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The gentleman seems to acknowledge that there must have been a motive.

There can be no crime without motive; but when the party comes forward and offers to prove his motive, the answer is, 'You shall not prove it.' When he comes forward and offers to prove it from his warm, living heart, the answer is, 'We will make up your motive out of the presumptions of law and conclude you upon that subject.

We will not hear you.'" Mr.Boutwell renewed with vigor the argument that the exception made in the Tenure-of-office Act, in regard to members of the Cabinet, did not give the President power to remove Mr.Stanton.

"We maintain," said Mr.Boutwell, "that Mr.Stanton was holding the office of Secretary of War for and in the term of President Lincoln, by whom he had been appointed.