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T r -1 U r. A i - UN 10 N;." T II K CO N S T I T i7 1 0 N N Til K LA W'tfi E 6 ',U !A U D 1 A N S 0 F j 0 U K ' t'l R E R T I E S . I !! I (.1- ,''',:;:;,'vt,:No;i24oi8;!. ' if - . r ' . i, .-ii 'i .(' fit. nit lit.. l.i iMtn . .,ti'.. Li.. 'J,.'. 1 ! . 3& AA'1 V. .. . : J . PI fiF-w -i .-r$ :t ": f in5 -'- w i?r' , t ; I'-' - ; I, "" . - . Of the Judiciary CommUtu on Impeach- t J t ! rf.. We. i . Repreientnivei James F. WiUon in5 Frederick 4S. Wowlbriilge'imndrd in a re pert; Oimenting from ilie conclutium tr neO ith injiriijr ftl ilie comfnittee. 'Ihr; fjr : Oo lite Stliiay of Jane, I86r, it ! declared, by a avleinn vole in the committee,1 that, Iruin Uie'teitimunf tien beluretheni.itdid nut appear that thePreai dent of the United Ktatet wai guilty l och high crhnei and nitdeineanur n4 cal ted for an esercie f the impeaching puwei f thi1luut. Tne vole aiood jea It e . avs lur; On the Stit instant tint actum I the coin mi itre wat reverited, and a tote t bve ! Iur declared in fator l lecom larndirg to the )luue an imprachment ol h Prrnlent. Fortt-fi-ht h(urhae not t eUprd aince we were inlonncil ol t'if hiitctrr til the report' winch represent Tta ctungti attitude of the cnininittee. The rrccntnft f Una e u Coinitel a gential tri-atmetit uf Mie feature ol thr ie $i it ia prekeiitel Oy lite uujaritr, ahich thrrwie would have been treated if anine in Utat't The report l tlie mij ntT rele all jifnuinpiiitni agiiuit the PmMrnt, c'ote tne d.Mir a-aintt alldoubtn, allinu lact a aultbioiieil U) the trulun -liVi in uppnrt t wtuclttiivre u not a lurti'cle ol nidtiMe beluie u wiiKft wull be received br an v court in the land. We ilmcnt f .in"all l thi, and irutu thr tempe r nd pirit f the frpM t. Te col nd inibiljud;iiifiit ol (he (uiaie, wnm Hie eici'enienu in itudttul wbiiii we live anall lure Jta-d awaj, will imi fail tuilmcuvrr that tlte puli tuai bttterea d t!i present time ha, in ns inCttnaidetabte "tfire, gien tne to t'ie Ucumeiit whu-ii we deHine to approve. 'l)irntn, a wedn, IrofN fin- ieprl nf the Cttiinnutee, bvili aa to the Ijw ol ihr caae anl the cuncluin drawn frum the lacta ileetiprd by the tttimoinr.a ihtr re ftui lr the Un.l which imponr-il on ui the lngh nl liauCf mljittb imrl mi duly in toitrd in an rietig4tiMioi the charrt prrteird aamt thr INea.drnt nnjtrl u tiprrventat iriij;th our icw nl tlienabjrcl wiinN haa brrii cuiiiinittfd t u lr a itiut awiemn te ut tte Uoe ui Hrprmrma tit". In app Aactiin, thi duty we Ire fiat the apirtt ( thr pailUtn nhould be Uiil tie. and lnal thr into rf l the lie public, a they are measured by it tn-ti-tulMin and law, alnne ahould guiil- u, and te inl tleeply re-ret that, in thia regard, we Cannot pjrr the report ol our Col league, whu constitute majorty nf the ii i. m 1 1 lee. While we would not charge I hem with a l-ign n act the pirt ol par fiin in ihi grave prceedHg. we never th1r feel pained by the to-, temper, and pint of their report. Hut regret will uot al'erthe 1 em null id the n e-ent grave andenntmanding occasion, nd we therefore Fetpnnd to them by preentig to the l'oue vhc reult of a careful, deliberate, and, aa we Inf. a cnncientioa inveitigatioo ol i!e caa before u. Mevri. WiUan and AVoiMlbrtdje then yrocerd to diacuit the comtitutiona! que lion with regard to impeachment, tScc, Sowing, by relerence to legal authoritt'a, that an impeachment cannot be aupported lit any act whirh falla ahort nl n indicia tie crime or tandimeaoor. , Kngluli pre eedenii are referred tu at length, and co- pioui eitracta are made dom teiiimony of the committee,' in urner io reiu.e ie rrB aoning and conclusion of the oiijority l l.r rt.nclude I fullil : A grtat deal of the matter contained in the volume 'if tcitiinony reported to the Haute ia of no value whatever. Much ol jt ia mere hearajr, opinions of wnnea, nd n little amount of it utterly irrelevant i the cae. Compratiely a amall amouiit . itcnutd be uedoa a trial of thia ce l,.lnre the Senate. All nf the leatinvmy I elating to the failure tolry.and idmiaion i. ia.l ol. Jeffenon Davial the utaiama ion ol IVeaidcnt