Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-31
THE SECOND VETO MESSAGE.
The Press of the Country Upon 1t.
IFrom the Dayton Journal-Bepublcan.

OiC Clh-o VI CthlLCu5 VI II OhASON
States protection in their civil rights, be-
cause persons who owe allegiance TO for
eign governments, which may be hostile
to the United States, do not enjoy the
rights of American citizens, are altogether
extraordinary,
From the Sandusky Regis;er-Repuslican
When such arguments as these are put
forward 10 defeat righteous legislation,
the times m be out of joint indeed. We
ask attention to the threat contained in
the last paragraph of the I~ateLligenesrs
article, that Mr.. johnson will o execute
the act if passed over a veto.
[From the Toledo Blade-Johnson.
The President commits himself to the
doctrine that States may discriminate
against classes of citizens. If this is the
case-if, as the President asserts, each
State may, by enactment discriminate
against the negrOes-in other words, If 4
State Is to be allowed to prohibit the ne
gro from doing all that this bill provides
that he may do. there is danger Of his be-
ing deprived Of that freedom contemplate
ed by the Constitutional Amend
ment, and to which he is justly entitled.
The negro can be enslaved
in various ways, A law preventing him
from moving from one township to an
other, preventing him from holding lands,
either by purchase or lease, any law ham
pering bis movements is really slavery,
not perhaps in form and name, but in re-
ality, and under the second section OF the
| Constitutional Amendment, Congress has
/ clearly, the right to make such laws as
will prevent such legislation, and make
the negro free in fact.
The good that was in this bill was so
smothered with evil, so environed with
provisions not only unconstitutional, but
absolutely repugnant to the idea of a free
Government, that nothing else but a veto
could be expected. We cordially approve
of the object of the bill, and just as cor
daily detest the foolish and criminal pro-
visions by which that object was TO be car
ried out.
From the Cincinnati Times, Rep.l
We take the liberty of saying, at the
outset, that were We a member of Con-
gress having supported this bill, we should
feel somewhat Inundated under the
strength of the Presidents objections to
it. We may, however, be allowed to say
further, that under the doctrines we have
vigorously insisted upon ever since the
meeting of Congress, We could not have
supported the bill in its present shape.
CFrom the Ohio Statesman, Dem.I
No longer is there room for the most
sceptical to doubt. The President has
vetoed the ~abomination known as the
Civil Rights Bill. He remains true to his
purpose to keep the Constitution unrolled
and to follow its teachings. Let the peo-
pie, then, do their duty. Let them at
once call meetings-large, enthusiastic
meetings-and pronounce their approba-
ton of this, his second veto-a veto of a
more infamous bill than was the Freed
mems Bureau -bill-and resolve also to
stand by him if he shall refuse to execute
the law, if the Senate shall pass it over his
veto.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dem.l
In dissecting Ind exposing the glazing
absurdities OF the bill which has received
its quietus at his hand, the President has
demonstrated the fact, not only that he
perfectly well understands the purposes
and aims of the revolutionists in Con-
gress, but that he is entirely master of the
situation, and intends to discharge his Off
cial obligations regardless of all their ma
chinations and threats.
Iron the Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.
The country will honor the President
for his frmness in putting his heel upon
this worst of the foul brood of measures
that this Congress has hatched-measures
that are designed to exasperate the South
degrade the white race and elevate the
negro at its expense. More than ever the
country will have cause to rally round the
President, and to sustain him in the con-
test he Is waging with the destructives.
From the Chicago Tribune, Republican,
The veto of the Civil Rights bill has
been expected from the day that President
johnson, in the company of Salisbury.
Cox, VOORHEES, and Wlrz's lawyers, gave
in his adhesion to the principles of the
Southern Confederacy. 1t takes no one
by surprise, and none will be disappointed
by it. 1t constitutes another step back
ward toward the old s~laveholding era; or
rather, it marks a step which had already
been taken 1t serves as another beacon
light to keep all loyal, hberty-loving
Americans of the rocks upon which the
Union struck in 1861. II enables us to
see more clearly where we stand, and
where Andrew johnson stands. 1t ex-
poses more wildly the gule which still
yawns between the loyal and disloyal
states-between those who held that the
states were supreme and those vino held
that the Union was supreme-between
those who fought under Grant and those
who fought under Lee-between those
who overthrow slavery and those who are
seeking to r~e-establish it.
From the Toledo Commercial, Rep.l
We cannot see, therefore, how any one
can help being driven to the conclusion
that there is an ir~reconcilable difference
between the views, motives and inten-
of the President and Congress with
to the legislation necessary for the
protection Of the freedmen. 1t is need
to split hairs in order to find SEM
Of validity in the objections the
President makes to the Civil Rights Bill,
diverting the attention of the
public from the only fact worth consider
ing, which is, that the general tendency of
Presidents course Is to discriminate IN
favor Of &c rebels and against tie loyal
IN their present anomalous rela- ]
IN the South, while the disposition of {
is to do away with all unjust I
determinations between the two races. !
JILL AAAb 4ILHulti rep .
In its argument and general tone the :
Message is q straightout Democratic doe !
lment, and We presume the President will :
longer enact the farce of pretending to ,
% affiliated with the men who elected ;
lin. The President has touched bottom :
ooner than we anticipated, but it has been :
plain that he had 2 wonderful a~lacrity for =
y
LFrom the Chicago Republican, Rep +
By this action the President boldly =
hrows down the gauntlet of defiance to t
congress. He steps outside of the ques- 5
ion of constitutionality, and asserts the a
privilege of the Executive, as part of the
Legislature, to determine upon v
he necessity or expediency of a bill. He
ubmits to no judgment by the represen- t
atives of tie people, but ~arrogantly insists t
hat the Legislature of the country shall f
e measured by his peculiar views of the h
-ecessity and fitness of things. He as q
oddly defes the Union party. He has a
ollowed up his efforts to defeat the Union h
ticket in Connecticut, by a veto of V
ne of the wisest and most necessary Il
measures of the party which elevated him L
office, and courts a collision with that r,
arty. He abandons all his Unionism and t.
n~ti-slaverY professions, and throws him al
Elf into the arms of the Democratic de- hi
enders of the relics of the accursed insti-
He takes issue with the partv that