HENRY STANBERY,
B.R. CURTIS,
JEREMIAH S. BLACK, WILLIAM M. EVARTS, } Per H.S.
THOMAS A.R. NELSON,
Of Counsel for the Respondent.
The above motion was denied, and the Senate adopted the following orders:
Ordered, That the respondent file answer to the articles of impeachment on or before Monday, the 23d day of March instant.
Ordered, That unless otherwise ordered by the Senate, for cause shown, the trial of the pending impeachment shall proceed immediately after replication shall be filed.
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1868.
THE UNITED STATES vs. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT.
The answer of the respondent to the articles of impeachment was submitted by his counsel, as follows:
Senate of the United States, sitting as a court of impeachment for the trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States.
THE ANSWER OF THE SAID ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED AGAINST HIM BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Answer to Article I.—For answer to the first article he says that Edwin M. Stanton was appointed Secretary for the Department of War on the 15th day of January, A.D. 1862, by Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States, during the first term of his Presidency, and was commissioned, according to the Constitution and laws of the United States, to hold the said office during the pleasure of the President; that the office of Secretary for the Department of War was created by an act of the First Congress in its first session, passed on the 7th day of August, A.D. 1789, and in and by that act it was provided and enacted that the said Secretary for the Department of War shall perform and execute such duties as shall from time to time be enjoined on and intrusted to him by the President of the United States, agreeably to the Constitution, relative to the subjects within the scope of the said Department; and, furthermore, that the said Secretary shall conduct the business of the said Department in such a manner as the President of the United States shall from time to time order and instruct.