Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-08

The great vetosr has been on the ram
page amin. The rseonstruction bill
and that regulating the tenure Of Office
have both been returned 20 Congress
lacking the signature Of His Aeeiden-
cy. the President, and accompanied by
his objections to the measures No
body wonders. and nobody cares, and
IL Is nasEo= eommon place to say that
both bills were promptly passed By
both Houses over the Head Of the
great Humble Individual.
The veto message accompanying the
reconstruction bill is a repetition with
new variations, Of the old State Sow
ereignty howl Of the Democrats and
.Becessionists With. which the country
is already familiar. OF course Andy
raises his hands IN horror at the idea
that traitor should not be consider
ed as politically righteous as a patriot
and entitled to the same privileges
He seems to utterly ignore the fact
that 3 great rebellion has been com
mitted or thst there Is any disorder or
disloyalty in any part Of the land
With criminal Wickedness and folly
he assumes as do the rebels with dis
gusting impudence, that the ten unrs-
constructed States are sovereign, and
entitled to the same rights and inn
munities as the States which have not
rebelled. He assumes against facts Of
every day observation for the last
twenty months that there is no vio-
.lence, no treason, no murder, no per-
seouti0n Of loyalists and freedmen in
those States-that they are peaeeable,
orderly, laW-abiding and anxious to
return to the duties and obligations of
allegiance to the Union. IF these in
famous. assumptions we're true the mes
sage might have force and appropriate
ness. But the people have already
passed judgment upon them and con-
demned them as false aud wicked
They have voted them down By unDre-
eedented majoritiea. Why then are
they again and again thrust in their
faces accompanied By arguments to
prove that rebels have forfeited moth
ing By their crime and are entitled
without qualification OF hindrahce to
the same rights as loyal men Why
are the loyal people whose blood and
treasure crushed the rebellion thus re-
peatedly insulted +? The insult might
be borne more patiently did it come
from the President of their choice, and
not one accidentally elevated to office
by the vile instrument Of the rebellion
he palliates and defends. BUTT is the
terrible misfortune of this country
that such is not the case.
There is not a principle in the re-
construction bin which Andrew John
son has not at some time or other ap-
proved and advocated. There is not
power OF privilege conferred by it
which he has not himself exercised as
Military Governor. It does not i'm
pose a single hardship upon the insur-
gent States which his own encourage
ment TO the diabolical spirit Of rebel
lion has not helped to render neoessa-
~.
But it is useless to comment. The
people are already sufficiently disgust
ed with the heart-siokening. spectacle
Of besotted eoarseness, elevated by as
.sassination, using its accidental power
and influence to restore against the
verdict and in spite of the Congress Of
the people, treason to respectability
and traitors to the highest places and
most sacred privileges in sthe land
It is az useless as It is unpleasant to
repeat its disgusting details, for the
argument is closed and the case, so far
as the rebels are concerned, has been
adjudged. The President mast enforce
the Law or he viii be at once impeaoh-
ed. The rebels naust obey it or the
bayonet viii. If need be, be brought to
bear to enforce It. IF they desire to es-
cape military governments the way is
provided By which they can do so and
It Is an easy one. They have their
choice.