Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-22
THE PRESIDENTS VETO MESSAGE
views of the Press in Regard to 1t.
From the Detroit Tribune, Rep. ]

From the Detroit Tribune, Rep.1
The expected veto of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau bill was sent to the Senate yesterday.
1t will be received by the country with as
tonishment, 80 puerile is it in some of its
positions, and SO disingenuous in its whole
treatment of the subject brought in review.
The President will not be sustained by the
people in the unjust and indefensible posi-
tion which he has taken. Let our Repre-
sentatives fearlessly do their duty.
[From the Sandusky Register, ROp.1
Intelligent observers were prepared to see
Mr.. johnson return the Freedmen's bill to
Congress with certain changes suggested
before he could approve it, but very few
outside of Congress were prepared to hear
the Republican President deliver q three
column valedictory to the Union party and
declare himself the champion of his native
but rebellious South. We confess that we
look in vain through the Presidents long
message for single ray of hope for the
emancipated slaves whose freedom we are
sacredly pledged to maintain, or for the
loyal North whose blood and treasure have
given us a nation. Right here
the President parts company with nine
tenths of the party which elected him, and
right here the men who fought rebellion in
the field snd the friends of Right every
where must bid him a reluctant adieu.
This message shows more distinctly than
any previous Presidential utterance had
done, that the President and the majority
of Congress are radically at variance, and
that no middle ground is possible with them.
The policy of one or the other must 60 to
the wall.
Whatever may be thought of the argu-
ment of the message, few can doubt that the
document will be hailed by the reasonable
spirits of the South as the dawn of millen-
mum. It will increase the insecurity of
loyal men in Southern States, give new
license to outrages upon negroes, and en-
courage Southern society in its rapid return
to the old barbsrism.
Yet good men need not despair. There
is q power higher than Andrew johnson.
Let us thank Heaven for our Congress and
stand by it in the hour of its trial. All will
yet be well, and justice will be done.
From the Cincinnati Times, Rep.l
It is to be remarked, in the first place, that
the President, with the theory of the status
of the States which he holds, could do no
less than veto this bill.
There is one objection, however, that locks
like a retraction of his own policy, as he in
augurated it in Tennessee, to wit: That
the States, as he calls them, should be heard
in Congress on a measure that so vitality
concerns them. Do we understand by this,
that the President, Andrew johnson, who
came to the chief Office of the Republic, de-
claring that "treason is a crime and must
be made odious"-that he is opposed 10 any
Congressional action made necessary by
their treason, unless the traitors themselves
shall have a chance to defeat the will Of the
conqueror Is this answering like An
drew johnson? We un-
hesitatingly express our opinion, that the
Freedmen must have some means of pro-
t9ction other than those usually and equally
provided for all classes. If there be SO