STbe democrat •j '— J HARVEY PICKLER, Editor. TUNKHAtfNOCK, PA. Wednesday* Feb. 26, 1868. syThe Democratic National Commit tee which metal Washington a. lay or two since, to determine the time ar.d place of the next National Presidential Convention, fixed the place at Tammany Had, New York, and the time July 4th. EXCITING FROM WASHINGTON. Stanton Removed—Refuses to go—Gen. Thomas, his successor, Arrested—The President to be Impeached—Old Thad. inaugurating a National Buck Shot War—The Rump kindling the flames of Civil Strife. On the 21st inst. President John.on is sued an order removing lldwin M Sian ton from his Cabinet and appointed Adjfl taot Gen. Lorenzo Thomas as Secretary ot War al interim. Stanton immediately sent the order for this removal to the House of Represeutalives. Radical Sena tors and Representatives urged Stantou to hold OD to the office iu defiance of the or der for his removal. Gen. Thotnaa in formed Stanton of his appointment and de manded the surrender of the office and pa pera. Stanton refused to do so. Kept in the office all night—surrounded it bv a double guard and his backers. A War rant was procured on his affidavit and Gen. Thomas was arrested for an attempted vi olation of the civil tenure law. Thomas was released on giving hail to answer the charge. Thad. Stevens on Saturday re ported a resolution impeaching the Presi dent for High crimes and Misdemeanors, fixing the hour of o o'clock on Monday for the final vote. At the appointed time on Monday all debate was cut off and the I'resident was formally impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors by a vote of 126 ayes to 47 noes. Two members —Steward and Carey, who on soma occasions vote with the ma jority, on this occasion voted with the mi nority. With these exceptions the vote was a strict party one. It is asset ted that the President will be tried before the Sen ate and-removed from bis office within ten da vs. 'The most intense excitement prevails at the capital and in the country. Radical Governors—among them Gov. Geary— are sending to Congress assurances of their support with troops The Constitutional Cmmaoder-in-Clri< f of the Army and Navy, it is said, will not be obeyed by Gen. Grant nor the acting Department Commander at Washington. The Presi dent, it is said, will appeal to the Courts to compel Mr. Stanton to show by what au thority be holds the office. The Johnson-Grant Correspondence. We give the principal letters between the ! President and General Grant at full length, but make an abstract, only, of the other let* tera, which are a part of the correspondence, as we have not the space for them entire. 1. General Grant to the President, Janu ary 25th, 18G8. Asks for written instructions not to obey any order from Mr. StantoD, unless be knew it to be from the President : asys be had said to the President, on receiv ing the war office, that Mr. Stanton, if the Senate did not concur in his suspension, would have to appeal to the courts to rein state biui ; but on a subsequent examination of the Tenure of office Bill, he found that be, Grant, could not continue to hold the office, if the Senate refused to concur, with out violating the law. Sates that he went to the President and explained this view to him, and that the President then said that he had suspeuded Mr. S'antcn under hi 0 nstitulional authority : that there was isme further conversation, and the President said be would see him on Monday, but he did not agree to call ; that he did not call on Monday ; that he surrendered the office to Mr. Stanton on Tuesday ; that the Presi dent sent for him to come to the Cabinet meeting, on Tuesday, to which he went ; that the President then said to him that he, Grant, had agreed to hold the office subject to the decisi n of the ccurts, or that the office should be surrendered to him, the President ; "that the President might have understood me the way he said, namely, that 1 promised to resign if I dw not resist the reinstatement, I made no such promise " 2. The President to General Graut, Janu ary 29th, 1808, instructs hint not to obey any order from the War Department, as sumed to be issutd by direction of the Pres ident, unless such order is known by him, Grant, to have been authorized by the Presi dent. 3. The President to General Grant, Janu ary 31st, 1808, states that in the presence of five members of the Cabinet, on Tuesday, the 14th instant, he, Grant, admitted that he had agreed to resign thq office or hold it subject to the decision of the Courts. 4. General Grant to the President: "HSADQTARTEBS ARMY OETItr. UNITED, ) STATES, WASHINGTON. 