Mr. JOHNson. The only difference would be that he would have carried on his crusade against the people of the North with more tact and discretion because of his greater ability, superior educational advan tages, and more extensive acquaintance with the courtesies and amenities of civilized life. No wonder that the public clamor for his impeachment when they reflect on the long list of offenses he has committed against the party and the principles which placed him in power. What are a few of these offenses? We find him immediately upon entering upon the duties of his office, without consultation with the lawmaking power, legislating for the southern States in the most autocratic manner. We find him assuming powers which congress only can exercise. We find him laying down laws, for whole sections of the country; in fact, making and unmaking statutes for the people of the U.S. We find him assuming to decide who are and who are not citizens of the U.S. We find him excluding loyal men from the right of suffrage. e find him authorizing unpardoned rebels to exercise the same right. We find him thus handing over the rebel States to disloyal men, and putting the loyal under their tyrannical sway. We find him thus elevating rebels who had fought to destroy the Union, and putting down loyal men who had fought to preserve it. We find him appointing men governors of States whose hands were yet red with the blood of slaughtered Union citizens and soldiers. We find him letting loose the rebel blood hounds in NewOrleans upon a legal and peace able assembly of loyal men. The result was a massacre such as froze the heart of the North with horror and dismay, and caused every loyal southern heart to utterly despair of his country. We find him afterward shaking the bloody hands of those murderers in the reception room of the Presidential Mansion, while he complimented them upon the manner in which they had executed his programme for wiping out loyalty at the South. We find him denouncing this body as an usurnation. e find him not satisfied with exciting the passions of the mob against the lawful authority of Congress through the press by the fulminations of himself and satellites, but descending to the arena of stump oratory in this and other cities, and delivering harangues cal culated not only to excite a breach of o the but a revolution of the Government itself. We find him, on pretense of laying the corner stone of a monument to a deceased states man, repeating those harangues at every point on his route, the only object of which was to bring the Congress of the U.S. into contempt and derision. such a catalogue of high crimes and misdemeanors was never before presented against any executive officer in the whole range of history as can be presented by the present Congress against AndrewJohnson, President of these U.S. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, let me again impress upon the House the importance of the questions decided in: the late political contest. cannot, indeed, be overrated. But that one which is really the most important of all, and which includes all the others in the scope and bearing of its almost measureless influences, is that once and forever the U.S. is a nation, not a simple confederacy of States. From that day the country takes a new departure in its progress toward its final des tiny. From that day it stands forth a nation in the family of nations, and has a mission to fulfill which was impossible before the war. Why, sir, who cannot see that the American continent was created to be the abode of one people, and that the artificial incidents of its settlement by its present inhabitants intensify and make more self evident the original destiny of the country. There are on the North American continent no great national barriers between the different parts of the country. The only really gigantic barrier, the Rocky mountain chain, running north and south, is easily pierced by the artificial highways essential to modern civilization. In a few short years the whistle of the locomotive will wake the echoes of its snow capped peaks, and the Atlantic and Pacific will be indissolubly united by those iron bands which will be as hooks of steel binding East and West in eternal amity. The slopes of the continent, from north to south and from west to east, are gradual and almost unbroken. Its rivers are navigable for great distances inward. Its productions mineral, vegetable, and animal are almost similar in character and species, save the natural characteristic features created by isothermal distinctions, which are, however, gradual and not abrupt, as is the case in other continents. As to artificial causes that create and foster similarity, our people are of one language; and if there are varieties of race these latter are so blended and harmonized by contact and accretion that the marked features of distinction which characterize other quarters of the globe are in this, if not wholly absent, almost entirely erased. In fine, while Europe presents the aspect of variety in unity, both as regards natural and artificial features, America presents the aspect of unity with little variety. And this is one great reason, that great revolutionary movements in politics, literature, and religion appear to sweep over the country from one end to the other with a resistless power and effect which are often even appalling by the very force and depth of their movement. such a revolution was our late war and such the late political contest which succeeded it. Let us ponder upon their consequences and effects; but above ji let us not forget that both settled the ".tion of America's nationality in spite of the opposition of not only the rebels in the field and their sympathizers at the ballot box, but of the President bringing to bear all the power and patronage of the Government to thwart the will of the people. Mr. Speaker, it is a source of extreme mor ttirfiiccattion and regret that my congressional discannot claim a full share of the honor achieved in the contest from which we have just emerged, but it must not be inferred that any portion of my Republican constituents have deserted their principles. The result was effected by a combination of influences mainly foreign to the great issue, by the aid of corporations and lavish expenditure of money, which it was impossible successfully to combat. The fullest force of the Federal Administration was turned against me; secret circulars containing unscru pulous misrepresentations of my acts and sentiments, supposititious extracts from a speech not one word of which did I ever utter; garbied extracts from my public papers, a base and ungenerous appeal to the passions and prejudices of a large class of voters, by misrepresenting my motives and action in the discharge of a solemn and painful executive duty years gone by, were circulated without limit. In a district of uncertain political character, ofttimes Dem ocratic, these and other less important causes, together with an unfounded confidence in our success, have conspired to deprive us of an additional Representative. But, whilst an individual has fallen, and his ripple will soon subside, our lofty and sacred principles are imper ishable and will never fade away. It rejoices me to remember that I have been their early and earnest advocate, and I shall never cease to cherish and defend them.