The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-29
Thc Veto of the "Machincry BILL

The veto of the "Machincry Bhl'
I'm speaking OF the veto by Mr., JOHNSON
of the Machinery Bill" so-callcd' a cotem-
porary has the following most truthful ano
well-timcd article relatiSs to the acton OF
tbe Abolition leaders, their officials pumps
and spies, and Of the course ofthc bumpers
and the effect likely to be produced upon
posterity Wy the history We have mace tno
nast fev wears. and to which we are still
adding page by page a record ofmost dam
nohlc inlamv. says this contemporary
eve do not suppose the President expect
cd any more than did the public that his
voice would he more potent to check tue
mad surgcs of revolutionary tide than was
that of CANUrE to stay the turbulent waves
of ocean. Nevertheless II was his duty
to speak and he has In plain aud forciblc
terms uttered another warning to his coun-
trymen. and they and their posterity VIII
one day regret that It has been contemptu-
ously disrcgarded. Future generations
when they come TO study the history otthls
period will ponder with mingled feelings
OF scorn. in~credulity and amazement upon
the story. They will read the boastful
and grandiloquent language in which the
men of our time have all been accustomed
from their boyhood to magnify through the
press. the pulpit and on the hastings the
glory and the greatness Of their country
and to proclaim the ~unconquerable deter
mination of the American people to
maintain the civil liberties and rcpub-
lican institutions bequcathcd them by their
fathers. Then will these students learn
from the bloody records of war how ut the
bidding of usurped power and mob violence
free speech was silcnced throughout the
North and the doors of bastilcs swung open
at every tinkle of the little bell that stood
upon the table of the grand yizier. They
will read how the representatives of the
people went through the cruel conflict
shouting rs their rallying cry the Union,
the Constitution and the laws and how
after a four years struggle the Federal
Government came out victorious and tound
the cause of the contest forever removed
from the political arena. They will turn
with interest to the ensuing chapter to fine
4 glowing description of the furling of the
gatherings and Il Recommendation ut Wash
ington Of the Constitution and the Union
They will read with wonder q far diilercn
tale. They will learn that after peace hat
prevailed for two years throughout tn
PROSTATE South a military despotiSm wa
deliberately set up in ten States and tn
President referring to the condition Q
their people in his veto message, was com
PEELED to say: When | contemplate til
millions, of Il fellow citizens of tn
South. with no alternative left but t
impose upon themselves this fearful an
uutricd experiment of negro eniranchisC
ment and white acknowledgements ma
be almost rs complete-or submit indetiI
itely to the rigor of martial law, without
single attribute of freemen, deprived of q
the guarantees Of our Federal Coustitutio
and threatened with even worse wrongs,
any worse are poSsible-it seems to II
their condition is the most deplornble
which any people can be reduced" WIFI
the yet unborn student shall reach tn
point In our national annals, if he is yers,
in history his mind will revert to the d
cline and fall of the older republics of Il
world, aud he will know he will rave b
few pages then to turn in order to see no
the American Constitution and Republic
l77G finally perished.'