The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . lled. It was but a logical sequence of what had gonebefore—the last of a series of usurpations, all looking to thesame great object. It did not rise, perhaps, beyond the heightof many of the crimes by which it was ushered in. But its mean-ing could not be mistaken. It was an act that smote upon thenerve of the nation in such a way as to render it impossible thatit could be cither concealed, disparaged, or excused, as w-ere themuffled blows of the pick-ax that had bee
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . lled. It was but a logical sequence of what had gonebefore—the last of a series of usurpations, all looking to thesame great object. It did not rise, perhaps, beyond the heightof many of the crimes by which it was ushered in. But its mean-ing could not be mistaken. It was an act that smote upon thenerve of the nation in such a way as to render it impossible thatit could be cither concealed, disparaged, or excused, as w-ere themuffled blows of the pick-ax that had been so long silentlyundermining the bastions of the Republic. It has been heardand felt through all our wide domain like the reverberation ofthe guns that opened their iron throats upon our flag at Sumter;and it has stirred the loyal heart of the people again with theelectric power that lifted it to the height of the sublimest issuethat ever led a martyr to the stake or a patriot to the battle-field. That people is here to-day. through its Representativeson your floor and in your galleries, in the persons alike of the vet-. A MANAGER OF THE IMPEACHMENT 68l erans who have been scarred by the iron hail of battle, and of themothers and wives and daughters of those who have died thatthe Republic might live, as well as of the commissioned expo-nents of the public will, to demand the rewards of their sacri-fices and the consummation of their triumph in the award of anations justice upon this high offender. And now as to the immediate issue, which I propose todiscuss only in its constitutional and legal aspects. The great crime of Andrew Johnson, as already remarked,running through all his administration, is that he has violatedhis oath of office and his constitutional duties by the obstructionand infraction of the Constitution and the laws, and an endeavorto set up his own will against that of the law-making power,with a view to a settled and persistent purpose of forcing therebel St
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