During all that time this fearful power of Impeachment was in the hands of the legislative department, and more than once a resort to it has been advised by extreme party men, as a sure remedy for party purposes; but happily that evil hitherto has not come upon us.
Blaine discusses the legislative power of impeachment and its potential misuse for party purposes.
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The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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