2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2024
Booklet, titled, "President Johnson and Congress, Audi et Alteram Partem. What Is Thought at Some of the Clubs, and Elsewhere in London, of the Threatened Impeachment." , disbound, London, Edward Stanford, 1867. In small part, " .. till one branch of Congress, maddened by the heroic courage and firmness of the Executive in resisting its encroachments and edicts, has actually taken this monstrous initiative - will it be believed - looking, for the first time in American history, to the impeachment, to the solemn impeachment, and TRIAL and PUNISHMENT, by the Other branch of Congress, of The Chief Magistrate of the Republic. ... Do you, Gentlemen of this Sectional Congress, find any warrant for your present extraordinary proceedings in the immortal pages of ' The Federalist, wherein those great expounders of the Constitution, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, have bequeathed to the world such a mine of wealth, of learning and wisdom..."
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