Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-02
The sEC0NB-YRFo MESSAGE.
The Press of the Country Upon 1t.
rErom tn. AIsuny Argus, Dem.

[Erom the Albuny Argus, Dem.I
Undaunted by the conspiracy, the Tri-
bune of the People places himself
on the ramparts' Of the Constitu-
ton, and hurls thence the thunderbolts of
his veto at his enemies. We-heaF from
Washington that dismay and conSterna-
ton fill the ranks of the conspiracy
From tho Buffalo Commercial, Johnson.
That document is as admirable in the
dignity of its tone as it is impregnable in
logic. The objections which he urges to the
provisions of the Civil Rights Bill as sent
to MIN by Congress, seem to US to be
most conclusive, and cannot fail to carry
convictions to the minds of the people.
He demonstrates most conclusively that
ungoverned radicalism is equally as dam
gerous to the nation as treason. fa
From the Buffalo Express, Rep.l =
We have read, with no less of surprise
than regret, the statement of his reasons
for disappearing the bill. They are reas-
ons which admit of the adoption of no
measures whatever for assuring to the
freed colored people of the South, by ma
tionsl legislation, the enjoyment of civil
rights belonging to them as freemen.
As we read the message of the veto,
it is simply impossible for Republicans to
endorse it without an abandonment of
their principles, for which they have con-
tended these three years past. U
We cannot accept for ourselves or for
the Union party the position in which this
message would place US, if approved and
endorsed. We lament that its charac-
ter is such as to forbid our approval, but
we owe al allegiance to principle which
we cannot forget ~
From the Springfield (o,l Republic, Rsp.l
Mr.. johnson has greatly erred in thus,
for the second time, opposing his veto
power to the emphatic voice of Congress,
which has many lawyers as able as his
own advisers, and in forestalling the right
full privilege of the Supreme Court to de-
eide a constitutional question, we regard
as q lamentable certainty.
From the Washington Republican, Johnson
For this noble rescue of our eonstitu-
tional liberties from the perils of central
izatioH and despot!sm the people will say
HAmenl"
From the Evansville Courier, Rep.l
We publish to-day the Presidents Mes
sage vetoing the Civil Rights Bill, and we
confess that we are disappointed in its
general tenor and spirit.
From the New York Evening Post, Rep,J
We regret that we are compelled to
dissent so widely from the positions taken
in the Message. We thought well of the
proposal favored by Mr.. johnson to ad-
nit into Congress the loyal representa-
tives of the late rebel states. We APP
proved of many of his objections to the
bill for charging the powers ofthe Freed
mems Bureau. But as to the Civil Rights
bill-though we are not wholly satisfied
with every n of its proyisions-it seems
to us as good a measure as we are likely
to obtain, and we heartily hope hat it
will receive in both Houses of Congress
the requisite majority of two-thirds.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser, Con-
sentative.
His reasoning is cogent and must be
satisfactory to all who respect the limita-
tions of The Constitution on Federal
power, who desire economy Of admins
tration and who correctly estimate the
true value of State Rights. 1t oan only
be .distasteful to those who have gone
wild upon the negro question, and who
are dn1lOuS LOT l6glsidIlOu WHICH snhIl
especially benefit the black. The Presi-
dent objects to the declaration of negro
citizenship in this law because he deems
it unnecessary; but he argues against
such declaration in that leads
to the belief that the strong proclivities
of a Southern education influence him to
hold the negro as an inferior, and to deny
him the common rights to which he is en-
titled.
From the Pittsburgh Commercial, Rep:l
That President johnson should return
to Congress a bill with his objections, is
one thing, but the scope and spirit of the
message accompanying the Civil Rights
Bill, are another. People who have taken
time to read and bestow on it some little
reflection, and who will express them
selves with moderation and eandor, will
find no difficulty in determining that,
while the late veto message of President
johnson contained his objections to the
Civil Rights Bill-some of which may be
entirely valid-it contained something
more, something uncslled for, out of the
record, and to be condemned.