The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-02

Il pbWIi hu iAehs Ia 9buEI1Hs hAaN W~
should snbmit 10 him our bills that
If he disappr0yes them he should re-
turn them TO the House with bis rea-
sons therefor; that q vote may be
taken, and If they pass by majority
Of two thirds they are the law Of the
land. And be now refuses % enfofee
that law proclaimed by the Ganstitn
ton OF the United States TO be the
law Of the land. '' a :
What Is the result, my 9onntrymenf
The " hite loyal people Of the south.
ern States are fleeing p0rthWaFd, and
tile Southern States are now IN the
hands of rebels, The attitude Of hu-
militia ion and aoquieseence which the
Southern people assumed after the
surrender Of their army, il now turn
ed into the naughty pride of conquer
ors. They are numbering and slanght-
ering the black people Ia certain pOr-
tions Of the South, and depressing
them in every form; but your law,
made so by the two thirds vote, to
protect these people, il regarded a
dead letter, and proclaimed by Mr..
johnson and his Cabinet az null and
void. Applause That was the con
dition in which affairs were left by
this unhappy difficulty.
Even this il not SO great as some
thing else | have TO say about Mr.,
Johnson If Mr., johnson had CO.
operated with Congress in the settle
ment of the Constitutional Amend
ment, we would not have cared for
the Freedmen's Bureau Bill or the
Civil Rights Bill because the ponsti-
tutional Amendment would have
secured all these His objection to
the Civil Rights Bill il that we had
not the power TO pass itI but, my
Friends, we took it out of his way.
We proposed To. appeal TO the people
of the United States 10 give Congress
the power 10 pass it great cheers
aud laughter 7rand weldid.f
After explaining and defending the
Constitutional n7' Amendment, Mr.
SHERMAN proceeded to comment up
on the Presidents conduct as follows !
The President Is the only man in
the broad limits of this country of
ours 10 whom constitutional amend
ment Ii not submitted. The Congress
of. the United States must act upon
il by two-thirds of each House, and
then ii goes 10 you, the masters Of
Congress and the President LCheera
The Trainers of the Constitution did
not do this without motive IL was
In order to guard against the power of
the President that this was withheld
from him. He il the only man who
has no right or power to act upon the
constitutional amendment. We send
ID 10 you, we appeal TO You and ask
you ii il IL right ThRea if0urths OF
the States must agree 10 IL, or it ID
null and void, aud Andrew j johnson
has no vote over 1t. thank God.
Cheers. 0@ afAA. anH A1aaf
He has attempted to organize a
party TO defeat this amendment, but
all opposition 10 lii has proved un-
successiilk L. In aiusnrpation of the
powers Of the people, aud for that, il
for nothing else the people will con
denim him. This Is the record of Con
gress. F 3al f4Iiae ~ 6t.
II And what has the President done?
He has violated every pledge OF honor
and faith hesgave us when we eleeted
him. He promised TO overthrow the
rebellion, and make treason odious
He has made il respeetable-if he
could do,itl He found the rebellion
overthrown when he assumed hia of
flee. Under the shadow of a great
crime, he, for "A time. was true TO his
promise; but, he has since used all
his power 10 restore rebels to power
and to make their treason reputable.
He promised, like Moses, TO guide u
race of freedmen to a haven of rest,
whore in the enjoyment OF natural
rights they would be secure in their
persons, their homes, their families
aud their property. He has turned
them to their former masters, already
embittered by their loss as slaves, aud
taught by the prejudice Of ages to
treat them as a race OF hrutes, lie
has permitted them to be- murdered
aud plundered when protection was in
his power, and refuses to enforce laws
passed for their safety lie promised
| that loyal men only. should rule that
rebels should take a back seat in the
process of reconstruction. He has
chosen rebels as his chief agents in
| the work of reconstruction, and the
loyal men Of the South like Hamil.
ton, of Texas, whose name was once
associated with him, ii now an exile,
He bias separated from nine tenths of
those who intrusted him with power,
and holds agreat portion of the resi-
due with public nlunder l do not
say that honest men, with worthy mo-
tlves, do not yet cling TO him but
they are few and siisr .hetwealL while
the great mass Of the citizens aud sol.
'dlers, who voted FOR and trusted him,
now turn from him iP anger or in
| lie now seeks to destroy the great
Union party that'elected him. Wen.