, 1866-03-30
Tbe Freedmen,s Bureau BIN.

The radical presses on the Pacific coast
continue to harp over the Presidential veto'
and seem to regard this exercise of the
Executive prerogative as the unpardona'
Bile sin. Whilst thus assailing the Presi-
dent, net-one of these "blind leaders of the
blind" attempts to enlighten the public
as to the provisions of the vetoed bill. Insl
this regard silence is wisdom, and feeling that
the measure cannot be vindicated on general
PRINCIPLES, they cOAtent themselves with
dealing in @generalities," that leave the
reader not whit the wiser Tor Wading
through their "leaded' CO umns For the
benefit ofthose who. may desire information
as to the true character of the bill, we pre-
sent in condensed form, the leading objec-
tions urged against it, which we find pre-
pared to our hand: It'usHrPed powers fatal
to representative government; it was parts
san in its character; it interfered with lie;
eitimate trade, checked and diverted immi.
grafton by special legislation; itttruck at
State limits and State sovereignty; sought
to control the relation of labor and wages to
! the injury of white labor throughout the
Union; it aimed to control the sale and rent
of lands by executive interference; 1T set
aside State laws regulating property and
vested rights; it established an unconstitu-
tional, unwarranted court of judcature OF
doubtful powers and of dangerous Prece>
dent; it overruled civil government by mill
tary dominion; it destroyed the muniments
of common law, and violated the express
provisions of the Constitution, which secures
to every citizen e fair and impartial trial by
Jury; it made the negro a slave again to the
local commissioner, who had an arbitrary
power over the most sacred rights person
} aud property; it was made TO regulate the
} interests of the South who were not repre-
sented in the iaapner to which they are en-
titled under the Declaration of IndepenG
ence and the provisions of the Constitution,
which asserts the inalienable right Of the
5 governed to be represented in the adminiS-
e tration of Government; it was exclusive in
its character, surrendering lands, and pros
8 viding homes, clothing, and food for the
J black man aione, at the expense Of the white
o laborer, who has to earn his wages, land,
d and support by the sweat Of his brow; it
! promoted idleness, the parent of every vice
: and crime; it was not philanthropic, but
partisan, sectional, and subversive of all the
d principles of well,ordered society, it estab>
s lished class distinction fatal to the dignity
e of labor, through the local land agents, who
:, would have become the petty chiefs Of the
n ignorant and docile negro subjected to their
S control; it stirred up the natural antipathies
r between the races, should any white men SC
Il far degrade themselves by accepting the
condition of temporary serfdom established
by the bill; it entaiIed great and unnccessa
ry expense on the Government at time
when the strictest economy should be thu
practice of the Government more than a
o any other period, in face of the immense ma
tioial debt. We have here a summary o
=. the leading objections TO the bill, and afte
reading them, is there patriot in the LAM
who will regret that measure fraught wit
so many denominations received the seal O
y Executive disapprobation?
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