Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-22

viii i've 70 regret IL even more keenly-a Fol
this veto will be understood by all that is
J brutal and rufianly at the South as giving
, license to any abuse and oppression OF the
Blacks that white malignity and rancorous
hate can devise. 1t will be understood as a
proclamation of license to the meaner
whites to wreak their malice or their lust
upon the hapless and betrayed Blacks.
There are thousands of innocent persons
now living whom this veto consigns to q
painful death, before the close of the year.
Hereafter, whatever wrongs may be in
fieted upon or indignities suffered by the
Southern Blacks will be charged to the
President who has left them naked to their
ensmies. Time will show that he has here
by precluded true and speedy restoration
of the South, and inflicted more lasting
misery on her whites than on her blacks.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, Rep.l
The Presidents objections comprehend
| all extraordinary measures for the condi-
tions that war has left. They assume that
the military treaty restored all the relations
of peace, and they disable his own acts of
reconstruction far more than this bill.
From the Columbus Journal, Rep
The whole superstructure of the argument
| against the bill is founded upon the assump-
tion that the revolted States are now fully
entitled to resume all their relations with
the government, and assume the functions
which have been suspended by the rebellion.
| Grant these premises and the argument
| against the bill seems strong, if not entirely
unexceptionable.
But these premises are precisely the point
in dispute.
The avowed action Of the Executive itself
is strangely at variance with its theory upon
this subject.
How can ~ ta r,ronar 70 A. ,oI s
military power IN terrorem over the press,
to prevent it from speaking out frankly the
| spirit of the people while it is highly i'm
proper to use the same means to secure the
| rights of the freedmen, solemnly guaranteed
TO them by the National government, back
| ed by q constitutional grant of power to the
| Legislative Department to enforce these
rights, and execute the guaranty? Is there
| anything in the constitution of the United
States which discriminates in favor of the
| right to suppress obnoxious newspapers
while it denies the right to protect the per-
| sons of free citizens?
From the Washington Chronicle, Rep.l
"This message Of President johnson will
fall like the cold hand of death upon the
warm impulses Of the American people, who
have given SO much of their treasure and
| their blood to the cause Of the republic, and
have expressed such unstinted and unques-
tioning confidence in the Executive. 1t is
not the TACT that ne refuses to sign Mr..
Trumbul's bill that will startle and paral-
we them; but when he appeals, nay, de-
maHds, that the States now almost as rebel
lions as theS ass-e ye-r az, e4-tainly as
much flied with hate Of the COngre5siouas
maiorities, and of the loyal masses Of the
American people, shall at once be rehabili-
tated, he will send thrill of dsmay to
every loyal heart throughout our wide do
main. There is, indeed, cause for univer-
sal solicitude. The surrender Of Lee loaS only
the begin7iRgof a Hstg rebellion. Tie defeated
traitor threatens again to become the triun,-
phant dictator. EUen from his strong cell IN
Fortress MoSroe the chief c0nspjrator ae1y
begin to indulge the hope Of returning 10 tie
Senate Of the United States, there to reasSert
that fatal supremacy iohicb encouraged seces-
sion, under one administration, and precipitG-
tel rebellion against another"
From the Springfield Republic, Rep.l
The blow has fallen Andrew johnson
has declared war upon the Union party.
= Suffice it to say, he has placed
himself in a hostile attitude toward Con-
gress and the Union party.
From the Lorain County News, Rep.l
Mr.. johnson has-unwittingly, we hope
--arrayed himself against the Right. The
Right will not suffer, but the President will.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.J
No public document has emanatcd from
President Of the United States for many
years that viii be read with as much pleas
ure by the great majority of the people, as
the mastery veto message of President
johnson. All honor to the President for his
honesty, his courage and his fidelity toprin-
ciple, in the sending in of this glorious State
paper. Meetings Of rejoicing and congratu-
lation should be held in every Part of the
country, and the sentiments of the masses
should echo back thunders of approval, and
tender their thanks TO our Chief Magistrate
for interposing his constitutional shield for
their protection.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dem.1
He has done it. Andrew johnson, by the
grace of God President of these United |
States, in the free and fearless exercise of
his constitutional powers and prerogatives, |
has returned to the Senate, in which it |
originated, the bill of abominations, entitled |
the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, with his objec- |
tions.
Accepting as truth the iIl-natured insiuu- |
alton of one of our contemporaries, that the |
President has in this instance gone over to |
the Democracy, we have only to say that in |
doing what he has done he has only been |
true to himself and his antecedents, and that |
an overwhelming majority of his country |
men will stand by and sustain him in a |
course so obviously right and so undeniably |
constitutional and Just.
From the Detrsit Free Pross, Dem.l
The measure was part and parcel of a |
grand revolutionary political scheme, which |
was conceived in sin, born in iniquity, and |
strangled by Andrew Johnson at the earliest |
possible moment, We congratulate the |
Union men of the whole country that we |
have President who will be true to the |
principles of Washington, Jefferson and |
jackson.
From the Ohio Statesman Dem
Let the people rejoice The President |
has done a most righteous act. He has |
vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. His |
veto is elaborate. He is opposed to the |
Bill in every clause and form, believing il /
unconstitutional in many of its features. |
He contends that no such legislation fer |
the South ought to be adopted while the |
South is unrepreseuted. The President is /
right. There is no longer mistaking kim. |
Beyond doubt, he is for maintaining the |
Constitution, the Union and concord Now, |
let the people rally to his support, and with |
emphasis put down the Disunionists who |
oppose him in the grand work Of cOncilia-
ton
From the New York World CDen.)
Neither Jefferson nor jackson, our two |
great Democratic Presidents, ever asserted |
with such fearless fidelity and ringing en-
phasis the fundamental principles Of civil /
liberty rs President johnson has done in /
this message for no occasion arose under /
their administrations calling for such Wig |
orous defense of all that freemen hold dear. |
[From the Cincinnati Commercial (JohRson).l |
1t is strong document, and will COM
mand the closest attention. We presume it |
will be considered the overt act Of the hos
tility OF the President to the proclaimed |
policy of the Radicals
TFrom tie Cleveland Herald, Johnson
It is not yet time TO decide the relative |
merits Of this question. Let us wait the de-
bate that undoubtedly will spring up ON the |
veto. The people have not the bill before |
them, and do not, as yet, know wherein the |
Executive and Congress agree upon the |
facts. The wrong construction may have |
been put upon the various sections, and a |
thousand questions may come up on which |
depend proper solution of the matter.
[From the Pittsburgh Chronicle, Ind.
1t becomes every fair man to consider |
carefully before he joins in the abuse which |
will now be profusely leveled at the Presi |
dent. It is worth while to remember that !
few men have shown themselves truer
friends Of the blacks than Andrew johnson, |