JOHNSON, Andrew.] U. S. CONGRESS, House of Representatives. Manuscript document signed, 24 February 1868. Resolution of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, signed by Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and 97 other members. Folio (21 ½ x 15 3/8in.), Heading accomplished in calligraphic hand: 40th Congress, 2nd Session / United States of America / House of Representatives. Signatures in four columns. – U.S. SENATE. Manuscript document signed by 54 Senators “of the 2nd Session of the 4oth Congress / 1868.” Folio (19 ¼ x 15 1/8in. Signatures in four columns. Closed tear in fourth column (across John Sherman’s signature), browned.
JOHNSON, Andrew.] U. S. CONGRESS, House of Representatives. Manuscript document signed, 24 February 1868. Resolution of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, signed by Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and 97 other members. Folio (21 ½ x 15 3/8in.), Heading accomplished in calligraphic hand: 40th Congress, 2nd Session / United States of America / House of Representatives. Signatures in four columns. – U.S. SENATE. Manuscript document signed by 54 Senators “of the 2nd Session of the 4oth Congress / 1868.” Folio (19 ¼ x 15 1/8in. Signatures in four columns. Closed tear in fourth column (across John Sherman’s signature), browned. “RESOLVED THAT ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BE IMPEACHED OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN OFFICE.” A remarkable document signed by most of the members of the House and Senate who voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and then tried him in the Senate. This was the first of only two occasions in which the Congress used this extraordinary remedy, both instances resulting in acquittal in the Senate. The Congress, controlled by anti-slavery, pro-Reconstruction Republicans, sought to remove Johnson in retaliation for his lenient policies towards the defeated South. Republicans wanted strong Federal controls and enfranchisement of black voters. Johnson liberally dispensed pardons to former Confederates, and was content to allow the old slaveocracy to regain its power. The impeachment was a purely political gambit: trying to unseat a President over policy differences rather than crimes per se. The technical violation of the law on which the Congress pegged its prosecution was Johnson’s violation of the Tenure in Office Act, a piece of legislation that was itself part of Reconstruction politics, for it forbade the President from removing Cabinet members without Congressional approval. Johnson did precisely that when he dismissed Lincoln’s firebrand Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The trial in the Senate, presided over by Stanton’s former Cabinet colleague, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, resulted in a close acquittal, with the prosecution coming just one vote short of the necessary 2/3rds to convict. Together 2 items .
JOHNSON, Andrew.] U. S. CONGRESS, House of Representatives. Manuscript document signed, 24 February 1868. Resolution of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, signed by Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and 97 other members. Folio (21 ½ x 15 3/8in.), Heading accomplished in calligraphic hand: 40th Congress, 2nd Session / United States of America / House of Representatives. Signatures in four columns. – U.S. SENATE. Manuscript document signed by 54 Senators “of the 2nd Session of the 4oth Congress / 1868.” Folio (19 ¼ x 15 1/8in. Signatures in four columns. Closed tear in fourth column (across John Sherman’s signature), browned.
JOHNSON, Andrew.] U. S. CONGRESS, House of Representatives. Manuscript document signed, 24 February 1868. Resolution of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, signed by Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and 97 other members. Folio (21 ½ x 15 3/8in.), Heading accomplished in calligraphic hand: 40th Congress, 2nd Session / United States of America / House of Representatives. Signatures in four columns. – U.S. SENATE. Manuscript document signed by 54 Senators “of the 2nd Session of the 4oth Congress / 1868.” Folio (19 ¼ x 15 1/8in. Signatures in four columns. Closed tear in fourth column (across John Sherman’s signature), browned. “RESOLVED THAT ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BE IMPEACHED OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN OFFICE.” A remarkable document signed by most of the members of the House and Senate who voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson and then tried him in the Senate. This was the first of only two occasions in which the Congress used this extraordinary remedy, both instances resulting in acquittal in the Senate. The Congress, controlled by anti-slavery, pro-Reconstruction Republicans, sought to remove Johnson in retaliation for his lenient policies towards the defeated South. Republicans wanted strong Federal controls and enfranchisement of black voters. Johnson liberally dispensed pardons to former Confederates, and was content to allow the old slaveocracy to regain its power. The impeachment was a purely political gambit: trying to unseat a President over policy differences rather than crimes per se. The technical violation of the law on which the Congress pegged its prosecution was Johnson’s violation of the Tenure in Office Act, a piece of legislation that was itself part of Reconstruction politics, for it forbade the President from removing Cabinet members without Congressional approval. Johnson did precisely that when he dismissed Lincoln’s firebrand Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The trial in the Senate, presided over by Stanton’s former Cabinet colleague, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, resulted in a close acquittal, with the prosecution coming just one vote short of the necessary 2/3rds to convict. Together 2 items .
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