ry
to stay and arrest their diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be
denounced as a Judas.

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Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action, if you
will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance--soldiers
and citizens--to participate in these offices, God being willing I will
kick them out. I will kick them out just as fast as I can.

Let me say to you in concluding that what I have said I intended to say.
I was not provoked into this, and I care not for their menaces, the
taunts and the jeers. I care not for threats. I do not intend to be
bullied by my enemies nor overawed by my friends. But, God willing, with
your help I will veto their measures whenever any of them come to me.

which said utterances, declarations, threats, and harangues, highly
censurable in any, are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in the Chief
Magistrate of the United States, by means whereof said Andrew Johnson
has brought the high office of the President of the United States into
contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good
citizens; whereby said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
did commit and was then and there guilty of a high misdemeanor in
office.

ART. XI. That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
unmindful of the high duties of his office and of his oath of office,
and in disregard of the Constitution and laws of the United States, did
heretofore, to wit, on the 18th day of August, A.D. 1866, at the city of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, by public speech, declare and
affirm in substance that the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States
was not a Congress of the United States authorized by the Constitution
to exercise legislative power under the same, but, on the contrary, was
a Congress of only part of the States; thereby denying and intending to
deny that the legislation of said Congress was valid or obligatory upon
him, the said Andrew Johnson, except in so far as he saw fit to approve
the same, and also thereby denying and intending to deny the power of
the said Thirty-ninth Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution
of the United States; and in pursuance of said declaration the said
Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, afterwards, to wit,
on the 21st day of February, A.D. 1868, at the city of Washington,
in the District of Columbia, did unlawfully, and