. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . nd their recusant are precisely the principles this day involved in the controversybetween the people and their recusant President. Without revolu-tion, senators, like the great Parliament of 1688, you are asked toreassert the principles of the Constitution of your country, notto be searched for through the statutes of centuries, but to be foundin that grand, sacred, written instrument given to us by the fathersof the republic. The Constitution of the United States, as I havesaid, embodies all that is valuable of England
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . nd their recusant are precisely the principles this day involved in the controversybetween the people and their recusant President. Without revolu-tion, senators, like the great Parliament of 1688, you are asked toreassert the principles of the Constitution of your country, notto be searched for through the statutes of centuries, but to be foundin that grand, sacred, written instrument given to us by the fathersof the republic. The Constitution of the United States, as I havesaid, embodies all that is valuable of Englands Declaration ofRights, of Englands constitution and laws. It was ordained by thepeople of the United States amid the convulsions and agonies ofnations. By its express provisions all men within its jurisdiction areequal before the law, equally entitled to those rights of person whichare as universal as the material structure of one man, and equallyliable to answer to its tribunals of justice for every injury doneeither to the citizen or to the state. 200. JOHN A. BINGHAMj M. C.^ OF OHIOLATER, U. S. MINISTER TO JAPAN Civil-\\^AR Echoes — Character It is this spirit of justice, of liberty, of equality that makes yourConstitution dear to freemen in this and in all lands, in that it securesto every man his rights, and to the people at large the inestimableright of self-government, the right which is this day challenged bythis usurping President, for if he be a law to himself the people areno longer their own law-makers through their representatives inCongress assembled; the President thereby simply becomes theirdictator. If the President becomes a dictator he will become so bythe judgment of the Senate, not by the text of the Constitution, notby any interpretation heretofore put upon it by any act of the people,nor by any act of the peoples representatives. The representativesof the people have discharged their duty in his impeachment. Theyhave presented him at the bar of the Sen
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