Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I have not called the honorable member from Massachusetts to order. I trusted that his own good sense, or what was due to himself, to the senate and the country, would itself have been a sufficient aii to order i say to the Senator now that he is bound to know, not that the President will be impeached, but that he may be impeached, because he knows that there is now a proposition in the House lookin to that result; and in advance, without, as think, the slightest necessity, he places himself out of the pale of his judges by pronouncing, in the face of the public, that he has adjudged and condemned already. During the Presidency of General Jackson the Senate of the U.S. had before it certain resolutions couched in such phrases as implied as against him the charge of being an enemy of his country or a usurper. He sent in his protest. I invoke the honorable member from Massachusetts to read that protest again and see how it can be answered. He protested against it upon a ground not as strong as that upon which I now place what I suppose to be the erroneous and misjudged conduct of the honorable member from Massachusetts, upon the ground that the matters charged in the resolutions were offenses impeachable. It was perfectly well known that there was to be no impeachment of him in that HoRep. They sided with him. And one who might have been termed the leader of the Senate, one by whom I think the original resolutions were drafted, one who towered high among his fellows, and stood equally high in the estimation of his country was so forcibly struck with the objection that he changed the phraseology of his resolutions. But I submit to the Senate and to the honorable member that upon a mere question whether it is advisable to vest in anybody else but the President the appointments to which his amendment refers, it was wholly unnecessary to inquire into the character of the president. The honorable member was here, I believe, during the whole administration of Mr. Lincoln, and if any member of the Senate had more influence with that departed states man and officer than himself I am not aware of it. I had reasons to believe, satisfactory to my own mind, and I am sure the honorable Senator will not contradict me, that his judgment had not only an influence but a control ling influence upon the judgment of the incum bent of the office at that time. He applauded him. It is not for me to say the a.Was not well merited. He justified all that that officer did. It is not fo me to say that the justification was not well founded. But at the moment that he was applauding and justice: the acts of Mr. Lincoln, he knew, or might have known, that in exercising the power of appointment he had turned out twice as many officers as have been turned out of office by the existing President; but yet not a word of censure came from the honorable member from Massachusetts, or from any other quarter, exeept, perhaps, from the friends of those who were dismissed. Why? Because the power was properly vested in the Executive, and because in the exercise of his power the friends of the honorable member had been put in, and those who were politically hostile to the honorable member had been, to use a phrase which he is about to make classic, “kicked out.”