The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-04-04
Another Presidential
Earthquake
VETO No. z.
THE CKTIE RIGHTS BILE
TORN TO ATOMS, AND ITS
INFANY AND C0RRCP-
TION EXPOSED
The Message Of The President.

/ To the Sc,Iie Of tie Giute,i ,St0{es:
! regret that the bill which has passed
! both houses OF Congr:ss. entitled An act
/ TO protec; all persons in the United States in
| their ciyi, nights, and provide means of their
/ vindicatlCn, contains provisions which |
| cannot approve consistently with my sense
| Of duty TO the whole people, and my ouli-
| cations to the Constitution Of the United
States. | am, therefore, constrained to lie.
| turn 1t to the Senate, the hou.e in which
i,eOriglnated, with my objections to lis be-
coming Law. BY the first section of the
bill all persons born in the United States.
ard not suhject to any foreign powsr, ex-
Guiding Indians not taxed gs4e declared TO
tc citizens of the United States.
This provision comprehends the Chinese
Of the Pacific States, Indians subject to tax
alton, the people called gipSies, as well as
| the entire race designated as blacks, people
| OF color, negroes, mulattocs, and persons Of
! African blood; every individual of these
races born liz the United States is by the
/ bill, made a citizen of the United States -
| 1t does not purport to declare orconier any
other right of citizenship than federal ciii-
| zenship.
| 1t does not propose to give these classes
Of persons any status Of citizens Of States,
! except that which may result from their
| status as citizens of the United States The
! power to confer the right Of State citizen
| ship is just as exclusively with the several
| States as the power to confer the right of
! Federal citizenship is with Congress The
| right Of FtdeIat citizenship thus to be con
| ftrIcd in the several excepted races before
| mentioned, is now, for the first time, pro.
| posed to be given l,y law
| II, as is Gained by many, that all persons
who are native born, already are by virtue
Of the Constitution citizens of the United
! States, the passage Of the pending bill can
NOT be mt cessary o make them SUCH If,
on the other hand, such persons are not cit
| IL, ms, as may be assumed from the proposed
| legislation to make them such, the grave
| question presents itself, whether, where
eleven of the thiAy-six States are unrepre-
scntcd in Congress at this time, it is sound
| policy to make one entire colored population
and all her excepted classes citizens Of the
| United States
| -Four million Of Them have Just emerged
from slavery ino freedom, and can it be
reasonable to suppose that they possess the
requisite Qualifications to entitle them to all
the privileges and inmHnitieS Of citizcnship
Of the United States? Have the people Of
the several States expressed such a convc-
s'on, ~ .aS n.y. ailo pS "IH7d Tilutner u IS
heceHs"'y 'ley Si'oo'o Le uecialeG ci''ze'iS
in order that they may be secured in the
enjoyment ef the civil rights proposed to
be conferred by the bill?
Those rgh are by Federal as well as
State laws secured to all domicllcd aliens
and foreigners even before the compilation
VI 'he plocesS VI Instrumentation, anu II may
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