The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-01
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on Reconstruc.
tion-Ue Sustains the Veto.

uon-He Sastains the Veto
There vas in Congress bill fer mere eEheieat Or
ganizstioa Of ID All nens hearts have been to-day
excited BY the tdngs that las been vetoed oF the
President. Kisses l sorry that be felt Il his
duty IT, and | am sorry that the oili was 50
drawn up that he was gsd feel i 70 q Ills daiv
- It. Bat marx vetoiHs The b1Fesu,
but only particular form Of bureau tina the bali eon-
tanned. II does not commit the President against any
proper department administering for tEe blacks
throughout the South. We knos, en- the other hand,
that he Is il favor Of such bursAu confess that
reading ri. message has left profound impression
upon nv mind that he urges most serious and weaiT
why in the form IN which went before him.
1t Should not present become the law OF the land
Bu; believe that n sure that no msn N the land
: more IN favor o: efficient legislation for the black
than President johnson himself. Loud aa3
continued applause, and few Kisses
They ara TO Be protected. but they are no; to be
protected the expense OF the Constitution but 6y
is integrity No grade IL the nited States IS more
in need Of having tta; immortal instrument main
4ned than the recently ensiased but now enlaRcips
~ BLACK There men who SPEAK cniy ct
freedmen, who worked by their yupathy and Of
their generous sentiments uot well TO consider
tat hi.e they lesatiug to save the treedn men,
may BE- the expense Of those laws AMI those IN
which MS very safety resides, and # they
carried past the point Of moderation, It : we'll
that they should be brought 70 reconsideration
These rights be secured. thirdly, by the great
laws Of sell-interes;, and confssss that loak chiefly
the great natural laws of CD, in human Affairs
that there work for leg station, work for
voluntary Christian charity and muni6ce but that
man has male these great laws II political economy,
tins reat law Of labor and supply and demand that
works unconscousiy, that make men work willingly.
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fslnsss, these laws likely to compose the best
basis between the late master and late -lare.
Bat the rights of the freedmen could not be better
secured than by the couteatment ard prosperity OF
the Southern States. 1t imposs Ibe that the black
could fail to suffer from the misfortune Of their
late masters. have thus given my views succincty'
and they relate the blacks. l have spoken
private citizen neither Conservative Radical
Let me next onsider the question Of the States and
condition Of the South. l hold that the Southern
States ought be reiustated a possible
stent with the public interest. Some delay IS
sary, but it is evil nevertheless. Quckness IS
thing be desired, and delay thing TO be deprees
ted. 1t may not be right do it to-day it may not
lie best do it to morrow, week but the OBJ
legation the necessity delay, is just far evil.
hold that it is better, if could do it, that these
States should be brought in tomorrow. Allow me 10
say that cannot go either with the President
Congress He would bring them ell in at they
m an to keep them all out at cnce. would let in a
part and let the wait and how they liked it.
There Is, no doubt great stumbling on this point
1t said If We let in Tennessee that principle will
let in all the rest" like see found their
tons good principles but there is such thing
idoiatry Of principle 1 would let in Tennessee AL
ALBANIA and Georgia, and then when South Carolina
asks why she also admitted, would reply,
well, just because think Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia viii do best in tho UnnR and you will do
best outside, for a time at least little common
this point would be very advantageous
But it is said must keep the States out till
have guarantees in regard to the freedmen. slave
~, the payment of the national debt to secession
and rebellion. Well, to secession, and rebellion.
don't think that there is much probability that the
South will again 60 wrong these points. As to the
freedmen, is not the Constitution guaranty for
them Is not the natural law Of labor the regen
Grated industry of the South a sufficient guaranty
AS the public debt, the guaranty for that is the
fact that the interests of all the banks in the Union
involved in the maintenance of the national
credit.
We have ample guarantees every point for the
good conduct Of the South. Besides, it is necessary
that we should establish local self-government all
through the land | holl it to be dangerous to have
power centralized. think the extraordinary
thlDE OF the present time Is TINS congress
bill full of additional powers into the Presidents
hands, making him stonger than any crowned
monarch this side of Russia, and the President say
ing. NO, cannot give my consent to bill that
makes @ strong" What if had the Presi-
dent thai had there before martyred Lincoln
Would be have vetoed it because there wss too much
power? What II we had the President befors him
Would he have been thus honest? He NAV be
mistaken IN his Judgment; but l greatly mis-
taken in my judgment of if since the earliest
and best days of our Presidency there has been
there who more honest, single minded,
and who. without bias of party, aud without bias Of
any kind. has thus endeavored TO do that which be
thought be for the best interests of tie countryof
the Whole country. Loud and long continued APP
pause, mingled with few Kisses hold that Il
would be bad sign, however. if he should pas.
without criticism, his papers without review. Il
IS dangerous to have any who i not amenable
TO the iugme of the whole country, and President
johnson much as any man. and more because he -
in place of more imp rtance than any other; but
while YOU your citizens liberty of speech and -
Judgment, do not forget that you have able
and honest in the chair Of the chief
magistrate. Applause l think there ought to be
great jealousy of accumuIating power the centre.