The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-04-11
The Cadtz Republicans ON the
ssSecOnd VCf00


The Cadlz RepuNieqH, last wcsk, makes
a furious attack On the Second Veto Mes
sage Of President johnson. With its usual
6Iirntss it stacks the document scifkout
pa5lishisg a. and seeks to nireprssent its
positions without giving is readers an cP-
pcrtauity to read the docupent. The Re
puJlicos spys that the malignant hate Of
the Southern poor Whites for the Negro
race is shown in every line of it-all the
low appeals to brutal prejudice which go
long disgrsced humanity and the age, seem
concentrated in this one document-which,
With shsne be Il spoken. must 20 among
the srchieves o. State as the Sentiments OF
the Executive bead of the Great Republic
in this year Of grace, 1866. "
Iutelligcutly rendered, what Is the mean.
ing Of this langiage2 1t is simply, that
President Johnson sprung from the poJr
gdites of the South, and that because be
dill SO he is animated by ''mslignant
hate" toward The Negro rscc"-tilat this
hate controls and sways his action. II it is
trae that the Southern poor whites" hate
the NEGRO race, it then follows that Pres
ident johnson has not been induced to aban-
don the "poor whites in consequences Of
having attained his present elevated posi-
ton. Let it be understood, then, that he
continues true, faithful and unfaltering to
the rights, interests and welfare of the
.'poor white man. 1t may be crime, in
the estimation Of fanatics and malignants,
for President to respect his origin and to
esteem hisra as superior to an inferior
race In this hour of severe trial, when
the President is endeaycring so to admins
ter the Government that the white mer
shall not be subordinate to the Negro race.
will not the White Men stand by him? a
1t is not true, that the Presidents second
veto, or any other veto, shows ''maienan
hate" toward ''the Negro race" and the
man or editor who asserts 50 is q graceles'
calumniator. He buses his objection to th'
Civil Rights bill on the ground Of its upcon
s;itutionaity--o the ground that it is
stride booking to the overthrow OF our he
publican form Of Government through th'
forms of legislation--on the ground tha
the contemplated law would promote insur
rcction and foment continual civil strife, ant
on the ground that it was coufe' ring on tn
Negro race privileges never extended by tn
Federal Government to the White race.
Suppose it were true that the "poo
Whites of the South cherish "malignan
hate toward 'the Negro race and ths
the President, by reason Of having sprun
from that body Of men, should be subserYi
ent to that malignant hate, whercior
the necessity Of the enactment of a law tha
saps the Constitution Of its vitality and cor
verts the Federal Government into hug
centralized or consolidated Government
The "poor Whites Of the South arc ne
recognized as the governing class-the elias
thatrules and generally ,dispenses justic'
and administers State and Municipal a
fairs is what the parvcnues of The RGpndl
can would term "the better elias" "a ell
that do not appear, to havea a 'maligna'
hate toward 'the Negro race. " They NJ
t eherishing such hate, "the Negro race
have nothing to fear from them. The il
!. eyitable presumption is that they will .s
' that justice viii be done "the Negro rade.
9 No Federal legislationin their behalf IS nee
! ed. If such legislation were needed, a,
!. were enacted in terms that did not coutll
{ with the Constitution, readily would he gi
: it his approval Than this there is nothi
more certain. Did he not require the Sout
r / ern States, through their organic laws a
through statutory provision, to forever
i sure the freedom of the manumitted slave
Did he hold hate toward ''the Negro rac'
did he harbor the purpose OF doing wro
to that race in the least particular we wa
of to know from his now malignant traduce
ll whether he would have done this? No m
rs who has any regard whatever for the sacr
to iniunctions of Truth would so declare.