Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-13
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL Is, 1866.

election of the Republican nominee by very
small majority. In the contest last year the
Republican candidate was elected by ma
,ority of 1885. In the election just held,
the Republican majority was reduced to $50.
\ gain of 10, 355 votes in Connecticut in one
year, in favor of the restoration of the Union
on equitable terms. Connecticut is not alone
in the exhibition of growing sentiment
strongly in favor of President Johnson's pol
lev. The municipal elections held lately in
the State of Pennsylvania, have resulted in
a like gain for the Democracy. So in Ohio,
where the Democratic gain at the last cleo
ton was about 100, GOO, in the late municipal
elections the Democracy have made large
gains over their previous ones, in some cases
electing their candidates to Offices which had
been held by abolitionists for years. Thus
the ball rolls. The President appealed to the
people to sustain him and nobly are they re-
spending. We naturally feel that the North
ern Democracy, who arc the real conserva-
tivcs. are fighting solely for us, since they are
so strenuous in their endcayors to restore the
Southern States to their former positions iii
the Union. We are wrong. They have not
taken up the cudgel in our defence, but are
rallying to the support of Constitution, the
preservation of the Union, under that instru-
ment, and the maintenance of the SUPERIOR
ty of the white man-princi pies as old as the
organization itself. We called attention, a
few issues since, to the fact that these were
the men upon whom we must rely to restore
the Union and preserve the Constitution and
the Country, and that, when their organiza-
ton was destroyed, if ever, we would be left
without hope, and our country without the
modest defenders that ever battled for the
purity Of their country's institutions and
form of government. Their organization
will not be destroyed, butts gaining strength
every day. We witness with intense pleas
urc the rallying of thousands to the support
of the Democracy, the only Constitutional
Union party in the country. Fight on noble
old Democracy. Thousands of friends here
look on your heroic efforts with exultant pride,
and, when in their power, will rally side by
side with you in defense of the Constitution
and Government of our fathers. -
We publish in this issue the Civil Rights
bill, which was vetoed by the President and
which has been passed over the veto, by a
vote of 80 to Is in the Senate, and 122 to
Al in the House. We published last week
the Veto Message of the President, in which
he sums up with a master hand the gross vi
Citations of the Constitution, incident to this
bill becoming a law, and did his duty by re-
turning It with his objections. The legal
view taken by the President has been declar-
ed by some of the ablest lawyers in Congress
to be unanswerable; yet with reckless dis
regard of the Constitution, and an utter want
of interest in the future of the country, both
Houses of Congress have cast two-third's
vote for this bill in defiance of the President
veto. Many are the rumors Of other mon
strous measures to be proposed. What may
be done will astound no one, but we trust
will the sooner exhibit the designs of the radi-
calls and shorten their lease of power
Unless these men in Congress, who, having
a two-third's vote, and consequently having
at present the power in their hands, are at
tempting to uproot the very foundation of the
government, subvert the Constitution for the
unhallowed schemes of violent sectional
party, and consolidate all power in the rep
rcscntatives of that party, are estopped in their
reckless course, the days of our once model
Republic are numbered with the things that
were. 1t will go down amid the wreck of
its own Constitution, and instead of brilliant
ly adjoining, will be blot upon the pages of
history.
We do not dcspond, however. We do not
know whence the preventive will come, but
from the vast change in the sentiments of the
people in the North in one year, as exhibit
ed in their recent elections, we trust that the
President will receive the endorsation of the
people, the country be restored, and the rad
icals either stayed in their rccklessncss, Or
hurled from power.