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brought before him, and fee of $5to his depu-
| ty or deputies for each person he or they may
! arrest and take before any such Commissioned
| with such other tees as may be deemed reason
able by such a commissioner in general for per-
| forming such other duties as may be required ID
! the premises. All these fees are to be paid out
| q. the Treasury of the United States whether
there 10 a conviction or not, put IN case OF con-
viction they are to be recoverable from the 90
| fendent. 1t seems to me that under the lnnu~
| ence oe such temptation bad man might CON
vert any law however beneficent, into an
instrument of persecution and fraud,
BY the Sth section of the bill the United States
courts which sic only in place for white citizens
must migrate with the Marshal and District Attorney
and necessarily with the Clerk although he is not
mentioned, to any part Of the riet upon the order
more speedy arrest and trial a Jersons charged with
violation of this act, and there the Judge and OFF,
GERS of the court must remain upon the oroer OF tne
President for the time therein designated The 9th
section authorizes the President or such person as he
may empower for that purposes to employ such part
of the and or naval force Of the United States, of
the militia as shall be necessary prevent the viola
ton and enforce the due execution OF TINS act This
language seems to imply permanent military force
that is to be always at hand and whose only business
is to be the enforcement of this measure over the vast
region where it is intended to operate:
do not propose to consider the policy Of this bill
To me the details of the bill are frau ht with evil
The white race and the black race OF the south have
hitherto lived together under the relation OF master
and slave capital owning LABOR Now tnas relaton
divorced They stand now each master OF Itself. In
the new relation one being necessity to the other,
there will be adjustment which both are deep
ly interested in making harmonious, each has equal
powern settling the terms, and II LETT TO the laws that
regulate capital and labor it Is con1denty Deheved
that they will satisfactorily work out the problem
Captal it is true has more intelligence, but labor Is
never ignorant not to understand Its own inter
ests not to know its own value ana not 10 know mat
capital must pay that value This bill illustrates this
adjustment 1t nIervenes between capital and labor,
and attempts settle questions OF political economy
thro' the agency OF numerous o1ncas whose interest
it will be ierment discod be to terment dlscord be-
tween the two for as the breach Mldens Their
employment will continue, and when 1t is closed
their occupation will terminate ID.
In all history, in all our experience as people
living under Federal and State law, no such system
ha contemplated by the details OF this bl has ever
before been proposed or adope They establish Tor
the security of the coored rce safeguards which go
| infinitely beyond what the general government has
provided for the white race In fact the dlstnc
ton of race and color is, by the BILL made to OPP
crate in favor of the colored and against the white
| race They interfere with the municipal Legislation
of the States with the relations existing exclusively
betweena State and its citizens or between the lnhaD
itants of the State involve an absorption and
ass nmption OF power by the general GovernmenI
which if acquiesced in must sap and destroy our fed
erative system of limited power and break down The
barriers which preserve the rights Of the States Tits
another STEP or rather stride towards Capitalization
and the concentration Of all Legislative In the Natona
Government The tendency of the bill must be TO re
suscate the spirit of rebellion and to arrest the pro
gress of those Influences which are more closely draw
ing around the states the bonds OF union and peace
Ny lamented predecessor, in his proclamation o
the list of January 1863 ordered and declared that al
persons held slaves within certain States and parts
of States therein designated were and thencefoward
should be free and further, that the executive GOV
eminent OF the United Sthtes including the military
and naval authorities thereof would recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons This guaranty
has been rendered obligatory and sacred by the
| amendment of the constitution aboishlng slavery
throughout the United States therefore fully recog
nze the obligation to protect and defend that class
of on DaOple whenever and wherever il shall become
necessary and the full extent compatible with the
| constitution of the United States.
Entertaining these sentiments 1t only remains lo
me to say that will cheerfully cooperate with Con
press in any measure that may be necessary for thS
preservation of the civil rights of Freedmen as wei
as those of all other classes of persons throughout
the United States by judicial process, under equa
and impartial laws or conformabe with the proVls
ions of the Federal Constitution.
/ now return the bill to the Senate and regre
that in considering the bills and joint resolutions
forty-two in number which have thus far been sa
mitfed for my approval, am compelled TO Win
hold nv assent from second measure that has re
Eceyed the sanction of both hous es of Congress
(Signed) ANDREW JoHNSON.
Washington D. c. March 9th, 1866.