The  following  additional  articles  of  impeachment  were  agreed  to,  viz:
Art. X. That  said  Andrew  Johnson,  President  of  the  United  States,
unmindful  of  the  high  duties  of  his  office  and  the  dignity  and  proprieties
thereof,  and  of  the  harmony  and  courtesies  which  ought  to  exist  and  be
maintained  between  the  executive  and  legislative  branches  of  the  Gov-
ernment of  the  United  States,  designing  and  intending  to  set  aside  the
rightful  authority  and  powers  of  Congress,  did  attempt  to  bring  into  dis-
grace, ridicule,  hatred,  contempt,  and  reproach  the  Congress  of  the  United
States  and  the  several  branches  thereof,  to  impair  and  destroy  the  regard
and  respect  of  all  the  good  people  of  the  United  States  for  the  Congress
and  legislative  power  thereof  (which  all  officers  of  the  Government  ought
inviolably  to  preserve  and  maintain),  and  to  excite  the  odium  and  resent-
ment of  all  the  good  people  of  the  United  States  against  Congress  and
the  laws  by  it  duly  and  constitutionally  enacted;  and,  in  pursuance  of  his


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said  design  and  intent,  openly  and  publicly,  and  1)efore  divers  assemblages
of  the  citizens  of  the  United  States,  convened  in  divers  parts  thereof  to
meet  and  receive  said  Andrew  Johnson  as  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  the
United  States,  did,  on  the  18th  day  of  August,  A. D. 1866,  and  on  divers
other  days  and  times,  as  well  before  as  afterwards,  make  and  deliver  with
a  loud  voice  certain  intemperate,  inflammatory,  and  scandalous  harangues,
and  did  therein  utter  loud  threats  and  bitter  menaces,  as  well  against  Con-
gress as  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  duly  enacted  thereby,  amid  the
cries,  jeers,  and  laughter  of  the  multitudes  then  assembled  and  in  hear-
ing, which  are  set  forth  in  the  several  specifications  hereinafter  written
in  substance  and  effect;  that  is  to  say:

SpeciJlcatio7i  first '. — In  this,  that  at  Washington,  in  the  District  of  Colum-
bia, in  the  Executive  Mansion,  to  a  committee  of  citizens  who  called  upon
the  President  of  the  United  States,  speaking  of  and  concerning  the  Con-
gress of  the  United  States,  said  Andrew  Johnson,  President  of  the  United
States,  heretofore,  to  wit,  on  the  18th  day  of  August,  A. D. 