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Identifier: civilwarechoesch00howa (find matches)
Title: Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Howard, Hamilton Gay
Subjects: Statesmen
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Howard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ride; substituting,with the most disgusting self-complacency and ignorance, his owncoarse, brutalized will for the will of the people, and substitutinghis vulgar, vapid, and ignorant utterances for patriotism, states-manship, and faithful public service, he has completed his circle ofhigh crimes and misdemeanors; and, thanks to Almighty God, bythe imbedded wisdom of our fathers found in the Constitution ofour country, he stands to-day, with all his crimes upon his head,uncovered before the world, at the bar of this the most augusttribunal on earth, to receive the awful sentence that awaits him asa fitting punishment for the crimes and misdemeanors of which hestands impeached by the House of Representatives, in the nameand on behalf of all the people. Here, senators, we rest our case;here we leave the great criminal of the age. In your hands, aswisely provided by the charter of our liberties, this offender againstthe Constitution, the laws, liberty, peace, and public decency of our 176
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JOHN A. LOGAN, M. C, OF ILLINOISEX-MAJOR GENERAL U. S. VOLS. ; LATER, U. S. SENATOR AND REPUBLICANCANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT13 Civil-war Echoes — Character country, is now left to be finally and in the name of all the people,we humbly trust, disposed of forever, in such manner as no more tooutrage the memories of an heroic and illustrious past, nor dim thehopes, expectations, and glories of the coming future. Let us, weimplore you, no more hear his resounding footfalls in the templeof American constitutional liberty, nor have the vessels of the ark of thecovenant of our fathers polluted by his unholy hands. Let not theblood of a half million of heroes who went to their deaths on thenations battlefields for the nations life cry from the ground againstus on account of the crimes permitted by us, and committed by himwhom we now leave in your hands. Standing here to-day for thelast time with my brother managers, to take leave of this case andthis great tribunal, I am penetrated and ov

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