White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-03-01
The President and His Veto.

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johnson has defined his position. The
cherished illusion that be had defined it.
in accepting the Union nomination at
Baltimore, he has graciously dispelled. a
Ia John Tyler. With profoundest regret,
we find President johnson standing fully
and squsrely, for every practical purpose.
on the platform Of the Copperhesd party.
Reluctantly We are driven by bis own ut
terances to abandon tbs hope that.
though be might in some respects prefer
modern Democratic views to those of the
Republican masses and leaders. he yet
would prove substantially true to his
country. In the reluctance with which
We dismiss that hope. and in the sorrow
that We are compelled to relinqnish it. no
one can possibly misunderstand us. New
or had Chief Magistrate either grsnder
opportunity for blessing his people and
mankind. or greater need Of patriotic
support to enable him to cOnsunmste his
task. It was therefore duty to confide
in him while there appeared reasonable
probability that Obstruction could only
increase that task. He has now made
trust in him no longer possible or patri.
otic. for he has deliberately avowed as
his own tho principles and policy of the
party of ruin. aud has repudisted the
principles and policy of the party of SAFE
ty. Henceforth he must go his chosen
way with the former. while the friends Of
nationality and freedom must and will
adhere to the only principles that have
saved or can yet rescue the Republic.
Those principles are. 10 briefest, that
treason divests ita perpetrators. instantly
and forever. of every particle Of right In
compatible with the questionless safety Of
the nation. But Andrew johnson the
President. oblivious Of Andrew johnson
the Patriot. has suddenly discovered in
supersble Constitutional diff ficulties 10 the
way of securing the fruit of the war
which he found no such difficulties in
waging. ..-.-sss.
We do not propose here to rscapitu-
late, in pertinent answer to the Presi-
dents veto. the arguments that elected
him; but simply to note the fact that be
now scouts them as fallscious. and doubt
less would. had be again to choose. pre-.
fer the Chicago schedule of principles.
provided it were accomp snied BY the
Baltimore representation. i@ia .1 q.
President Lincoln in honesty followed.
il be did not lead, the Radical Union
party. bat his successor has assumed Q
position Of outspoksn hostility to that
party, and has accepted the proGsred
leadership of the party that most bitterly
opposed the Union war. that struggled
to crush it 1t every step. that opposed bis
election, th.t now opposes sny Recon.
the basis Of guaranteed frss-
dom and nationality, and thss is every
day re ecboing. in and out Of Congress,
precisely the arguments that have bssu
used by the Vsllsndighams. Ssulsburies.
Gsrret Davises. and the Copperhesd
press. for the past Eve yssrs. A COM
pend Of these Arguments, with alterations
in Difference to the altered times. is furn-
ished in the message vetoing the Freed.
mems Buresu bill. Not content with
setting forth objections to that bill, tbs
President ingeniously contrivss to con-
meet with the subject that Of the admis-
sion of the delegates from the ex-rsbsl
States, sad takes the most ultra Copper.
head visw Of this question
We looked upon the Freedmen 3
Bureat Bill as itself compronise, and
the alternative to ct once investing the
freedmen with the power Of sslf-p1otsc-
tion By the elective franchise. Messrs.
Henderson asd others beid that
to confer the ballot va. tho better way.
Mr.. Johnson's objections cone from Tie |
antiPoaal stapdpeist. They are the