And fourthly, that he committed high misdemeanors in his speeches denouncing the Thirty-ninth Congress, and declaring it to be a Congress of only a part of the "States."
These charges were presented by the managers of the impeachment to the Senate on March 5th, the day upon which the Senate organized itself as
The charges
presented to
the Senate.
The President's
appearance
entered by
his counsel.
The managers on the part of the House very ungenerously objected to giving the President any time at all for the preparation of his answer
The President's answer
to the complaint.
An incident occurred at this point in the history of the procedure, which should be related, although it interrupts somewhat the thread of
The withdrawal of
Mr. Black from the
President's counsel.