Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-03-02
Public opinion ON the Veto.
From the Cincinnati Gazette

From the Cincinnati Gazette:
Before examining the Presidents snecifc
objections to the bill, we shall notice his as
sumption that he is the embodiment of the
whole people, while Congress only represents
single districts. This is contrary to the whole
letter and spirit of our Constitution. The
pretension is the more remarkable in one
whom the people did not elect to the Office of
President.
Nor can he claim to be the representative
of the late rebel States, over Congress. for
they did not help to elect him any more than
they did Congress. And when he disables
the power of Congress because those States
are not represented, he disables his own
office, for they are not represented in it by
their own voice. The legislation which had
constitutional power to put down the rebel
hon, has the same power to settle the terms
OF peace. To disable one disables the other
From the Ohio State Journal
But we have no desire to go into all the
objections which might be urged to the Mes
sage of the President, in detail 1t may well
cause doubts In the mind Of the Executive as
to the correctness of his position, when bells
are rung and caps thrown up by the party
which has, all through the war, given COW
ardly sort of aid and comfort to the rebellion.
while Union men 60 about the streets sadly,
feeling that the cause for which we have bat
tied with such expenditure of blood and
treasure, against open, armed foes in front.
and secret, insidious traitors In the rear, is in
peril from one of its most cherished and
trusted defenders.
From the Chicago Republican
The reasons of the President are those of a
man who, finding himself thwarted in his own
policy, is determined that, if he cannot have
his way, no other branch of the Government
shall do so. The bill which has been vetoed
provides only such remedial authority as is
made necessary by the failure or refusal of
the States to afford the means of Justice and
the means of protection 10 the vast population
now living as social and political outcasts.
The Southern States refuse to recognize prac-
tically, the freedom of the blacks; CONGRESS-
has provided tribunals and authority to recoe-
nize and enforce that freedom; the whole
South, clinging most tenaciously to slavery,
are opposed to such tribunals, and the Presi-
dent says the blacks shall not have this ma
tional shield from the oppression of their for
mer owners, overseers, and oppressors!
The country viii learn with amazement
that the President has vetoed an act whose IT,
tie might justly have been AN act to enforce
the bin of rights.
From the New York Tribune
There is not one rebel, from Canada to Bra
I'll inclusive, who is not enraptured by this
veto-not resident Of the north who reioic.
ed over the Union defeats at Bull Run,
Gaines's Mill, GToveton, Fredericksburg.
Charlottesville or the Chickamauga. who
does not bless President johnson for utter.pg
it. Perhaps, they will continue thus fervent,
and perhaps not. Let us patiently observe
and remember.
From the Lancaster pa. Express
Thetrue friends of Andrew Johnson-those
who stood by him when rebels and copper
heads alike sought his ruin and defeat-will
deeply regret that he should be so radically
opposed to a measure which passed both
Houses of Congress by two-third vote, and
received the appreciation of loyal people
north and south. In some of his objections
the President is certainly in error, and the
conference between him and Congress is SO