Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-01
The President and Congress.
Opinions of the Press ON the Veto
and Speech.

The Baltimore American, the most truly
loyal and influential newspaper published
South Of Mason and Dixons line, in com
menting upon President Johnson's speech
says:
The speech of President johnson was
delivered from the Executive mansion on
Thursday to an assemblage composed prin.
cipally of what we're known during the war
as Copperheads, Southern sympathizers and
returned rebel soldiers. The sentiments
expressed on that occasion brought exulta-.
tion and Rladness to their hearts equal to
that occasioned by the tidings Of the FIRST
rebel victory at Bull Run, and will be hailed
by their confederates at the South with as
much jubilaton as they would have felt
during the war if Lee had routed Grant, or
sherman had been driven into the ocean,
with all the gallant and loyal hosts that fol.
who thus rejoice did not succeed in electing
Mcclellan, they have secured more unex.
pected victory, but one that will very likely
yield bitter fruit. as il will cement and con
! secrate the Union sentiment Of the country,
and give to the South. in the end, harder
kterms than they might otherwise have OBJ
tanned from the present or succeeding Con-
gress. Whilst the loyal men of the country
will lament over the defections Of q Presi-
dent whom they trusted, and whose utter
ances had heretofore given hope that he
would prove equal to the trust reposed in
him, the tone and temper and language em-
ployed by him on this occasion, will cause
deep shock Of humiliation and sorrow. We
have no heart to further allude to the sub.
ject at this time. We are in the midst Of q
political revolution that will at once cause
the concentration Of opinion and the forma.
tion Of parties. and keep the country in
turmoil OF excitement during the next three
years.
The New York Evening Post is swerved
from its intense devotion to President John
SON works and ways by his speech Of the
22d. Amid much that is unjust to Con.
gress, it says:
+" For the shocking and unseemly i'm
putation Mr.. johnson chose to bring against
Messrs. Stevens, Sumner and others op.
posed to his policy, that their intention
was to incite assassination, we trust that
he will make haste to apologize. not mere
ly to them but to the country. which he has
most gIievousy insuted. Such words rs
he uttered on that head would not be teller
ated in the hastest stump speech. They
are too i'll judged and impulsive for US to
think or write patiently about them; and
We count it no slight misfortune for the Da-
ton that its chief magistrate should have
spoken in this style"
The subjoined extracts from IN editorial
in the Norfolk (Va.) Post of Saturday says
of the feeling produced in the South by the
Presidents veto Of the Freedmen's Bureau
bill:
"All the Southern papers received are
jubiant over the defeat of that vital measure.
Since the morning of July %. 1861, when
news of the great Southern victory achieved
by Beauregard over Mcdowell, and the
awful rout of the Federal army on the nlans
of Manassas, was borne through the South
on tho wings of the wind, as it were carry
ing joy and jubiationinto every loyal South
ern household, and gladdening every true
Southern heart, there has been no news re.
ceived with so much rejoicing by tho people
of the South as that informing them tha,
the President had vetoed the Freedmen
Bureau bin. This is the greatest victory
they have achieved during the war--greatei
than any feats Of arms of Stonewall Jackson
or of Robert r. Lee, and has given them
more pleasure than had General Lee been
elected Governor of Virginia. They have
found an ally in President johnson worth
more to them than the alliance of France or
England, and they now rejoice to see, even
AZ they saw fore-shad0wed at Manassas, the
final triumph of the great Southern cause.
The Republicans have been ignominously
defeated and driven fom the field, and
nothing can save them from total annihila
tion All that is necessary for the South
TO do is to continue to hold up the Presi-
dents hands, and wage an unceasing and
bitter war against the Republican Congress.
The stone which the, builders rejected has
become the head OF the corner, and Andrew
johnson is now epshrined in every loyal
Southern heart They will accept no terms
from the Radicals. They ask for none and
and expect none. The fanatics may roar
and hiss, but their claws are cut, and their
fangs are poisonless. The watchword must
henceforth be, johnson and Victory u
and although the odds are as four to one
against them. did they not carry on four
years of open war in the field successfully
against still greater odds2 A fig for your
Republican Congressl We have Presi
dent with absolute powers. who can carry
on government good enough for this section
without the assistance Of Congress.
Senator Corness tof Cal.) has received Q
telegram from California signed by two
gentlemen, one Of whom is q prominent
member Of the State Government, to th,
following effect:
I'VE congratulate you on your vote. Cali
fornia is for freedom"
, The following is Senator Conness's tele
graphic reply:
+ Thanks for your approval; am prout
that California stands for liberty and justice
No one need fear that I will swerve If
stand alone. Rebels, traitors and Swiss
Guards, altogether, cannot. must not wrench
I the fruit of national victory from loya
i. grasp and just uses.
John CONFESS"
Gov. Stone. of Iowa, on the 23d inst,
received the following dispatch from low
' members Of Congress
. "Td Coz. Stone
% I'm this trying hour, other States ar,
/ teegraphing words of cheer to their mem
bers of Congress. Has the Iowa Legisla
I" ture no words Of appreciation"
To this Gov, Stone sent the followinI