The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-06
THE VETO MESSAGE MILITARY DEs-
pOTISM

dent johnson : message NGtoiiIg al
Act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States till
next week. Bu& we shall place it before
our readers in our next issue, and ask
for it the serious, calm, and solemn con-
sideration Of every patriotic citizen into
whose hands il may fall. The reco1u4ioa,
reader, Of which we have felt it our I'M
perative duty 50 nersistently to call
your attention for several weeks past,
is moving rapidly onward to that yawn-
ing gulf, IN which ere.long we may eX-
pect 10 see all that we have known, re-
spectea, loved and revered of Const-
tutional Law and Liberty in this land
swallowed up and destroyed.
Our Ilustrious fathers who framed the
matohless system of government, under
the broad pgis OF which this great
country has grown 80 its present mag
nificent proportions, were particularly
Jealous of the influence of military
power in the conduct of public affairs.
And we have all been educated in that
fear and jealousy. Indeed, a few years
ago had any man even hreathed such a
sentiment as the military being superior
to the civil law, it would have cost him
his political existence. But now it is
not only breathed, but openly proclaim
ed, aye! erected over and upon the ruins
of the Constitution of the country A
band of bold, shameless and infamous
conspirators have taken possession of
the Capitol Of the country. assembled in
the name Of s'the Congress OF the United
States" proclaimed themselves the
PEOPLE, and have struck down virtu-
ally, the Executive Department Of the
Governnent-set aside, in the most con-
temptuous manner, the Supreme Court
of the United States, rutillessly ans ma
ignantly, amid the low, vulgar, ribald
wit oftIatWieked old political prostitute,
Thad. Stevens, and the insane shoutings
and hoetings eli galleries filled with
ignorant negroes thrust ten Of the States
of this Union out, into conquered prov
inees, where their gallant, chiValrous and
renowned people are crushed under the
heel Of ignorant negroes, g mean aehite
men," llike Jack Hamilton, Of Texas,
who stole free negroes in Alabama, ran
them into Texas, and sold them into
slavery, who was a rampant Secession
list, and presided at a public meeting in
Texas that voted thanks and a cane to
Brooks, of South Carolina, for the de-
served thrashing of Sumner, of Massa-
chusetts,) and itinerant Yankees who
are poking about and noseing all over
the South stirring up strife, loa ling
Northern Radical papers with the most
unfounded and shameless lies, stuhing
Sumner, Wilson, Stevens G Co. with the
most infamous ISLANDERS, to be read in
Congress, to be read in justification of
the necessity OF destroying the govern
ment OF their States, and placing them
under such rule as will make Offices and
places for Northern adventures to in
dulge their propensity for public plum
der, and their love OF spoils. TO gentle
manly, honorable Northern men. The
Southern people have no objection, and
they treat them with every respect, but
for these miserable, canting, lying
pennya-liners who come among them
to furnish falsehoods and SANDERS for !
such men as Sumner and Stevens, and
te thrust themselves first thing into
Office, they have just and righteous
contempt, and if they occasionally give
them tap Oh their saaWerfrayn Ito
use a refined Northern "ril7gn express
sion, il il no more than they deserve. /
But we ask pardon for this seeming di- /
erosion, but it is upon the trash fur !
nished from the South, BY these Yankee /
adventures, that the conspirators shelter
their plots to overthrow the Govern
ment. aud retain power and the spoil2.
But than0 Coz, - noble Roman
sits 1T the helm, and may yet guide the
ship over the breakers. The President
has vetoed this infamous bill--and the
reasons which he assigns Tor his action
are conclusive, in fact, a.yelroga5te No
no falsehoods no " dirt-eat-
ug,r no cowardly fears OF Consequence, F:
an shake that aro1lroenf founded -. 4