, 1866-04-27

,ollar OF Ihad. Stevens q Oo., ana VINO ABUSE
he President, to declare that be has deser>
ed the union party, and been guilty Of a
great abuse of power.because of his veto of
The FreedmeD's Bureau and Civil Rights
bills. According to these ferociOus and inS
tenselH patriotic journals, Congress, 10 pass
ing t6e De bills. Misunderstanding utmost patriot
ism ano wisdom, while the President, for ve-
toing them, IS guilty of treason, Stratagem,
and usurpation. These Journals should be
more discreet, and watch the bell-weathers of
their Aoek with greater care. One of their
principal file leaders in the Senate, Mr.. Trum.
bull, finds far other cause for opposition to
the President than outrageous assumption Of
power, and plainly intimates that neither wis
dom nor patriotism, ,butcriuging subserviency,
actuated Congress in the passage of the bills
in question. In his speech on the veto, be
says that the bills referred to had been shown
to the President before being acted upon in
posed 10 them, and that if Congress had sup,
pose he did not favor them, the bills would
not have been passed and the Inference was
held out that, because the President did not
lobby against the passage of the bills, he must
necessarily favor them. Here, then, was a
distinct confession on the part of one Of the
leading champions of the bills, that in passing
them, Congress was not actuated by any In
herent wisdom, patriotism, or sense of right
or justice, but solely by desire TO please the
President; and, by inference, VI are given
plainly to understand that, had the President
openly expressed his desire in favor of bills
of contrary nature, Congress would have
indOrsed them unhesitatingly. Says Mr..
Trumbull: "The bill was proposed with
view to carry out what men supposed to be
the views Of the President + When
it was reported be was hesiEating about sign
ing the Freedmen's Bureau bill, he was in.
formed of the condition of the Civil Rights
bill, then pending in the House, and hope
was expressed that if he had any objections
to any Of its provisions, he would make it
known, that they might be remedied. There
was believed to be no disposition on the part
of Congress, and certainly not on my part, to
have bills presented to him which he could
not approve. He never intimated, so far as
l know, the least objections to any provisions
of the bill until after its passage x The
bill was framed, as was supposed, in harmony
with his views" That is to say, if it had not
been inferred that the President favored the
bills, they would not have been passed, but
something in their stead would have been
adopted. So, according to their own state
ments, the leading radicals in Congress do
not denounco the President because he dis,
approves Of the bills; they do los denounce
him for his vctoes; what they do iu reality
denounce him for, is, because he did not at.
tempt to influence legislation in an impropS
er manner by informing the members of Con-
gress Of his wishes by preparing bills fer
them to indorse, and by lobbying in favor of
their passage. No one who reads Trumbulls
speech on the veto, can come to any other
conclusion than this upon the subject. The
primary cause of radical wrath in Congress
against the President, is not his abuse of pow
er, nor his disbelief in the bills referred to,
but because he refused to abuse the pTiyi,
leges of his position byendeavorpgto inprop.
erly influence legislation. Having ran off the
right track and gotIihto'the swamps, because
the President did not go out of the way of
bis duties to keep them in the straight path,
the leading radicals in Congress now endeav,
or to cover up their own mistakes by scold>
ing the President with noisy fury, while their
partisan journals help to swell the tumult BY
loudly charging him with conduct directly
the contrary of that which he has pursued;
their whole aim being to cover radical
buuders, and to mislead the public mind by
raising false issues.
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SEVERE on OLD TBAD.-The Richmond Eramt.
ner is terribly severe upon Thaddeus Stevens,
chairman Of the House committee on recoustruc.
ton, and chief stumbling block in the way of
an eprly restoration of the Union. In language
more fOrcible than refined, it thus refers to the
radical chief:
The Satanic puddler Of the national foundry
grins as he sees'the sparks Ay of from the mass
of metal that be is manipulating with devilish
Rlee in his 6ery furnace IA bnovAs tbat tbav |