JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875)]. CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Manuscript draft Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson, prepared by J. B. Henderson at request of Rep. Robert T. Van Horn for the Committee of Managers, n.d. [Feb. 1868]. 14 pages, folio, pages joined by white ribbon looped through two holes at top, some pages with fold separations .
JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875)]. CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Manuscript draft Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson, prepared by J. B. Henderson at request of Rep. Robert T. Van Horn for the Committee of Managers, n.d. [Feb. 1868]. 14 pages, folio, pages joined by white ribbon looped through two holes at top, some pages with fold separations . "ANDREW JOHNSON HAS COMMITTED HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION" AND "SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE" A highly revealing draft of what became the House Articles of Impeachment against President Johnson. The first line tells it all: the narrative of Johnsons' crimes starts with "the 15th day of December 1860," the day South Carolina passed the first ordinance of secession! For House Republicans, Johnson's offenses are merely an extension of the Slave Power rebellion begun that day. They point to his approval of new governments in the rebel states "controlled by officers...who had been officers and prominent actors in the late rebellion." Those state governments, "with the knowledge and connivance of said Andrew Johnson," adopted discriminatory laws "the purpose and effect of which were by indirection to re-establish the institution of slavery..." The death or resurrection of slavery--and black civil rights--is at the heart of this indictment, not Edwin Stanton's tenure in office. The draft goes on to catalogue Johnson's refusal to continue the Freedman's Bureau; his veto of the 1866 Civil Rights Act; his wild and intemperate (in every sense) speech attacking the Congress on 22 February 1866; his rejection of the 14th Amendment. They denounce him for seeking "to revive the false teachings of the past" and "to arouse feelings of animosity and hatred..." Only at the very end, and almost in passing, does it mention Stanton's dismissal on 21 February 1868. Then the summation: "He has brought contempt, shame and ridicule upon the office of the President of the United States, to the great injury and scandal of republican institutions...Wherefore the House of Representatives charges that the said Andrew Johnson has committed high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution and laws of the United States, for which he should be impeached and removed from office."
JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875)]. CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Manuscript draft Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson, prepared by J. B. Henderson at request of Rep. Robert T. Van Horn for the Committee of Managers, n.d. [Feb. 1868]. 14 pages, folio, pages joined by white ribbon looped through two holes at top, some pages with fold separations .
JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875)]. CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Manuscript draft Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson, prepared by J. B. Henderson at request of Rep. Robert T. Van Horn for the Committee of Managers, n.d. [Feb. 1868]. 14 pages, folio, pages joined by white ribbon looped through two holes at top, some pages with fold separations . "ANDREW JOHNSON HAS COMMITTED HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION" AND "SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE" A highly revealing draft of what became the House Articles of Impeachment against President Johnson. The first line tells it all: the narrative of Johnsons' crimes starts with "the 15th day of December 1860," the day South Carolina passed the first ordinance of secession! For House Republicans, Johnson's offenses are merely an extension of the Slave Power rebellion begun that day. They point to his approval of new governments in the rebel states "controlled by officers...who had been officers and prominent actors in the late rebellion." Those state governments, "with the knowledge and connivance of said Andrew Johnson," adopted discriminatory laws "the purpose and effect of which were by indirection to re-establish the institution of slavery..." The death or resurrection of slavery--and black civil rights--is at the heart of this indictment, not Edwin Stanton's tenure in office. The draft goes on to catalogue Johnson's refusal to continue the Freedman's Bureau; his veto of the 1866 Civil Rights Act; his wild and intemperate (in every sense) speech attacking the Congress on 22 February 1866; his rejection of the 14th Amendment. They denounce him for seeking "to revive the false teachings of the past" and "to arouse feelings of animosity and hatred..." Only at the very end, and almost in passing, does it mention Stanton's dismissal on 21 February 1868. Then the summation: "He has brought contempt, shame and ridicule upon the office of the President of the United States, to the great injury and scandal of republican institutions...Wherefore the House of Representatives charges that the said Andrew Johnson has committed high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution and laws of the United States, for which he should be impeached and removed from office."
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