1). C. Feb. 3, 'OB. $ "7® llim tLrcellenry, Andrew Johnson, Pies ide.rU e made the basis of the charges in the newspaper article referred to, or agree to the accuracy, as you affirm they do, of your account of what occurred at that meeting. You know that we parted on Sat urday, the lllh uit., without any promise on my part, either expressed or implied, to the effect that I would hold on to the office of Secretary of War md interim against the ac tion of the Senate, or declining to do so my self would surrender it to you before such action was had,or that I would sec you again at any fixed time on the subject. The per formance of the promise*, alleged to have been made by me. would have involved a re sistance of the law, and an inconsistency with the whole history of my connection j with the suspension of Mr. Stanton. From oar conversation and my written protest of August 1, 1867, against the removal of Mr. Stanton you roust have known that my great est objection to his removal was Ibe fear that souie oue would be app"inted in bis stead j who would, by opposition to the laws relat ing to the restoration of the Southern Stales to (heir proper relation to the government, embarrass the army in the performance of the duties especially imp sed upon it by the laws, and thai it was to prevent such an ap pointment that I accepted (he appointment of Secretary of War ad interim, and notfor the purpose of enabling you to get rid of Mr. Stanton by my withholding it from bim in opposition to the law or, not doing so myself surrender to one, who, as the statements and assumptions in you communication plainly in dicate, wa sought; and it was to avoid this danger a well as to relieve you from the per sonal embarrassment in which Mr. Stanton's resignation would plice you that I urged the appointment of Governor Cox, believiug that . it would be agreeable to you and also to Mr. SttDton, satisfied as I was that it was the good of the country BD4 not the office the latter desired. On the 13th uit., in the pres- j ence of General Sherman, I stated to you that I thought Mr Sianton would resign,but but did not say that 1 would sdvh-e him to : do so. On the 18th I did agree with Gener-, al Sherman to go and adcise him to that course, and on the 19th 1 had an interview alune with Mi. Sianton, which led me to the conclusion that any advice lobini of this kind would be useless, and so informed General Sherman. Before I consented to advise Mr. Stanton to resign I understood from bun, in a conversation on the subject immediately after bis reinstatement, that it was his opin ion that the Ml "f Congress entitled "an act temp rarily to supply vaJHucic* in 'he Exec utive department in certain cases,*' approved February, 20,1863, was repealed bj subse quent legislation, which materially influenced my action. Previous to this time I had no doubt that the law of 1863 was still in force, and not withstanding my action a fuller exam auiination of the law leaves a question in ray mind whether it is or is not rejiealed. This being the case I could not now advise hts resignation,lest the same danger I apprehend ed trom his first removal might follow. The course you would have it understood 1 agreed to pursue was in violation of law, and that without orJers from you, while the course 1 did pursue, and which I never doubted you fully understood, was not in disobedience to any order* of my *uperior. And now Mr. President, when my honor a* a soldier and integrity as a man have been j so violently assailed, pardon me for saying ' that I can but regard this whole matter, from j beginning to end. as an attempt to invoice j me in the resistance of laic lor which you I hesitated to assume the responsibility, in or der thus to destroy my character before the country. lamiu a measure confirmed in this conclusion by your recent orders direct ing me to disobey order* from the Secretary of War, my superior and your subordinate, without having countermanded his authority I am to disobey. With assurance, Mr. President, that noth ing less than a vindication of my personal honor and character could have induced this correspondence on my part, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient serv ant, U- S. GHAUT, General. 5. The President to Genera! Grant : ' EXECUTIVE MANSION, Feb. 10, 'CB. "GENERAL : The extraordinary character of your letter of the 3d instant, would seem to preclude any reply on my part. But the manner in which publicity has been given to the correspondence of which that letter form ed apart, and the grave questions which are involved, induce me to take this mode of giving, as a proper sequel to the communica iions which have pased between us, the statement of the five members of the Cabinet who w?re present on the occasion of our con versation of 'he 14th uit. Copies of the let ters which they have addressed to ine upon the subject are accordingly herewith eticloa j ed. •'You speak of my letter of the 31st ult. as a reiteration of the many and gross mis representations contained in certain newspa per articles, and reassert the correctness of 1 the statements contained in your communica tion of the 28'h ult., adding, and here f give your own word", anything in yours in reply to it to the contraty notwithstanding. When ever a coutroversary upon matters of fact reaches the point to which this his been bn.'t further