Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-02
Maine on the Veto.

stature, which has just adjourned, eut
were in session last week, held a cancu on
the subject Of national affairs, and the fol-
lowing proceedings took place. Mr. Bal
er spoke as follows:
The President has exercised, his pre-
negative and vetoed the Freedmen's Blu
reau bill Our Senators have joined issue
with him and voted for the measure, and
| in this dead lock between Mr.. johnson
and our Senators, / endorse the latter
Pardon me for saying that have once in
my life broken away from political Or
ganization with which had for lifetime
been connected. When the hot balls of
secession ratified against the walls of
battered Sumter, broke away from the
Democratic party could feel and hear
the swapping Of the chain links that had
bound me to the political organizations to-
night for my country demands it. In the
last Presidential campaign l rolled up my
sleeves and went into the fight for, and
battled over, the soil of the New England
and Middle States for Lincoln and john
son. The Litter has succeeded to the
Chair of State. If he now proposes to
break from the party that elected him,
! propose TO break from him, and ask the
Legislature of my native State to endorse
me in the act. The saddest hour | have
seen since the first battle of Bull Run was
on yesterday, when read his Message TO
the. American Congress vetoing the bill
relative TO the Freedmens Bureau. Ii
indicated to me that he had committed
himself to policy which separated him
from the loyal men Of the country. The
dispatches that carried he intelligence over
the wires carried with it sadness to every
true friend Of a free government 1t at
the same time carried JOY and gladness to
the heart of every disloyal man in the
4 country. jeff Davis, in his felon's cell,
could rattle his chains and send up yell
of exullation over the act of our President.
Every enemy of his country over the
length and breadth Of our land could safely
share in his joy. l see by the papers that
guns we're fired at Manchester and other
points in the country. The man who did
it would have done the same thing had
Grant surrendered to Lee. Why is this,
unless he has allied himself with those
, who have sought the country's life Why
! should traitors to God and humanity, and
10 their country, rejoice while the people
mourn, unless he has struck hands with
those whose lands are red with the blood
of our murdered boys Why is it that
! treason stalks abroad to-day in the streets
I of our national capital Andy johnson
once Kissed out on The floor of the Amer
TO hat fro nd
: that traitors should be hanged. II cleo
trified the loyal heart of the country
That heart to-day is almost bursting with
:. grief over the act of this same man, while
athril of joy vibraes through the heart
OF tyranny, oppression and of wrong over
: the whole land. Mr.. johnson may well
= ask, with the Psa.mist David, "What have
: l done that the wicked should praise me?''
: | trust, Mr.. President, that all may yet
, be well. ! will hope for the best, and
:" pray for the best, and shall cling to Him
, who has so long filed the nations heatt.-
: Let us hope that all is not lost. The fu-
ture may show that this is but one of the
: many exPerme nts Of which we have heard
I so much since Mr.. Johnson's introduction
n into the Presidential chair. Experiments
: are we'll. Physicians often Try them npon
, their patients, but | must confess that /
do not like experiments which prescribes
prussic acid for the first dose. If Mr..
johnson still desires to keep his connec-
lion with those who elected him | win go
as far, and the Dirgo State will 90 as far,
as any individual Or State in the Union
in sustaining him. This resolution does
not 60 to the future. 1t simply endorses
our Senator'S in this single act of theirs
against the policy Of the President. We
owe 1t to them, and to the loyal men of
" Maine whom we represent, to do this thing.
Let it be full and hearty, and let the State
: kspead out in clear and ringing notes of APP
proval of this act Of our Senators in the
: national Congress.
Mr.. Barker's remarks were enthusiast
tically applauded. He then offered the
J following resolution, which was adopted
en- motion of j. F. Miller of the House -
Resolced, That this Legislature cor
daily approve and endorse the action of
the Senators of this State in voting to pass
the Freedmep's Bureau Bill notwith-
standing the Presidents veto, as being in
accordance with the sentiments of their
constituents, and the principles upon the
support of which alone this government
can be sustained.
Messrs Shepley and Stevens expressed
their approval Of these resolutions, trust
ing in an overriding Providence that An
drew johnson would be found true to the
Union party and to his former utterances
+ and actions. ast2 ." ''A- ~
Il 1t was then voted that no other resolu-
tions of a national character, other than
these just adopted, should be introduced
, into the Legislature by the Union men,
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