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
We shall propose to prove on the trial that Andrew Johnson was guilty
of misprision of bribery by offering to General Grant, if he would unite
with him in his lawless violence, to assume in his stead the penalties
and to endure the imprisonment denounced by the law Bribery is one of
the offenses specifically enumerated for which the President may be
impeached and removed from office. By the Constitution, article two,
section two, the President has power to nominate and, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint all officers of the United
States whose appointments are not therein otherwise provided for and
which shall be established by law, and to fill up all vacancies that may
happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which
shall expire at the end of their nest session. Nowhere, either in the
Constitution or by statute, has the President power to create a vacancy
during the session of the Senate and fill it without the advice and
consent of the Senate, and yet, on the 21st day of February, 1868, while
the Senate was in session, he notified the head of the War Department
that he was removed from office and his successor ad interim appointed.
Here is a plain, recorded violation of the Constitution and laws, which,
if it stood alone, would make every honest and intelligent man give his
vote for impeachment. The President had persevered in his lawless
course through along series of unjustifiable acts. When the so called
Confederate States of America were conquered and had laid down their
arms and surrendered their territory to the victorious Union the
government and final disposition of the conquered country BELONGED TO
CONGRESS ALONE, according to every principle of the law of nations.
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