The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-03-07

Tie expressions Of feeling upon the veto
are among the surprising events Of the times.
The cool and rejecting man Of any party
will naturally ask himself, what is there
about this Frcedmea's Bureau, as such, to
render Its continuance or extinction, except
asa matter ofpatronagn, ofany earthly no.
ment to the American people? And why
Is President johnson censurablc f,r veto,
b,ssd on reasons which ought to be ire is.
table to every dspassionats mind? 1t is a
public law, and he has asst ned good rea.
sons for withholding his s,nction to it
reasons based upon the constitution-!he
objects and purposes Of government
the impolicy of the law itself, as a measure
of civil power. Has nc in this exceeded
his powers or done aught inconsistent with
his sworn duties? Could he, with his
views, have done diff .rently without moral
perjury
TIE establishment Of this Bureau was
an exercise OF the war power. When the
war cease, the reason for 1t ceased. 1t is
an arbitrary institution, with power dele.
gated to hundreds Of irresponsible agents,
whose decisions upon every point are fi,al,
without any appeal allowed to any higher
authority. The army was made subj ct 10
its commands, the instrument to execute
its mandates, without the commanding
officers having power to utter word; and
Generals GRANT and SHERMAN have both
expressed their disapprobation Of its work.
ings. It possessed, moreover vast patron.
ago, and cost the nation last year alone,
over eleusn million Of doitars-and under
the bill vet ,ed would have cost at least
tpenty millions year. 1t was without
rules for its guild .nce, and without laws to
control it.. R.tions could be issued by the
million or withheld altogether. It could
glut or starve whoever it pleased. It's sway
was unlimited Its honesty more than sus
pected-its presence in any community
irritating and hateful to the last degree of
cndurance--reqii hiring every one at the
S,u.h, without regard to character or po-
sition to bow to its DEGREES, and literally
pass under its yoke.
Such is tha measure vetocd-a measure
that at no time in our history heretofore
would we have tolerated an instant-and a
President who should have failed to veto
it, would have been, and ought to have
bsen impsachci. Why then is the veto
crime now sa. a.-ra $40 -r--r
There are essentially two points hid un
der this measure. One was patronage
A vast crowd Of agents, most generally
bali baked theologans, flooded every town
in the south, playing the part Of spies aud
reportersof northern abolition newspapers
at the public expense. Every expression
Of Indignation on the part of the people
over their ruined homes AMI devastated
fields, was eagerly taken down, and served
up to keep northern prejudics at fever heat
Ito convey the impression that sabdued
and d'sarmad people were dangerous
all to show especially that the Bureau was
big thing and ought to be kept up
TIE other and chief point, however, was
to keep the negroes dscou,entcd to get
them .organizsd to vote in compact n,ass
for whoever Massachusetts, should dictate,
so that when the scheme was completed
the negroes could overwhelm the south and
nulify the northwest as a power in con-
gress; and the nations money was made
use Of to ensure the nations degradation
1t is the failure Of this schem, that causes
all this buster over the veto. Tie Pres.
ident has been honest been national in
his action. That is enough. From hence
forth scctionalism will follow on his track
with fiendish fury and hate, to the close
of his term Mad son Democrat