered,
without the enclosures referred to, the objection by the defense not
being sustained. (For these rejected enclosures see appendix.)
No. 4.
The prosecution offered to prove (Mr. Geo. A. Wallace, of the Treasury
Department, on the stand):
That after the President had determined on the removal of Mr. Stanton,
Secretary of War, in spite of the action of the Senate, there being
no vacancy in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the
President unlawfully appointed his friend and theretofore private
secretary, Edmund Cooper, to that position, as one of the means by which
he intended to defeat the tenure of civil office act and other laws of
Congress.
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