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in opposition to the President was the most severe.  The vote was taken at five o'clock 124 to 42.  The galleries were crowded and a detachment of policemen was placed at the various entrances and passages of the capitol to preserve order.  The President sent to the Capitol his appointment of Hon. Mr. Ewing as Sec. of War. & also a message protesting against the action of congress in impeaching him.  He has received messages from democratic citizens of New York & other places offering to sustain him with money and men.  About eleven o'clock to-day Gen. Thomas went to the War Department where Stanton is still in voluntary confinement remaining in the building night & well day & said he had come to take possession of the Office in obedience to the repeated order of the President.
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Stanton ordered him from the room.  Gen. Thomas went to the principal employee & ordered them to bring him the [[?]] papers & packages passing through their hands as head of the office. The position of these underlings is decidedly disagreeable not knowing whom they must obey.
25th Tuesday.  The paper this morning contains the President Message.  He takes the ground that the turning out of Stanton is not a violation either of the Constitution or the Laws of the U.S. including the tenure of office law.  It was not in violation of the Constitution as the right of the President to appoint & remove his own officers was distinctly recognized in that & had been excised [[strikethrough]] ed [[/strikethrough]] by his predecessors from Washington down.  As to the demise of Office law the first section of that act is as follows.
"That every person holding any civil office to which he has been