The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-03
SPEECHES ON THE VETO.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
He Defends His Veto and De-
nOunces The Radicals.

report of the President s speech yesterday
The meeting at Growers Theatre adjourn
ed to the White House to present series
of resolutions endorsing the Presidents
veto. As it arrived in front of the White
House noisy crowd of two hundred per-
sons assembled. The President came out
and said
1t is extremely gratifying to know that
so large portion Of his felloW-citizens
approved of the policy adopted, and which
| intend to carry out. The day is peeu-
liarly appropriate for the endorsement of
. policy whose object is the restoration of
the Union as designed by the fathers Of
the country. / stand here to-day as
stood in the Senate Ia 1860 when I de-
lnounced traitors trying to break up thel
Government.
There we're two parties, one of which
was determined to destroy the Govern
ment and save slavery, and the other al
most equally dangerous and equally will
ing to break up the Government aud de-
stroy slavery. Whether disuniouists came
from the North or South, stand now as
/ did then, for the Union and the Consti-
tuition. The Government has stretched
forth the strong arm and with its physical
power put down the rebellion. The
traitors have disbanded. and they have
now ccme forward in proper spirit say
ing: s'We were mistaken, we made an eff
fort to carry out the doctrine of secession
and dissolve the Union, and we failed
We have traced this doctrine to logical
and physical results, and We find we were
mistaken. We acknowledge the flag Of
our country, and we are willing to obey
the Constitution and yield to the suprem-
lacy of the laws" Coming in that spirit
I say to them: When you have yielded
to the laws, when you have acknowledged
iyour allegiance, [ will, as far as / can,
open the door of the Union to those who
have erred and straycd for time. The
Ispirit of revenge is not the spirit in which
to deal with the whole people.
u know there has been a great deal
said about the exercise of the pardoning
power. There Is no one who has labored
with more earnestness than myself, to
have principal, intelligent and conscious
TRAITORS brought to justice, the laws vim
dictated and the great fact judicially es-
tabl shed, that treason is crime but
while conscious that leading intelligent
, traitors are to be punished, should whole
Communities, States and their people, be
made to submit to the penalty of death !
: TCries of Nol No Z Let those who have
erred be punished, but to the great muf-
titnde who has been forced into the rebel
Ilion, l say, give lenieney and kindness.
We put down the rebellion in order TO
lpreyent the separation Of the States, but
when the struggle on our part proved to
be successful, We find now an effort to
Ieoneentrate all the power in the hands of
la few at the federal head, aud thereby es-
ltablish new principle of equality and as
objectionable as separation. The GsV-
lernment may be revolutionized without
war, aud this is most dangerous because
its progress is not SO easily watched.
The great principle which authorizes
each branch Of the legislative department
; to judge for itself the qualifications of its
own members, has been virtually taken
away from the two branches and confer
, lied on a committee. ] fought traitors
and treason in the South, and now turr
/, around and 6ud men, / care not by what
name you call them, still opposed to re
storing the Union. / am free to say Il
Iyou that am still in the field. rVoice,
l. i-' Name them, who are they ?'l TIL,
president continued: You ask me VIII,
: they are. [ say, Thad. Stevens of Penn
lsylyania, and Charles Sumner of the Sen
late; also Wendell Phillips. TOthe
yoices-s Give it to Forney) The Pres
= lident Ia reply to this said: will no
waste nv amuunitiea on dead ducks.
stand fer my country, stand for tn
lConstitutioR there I placed my feet o.
imy advent into public life They ma
traduce. they may slander, or they ma
' tuperate me, but let me say to you a
= L has no iahaence apoa me, Let ne sa
n1 further, that I do not intend to be ovel
lawed by real or pretended friends, nor
Il intend to be bullied by my enemic,
u NY honest conviction is my courage th
lConStitaticu is my guide. know, m
Il lco0atrymen, it has been insinuated, n
not insinuatcd, It has been said directl,
lin high circles, that IL such asuFpation
power as am charged With, had bee
lexer ised some two hundred years ago,
n would have cost the individual his heat
lOf what usurpation has Andrew Johnso
been guiltyf ENone, none. Is it usul
cEl patton that should stand between I'll
people and encreachmepts of power
From the same source the exclamatlo
/. has gone forth that theyw were in the mid
ay of an earthquake; that they we're tren
t. bling and could not yield. Yes, felloV