Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-02-22
VETO OF THE FREEDMEN'S
RUREAtJ HIEE.


VETO OF THE FREEDMEN'S
BUREAU BILL. -
The President sent message into
Congress on Monday vetoing the Freed
mems Bureau Bill--a measure which
nearly every Union member of Con-
gress voted for, and which is deemed
essential to the protection Of the unfor
tunate freedmen, who are now subject
to all the cruclties their late masters
can invent. .
The bill was introduced into Con-
gress by Senator TRUMBULL, of Illinois.
Its object was to. enlarge the powers
of the Freedmen's Bureau. The bill
set apart unoccupied lands in the States
of Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida
for the use OF the freedmen, TO be di.
vided into small tracts, and also con.
firmed the grants of land on the Sea
Islands of South Carolina, made by
Gen SHERMAN to the freedmen.
We believe this is the most serious
mistake President JOHNSON has rade
since he was accidentally called to his
present positions He has evidently
mistaken the temper Of the People and
fof Congress. The Union Party of to-
day is made up principally Of the old
Republican Party-the best party that
had ever existed in the country. We
are afraid the President has thought he
had the old Wing or Democratic party
to deal with. The Union party is n
party Of principle, 1t cannot he bought
to endorse wrong. for fear the little
post offices or internal revenue collect
ors will be lost to il.
The veto has remanded the poor
freedmen to the tenTer mercies OF their
late masters. Daily they are foully and
cruelty murdered by those who were
but lately engagad In siaughtering the
] loyal men 4of. thes 9Scfth Starving
them in prisons; aud we will venture
a Shout win go up, from Virginia to
Texas. on the receipt Of the veto, that
will cause hell itself to blush with
shame and our martyred dead to turn
uneasily in their graves.
But right must prevail. "The mills
of God grind slowly" We say to
every Union man and woman whom
our voice can reach: STAND FIRM =
In the name of Truth, Justice and Hu
manity-by the memory of our mar
tyrcd dead, whose bones whiten the
South from the Potomac to the Ric
Grande, and of the faithful black man
who was always ready to endanger his
own life to succor our poor sons and
brothers who were fugitives from Reb
ell prisons, and the 200, ZOO black mer
who served faithfully in the Union ar
mics against red handed Treason
STAND FIRM.
Presidents are but things Of day
Truth and Justice are as eternal as the
stars ...t. tt.
There is great excitement in Wash
inoton over the veto, The Senate
tried to pass it over the Presidents
veto Yesterday, but failed to procure
the necessary two, thirds. The vote
stood yeas 30, nays 49, In the House
NJ. STEVENS, of Pa, from the Join,
Committee on Reconstruction. reported
q joint resolution that no representa-
tivcs be admitted into Congress from
either of the late Rebel States unit
Congress shan have declared snch
States entitled TO representation Mr.
STEVENS said there was an earnest dis
position until Monday to enquire and
see whether they could not admit Ten
nessec to representation, but since
then there had heen such state o.
things as to induce the Committee tC
consider it wholly out of their power
to proceed further, without surrender
ing great principle and without sur
rendering the rights Of that body tc
the asurpation of another power The
House passed the resolution. i1