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
And the House of Representatives by protestation saving to themselves
the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further articles,
or other accusation or impeachment against the said Andrew Johnson,
President or the United States, and also of replying to his answers
which he shall wake unto the articles herein preferred against him, and
of offering proof to the same, and every part thereof, and to all and
every other article, accusation, or impeachment which shall be exhibited
by them, as the case shall require, do demand that the said Andrew
Johnson may be put to answer the high crimes and misdemeanors in office
herein charged against him, and that such proceedings, examinations,
trials, and judgments may be thereupon had and given as may be agreeable
to law and justice.
ARTICLE X.
That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of
the high duties of his office, and the dignity and proprieties thereof,
and of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained
between the executive and legislative branches of the government of
the United States, designing and intending to set aside the rightful
authority and powers of Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace,
ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach, the Congress of the United
States, and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the
regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the
Congress and legislative powers thereof, (which all officers of the
government ought inviolably to preserve and maintain.) and to excite the
odium and resentment of all the good people of the United States against
Congress and the laws by it duly and constitutionally enacted; and in
pursuance of his said design and intent, openly and publicly, and before
divers assemblages of the citizens of the United States, convened in
divers parts thereof to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the
Chief Magistrate of the United States, did, on the eighteenth day
of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, and on divers other days and times, as well before as
afterward, make and deliver, with a loud voice, certain intemperate,
inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud
threats and bitter menaces, as well against Congress as the laws of the
United States duly enacted thereby, amid the cries, jeer, and laughter
of the multitudes then assembled and in hearing.
ARTICLE XI.
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