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The American form of
government was never in greater danger than in the years 1866 through
1868. Constitutional government had broken down, and the Constitution
itself was in mortal danger. During these critical years, when the
national legislative body seemed to have gone suddenly mad, when the
judiciary abdicated its responsibilities, when the electorate, inflamed
by self-seeking politicians and a violent press, appeared to have lost
the power to reason, one man alone stood up in defense of the
Constitution. That man was Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the
United States.Andrew Johnson, who
heroically tried to stand against the onslaught of men in Congress who
were determined to turn the government of the United States into a
political machine, was so cruelly misrepresented, vilified, and attacked
that his name went down in history as that of an unworthy Chief
Executive. The only President ever to face impeachment, Johnson was
saved from that ignominy by a single vote in one of the most disgraceful
episodes in the nation's history. The charges brought against Johnson
were entirely without foundation. They were the means by which a
ruthless and selfish group of men sought to remove an enemy who stood in
their way to absolute power. That they so nearly succeeded is a
chilling warning for all time of the danger to every man's liberty when
the constitutional system of checks and balance in the functioning of
government becomes upset.
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