Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-26
v.,o No. : ComInWt

All the information that has been sent
out from Washington City since Thursday
night, through specials, touching the Pres
identss action on the Civil Rights Bill, is
that he will veto it. The dispatches in this
mornings paper divest the matter Of all
doubt. So early as Friday, the editor OF
the Neo York Tribune was convinced that
the veto was coming; and, therefore, said
that "the Copperheads and ex-rebels could
with safety buy their powder"
There should be rejoicing-the cannon
should be made to thunder; rockets should
be sent whizzing through the air; bonfires
should be made to burn and blaze; orators
should speak, and the people should ap-
plaud. 1t is not an event that calls partlc-
ularly for the jubilation of those who are
denominated "Copperheads and ex-rebels,"
unless the understanding is to be fastened
upon the public mind that the people who
are thus denominated are the only persons
who are solicitous that the Federal Govern
ment shall be administered in compliance
with the spirit and the letter OF the Consti-
tuition of the United States. To accord
them this position is placing them on
proud and commanding eminence. 1t
was with the understanding that the
Constitution should be maintained in
violate that our countrymen went to bat
tie by the hundred thousand; it was to pre-
serve that Constitution, through which
this country from seeming insignificance
had risen, In comparatively brief space of
time, into one of the most powerful and
commanding powers of the earth, that our
people submitted to novel and onerOus
systems of taxation; it was with the under
standing that that Constitution should be
reinstated in full vigor when the war ter
minated, that the people reelected LINCOLN
President and elected JOHNSON Vice Presi-
dent, and the present members to Congress;
it was only upon the assurance that the ex-
igencies OF war rendered it absolutely
necessary that the people tolerated its nom
observance in certain matters-the nom
observance being sought to be justified on
the ground that through it alone could the
Constitution be saved from utter abroga-
tion.
Veto No. 2, which will be given to the
people in day or two, will come as ver-
ification that President JOHNSON has in
reality unrolled the Constitution and that
he is resolutely bent on conducting his ad-
ministration in accordance with its teach
ings. Why, then, should not all our peo-
pie unite in a public -. nstration and
commend him for so a Why should
this service be ASA F"Copperheads
and Ex-rebels" aloneE. III t,rofessed Union
men not see the attitude in which this
places henl9 Beyond doubt, it places the
men they have reproached as Copper
heads" on the vantage ground of always
having been solicitous for the preservation
of the Constitution; and it dignifies the
claim of the men who embarked in the erf-
terprise of secession, that they embarked
therein because the Republican party
would disregard the Constitution whenever
their political notions should conflict with
any provision in that instrument. Are
they willing that the "Copperheads and
Ex-rebels" should be known as the only
defenders of the Constitution now, or will
they unite with Democrats in upholding
and encouraging President JOHNSON in re-
sisting the Vaccinations of the Radicals in
Congress that look to the overthrow OF the
Constitution and the subversion of our Re-
publican form of Government?