No impartial reader can examine the record of the pleadings and arguments of the Managers who appeared on behalf of the House, without feeling that the President was impeached for one series of misdemeanors, and tried for another series.
Blaine critiques the impeachment process, arguing that the President was tried for different charges than those for which he was impeached.
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In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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