, 1866-04-13
LATER FRom THE EAsr.
Dates TO April 9th.

ident's veto. Ayes, 33; Noes, 10. E a..
THE REPUBLICAN PRESS AND THE PEACE
PROCLAMATION.
NEW YORK, April 6.-The Tribune rid>
icules the peace proclamation and says The
only effect will be to cut down extra war ra
tions and the allowance of officers amounting
probably to $3.50 per day in New York
alone.
The Evening Post says: The proclamation
has been expected for a considerable time,
and is in perfect agreement with the views
johnson has often expressed. 1t would be
difficult to eontrovert the principles he lays
down, such as the ihcongruousness of sys-
TEN of military occupation With our institu-
tous the policy of using persuasive meth
cd to strengthen the allegiance Of the late
rebel States, &C.; yet we cannot help feeling
anxiety for the peace of the Southern States,
if the military, which now, in many places,
holds disorder in check, shall be withdrawn,
as of course it must be, all over the South.
| Society is like an ocean after tempest, heav-
| the surface the debris Of its bed 1t is for,
tunate, therefore, that this proclamation has
been issued while the Civil Rights Bill is
before the national legislature The respon-
sibility from which the military power hat
released itself must now be borne by the civil
power. The federal legislature is now called
upon to do its part in providing remedy for
that violation of rights Of citizenship which
will inv. rably, in the pre- ent state of the
Southern Country be, PERI etra,ed, aud for
which loyal courts would be certain to afford
no redress. The members of Congress, BY
whose vote it will be either enacted or de-
feated, cannot now say there is a military
force in the States lately 10 revolt charged
with the duty of preserving the peace, and
seeing that the rights of the colored race and
those who remained faithful to the Union,
are respected. The people will now look to
Congress, and no member who supported the
bill at first, can now change his vote without
the certainty Of an unpleasant meeting with
his constituents on returning home.
The Times, in a second editorial on the
proclamation and its consequences, SAYS the
issuing of the proclamation at this time is
especially important ir view of the brief
pause in the Congressional struggle, and in
the Senate. The President has now cleared
the grouad as thoroughly as possible There
VII be no tenable preterse for talking of or
dllIYing with the South as still in rebellion,
for the President, in the exercise of his in,
c,utcStble authority, has de, Jared the REBEL
lol ended. There can be no excuse for die
tating terms to the South eS cOnquered prov>
iaces, or imposing Conditions on th ir eop!e
as suhiugatqd rebels at the. mercy Of the cons
-qucror, for the Executive has proclaimed the
rights Of the States of the South to be as
valid as those Of the States of the North. 1t
deIrvcs the agitators and mischicf,makers
Of their only apology, and blunts the weap>
on with which they have hitherto fought.
They must excep, the fact promulgated by
the President with all its logical consequens
cos, or assume an attitude of resistance to
authority rePosed in him. Ia the one case
their tactics must un lergD a change which
will hardly be for the worse. In the other
way they will seal their own condemnation
b3ore the country, and capvict themselves
o; d sire to usurp power withheld from them
BY the Constitution. W. shall be agreeably
surprised. If it be not made the occasion for
fresh oltpouring of wrath upon tue Presi>
dent.
THE SECOND VETO.
The Springfield Mass Republican saws:
OF all the republican papers in the country
Of ali KINDS or shades of opinion, only the
New York Times fails to lament and to dis
approve the Presidents veto of the civil
rights bill, and although the peace proclama-
tiJn passed the move on the chessboaid, if
the President does not b.ing in prop, stion
acceptable to Congress, guaranteeing civil
~, bor
rious unit, and the President will be left
without a party except SO far as democrats
sustain him for their own purposes.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
In the Senate, April 4th, johnson, of
Maryland, after an elaborate legal argument
in defense Of the Presidents position said ::
The bill goes upon the theory that there is
but one government Murder, robbery, and
many other ohenses which no one dreams of
trying in any but State courts, are to be traus>
ferred to U. s. courts. My honorable friend
asks whose fault-it is that eleven States are
not represented. They have abolished slave
ry. Some Of them have even gone further
tnan the honorable member himself, aud
though some of them have fought on the
field of battle, they can take the oath as cou-
scieutiously as the honorable member or my>
self. Congressional legislation is necessary,
it is said: Well, they applied here iu De-
cember, and it is now April, and they may
wait till June or December, as rumor indi,
cites. l can 60 into the State of the homo |:
able member himself aud fud hundreds VI
men just as disloyal as any in those States !;
thatis disloyal in the moqern acceptation of
the term. A short time ago itwas dsloyal
to oppose the President now it is disloyal !
to support him. 1t is only loyal to uphold
Congressman. The Supreme Court has re-,
cospized these States as being in the Union,
anf has for weeks been trying cases from
them. 1t is apprehended that mischief will
result if they are admitted here. Mischief
of a kind Of party character is the only mis-,
chief that | am aware of that it can result in.
My friend adverts in rather severe terms to
the President. The President stated that
in his opinion the bill Is unconstitutional,