assertion or denial between the irn* meaia'e parties should cease,especially where l upon either side it loses the character of the respectful discussi n which is required by the relator in which the parties stand to j each-other, and degenerates in tone and tem per. In such a esse, if there is nothing to i rely upon but the opposing statements, con elu'ioiis mu-t be drawn from these state-; mcnts alone, and from whatever intrinsic probabilities they afford in favor of or against either of the parties. I should not shrink from this test in the controversy ; but for tunately. it is not lett to this test alone There were five Cabinet officers present ai ihe conver-aiion, (he details of which, in my letter ol the 28'h ult,, you allow yourself to j ay contains many and gross misrepresenta Hons. The-e gentlemen heard that conveisa lion, and have read my statement. They j speak for themselves, and I leave the proof without a word of comment. "1 deem it proper, before concluding this communication, to notice some of the state- ! incuts contained in your letter. You say lhat a performance ot the promises alleged to j have been made by you to the President would have involved a resistance to law and an inconsistency with the whole history of i u>y connection wiih the suspension of Mr. 1 Stanton. You then state that you had fears 1 ioat the Presideut would, on the removal ol : Mr. Stanton, appoint some one in his place who would embarrass the ariuy in carrying out the reconstruction acts, and said : Mi was to prevent snch an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad , interim and not for Ihe put pose of enabling ' you to get rid of Mr. Sianton, by tny with-1 ho..jug it from niio in opposition to law, oi not doing so myself, surrendering it to one who would as ihe statements and assumptions in your communication plainly indicate was sought.' of all, you were advised that, from the very beginning of what you term the whole history of your connection with Mr. btan'.oa'a suapenaion, you iniBUd to it cumvent the President. It was to carry out that intent that you accepted the appoint ment. it was ID your mind at the time of your acceptance. It was not, then, in obedi ence to the order of your superior, as has ! heretofore been supposed that you assumed j the duties of the office. You know it was the President's purpose to prevent Mr. Stan ton from resuming the office of Secretary of War, and you intended to defeat that pur : pose. You sceepied the office not in the in terest of the President, but of Mr. Stsntoti "If this purpose, so entertained by you,had been confined to yourself; tf, when accepting the office, you had done so with a mental reservation to frustrate the President, it would have been a tacit deception. In the : ethics of some persons such a course is allow able, but rou cannot stand even upon that questionable ground. l'ha history of your connection with this transaction, as written by yourself, places you in a difficult predica ment, and ahows that you not only concealed | your design from the President, but induced ; bira to suppose that you would carry out hi* purpose to keep Mr. Stanton out of office by retaining it yourself after an attempted res -1 toration by the Senate, so as to require Mr. Stanton to establish hi* right by judicial de cision. "I now give that part of this history as written by youraell in you letter of the 28tb uit.,, 'Some lime after I assumed the duties ••f Secretary of War ad interim, the Presi dent asked tne my views as to the course Mr. Stanton would have to pursue in ca*e the Senate should not concur in his auspen* j sion, to obtain possession of his office. My reply was in substance: 'that Mr. Stanton would have to appeal to the Courts to rein state him, illustrating my position by cit ing the ground I had taken in the case of the 1 Baltimore Police Commissioners.' "Now at this time, as you admit in yoor letter of the 3J inst., you held tho office for j the very object of defeating an appeal to the Courts. In that letter you say that in ac cepting the office, one motive was to prevent , the President from appointing some other person who would reiam possession, and thus make judicial proceedings necessary.— j You know the President was unwilling to : trust the office with any one who would not, |by holding it, compel Mr. Stanton to resort ito the Courts. You perfectly understood that in this interview, some time after you . accepted the t ffice, the President, not Ccutent with your silence, desired an expression of your views, and you answered him that Mr. Stanton would have to appeal to the C-.urta. "If the President had refused confidence before he knew your views, and that c >nfi> dence had been violated, it might have been ' said he made a mistake, but a violation of j confidence refused after that conversation ! was no mistake of his or of yours. it is the j past only that needs be sia'ed. That at the date of this conversation you did not intend ' hold the office with