Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-29
THE VETO.

The veto of the Civil Rights bill'' by the
President has provoked much less acrimony
and less disposition to assail him than was the
case when he disposed in the same manner q
the Freedman's Bureau bill; and this for sew
eral cogent reasons, the first and the nrinclpai
one we have no doubt being, that the taste o.
his quality on the former occasion has at last
tempered with discretion the zeal OF even
the most disappouted. That the feeling IS
as deep with those whose special measure it
is. there can be but little doubt but the fact
that the veto was for several days expected BY
all who remembered the grounds which deter
mined the fate of the other, no doubt largely
qualified the anger and disappointment felt
and this, in the manner in which men submit
to the inevitable, when complaint will measur
ably be thrown away.
That the grounds Of objection to the Civil
Rights bill are well taken, appears so apparent
on a careful perusal Of the veto message, that
we shall not even take the trouble to call at
tention to any particular point, because it will
be read of course But The mere fact that
from the beginning It seems to take for grantcd
that the President is n mere CIPHER in his dis
position and power to protect all classea,
backed although he is by the entire military
and naval force of the nation, should be
enough to make him opposed to the bill in
question; more especially when it contcm
plates encumberng him with complex and
bulky machinery for the accomplishment Of
purposes for which the laws and the Exccu-
tive are already adequate.
Either republican government is failure
or it is not. The mere proposition to found
this imperio ia jmpertD@, this tremendous
organization which assumes to make up alleged
deficiencies. is a terrible acknowledgment IN
itself that the Government as constituted is q
lamentabIe failure. That it IS no failure, Is
shown triumphantIy by the power it has shown
to put down the greatest attempt at revolution
ever made, whilst preserving its equilibrium
through trials besides, which would have hope
leSsly wrecked any other government on earth.
In the face of the great strength it has cy-
hibted and the power it already has. there
are yet men who would supplement It's powers
by patch work Of every kind; assuming that
the Government which has crushed great ar
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That the Freedmen are getting along well
enough and far better than could have posi-
bly, been expected, is shown by accounts
Whlch come up every day rom Inc Ho0thi ana
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that inns CNll lights blii IS me"SurapIy the
Freedmen Bureau Bill in new form pro-
,,osicp in do fine samet1;nr in ar ffaronf man
ncr. must he evident TO all Whether # will
turn mn AGAIN before The session closes, un6or
.ot onotbor narn romans IN I,o ,ean Tim,
tho colored nomination Of tbc land orc-,,n.
fortupotol, for all cr,,.,r,,od- -boco,,,;,,, OIL.
crcot homo If cortcnt;op ~ in tbo dov- Lo
fore tho o.roat conflict ,ros s,,,nos.d to Lo,.,
settled their status. apncars only too cvidr,t
since so far in tho present session of Congress.
hardly national measure ba. bern dcbatad
Init what remotely or coniinaentIv Turned mo,
b;s cond;r;o,. ,nito 90 winch w. moro t,o,
upon that If the Fbminart race W. arc eraI
70 see the President --ub;lst e,ood;j,. ord IL,
terminedlv protecting him-refuslng tt, eoa,,,
nize him either as pauper Or savage; bu
treating him as man, who like others mus