Lincoln ; the diary of J ilkea fc place of burial; the t.taniirr nf nirtlon btokeraze, the alleged orre-pondtnee of the rrniidenl wiih Jf-, but i not. of the slightest importance, o far as a determination oi.thjacaaeiaconeeed. Mill, uiuch ol this irrelevant, ; matter been iuterwoven into the report dd. the nta joiity, au baa served to fceigVen: its. color ami in deepen ita tone, strike out the tage eirect of ttiis , irrelevant matter, and prointnencegivea to the Tudors; the Sturrt'i auo Michiel Uurn, and much ol the play will disappear, feettle don upon the feai evidence in the cae, that which will, estab-, luh, m view ol the attending circamatantea, a ultaiuial crime, by making 'plain Uie element winch constitute it, and 'he car, in. many iepccts, dwarf into a political, conteal. , , . : ..'.., ,. -r ., . la approaching a conclusion, we do not fail to recognize, the stand-point t from whicn this cave can be viewedr-Uie Ieg4t and the political. , Viewing it fron tUe lonuer, the cae upon the law and the.tea; tiuiony fails. Viewing it from the tatter, the casei a success. The ' President disappointed the hope and expectations of thote wiiu placed hnn in power, lie naa betrayed thnr eonidrnce, and joined hand with iheir enemies. .Ilr-ha proved laise totheeipressand implied conditiont which underlie bis elevation to power, and, in our view of the cae. deserve the censure and cundeiuiution of every well-diposed citi zen ol the Re public." While we atqut him ol impeachable crime, we prenoonce him guilty ol many 'wrong-.. " Hi coniesi with Coogre haa ilrlayrd rrcn'ruciiati, and iiiUitttd vaat iojurv upm the peopl ol the rebel States. lie ha been bl'iid to tne neceitie of the tiaieg, and to tbe d oiaiid ol a pi ogrrite a il y.atinti. v He rrinains nvelojied in the dai knees f the pi, nd seems not lo have detected the dawning brigh ne of tne future. Jjlncapa ble ol aonreciaun; ihe zrand change which t'if pat ts yeara hae wrought, he eeK to weaure Ihegieat evema which mrrouna hitaa by Hie narrow rule which a?jed public affairs before the rebellion and it legitimate consequence destroyed them lid entaulished other. Judge hi ut poli tically, we mut condemn hnn. Hut the day ol political impeachment would be a a I one for this country. Political unfit ne and incapacity must be tried at (he ballot boi, not in the lush court ol im peachment. A contrary rule might leave to CuO'reS'jbut little lime for otner besiues than the trial ol impeachments. Hit we sre nt now dealing with political oBenrea. Crimes and niidem anoiaare now demand-; ioi our attention. Do thee, wiihm the meaning ol the ton.tiiution, appear i Rest the cat. opon polim al oflVnces. anil we are . ...... . . lit. lr..i. prepared to prowuuvc againi lent, lor UCh onencea are ouineiouf '' g'ave. II Men"" rip-rinur we need have no di.nculty, for there almot every election i pit ductie ol a revolution. II the people of tfis Uepuhlie desire such a reult, we have not yet been able to dis cover it ; nor wouU. we aor it H it pres ence were manifest. While we condemn and cenure the political conduct of the President, and judge him unwise in the use ol hi discretionarf powers,' ad appeal to the people of the Republic to Miain us we still affirm that the conclui'ii at which we have arrived is correct. We therefore declare that he cae be fore os, presented by the testimony and measured by the law, does not declare such hizh crime and misdemesnor, within the meaning of the Constitution, a require . th internosilion of the contiluti'nal power of this House, and rcconimenu ine adoption of the following resolution : K,fl!crJ. That the Commitlee on ihe Ju diciary be deschirged Iromthc Turther con .:.i....;n f ih iimnotrd imneachment of lllilin "i .... I I " . I the President ol the United States, and that the subject be laid upon the table. J A MRS F. -WILSON. I , .. ! H f: . .it .'