Succeeding in this, we were to be met next February with the electoral votes of those ten States given for himself as President of the United States.

If by fortune, as was his hope, he should receive a sufficient number of votes in the North to make a majority, then, with the support of the Army which he had corrupted, he had determined to be inaugurated President of the United States at the hazard of civil war.

To-day, sir, we escape from these evils and dangers." -- Mr.Kerr of Indiana, speaking for the Democrats, said: "I and those with whom I act in this House had no knowledge whatever of the purpose of the Executive to do the act for which the movement is again inaugurated for his deposition.

We are therefore free in every sense to submit to the guidance alone of reason and duty." Late in the afternoon Mr.Stevens rose to close the debate.

He said: "In order to sustain Impeachment under our Constitution I do not hold that it is necessary to prove a crime as an indictable offense, or any act _malum in se_.