New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-02
THE DEMOCRATIC INTERPRETA
TION OF THE VETO.

drew Johnson when ne nlade Ms ~~u fVi reo-
ruory speech. were mainly bitter opponents OF
his election to the Presidency, and 81 his prccc-
ding acts and professions, which made HIM
the candidate Of the Union party. In other
words. they were anti-Coercion, ant-War Dem
ocrats-" Copperheads, we say, " for short
including a very large infusion Of undcnisbie
Rebels. These are Che men who mainly glonly
the Veto and the Speech, because they are held
to foreshadow the future ssoendency in our
Government of the ideas and principles which
plunged the South into rebellion. Hence. The
World, dating on the significance Of the Veto
thus expounds its purport:
I'm yetong that bill the President committed him
self against the whole order OF ideas the entire system
of policy Of the predominant faction OF the Republican
PARTY, The very core OF the Republican poic! y n
ussy philanthropy for the negro Ever s ,ho
piv OF which the whole politics oil the coun'ry No
turned The Veto is vigorous blow at thai system.
Ii is the striking of the great hell In the tower 70 marx
the beginning OF q new era For the last generation
our politics have revolved about the negro for TIE
next they to revolTe about the Union, Inc 'eto
brings out in bold relief fundamental difference IN
the whole mode OF thought which prevails respectively
in the Capitol and the Presidential mcusion.
1--WE do not see how "a politicians. the Radicals
adopted The President has done us best % 'e"er htH
and their poiicy odioHs II the Union restored win
out Negro Suffrage. they have no future. Aishn,i
northern vote for Gen Mcclellan is all that n needed
to demonstrate that the Republican party VIII De a
minority the moment the Mon Is restored ne hhui'
Gals In We nothing hope afterward nor anything 10
eXpect meanwhile from submission 10 the policy Of the
President II they sink into obscurity they Lad
rather go down as martyrs than as apo'iaie''
These asseverations Of an enemy are in
essence honorable TO those they assail and re-
proach The "fussy philanthrophy which
has rescued Four Millions of our countrymen
from the suction-bock and the ccifie, from legal
chattelhood, with jealousy enforced ignorance,
and wrested Two Millions of our country
women from utter helpessneSS and Subsection
TO the coarsest and most brutal lust, needs no
vindicstion. When assailed, It's devotees should
simply point to the pyramid of broken shackles
rising from hell to heaven, and keep silence.
Estate Rights and 1.-the Union " were for
more than forty years the alternate watch
words of the champions of American Slavery
Whoever resisted any Of lis exactions or preten-
sions found State Rights mterposed in their be-
half; where this would not serve, they were men
acingly ordered to desist, or the shareholders
would dissolve the Union. The potency OF tbese
devices has in good part vanished, but the habit
Of resortng to them is inyeterate; and the gen
Grafton which So long found the invocation prof
liable must not be expected to abandon il.
The Republican party was founded on a single
idea-Resistance TO the territorial extension or
expansion of Slavery in our Union. On that
idea, it struggled through weakness and defeat
up to strength and triumph. Slavery thcreupon
precipitated a conflict OF arms, which neccs.
STATED and resulted in its own destruction. In
the progress of that conflict, it became neces-
sary to invoke the assistance of the enslayed
and to promise not only to establish but to main
tain their freedom. That pledge we are now
bound TO fulfill to the extent of our ability. II
this subjects us to unpopularty and defeat, We
shall confront these as serenely re, and far less
anxiously than, We assumed The responsibilities
OF success and power.
"The negro" as SUCH is nothing to Us; but
Humanity, Justice, Equal Rights before the
Law, are everything. TO deny Justice and OPP.
portunity to the humblest, the most despised
or detested is crime which rocks the founda-
tons Of the strongest State. 1t is a crime
which unsettles and blasts. Not for the negro
exclusively, but in the interest Of every human
being, do We demand that the laws of our
country, and of every part of it, shall be con
formed to the dictates Of Eternal Right, 80 that
every one shall joyiully feel and accept the
obligations of loyalty and patriotism.
The Republican party must ultimately dis
solve and pass away, rs all other parties have
done or should do. II will die when It's work
is done, and not TIL then. So long as -Four
Millions of our countrymen shall be ground
under the heel Of contempt and oppression--de-
MED the c0mmonest rights Of IIumanity-be
pariahs in the land OF their birth-excluded,
without shadow or pretense Of fault on
their part, from all political franchises--ior-
hidden to ride in public vehicles or prosecute
lawful and useful callings-be excluded from
places of public amusement, and treated as out
casts even in the house of God-the party OF
Freedom and Justice must not, cannot die.
That restoration which stiles the nhex-
IDLY loyal people of the South and falsifes the
public sentiment of eleven States by consgning
them to the unchecked domination of the Rebel
minority, wilput the Republicans out of power,
is quite probable. You can make three a
majority of seven simply by prescribing that
two of the four shall not count. All parties
have their camp.followers and vultures, who are
hnLitnall,. O. On tLa n, aLe . and who arn CON.