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
On the same day, the following gentlemen were elected by the House
of Representatives as Managers to conduct the prosecution of the
impeachment of the President before the Senate: Hons. Jno. A. Bingham,
of Ohio; George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts; James F. Wilson, of Iowa;
Benj. F. Butler, of Massachusetts; John A. Logan, of Illinois; Thomas
Wilson, of Pennsylvania, and Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania.
On March 3rd it was ordered by the Senate:
That the Secretary of the Senate inform the House of Representatives
that the Senate is ready to receive the managers appointed by the
House of Representatives to carry to the Senate articles of impeachment
against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States.
In the Senate, on the 4th, the following formal proceedings were had:
The managers of the impeachment on the part of the House of
Representatives appeared at the bar, and their presence was announced by
the Sergeant-at-Arms.
The President pro tempore: The managers of the impeachment will advance
within the bar and take the seats provided for them.
The managers came within the bar and took the seats assigned to them in
the area in front of the Vice President's Chair.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives advanced and took a seat on
the right of the President pro tempore of the Senate.
Mr. Manager Bingham:
Mr. President, the managers on the part of the House of Representatives,
by order of the House, are ready at the bar of the Senate, whenever it
may please the Senate to hear them, to present articles of impeachment
and in maintenance of the impeachment preferred against Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, by the House of Representatives.
The President pro tempore:
The Sergeant-at-arms will make proclamation.
The Sergeant-at-arms:
Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of
imprisonment, while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the
Senate of the United States, articles of impeachment against Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States.
The managers then rose and remained standing, with the exception of Mr.
Stevens, who was too feeble to do so, while Mr. Manager Bingham read the
articles of impeachment, as follows:
Articles exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United
States, in the name of themselves and all the people of the United
States, against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, in
maintenance and support of their impeachment against him for high crimes
and misdemeanors in ofce.
ARTICLE I.
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