Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-06-06

elimination ofraoe or coior-and anothe
which conteTS powers upon United State
Courts and civil and military officers {
oppose and arbitrarily auuul and defea
legislative and Judicial proceedings Of tht
States IN the administration Of luEtice
where the equal rights OF n particula,
class oi persons are alleged to be inva.
ded
The President withheld his arprova
from the FIRST part Of this law undn thu
ground that 1t was unnecessary. and. II
his Judgment, in abstraction OMEN To mis-,
construction He disapnroved Of the sec
oud part of the law because II was no,
merely incoagruons, but inconsistent with
the riGhts and powers which the Consti-
tuition necessarily and wisely leaves 10 be
( exercised by the several States. But he
at the same time offered 10 concur witt,
/ congress in any constitutional measCre
which should be required for the protec-
tion OF freedmen in harmony with the fun
dame entail principles Of the Constitution Of
the United states. Congress adhered IN
It's bill and it became law The Presi~
dent could not forget am sure never
shall forret-the pestilential fruits Of the
fugitive slave law and the Drei Scott de-
cisi3r
They were insidious and onerous. be-
cause they Unne cessarily arraved Federal
/ Courts and officers in conflict with the au
thorIues Of the States upan questions &C
individual rights of property and liberty
ihCre IS no soUudness at all in our poiiti.
cal system, if the personal OF civil rights
OF each member Of the State. white or
black, tree born or emaneipated, native
born or naturnlzed. is not more secure
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ment than they could be under the ad-
ministration Of the National Governments
Harmony is essential to union. but har-
mony is Impossible if the citizens Of e~crv
State are not left free from unconstifution
nj Intervention in their civil rights by the
Federal Government
The Civil Rights bill retaliates unon the
late sla Cho!ding States now after slaverv
has ceased TO exist, tho very aggression
which, through the Fugitive Slave law.
the slave states committed upon the free
states ! for one am not promising now
or e'cT to carry sectional ambition into
the field cf national legislation. The
PRESIDENT, nevertheless, acquicncss in the
law OF Congress. How. then. shall he be
condemned fc- inhdeiitv in his political
principles or associations?
The Colorado case is "a third incident
which the discordant seek 10 turn to their
advantage. Five years ago Congress. in
view Of tho detection Of the eleven States
which We're carried into the rebellion. au-
thorized the rcopie Of Colorado then un~
deTstood TO be 10000 ia number, to form
a constitution for a State The people, hv
n majority Of three to one. refused to ac-
cept the privilege Last wear, when the
people were reduced by emigration to two
thirds ct their former number. = part~.
without any legal authority, held an ir-
regular election and obtained a majority
OF I35 ont Of less than 6.C03 votes. for ac-
coPrng the privilege Of State Govern
m2ut which they had rejected a year be
fore. Congress passed q bin which pro
posed their admission in.0 he Union. -
The President withheld his arnrovI unon
the ground that the f. - iuhahitants of Col
orado Territory arc already exercising all
the necessary aud bcncGccnt powers Of
self government, that the 'aio irreaula.
election furnishes only equitable proof
Of their desire to como into the Union
and that, IN principle, communities having
less thnn one fourth OF the popn,atiou re-
quIrcd by law for the election Of one
member Of Congress ought not without
some extraordinary reason to be admitted
e an equality Of power with the States
which have population four tiQes, FIVE
tines. ten times or one hundred times
greater.
The dissent by tho President from the
action Of Congress-, while it was clearly
within the province Of the Executive De
pIrtment. was at the same time Just rs
well considered and as loyal rs the action
Of Congress- IN passing the hiiI In two
of the instances mentioned. Congress, ac~
cordir- to the forms of the Constitution
itself have. or at least seem TO have, sur
rendered their own convictions and ac-
tcpted those Of the President Let me say
now, that all three Of these aloasures in
which the President declined to concur
with Congress, are purely eztraneous in
r5dents,. and have no necessary Or real
bearing upon the question Of recoatilIa-
ton.
think it NAV now he assumed that the
President has neither sought nor made
nor acccpted any occasion for disagreeinc
from Congress. and that so far rs the pure
. " Incidental legislation to which ] have
referred is concerned, he is as loyal to its
principles and 70 the national cause rs
Congress or any Of its members can claim
to be.
The sewers Of discord further insist
that the representatives who have come
] from, fbe rnrenresenteI States ar. actually
I 5;-lovaI If i AGREED on aV hand. that
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