Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-01
The Peoples Response 10 n Presi-
dent


The Peoples Response TO the Presi-
dent.
The Union men Of the Ohio Leglsla-
ture have unanimously passed a resolution
endorsing the course of Congress
The Legislature Of Iowa has, by an
Overwhelming majority, passed a joint
resolution approving the course Of their
Senators and Representative in sustain
ing the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and re-
pudiating the veto. Governor Stone, Of
Iowa, has sent the following eloquent dis
patch to the Iowa Congressman: 1.-THE
"loyal State of Iowa Is warming anew.
"No faltering here; the radical majority
ain Congress will be t~riumphantly sus-
"tained. The Republican flag Will not
abe lowered an inch. Stand firm, what
Hever the President may do. The great
"Wegt is as unmovable now as she was
"during the dark hours of the rebellion.
"No compromise with traitors, either par
"doned or unpardoned."
The Legislature of Mississippi have
passed resolutions, by a vote Of four to
one in each branch, endorsing the Freed
mans Bureau Bill and ~denouncing the
policy of the President.
The Legislature of Maine has adopted
resolutions endorsing Congress and has
voted down a resolution endorsing the
President.
Senator CONFESS, of California, who
voted to pass the Bureau bill over the
Presidents veto, has received the follow
ing telegram from a leading officer of the
State government of California "Wecon-
graduate your vote. California is for
freedom"
Oftbe Ohio papers which have taken
sides on the question, seven support Pres
ident johnson and twenty-eight oppose
him.
A grand mass-meeting was held in
Chicago on Monday night for the purpose
of sustaining Congress and condemning the
President. The hall in which it was held
was overwhelmingly crowded, and out
side meetings were organized and ad-
dressed by many speakers. The indoors
meeting wa presided over by General
Beverage, with fifty distinguished Vice
Presidents, and addressed by Lieutenant
Governor Bross, Hon. Z. C. Lamed, Hon.
F. A. Hoffman, Hon. J. D. Ward, and
others. The committee on resolutions,
anon Q the members of which were Hon.
c. A. Dana and Joseph Medill, Esq,
warmly endorsing the Congressional poll
cy and condemning the Presidents course:
We copy a portion Of them:
RssoIUsd, That any attempt on the part Of
o coordinate branch Of the Government 10
dictate, direct or influence the judgment of
Congress or any member thereof, as to ad-
mission u. its membership, is highly repre-
hensibIe, and ought to be met with firm re-
sistanee and with the universal cOndemna-
ton ofthe whole people.
esoLUsa, That for many anxious months,
we have watched with doubt and misgiving
the course of the President, and now with
grief and indignation see that he has left
the Ioyal people who trusted and elected
him. has denounced a large part Of their
patriotic representatives il Congress, has
falsifed his promise to make treason odiOus,
and has dislaRyed the hearts Of those who
believe thatfae interests Of the nation are
unsafe in the hands of traitors.
h. Rssolued. That the Presidents harangue
TO the assembly in 'front.' o. the White House,
his general behavior on that occasion, es-
pecially his denunciation Of two members
Of Congress, whose loyalty to Union and
Freedom is above suspicion, must be re
garded, not only as an atfront to an inUellI-
-.zA-,I TTh,-Fr~ LAYING narTan hur as an
unprecedented and ill-boding departure
from the dignity aud proprieties Of a posi-
ton hitherto universally revered.
ResolUed, That we emphatically condemn
the i~nsinuation contained in the rear end
of tho veto message of the PresI-
dent and in the body of his speech, that
the Executive will coerce his white-washed
rebels into Congress, unless the loyal repre-
sentatives of the people shall open the doors
Of the Capitol to them; and We warn the
President that, while executive usurpations
and couos d'et1t have often been successful
among people Of the Latin race, they have
always ended in disgraceful discontinue
and sometimes decapItation among Anglo
Saxons. Reconstruction Of the rebel States
can never be accomplished by Presidential
BULLYING of the law-making departments OF
the Government. Let Congress do their
whole duty fearlessly, consclentlously and
periodically, and the loyal masses who
saved the Union will ~abundantly sustain
them.
Two or three outside meetings were ad
dressed by eloquent speakers. One of
them, a German meeting, adopted a re-
solution tina. "henceforth we do see and
condemn in Andrew johnson the open
enemy CT the Republican party, and the
betrsyer of the most sacred interests of
tho nation"
These are straws in the wind. These
are indications of what will be the peo-
pies verdict at the ballot-box upon the
Presidential treschery.