Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-08-18
TO THE SUPPORTERS OF TIE
OTERN.UENT.

out Indignation, the Proclamation OF the
President on the Sth of July, 1864.
The supporters of the Administration are
responsible to the country for its conduct:
and it is their right and duty to check the
encroachments Of the Executive on the an
thority of Congress, and to require it to
confnc itself to its proper sphere.
1t is impossible to pass in silence this
Proclamation without ncglecting that duty !;
and, having taken as much responsibility
as any others in supporting the administra
ton, we are not disposed to fail in the other
duty of asserting the rights of Congress
The President did not sign the bill ito
guarantee to certain States, whose govern
mcnts have been usurped, a republican form
Of government passed by the supporters
of his administration in both Houses OF
Congress after mature delibcration.
The bill did not therefore become tar:
and it is therefore nothing.
The Proclamation is neither an approval
nor a veto Of the bill; it is therefore docu-
ment unknown to the laws and Constitution
of the United States.
So far as it contains an apology for not
signing the bill, it is a political manifesto
against the friends of the government.
So far as it proposes to execute the bill =
which is not a law, it is Il grave Executive
usurpation.
1t Is httlng that tne l'lcts necessary 10 Gu,
able the 1riGhos oi tne a9in,,l's.ra.aom ~ =,
/ appreciate 'lc applos9 anu 'ho "'o' p"'io'
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And whereas the sald OH was presence
to the Ircsideht oi Ihe OIi'eu states ~
his approval less than one hour before th'
sme d'e adjournment OF salo session, aho
was not signed py hihi-
If that be accurate, still this bill was pre-
sented with other bills which were signed.
Within that hour the time for the sRt
die adjournment was three times postponed
! by the votes of both Houses; and the least
intmaton Of desire for more time by the
President to consider this bill would have
secured Il further postpOnement.
Yet the committee sent to ascertain it the
| President had any further communication
for the House Of Representatives reported
that he had none; and the friends of the bill
who has anxiously waited on him to as
certain its fate. had already been informed
that the President had resolved not to sign
t.
The time of presentation, therefore, had
nothing to do with his failure to approve
it.
The bill had been discussed and consider
ed for more than a month in the House o.
REPRESENTATIVES, which it passed on the 4tl
of MAY; it was reported to the Senate OF
the 9th of May without material amend
ment, and passed the Senate absolutely a
it came from the House on the ID of July
Ignorance of its contents is out of th
question.
Indeed, at his request, a draft of bil
substantially the same in all material point
and indentcal in the points objected to b.
the Proclamation, had been laid before hln
for his consideration in the winter of lSG
and '63.
There is, therefore, no reason to suppos
the provisions Of the bill took the presiden
by surprise.
On the contrary, we have reason to be
lieve them to have been SO vel known in Una
this method OF preventing the elli iron DC
coming law without the constitutional re
sponsibility of veto, had been resolved oil
long, before the Dill passed the senate. , ,
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