seemed to forget that there was a limit to the sphere and scope of legislation.  We have seen a Congress in a minority assume to exercise power which, allowed to be consummated, would result in despotism or monarchy itself.

Specification second.—­In this, that at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, heretofore, to wit, on the 3d day of September, A.D. 1866, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did in a loud voice declare in substance and effect, among other things; that is to say: 

  I will tell you what I did do.  I called upon your Congress that is
  trying to break up the Government.

In conclusion, besides that, Congress had taken much pains to poison their constituents against him.  But what had Congress done?  Have they done anything to restore the Union of these States?  No.  On the contrary, they have done everything to prevent it.  And because he stood now where he did when the rebellion commenced, he had been denounced as a traitor.  Who had run greater risks or made greater sacrifices than himself?  But Congress, factious and domineering, had undertaken to poison the minds of the American people.

Specification third.—­In this, that at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, heretofore, to wit, on the 8th day of September, A.D. 1866, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did in a loud voice declare in substance and effect, among other things; that is to say: 

Go on.  Perhaps if you had a word or two on the subject of New Orleans you might understand more about it than you do.  And if you will go back—­if you will go back and ascertain the cause of the riot at New Orleans, perhaps you will not be so prompt in calling out “New Orleans.”  If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to its source or its immediate cause, you will find out who was responsible for the blood that was shed there.  If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to the Radical Congress, you will find that the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned.  If you will take up the proceedings in their caucuses, you will understand that they there knew that a convention was to be called which was extinct by its power having expired; that it was said that the intention was that a new government was to be organized, and on the organization of that government the intention was to enfranchise one portion of the population, called the colored population, who had just been emancipated, and at the same time disfranchise white men.  When you design to talk about New Orleans, you ought to understand what you are talking about.  When you read the speeches that were made and take up the facts on the Friday and Saturday before that convention sat,