The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-30

could possibly have equalled. This second veto
message VIII add to his popularity here, ana will
increase the respect entertained for him abroad.
Its clear, calm, conclusive analysis OF the Civil
Rights bill, its scathing exposure of the faults
and deiecls Of the measure, and its eloquent
statement of the policy which the President has
deliberately adopted, and to which hebntends
to adhere, are such as would make the reputa-
ton OF any other official; but they can only
strengthen the reputation of President john
son. Some Congressmen who profess TO be
his friends had voted Tor this bill some of
his supporters, who had not examined the sub
ject with sufficient attention, presumed and
predicted that be would give the bill
his signatures; but, with a keener insight and
more inlallible sagacity, Mr.. johnson at once
detected the danger of this special legislation
and the evils with which this measure was
1raught With the indomitable pluck which
Americans so much admire, and which we have
seen incarnated IN a jackson, a Grant, Sher.
man, and Sheridan, the President substituted
veto for mis- Signature ana sent the bill back
TO the Senate, where 1t originated. What the
Senators may do with it is of no consequence.
Two or three OF them may be i'll and the veto
may be disregarded, or by very close vote It
may be indorsed. In either case the position of
the President will not be affected. He looks
beyond Congress; he appeals to the people, and
by the people he will be almost unanimously
sustained.
The veto message shows irrefutably that the
radicals design to make this mongrel Govern
ment. 1t has unmasked them; they can no
longer maintain their hypocrihcal pretense of
philanthropy. They hope and expect to confer
the right of suffrage upon the negroes; to elect
negro members of Congress from the Southern
States; to make negroes eligible for the highest
offices in the land. The political equality of the
blacks thus conceded, how can their social
equality be denied? They must be permitted to
propose marriage to our daughters; to sit
at adn,i!tlS table with white persons; to mingle
sake OF three million of negroes forty millions
OF white people have already been involved in
civil war; half of great nation has been
crippled and desolated; heavy debt has been
blood has been poured out like water; pre-
cious lives have been ruthlessy sacrificed; but
all this is not enough. Now, for the sake of
three millions of negroes, the white people of
this country are asked to submit to the abroga-
ton of the Constitution; to the exclusion of
eleven States from the Union; to the super
sedure of the State judiciary; to the petty
tyranny of irresponsible, spies, paid to prefer
complaints, whether justly or uniustly. More
than this: we are asked to give the semi
civilized negro preference over the intelligent
immigrant who lands upon our shores; to
punish parent who refuses to allow negro
to marry his child; to cast into prison any Judge
who decides the dlcta of Congress unconstitu-
tional; to submit TO social association per-
tectly revolving to all sensible persons, and to
a national future like that OF Mexico or of the
mongTel south American republics. This is
what the radicals demand, and all this they
have embodied IN the Civil Rights bill, which
ought to he called bill 10 deprive white men of
all rights. The President has placed this mea-
sure in its true light before the country. In
dong so he has again broken all party trammels,
and exhibited patriotism that can rise superior
to all partisan pleas Of expectancy. An entire
reCoI structon of the politics of the United
States will be the result. All who are in favor
OF assassinating the republic in order to make
the negro equal to the whites will take sides
with Congress. All who are in favor of the
Union, governed by white men for the benefit OF
10 will fal sir Xy1fh hn Aanf
The issue IS made; the President appeals directly
to his tellow-ctizens, and, one after another
beginning with Connecticut next Monday-the
States will wheel into line in his support.