Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-31

objection lies consequently, it is idle to
hope that any bill which provides-no
matter how cautiously, timidly-for the
protection of the Blacks, will receive his
sanction. 1t is, therefore, idle to consider
his reasons in detail since his main OBJ
lection is not to any detail, but to the pur-
pose and necessary scope of the measure.
[FrOm the Washington Chronicle, Rep.l
Two vetoes, in a little more than a
month, of two measures intended to check
and defeat the renewed intrigues Of the
defeated traitors, each having passed both
branches of the American Congress by
the extraordinary vote of more than two
thirds of the Senators and Representatives,
constitute at once IN exception and an ad-
monition. The exception is that measures
of such magnitude should have been con-
summated by the legislative de~partmentby
votes so nearly approaching unanimity,
and ~admonition that is all essential as they
were 10 the preservation of the public
peace and the protection of individual
rights, they should have been stricken
down by the hand of one appointed by the
people as a chosen guardian of their i'm
perilled, and finally of their rescued, lib
critics. 1t is an igRominious sequel to the
rebellion, and a most ominOus beginning to
his accidental administration. that those
who fell with the fall ofthe rebellion, and
those who sympathized with them
throughout should be the only class that
hail, with loud fluctuations, these W Ex-
ecutive DEGREES.
From the Cincinnati Gazstte, Rep.l
The veto message consists of misrepre-
sensations of the provisions of the bill.
and of appeals to those low instincts and
preiudices that Democratic -demaeoeues
play upon. This is perhaps the only re-
source for predetermined opposition to
any measure Congress may pass for the
protection of citizens against the hostility
of the rebel class. For it would be the
climax of absurdity to suppose that Mr..
Lincoln's assassination had made Andrew
JOhnton wiser in constitutional law than
any member of Congress, or than the
whole Legislative body.
From the Erie Dispatch, Ind.l
The spirit of the message is utter, de-
termined, fixed opposition to anything
and everything coming from Congress
which looks to justice toward the OPP
pressed race of the South, and that does
not recognize the equal right of the eleven
states, which voluntarily relinquished
their right to q share in the government
and fought for years to sustain their posi-
ton, to all the privileges of the loyal
states.
From the New York Herald, Johuson.l
The veto is, in fact, an emphatic declar-
alton of war against the radicals and their
paaanp+r tYof1o, rreAar, D.. ~ ~ l-.n.l
Henceforward there can be no party en-
dorsements of the policy of Congress
coupled with professions of adhesion to
the policy of the administration.
The line of division between the two
departments is in this veto too broadly
and clearly marked to admit of any fur
Their hedging. 1t inaugurates a recon-
struction of parties.
From the New York Times, Johnson.l
The Presidents message will be read
and studied outside of Congress, and
everywhere throughout the civilized
world and wherever it is read and stud
led the American name and character will
be elevated, in so far as Andrew johnson
is held to represent the American people.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, Johnson.
1t is the manifest purpose of the Presi-
dent to pursue TO the end the line of policy
that he has marked out, and it is impos-
sible for Congress to succeed in carrying
out the Radical programme, with the
whole Democratic party, the united South,
the President, with his enormous patron
age, and the sympathy Of moderate men,
against it.
From the Detroit Free Press, Dem.1
1t is unnecessary for US to express the
admiration we are confirmed in of Presi-
dent johnson by this second resistance to
tyranny, to oppression, to violations of
the Constitution, and to negro equality.
From the Buffalo Courier, Dem.
The thanks of the citizens of the
United States, those represented and
those unrepresented in Congress, are due
TO Andrew johnson for his noble and
firm stand for the Rights of the States and
the Liberties of the People.
From the New York World, Dem.
By this wise and able message President
johnson has established a new claim to
public confidence. He has shown him
self, thus far, a statesman of singular in
dependence, selfreliance, ard political
cOueage.