! f i i'.iu : wu ' ri M REPOKT, OFTHE 8ECBBTAKY, OF .TUB t , THBASUKY UrpNTjlR F.ANUIiv, ,1 ; ,Tlua reporta'waj-s, looked ot..witjigrv interest, is of more generdl, importance, .at, the present tpan.'at iny former; time fin , (he financial history o) jhe country.; liii re port, it will be observed, is made anrju.ily bv jaw, 'not' to' the President,, but, to, Con'-gress-the b(fdy,(t w hiqiV is ; confided t la entire iiiijfCt of.reenue, taxation, andthff mwiiitviiauvv wi mi; ,'uuii bl fu J I i t ( , i . am A fat eow of Durham crrde was recently Itughtered in London, which weighed, when killed, 1.050 pounds, and yielded 310 pounds of rough tallow r , ; The Italian Comment has granled universal amarstf to thealhertots id Gari bt'di. " The Secretary opens :he report with the assurance that the finances of ihe, United Siatea, not itlistauding the continued .dr piec'uti'iii of.' the. currency, ars in .a more salistactury cpndi'tioii than they were a year ago. Nearly live hundred millions, of in terest bearing notes, certificate of indebt? eduess, anu ol temporary loan, have beeu pad or converted into bonds, and the pub lic debt has been reduced by sixty, mil. liuDs : , The policy of contracting, the curren cy, although not enforced to tne eilent, au tlion. d by" law, lu prevented an expan sion ot credits, to which a redundant, and especially a depreciated curn ncy isalways au incentive, and has had no little intlu nee in stimulating labor and increasi2 produc-j uoo. inausiry nas been s;e.niily retuuung to the healthy channels from which it.wa diverted during the war, and although in coioes nne been small, and trade general ly inactive, in no other commercial coun try ha there been les financial embarrass- on ni liian in the United Mates." j A contrast is drawn by :he Secretary be tween the critical, condition tl the. firiances at the close ol the wat and the prereatcom iaiatiely sa'i!.lactoiy state of thing. The Secretary relied much upon the authority to isue tne seven-thirty Treasury, notes. The people, with the zealout.und able sup port of tiie pablic press, widiout distinction ol party, promptly took up the entire issue, lo the great relief of the (internment. The national banks, too, gave efficient aid, by liberal subscriptions, to the effort fur the support of the Government credit. Ine CMiditton of the country and the Trea-ury deist mined the policy f the Se cretary, which ha teen to cnveit the in trrr6t bearing note, temporary loans, &.C, into go:d bearing bonds, and t contract the piperjciiculatioii by the Keilemptiotv ol Dmteil ivaiesnoe. For ihe last iwoyear tins policy has been steadily, but carefully pursued, and f'e res-ilt, upon the whole, tias bteu sativfjetory io the Secretary, and. a lie believes, to a majority of the peo i'V' 1 ne Secretary suggests, as the tune when perte pay menu may b- wholly resumed, me 1st ot January, 1869, or, at the farthest. the 1st ol July, 18b9. 1 he conditions indispensable for resump tion are : First. The funding or payment of the balance of interest-bearing notes, and a continued Contraction of the paper currency. M Second. The maintenance of the pub lic faith in i egard to the funded debt. " Third, t he restoration of the Southern States in their proper relations to the Fede ral Government. ll the opmmn be correct, the question of permanent specie payments, involving as it does tne prosperity ol the country, un derliet the.great question of currency, tax ation, and reconstruction, which are now c gaging the attention of the people, and cannot tail lo receive the earnest and deli berate attention ol Congress," Thu Secretary proceeds to discuss, with great force aud clearness, the great ques tion el a return to a specie standard. Ine views presented by huu in his report two years ago, in lavor of a return to specie payments, were piomptly approved by a resolution of the House ol Representatives, sad seemed io be heartily responded lo by the people. Congress limited the extent of contraction, and the Secretary ha cotr loimed with it, continuing the redaction, witti the exception of some months, when the state of business rendered it injudi cious. "'.,'; -' . The continuation of this policy, he con siders a obviously wise,, and proceeds to s'iuw thl it has had the lumpiest re sults. He.reters" especial It to the demo ralizing inflflentes of "urtfonvertible Go yemment ' currency, td which no one caii be blind. --.u ,' ).:: i j The report goesjintn an argument to show1 that the coatiaction slmuld be" applied to tue Jegal tenders, rather than to the na tion d bank notes. 