The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . induced to think, withthem, that a remedy so extreme as this was more than is only under the light shed upon the particular issue by ante-cedent facts which have now passed into history that the giantproportions of this controversy can be fully seen, if they are notmade sufficiently apparent now by the defiant tone of the Presi-dent and the formidable pretensions set up by him in his thought-fully considered and painfully elaborated plea. The not irreleva
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . induced to think, withthem, that a remedy so extreme as this was more than is only under the light shed upon the particular issue by ante-cedent facts which have now passed into history that the giantproportions of this controversy can be fully seen, if they are notmade sufficiently apparent now by the defiant tone of the Presi-dent and the formidable pretensions set up by him in his thought-fully considered and painfully elaborated plea. The not irrelevant question Who is Andrew Johnson ? hasbeen asked by one of his counsel, as it has often been by him-self, and answered in the same way. by showing who he -dcsand what he had done before the people of the loyal States sogenerously intrusted him with that contingent power which wasmade only for the advantage of defeated and discom-forted treason by the murderous pistol of an assassin. I willnot stop now to inquire as to scenes enacted on this floor soeloquently rehearsed by the counsel for the President, with two. A MANAGER OF THE IMPEACHMENT 677 pictures of so opposite a character before me, or even to inquirewhether his resistance to the hegira of the southern Senatorswas not merely a question, himself being the witness, as to thepropriety and wisdom of such a step at that particular time. Theopportunity occurs just here to answer it as it is put, by showingwho Andrew Johnson is, and what he has been since the unhappyhour of that improvident and unreflecting gift. Eheii! quantuminutatus ab illo! Alas, how changed, how fallen from that highestate that won for him the support of a too confiding people!Would that it could have been said of him as of that apostatespirit who was hurled in hideous ruin and combustion down fromHeavens crjstal battlements, that even in his fall he had notyet lost all his original brightness nor appeared less than Arch-angel ruined. The maste
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