The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-03-29
President johnson.

u-o ,r.se,t To orr readers to-day the aoie
message of President Johnson IN
di.credi,,b,e light il places the poiiey OF .oh-
t,ro.s with reference TO the negro poP"'a''o"
r.;. ,ham above their own race an"
49, Nv, the objects OF favor and distlnc'
49,. 80, extended to white people Inc IN
.t.,ancy is bad enough III itself, nu' vi"
~. which occasions ii heightens the aus
h,nor inflicted by its passage upon the Ma
,ional Legislature. 1t is nothing, as every
ono knows but a party measure-the pur-
,,se of which is to perpetuate the power OF y
marty established upon sectional preJudices'
To foster those prejudices and inflame the
national mind is the only means of proiongihS
its existence.
president Johnson, in one of his sensible
and patriotic addresses, declared that he stood
forth as the representative IF the nation. lhis j.
his true position He is elected by the nation
n administer the affairs of the whole country
withou. respect to sectional CONSIDERATIONS
In this light il is his duty to shield, rs lar as
ba can the weak sections from the cNeroearihS
,,,xrar Of the numerical majority. The trainers
- ,,.roustitution intended that he should Go
This when they gave the President the veto
mower. That is one of the most valuable OF
tho conservative features of the Constitution
and /, is noblv exerted by President JOHNSON
not ONLY to protect 4 minority, but I minority
that is powerless, and has no voice in the BODY
framing laws bearing with direct force upon
their rights and their fates.
The President is therefore an obstacle IN th'
way of the expressions from the brute ana
insensible power of numbers. He becomes eA
ceedinrly obnoxious, and every expedient Is
employed TO break him down in the public estl'
marion. and 10 pass laws over his veto. Have
we not seen in the last two days Senator
elected from his seat against the Opinions OF
tho learned committee who have under then
charge the questions of law arising In the
body-and this committee having the same
political complexion with the majority OF the
San,te9 And at the same time do we not
saa the Committee on Reconstruction Matching
their brood of prejudicial reports touching tho
effects of the President vetos on the people
of the South ?--representing that those Ve1o'
have inspired the Southern people with bitter
feelings towards Unionists and negroes--thal
stimulated by those baleful documents, rs soor
as the army and the Freedmen's Bureau are
Withdrawn, they will unrelentingly persecut'
the Unionists and remit the negroes oaek u
slavery9 A more deliberate combination &c
carry on an unscrupuious WI "P"'i :" s
officer of Government never developed l'seii
No President ever stood forth III so nopie III
attitude and none ever had TO struggle "ili
such powerful opposition. tie protects INT
yoiceless and powerless, and desiree 10 restore
the Union entire, that it may return 10 LIS
prosperity and the vigorous life of its peacef"
pursuits His Neutrality-suspicious. thei
special interests, and the securing OF tn
power and patronage of the Government II
their hands rs more important than the wei
fare of the nation,-scheme and plot niSh
and day 10 defeat him.