4t does not approve tho proposition ol substituting the legal. tea ders for national , bank notes, and reeom mends that the policy of contraction be' continued. ... ci : ; j... j In conneetion with j the permanent re sumption , of, sj.ecie, payments, the, report, treats the subject ol tbe'preservatiori of the. national fsith,,wie and stable revenue laws,, vigorously enforced, econum'y in the publie expenditure, and a" recognition, i.f ihe obligstion of the Government to pay its bonds in accordance with the understand-! ing under which they 'were issued " ' Commerce and industry cannot thrive, J nor "cair national faith be kept uiihout'a resumption of specie payment". lie aybV; An irredeemable currency is a finari'' cial disease which retards growth instead of encouraging it ; which stimulates sprula tion, but diminishes labor. A hesltKyi growtli is to be secured by the removsl of the disease, and not by postponing the pros per treatment of it in lh expertation that the vigorous constitution of the pitient will eventually overcome iu" ? f ; -:V The excessive duties levied upon uime loreign imports are shown to be very pre judicial to our foreign . commerce, naiga tion, and ship-building. Reduction is rt commended ol such duties. As io the internal revecue, he rec.on . mends the system ol reduction proposed by Mr.. II. A. HCIIS. The Secretary mskes a statement: to show that it was the design and understand-: ing nf Congress that the five twenties be paid in gold, both interest and principal. Upon the popular question ol taxing the United Stales securities the Secretary sympathizes with the view that they oujjht to pay a share of the public burden. He', proposea a plan for this purpose, as fol- lows : " After giving the subject ctrrful consi- deration, the Secretary rati suggest no bet ter way of doing it than by an issue of bonds to be known as the consolidated debt ofthe United Starrs, bearing six per cent, interest, and having twenty years to run, into which all other obligations of the Go verntnent shall as rabidly a possible b conteried ne sixth part ofthe interest at each semi-annual payment to be reserved ; by the G 'eruinent and paid over Jo the Stales, acconling to their population. Bf ; this means all the bonds, wherever held, ' would be taxed alke, and a general dislri- ( bution of them be secured. Such taxes, including the levies lor the county and mu-' nicipal purposes, now, a a general thing ' exceed one per cent., hut when the debts incurred lor the payment of bounties are pr.id, (snd in most ol the States they are t already in the process of rapid extinction.)' and economy is again practiced in the ad . ministration of State sffjirs. this Indirect assessment will be quite likely to equal the tax assessed upon other property. If the' debt lo be funded shall amount to $2,000, 000,000, the amount to be reserved and . paid io the State annually would be $20,- 000,000, which would give to each of the States, in gold, the iuiui named in the re Among recent strikes" is a strike of Queen Victoria sgilnst the London botch era. She refuse, to'' pay them fur her es . tablishment the large prices they have been' exacting. This roorse, which a tak'ra to benefit the poor, ha already, it is sa'd, produced preceplible reduction inj thu price of mean in t'ts markets of England. Four hundred bushrls of potatoes to the acre are said to be an average crop this sea on in Otlord county, Maine. A starch k. mill in Amlovtr has giound twenty-five tenusand bushels of Item into starch alr. a, dy.thisyesr. , i !:,. i r The Munich (Conn.) Hulletio ny that; the lareeat cotton manufactory in ih world is b'rildmg at Tufuvillc, near that place. rerion uavia,miy uc uiiri:."'B,w .
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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Dec. 11, 1867, edition 1
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