Therefore you are now determining whether impeachment shall continue a beneficent remedy in the National Constitution, or be blotted out forever, and the country handed over to the terrible process of revolution as its sole protection.
This statement emphasizes the critical decision facing Congress regarding the future of impeachment as a constitutional remedy.
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