The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-04-05
EDITOR.
IOWA:
THURSDAY
Veto II.
APRIL 5, 1866.

and union refugees, has taken upon HIM
self the responsibility of vetoing the
Ciyi! Rights Bill, which passed both
houses Of Congress with more than a two
thirds vote. ...........- -- ....
: This bill provided for the protection OF
all men in their personal and property
rights; and for this purpose it declares all
persons, without regard to color, citizens
OF the United States. The bill only pro-
poses to make them citizens for the pur
pose of enabling them to sue and be sued
in the federal courts, notwithstanding
the bred Scott decision. 1t does not
propose. to make them voters. Women,
by virtue of their citizenship, can sue in
the federal eaHfttSw 5hi are entitled to
vote.
:. AS q sample of theindia rubber charac-
ter of the Presidents argument, we
quote from his veto message the follow
ing: .t.t-,en r..... s..
It may, also, be asked whether it is
necessary that they should be declared
citizens in order that they may be secur-
ed in the enjoyment Of the civil rights
proposed to be conferred by the bill.
These rights are, by Federal as well as
orifOreigners, even before the completion
of the process of naturalization, and it
may safely be assumed that the same en-
actments are sufficient to give like pro-
lection and benefits to those for whom
this bill provides.
- In the second sentence after this, he
speaks as follows:
The bill, in effect, proposes discrimi-
nation against large numbers of intelli-
gent, worthy and patriotic foreigners,
and in favor of tho negro, to whom, after
long years of bondage, the avenues of
freedom have just now been suddenly
opened.
Thus after having taken the position
that the rights proposed to be secured by
the bill are already secured to all domi-
ciled aliens and foreigners, he objects to
the bill, because, as he says, it makes a
discrimination against foreigners. This
remarkable specimen Of fallacy was. only
inserted for the purpose of pleasing those
who are controlled by prejudice rather
than reason. For the same purpose he
Mcorpomtes a paragraph on amalgalna-
tion, with which he admits the bill has
nothing to do. ...
The President having asserted, as
above, that the persons designed to be
benefited by the bill already enjoy the
rights intended to be conferred, proceeds
to,yeto the bill, to the extent of four and
one-half newspaper columns, on the
ground of bad policy and general and
special uneonstitutionality.
The New York Tribune makes the fol-
lowing sensible remarks OH the veto mes
sage:
Having been among those who could
not help evincing impotence with the
slowness and tameness of our Govern
ment when the knife was first thrust at
its life by slaveholding treason-having
with difficulty endured the imbecilities
and treacheries which eliminated in the
Bull Run disastcr-having found it inn
possible to endure silently, unprotest-
ingly, the obstinate dawdlng and pur-
lsoscless strategy of Mcclellan and Buel
yet having lived to see all this, in
Gods good time work out forour coun-
try a grander, truer deliverance than was
contemplated by our short-sightcd ken
we feel moved to thank Andrew John
son for his undersigned but most import
ant demonstration of the vital truth that
no class or race can be trusted with the
rights of another, but that the only Sc
curity for Liberty and Justice inheres in
the securing of all mems Rights under
the only safe guaranty of All Mems
Votes. .r
Let us thank Mr.. johnson that his
Veto is SO sweeping. He might have
phrased it more cunningly; but he has
chosen to let us know that it is not this
particular bill that has provoked his OPP
position, but that any measure whereby
Congress shall attempt to protect the
Southern Blacks against White abuse
and opposition must encounter his deter
mined, deadly opposition. 1t is not to
amode ofdoing the thing, but to the
thing that Congress proposes to do, that
Mr.. Johnson's main objection lies; conse-
quently, it is idle to hope that any bill
which provides-no matter how eau
tiously, timidly--for the protection of
the Blacks, will receive his sanction.
1t is, therefore, idle to consider his rcas-
ons in detail; since his main objection is
not to any detail, but to the purpose and
necessary scope of the measure
Let us rejoice, then that it is thus
made still clearer that the Bldcks can
hare no other protection than that of
their o,on rOtcs. The Freedmen's Bureau,
must go; the Civil Rights of the Blacks
must remain such, and only such, as
their respective States choose to accord
them. II, then, they are to remain sub
jects and Pariahs in the land Of their
birth, they can have no rights at all; for
the bone thrown by. contemptuous pity
to the beggar's dog is not his by right
but by grace and favor. The Blacks
must vote, or those who hate them will
verify their own prediction that the,
cannot live free among us, but must per
ish from off the face Of the earth. Hap
PLY there is another issue-that to b.
attained through a legal recognition O
the great truth ''that all men ar
created equal, and endowed by thei