the purpose of forcing Mr. Stanton intoCmrt, but did not hold it then, and had accepted u 10 prevent that ! course from being carried out. "In other words, you said to the President, that is the proper course, and you said to yourself : 1 have accepted this office, and now hold it to defeat that course. The ex cuse you make in a subsequent paragraph of that loiter of the 28'h ultimo, that after ! wards you changed your views as to what would be a proper course, has nothing to do with the point now under consideration. The point is that bef-re you changed your views you had secretly determined to do the very ihing which at last you did—surrender the j ffice to Mr. Stanton. "You may have changed your views as to 1 the law, but }ou certainly did not change j your views as to the course you had marked i .ml for yourself from the beginning. I will duly notice one more statement in your lei j ier of the 2d inst.: that the pet formance nf , the promises which, it is alleged, were made by you, would have involved you in the resis [ lance ol law. 1 know of no statute that wo'd have been violated had you, in carrying out your promises in good laith, tendered your resignation when you concluded not to be j made a party in any legal proceedings, j "You add :'lam in a measure confirmed in this conclusion by your recent orders, di i recting me to disobey oiders from the Sec -1 rotary of War, my superior and your subor dinate, without having countei ntanded his i authority to issue the orders 1 am to dis ! obey.' "On the 24:h uit. you addressed a note to t the President, requesting in writing an order given to you verbally five days before to dis " regard order* from Mr. Sianton, as Secretary i of War, until you knew from the President i! himself that they were hi* ordets. On the > 1 27th, to compliance with your request, I did give you instructions in writing not to obey ' any any order from the War Department as f; summed to be issued by the direction of the • President, unless such order was known by i the General commanding the armies of the L United States to have been authorized by the • Executive. There are some order* which s • I Secretary of War may issue without the au t i thority of the President. There are others ! which he issues simply a* the agent tf the President, and which purport to be by direc- tion of the President. For such orders the President is responsible, and he should there fore know and understand what they are be ' fote giving such directions. "Mr. Stanton states in his letter of the 4'h inst. which accompanies the published cor respondence, that he had bad no correspon dence with the President since the 14ih ot August last, and he further says that since he resumed (tie duties ol the office he had j continued to discharge them without any l personal or written communication with the President ; and he adds : 'No orders have been issued from this Department in the j name of the President with my knowledge, 1 and I have received no orders from him.' It I thus seens that Mr. Stan'on now discharges the duties of the War Department without any reference to the President, and without using his name. 'My oader to you had only reference to orders assumed to be issued by direction of the President. It would appear fiotn Mr. Stanton's letter lhat you have received no such orders from htm. However, in your note to the President of the 13th ult., in i which you acknowledge the receipt of the ; w niten order of the 29th ult., you say that | you have been informed by Mr. Stanton that ( he has not received any order limiting his authority to i-sue orders to the army .accord tng to the practice of the Department, and siate that,'wiiile this authority to the War ! Departmert is not countermanded, it will be satisfactory evidence to me that any orders | issued from the War Deiariinenl by direc tion of the President are authorized by the Executive.' j "The President issues an order to you to obey no order from the War Department, purporting to be made by the direc ion of ! i he President, until you have referred to him ' for his approval. You reply that you have received the {'resident's order, and will not obey it, but will obey an older purporting to be given by his direction, if it comes from the j War Department. You will not obey the ! order of the President, but you will obey his i indirect order. If. as y..u say,there has been j a practice in the War Department to issui* orders in the name of the President, without his direction, does not the precise order you have requested and received change the prac j iice aa to the General of the Army 1 Could ' not the President couniermand any such or ; der issued to you from the Wr Department? If you should receive an order from that P)e --| partmtna, isucd in the Dame of the Presi dent, to do a special act, and an order direct- If from the President himself not to d • the act, ia there a doubt which you are to obey ? 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