Stanton resumed the duties of his office.  The President removed him and appointed Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant-General of the Army, Secretary of War ad interim.  The Senate declared this act illegal, and Mr. Stanton refused to comply, and notified the Speaker of the House.  On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives resolved to impeach the President, and on March 2 and 3 articles of impeachment were agreed upon by the House of Representatives, and on the 4th were presented to the Senate.  The trial began on March 30.  May 16 the test vote was had; thirty-five Senators voted for conviction and nineteen for acquittal.  A change of one vote would have carried conviction.  A verdict of acquittal was entered, and the Senate sitting as a court of impeachment adjourned sine die.  After the expiration of his term the ex-President returned to Tennessee.  Was a candidate for the United States Senate, but was defeated.  In 1872 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congressman from the State at large.  In January, 1875, was elected to the United States Senate, and took his seat at the extra session of that year.  Shortly after the session began made a speech which was a skillful but bitter attack upon President Grant.  While visiting his daughter near Elizabethton, in Carter County, Tenn., was stricken with paralysis July 30, 1875, and died the following day.  He was buried at Greeneville, Tenn.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

[From the Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, April 16, 1865, and The Sun, Baltimore, April 17, 1865.]

Gentlemen:  I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred.  I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.  As to an indication of any policy which may be pursued by me in the administration of the Government, I have to say that that must be left for development as the Administration progresses.  The message or declaration must be made by the acts as they transpire.  The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past.  The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must be regarded as a guaranty of the future.  My past public life, which has been long and laborious, has been founded, as I in good conscience believe, upon a great principle of right, which lies at the basis of all things.  The best energies of my life have been spent in endeavoring to establish and perpetuate the principles of free government, and I believe that the Government in passing through its present perils will settle down upon principles consonant with popular rights more permanent and enduring than heretofore.  I must be permitted to say, if I understand the feelings of my own heart, that I have long labored to ameliorate and elevate the condition of the great mass of the American people.  Toil and an honest advocacy of the great principles of free government have been my lot.  Duties have been mine; consequences are God’s.  This has been the foundation of my political creed, and I feel that in the end the Government will triumph and that these great principles will be permanently established.