. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . here would be much more restricted thanthat; for although in those speeches the President used the wordCongress, undoubtedly he did not mean the entire constitutionalbody organized under the Constitution of the United States; hemeant the dominant majority in Congress. Everybody so understoodit, everybody must so understand it. But the complaint is that hemade speeches against those who governed in Congress. Well, whoare the grand jury in this case? One of the parties spoken who are the triers? The other party spoken against
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . here would be much more restricted thanthat; for although in those speeches the President used the wordCongress, undoubtedly he did not mean the entire constitutionalbody organized under the Constitution of the United States; hemeant the dominant majority in Congress. Everybody so understoodit, everybody must so understand it. But the complaint is that hemade speeches against those who governed in Congress. Well, whoare the grand jury in this case? One of the parties spoken who are the triers? The other party spoken against. Onewould think there was some incongruity in this; some reason forgiving pause before taking any very great stride in that honorable House of Representatives sends its managers here totake notice of what? That the House of Representatives haserected itself into a school of manners, selecting from its ranks thosegentlemen whom it deems most competent by precept and exampleto teach decorum of speech; and they desire the judgment of this i66. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, M. C, MASSACHUSETTSFORMERLY MAJOR GENERAL U. S. VOLS.; GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS Civil-war Echoes — Character body whether the President has not been guilty of indecorum,whether he has spoken properly, to use the phrase of the honorablemanager. Now, there used to be an old-fashioned notion thatalthough there might be a difference of taste about oral speeches,and, no doubt, always has been and always will be many such differ-ences, there was one very important test in reference to them, andthat is whether they are true or false; but it seems that in thiscase that is no test at all. The honorable manager, in opening thecase, finding, I suppose, that it was necessary, in some manner, toadvert to that subject, has done it in terms which I will read to you: The words are not alleged to be either false or defamatory, be-cause it is not within the power of any man, however high his officialposition, in effect to
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