Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-28


are deeply interested in making harnoni-
Gus. Each has an equal power In settling
the terms and if left 10 the laws that reru-
late capital and labor, it's confidently Ba--
lieved this will satisfactsFiIy work ont tina
problem Capital, it is true, has more IN
telligenee, but labor is never 90 ignorant as
not to understand its own interests, not 70
know its-own value, and not to see that
capital must pay that value. This bill frus..
trates this adjustment 1t intervenes between
capital and labor, and attempts to settle the
question Of political economy through the
agency of numerous officials whose interest
it viii be to ferment discord between the
two races, for as the breach widens their
employment VIII continue, and when it Is
closed their occupation is gone IN all our
history, in all our experience e5 q pso-
pie living under Federal aud State laws,
No such system as that Contemplated BY the
details Of this bill has ever before been pro-
posed or adopted. They establish for sho
security Of the eOlored race safeguards
which 60 infinitely beyond any that the
General Government has ever provided for
the white race. In fact the distinction Of
race and color is, By the bill, made to ope-
rate in favor of the colored and egaiast Tho
white race. They interfere with the mu-
nicipal legislation of the States;
with relations existing exclusively between
State and its citizens, or between the in
habitants ofthe same State and the absorp-
tion and assumption of power By the Gem
eral Government, which, if asquieseed in,
must destroy our federativs system OF lin
tied powers and break down the barriers
which preserve the rights OF the States, Il
IS another step, or rather stride, towards the
Capitalization and contraction Of all the
legislative powers in the national govern
ment-
The tendency of the bill must be 70 resus-
citate the spirit of rebellion and to arrest the 4
progress Of those influences which are nors Z
closely drawing around the States the banda
Of union and peace. N J lamented prede-
eessor, in his proclamation Of the let ofJsn-
uary, 1893, ordered and, declared that all
persons held as slaves within certain
States and parts of States therein designat-
ed, were. and thenceforwafd should be free,
and further, that the Executive Govern
ment Of the United States, including the
military and naval authorities thereof,
would recognize and maintain the freedom
Of such persons. This guarantee has been 3.
rendered especially obligatory and sacred &
by the amendment Of the Consultation
abolishing slavery throughout the United
States therefore fully recognise the obli-
CATION to protect and defend that class of
our people, whenever and wherever it shall
become necessary, and to. the full extent
compatible with the Constitution of the
United States.
Entertaining these sentiments, it only re-
mains for me to say that I Will eheerfully
cooperate with Congress in any measure
that may be necessary for the preservation
of the civil rights Of freedmen, as well as
those Of all other classes of persons through
out the United States by judicial
process, under equalr and impartial
laws or eonformably with the posi-
tons of the federal Constitution.
now return the bill to the Senate and
regret that in considering the bill and joint
resolutions, forty-two in number, which
have been thus far submitted for my ap-
proVal, am compelled TO withhold my as
sent from a second measure that haTe re-
eeived the sanction of both Houses Of Con-
gress.
[Signed] ANDREW JOHNSON. a
WAsHHeToS, D. c., March q, 1866. silIs