The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-06-06

was too weak, or unseady-which was
it?-to sign his name thereto, and a
stamp was used instead. Pardons SO
liberal that counterfeiters and criminals
in the North rejolced thereat, and men
who never existed received absoluton
toy crimes that they lad never perform.
ed,
He is the loyalist, says the President,
who assents to ssch acts as these-he Il
the traitor who opposes them. Let the
whole North cry, as one man, "I de-
nounce them, oppose them; I do my
utmost to countemct their evil effects
and, if this be trcHon, make the most OF
it,"
But the Presidents policy which is to
stand az the test o loyalty, has found
other Developments than thcse-devel-
opements so rare so strange, so mars
velous---
"That we who low behold these press
ent days,
Have eyes to wclder, but lack tongues
to praise"
Developments b the shape of speech,
cs so lotly. and Stfe papers so just, that
the good taste, the Intelligence, the loyal,
ty, ard morality o. the world are alike
astounded thereby.
Speeches, charactrizcd by SO delicate
modcsty, so dner humanity, by such
an utter absence o'seli, by so complete
an ignoring Of tn upright vowel that
standeth in the ahhabet between II and
j, that it seems crul, not to say brutal,
to even mention Andrew johnson in
connection therewih.
Speeches so granmatcally correct, so
choice in words, 81 elegant in diction,
so keen in invectiv, so delicate in sar-
casn, so exquisite Ii rhetoric, SO sub
line in oloquence, that it betokens har-
dihood indeed in tie man-not to say
woman-who woul dare essay to crlti
else them.
Speeches 30 eieNded IN tone, so faith
lul in principle, so o.devoted to truth, so
grateful to the parry that made, SO dc>
nunciatory to the party that opposed
him, so tender to d friends, so merci-
less to old foes, so marked in apprccia-
ton OF character, so statcsmanlike in
statements, so Courteous to the people
and their representatives., so apprecia-
tive of bis own and'oher high offices, so
noble andbeautltNl, tiat they will hence,
forth stand unapproaaoble and alone -
Words OF mme tail 81 do them Justice.
Let silence, then, cXress the appreoia>
ton which language 5 inadequate to
convey.
L do not intend to p ointo any extend
ed discussion of the faous vetoes of two
Of the most imporanbills ever passed
BY congress, The staelnents used there.
in are so obtrusively false, and have
been so oyerT helminsy refuted, the ar-
guments are SO maifes,ly weak, and
have been SO repeatedly destroyed, that
it seems useless to devte further time to
them.
Andrew Johnson pDbably know bets
ter than any other ma why he gave his
assent to the Freedmn's Bureau Bill
before it had passed tie ordeal OF Con-
gress, and rejected thtsame bill when it
came up to him for fnl decision.
Was not every oDpuonabc feature
of the bill as plain lfore him when 1t
was read to him slowl clause by clause
by Generals Howard nd Fiske, as when
it lay on his table unar his eye, an act
of Congress "put hat bill through
Congress and 1t shall inaediateiy receive
my signature SAID b TO the onc-w
reject the Bill ard vhhold my name
from it, said he to tMother
at is a war measure and VIC are at
peace. 1t can only bhtolerated as
military necessity, andbe war is ended"
Three days thereafter Smes the dcclara.
ton, "The first bill hs more than
year Of time to stand, sit endures for a
year after the close of war, and the
war is not yet ended ] have not yet
made an official declarton OF peace"
We are at war--we lre at peace.
have not yet declared closed--peace-
neutrality-suspicious. ltaits tho whim OF
policy or the Presidem Inconsistency,
thou art a jewel'-euelIor a President.
81 am afraid the Coaitution will be
tyampled on it declam that criminal
shall be tried by ajuryf his peers in
the district in which III Crime is COM
mitted. This bill is ine6ance of such
position"
The President knovtbotterthan most
men, that so far from h,war or any OF
its rigteous acts, this lA included, des-
troying the Constltuttn and the laws,