Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-04-05
THE CIVIL RIGHTS VETO.
what the Supporters OF .sThe Presil
dents Policy Say.


clined to "let the niger slide" or TO
suffer the colored people 70 be subjected
to injustice, or wrong When it is urged
that all the freedmen shall vote, many
who know their ignorance and their liza.
bility to the influence of others, hesitate
or say no. Whenit is proposed to pro-
vide for them by permanent Freed
men Bureau, and thus not only perpet-
uate q misohievous class distinction, but
perhaps encourage idlsness and unthrift
among item, the public does not gener
ally agree. - 80 Is. st,s 81 sass. q
But of the men and women who were
loyal to the Union during the war, very
few can be found who do not insist that
the blacks shall be subject to the same
laws and none other, and enjoy the same
rights before the law as white men.
1t is NOT merely sentiment Of justice
which creates This almost universal feel
ing--though we believe that this senti.
ment il strong and active in the popular
mind; Il 10 feeling Of gratitude to the
coIored people of the South, who were,
at the peril of their lives, during the re-
hellion, our steadfast friends, who served
and saved thousands of loyal soldiers,
and examples Of whose courage, skill,
endurance and faithfnlness OCCUR on
every page of the wars history.
They have been made Free. and the
loyal people OF -this country are con-
csrned that this freedom shall be sub
Htantials fact, and not mere shadow.
And they understand yerys well that a
man who canraot sue in court, who can
not enforce his right to wages or prop
erty, or who is, with his wife and chill
dren, subjected to different or severer
laws from his white neighbor, is not
free.
We do not insist that they shall be
taught at the expense of any Southern
State, but we do insist that they shall be
permitted to have schools; we do moi
insist that they shall vote, but the loyal
part of the nation is fully determined
that they shall be protected in their per.
sons and property; that they shall have
the right not only to earn but to recover
their wages; that they shall be made
safe against wrong and outrage of every
kind; that they shall have the right o.
free speech, of psaceably assembling
| together, of petition. rl
Because this feeling is very strong
and almost universal in the North, We
do not believe that any Senator or Rep
resentative who voted for the Civil Rights
bill when it passed Congress win vote
! against It when it comes up for passage
again. This bill is intended to do JUS
tice where the State laws or courts fail
to do it, and, nowhere elsea One of its
merits in our eyes is that. il leaves Sall
kmerely benevolent operations where of
right theylbeloug, to- private effort II
does not establish schools; it does not
feed the destitute; II does not cIothe the
poor; Il does not interfere ia any way
between the employer and the en-
ployed, either to establish the rate oil
wages, or set the hours of labor, or to
fix the terms Of a contract. = It leaves
ell the matters 10 regulate themselves,
as they surely, safely and quickly will.
if only al men and all classes have equal
protection before the law. 2
/ Blythe Civil Rights bill this equal
l.proteetion is secured; and if that be-
comes a law, the great starting point
will begained from which the problem
which now distracts thelcountry may be
left to work itself out, without further
help from the Government, and with
only such supplementary aid from pri.
vate benevolence rs in many Southern
States both white and black will need
and receive for some years to come.
= ffFrcn the Albany Evening Journal h8
Wehage read the veto message care.
fully, and analysed it thoroughly. We
have sought diligently for some explica.
ton that would justify its sweeping and
extraordinary conclusions; and We have
beed most reluctantly forced TO the de
| cision that it is an act which does moi
Frepressnt the sentiments OF the Unior
party-of the loyal majority Of. the PEG
ple-and. what is vastly more important
that it does not represent the immntablt
and everlasting principles of right anG
ljnstice, whicn it's. the highest glory o
the patton to exemplify in its Constitn
ton and it's lava 81 III ~ 1ElE
We have uniformly and conscientious
i ly sustained the policy and acts of Pres
ident johnson, in opposition to tn,
Z, views of many whose fidelity to the
cause of liberty and union has beer
proven by years ofdevoted service. "a
i Dut IN Lnd extKHUEAluaEy 3tAsAuc uc uH
now assumed upon the grave and pre-
dominant issue of the hour, he cannol
be Endorsed by the preponderating senti
ment of the Union party of the country
ia *as7sT We did not agree with al
E the views of the President in his veto 0
Il the Freedmen's Bureau blu. w
Il thought, and we said, that some Of hi
/. objections were manifestly based upol
/ erroneous conclusions. But we coul'
tolerate this, and -concede the point
claimed by him, in view of the under
ablying facttha be did not assail the gen
! eral principle of legislation for the pre-
: lection Of the blacks, but indeed sug
E Eested methods of accomplishing tn
! desired result which were at once fet
! sible and right 10 our view, those suG
D. geeticns were mainly improved inrth
q Civil Rights bin Some features {
81 tlsats meaaure might be- subjects
J fdiaAppFp bAticn. Indeed, We can acc, /
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