The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-07
VETO AND DITTO.

,r,,o sDeech of Mr. johnson to the popular
r,cptinG in Washington City on Washing
toms birthdayis the veto message again
II is stripped of some of the Conventional
TICS of official intercourse between orancnes
of the same Government, but in all essential
particulars. in spirit and aims, it is the same
The forum is ditferent-the tone is different
but the main object of message and speech
is the samc-oiIly the speech is one Wlde
step nearer the auditors whom Doth were
designed to reach--to the voting masses Oh
the country, to whom the President is driven
10 appeal in order to arouse them 10 an un
dcrstanding of the fearful ISSUES nidee ~ ne
tween tse Executive and the Cabal OF fll-
teen The veto was a calm, stately anu eA-
haus.;yc arguments temperate INT earnest
expostulation against the evils with whlch
the country is thTeatCn ned, by the schemes OF a
iunto sitting and plotting in secret, TO Whlcn
PARTY majority in Congress mas assigned I
away It's own functions OF lndePehuent
thought and action, and whose DehesCs ~
carries into effect by force OF fcich'ie'o anu
unreasoning party drill
The President endured this longer than
! MANY who had faith in the integrity OF IL
purnoses and his intlexible courage thoHSht
! r. I've nrudent, in view of the evident tact
! flat his adyersaries, while cajoling him III
i the face would he strengthening themselves
| for implacable attack Upon INN by man
] 1B
nTcparatory to the. day Of crisis, when he
would surrender his principles 10 them or
4 eurouu, or the full momentum OF an organ
/ lied t,artr His patient waiting Tor the hour
+ of the conflict which lie has all along tore
seen. shames many who doubted his tifmncss
und,.r the test when it should come. And
! thr result will demonstrate that, balted and
! hound as he was thought to be, assailed with
/ ,unttered or spoken threats, and warmed OF
nolitical if not personal destruction, he has
/ indeed wisely of the time when the fac.
/ florists should have exposed their Whole
/ planin all theunmistakable naketlness OF its
! dcfcrmity, and all hope of help from Con
press in defeating them should be lost, te
come before the people directly and summon
them to the rescue OF their own lnSttutloh'
from impending ruin, zsa aa-E
1t is an extraordinary appeal, but the
times are extraordinary. The plans against
which the President protests are reVolu
tiOuary plans. They are the schemes OF al
| audacious minority, having accidental con
troll of all branches of the Government Du
the executive, to Use that power, not 10 re
store the Government as il was when mil
ion of soldiers were upholding 1t as, In thel
thoughts. the best the world ever knew, bu
TO make it tile instrument for perpetnatlni
= rule and giving dominion to ideas whlc
could only be subyerted again Ill bette
times by a force short of revolution. Agalns
projects so factiOus and Migrant IN thei
selfshnass, tie President, who eXpostulate
and reasons and entreats i'll messages, come
, down from the palace of authority, and, 81"
rounded BY the people Who E clam n of III
thoughts that burn there, and talks I
9 them as Andrew Johnson can talk WhHil FL
: tering upon a political conflict in which h
| is sure Of the righteousness OF his cause an
A determined to fight it out, and flushed wit
{ the confidence that he will win :,
T The meagre intelligence we get by u
: telegraph satisfies MS that the IresiaenS Ia "a
, state of public affairs, and is making Il
2 occasion they were waiting for to break u
4 the combinations, which have thus far r
4 pressed the full expression of the poPul'
f f,clinTs-Picayune.