The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-05-03
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Congress and the President
Happily the President of the United
States took the passage Of the Civil
Rights Bill over his veto in the best
humor in the world. Instead of fol,
lowing the programme that had been
chalked out for him by some of has
new friends, and proclaiming Congressn
a revolutionary assemblage, calling ups
on the militia of Virginia to disperse
it, and inaugurate civil war, he ,said
perhaps it was we'll enough that TIE
bill had become law, though he could
not cOnscientiously giveit his Signature
He did not believe that the bill was
constitutional, but the Supreme Court,
had that to decide, and in the mean,
time we could all have the opportunity
of witnessing any beneficial results that,
might arise from it. ..r
And Congress feels in its bones That,
"the man at the other end of the ave
nue. is not 50 bad man after ALL,
The most radical Republicans discover
that he really is not a Copperhead, If
he does welcome all classes of polite
clans to the support of the Union
cause; nor rebel, though he shakes
hands with men who fought against
us during the war. There is whole
some reaction in his favor. A score of
his particular friends, nominated for
Office. have just been confirmed, who,
70 'ght since, would have have been
contemptuously rejected; and this IS
but one of the signs of the times indi-,
eating that the Executive and Lcgisla-
tive Departments of the Government
may yet work together for the general
safety and the common good.
Congress and the President, each
having had a lick at the other, feel bet
ter about it. There is no question
that the Presidents speech on the 22d
of February was an indiscreet one, and
that it damaged him seriously, but 1t
2 can not be candidly disputed that h.
: had a very aggravating provocation,
: given by those at whom, acCo ding 10
0 Henry Ward Beecher, he put his heels
' through the dashboard OF the Radical
p carriage He vetoed the Free edmen's
: Bureau Bill, and killed it, but the Bu-
: reau has another years opportunity to
: demonstrate its usefulness. He vetoed
| also, the Civil Rights Bill, but it is
:: passed over his head, and tbs must be
e considered, if an amicabte spirit pre-
y walls, a pretty square adjustment of
# accounts, and it certainly is period
when moderate and prudent counsels
e may be received and proited by.
n We have reason to believe they are
d heard and considered, and that If Mr..
= Thaddrus Stevens does not yield to the
i cOnciliatOry disposition Of the hour,
: and adopt liberal lire Of policy, meet
I ing the President at least half way, he
e will find himself in the course Of a few
weeks, in the leadership of as small a
e party as Mr.. Raymond mustered on
4 occasion of the final vote on the Civil
), Rights Bill. The most intelligent and
statesmanlike Union members of the
IS House are anxious to commence the
G work of reconstruction at once, and in
= doing so they can hardly avoid giving
If an eff ct We support to the Administr9-
5 ton policy. There is majority now
o in the House of Representatives in fa-
l. vor Of the admission of the members
e elect from Arkansas and Tennessee, a
d most important fact, and one that viii
;, not long be obscure in any part Of the
/, country. The Constitutional Amend
e ment equalizing representation, which
d has been out Of sight for few weeks,
V may yet be secured by cooperation
between the President and Congress,
h and it is not at all improbable that this
may be speedily done. ~
The Civil Rights Bill reduced to the
:: facts and adapted for practice does not
is seem to have the pOrtentous propor-
< tons which it assumed in theory while
S, under discussion. Congressman WHO
N supported it declare that it has no op-
r. GRAFTON whatt ver in three-fourths of
the loyal States including OhiO,) and
le none in three or four of the rebel States;
r that it does no more than our military
II commanders are doing in the Southern
le States where the Black Codes are un-
" repealed, and is indeed law simply
I'd authorizing to be done what the Presi-
rs dent is doing A few months expert
I'd ence will develop the scope and bear
ing of this measure, and possibly may
go far to settle the differences between
re the President and Congress by showing
st that they We're, in many particulars
IS unsubstantial. - Gin. Com. "p~'
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