Year: 1866

CIVIL kAGhIs'


We have strong reason for our faith that. be-
fore the House adjouns this day, the Senate bill
for the protection of the CIVIL RIGHTS Of every
human being throughout the length and breadth
of the Union will have become law by two
thirds vote of either branch of Congress, 1.-THE
objections of the President to the contrary not
wthstanding." And the spontaneous outburSt
Of cheers and cannon -peals which almost every
where greeted its passage by the Senate, will
be redoubled on the receipt of tdngs that the
House has made the bill law.


There are those who. for sinister purposes,
will represent this resolute action as impelled by
hostility to the Presidents yet nothing is
further from the truth. The Union party has
the most obvious reasons for its earnest desire
to be in harmony with the President whom it
elected to lower Office in defiance of the most
desperate efforts of those who now sing his
praises, though they then Stigmatized him as
every way unfit for and unworthy of any such
elevation. The Union party will with profound
regret surrender the last hope Of acting
with him and through him in the completion OF
the great, benignant work Of making ours
land of Equal Rights and Equal Laws. Even
if there were no higher consideration, it would
obviously choose not to turn against itself tho
vast patronage Of the Federal Executive, which
its votes have committed to the hands of Mr..
johnson, and which his alienation will trans
fer to its enemies Yet, if called to choose be-
tween Patronage and Principle, it can never
hesitate. Its honor is pledged to the -Four Mil
lions of Freedmen who helped us put down the
Rebellion--who secuted, and prayed and fought
for the National cause-who sheltered, and
guided, and from their Scanty stores fed our
hunted, famished, weary boys, as they fled
from the horrors of Southern Anderson.





villes and Salisburys with bloodhounds
and bloodier men hot on their trail-and
it wM not surrender them to such position,
such a fate as Rebel ex-slaveholders and ex-
overseers-who thoroughly understand mig
gers" but do not understand that they are
human beings-may see fit, in the modification
and wrath of unexpected and humbling defeat,
to accord them. On this point, the public
mind is made up; and all the vetoes that may
be launched by one johnson and pettifogged By
t. other-all the bullying threats of Garrett
Davis, Salisbury g. Co.-only serve to intensity
the popular resolution. They grossly deceive
and mislead the President who tell him that
this frmness is factious, and seek thereby to
egg him on to acts Of usurpation and lawlesS
violence which could only serve to consign his
name to eternal infamy.


We hear much said about Compromise by
tUc lOn iSHOBouOo hNiAA '4S O'AiNAA '"tAiA"t
but without particle of evidence that there is
any disposition to compromise on the part of our
adversares. If the majority in Congress should
tomorrow adopt the proposition of the Hon.
apostate from Kansas E" Jim Lane" in the vul-
gate) we feel confident that We should find the
great mass of the eI-Rebels and Copperheads
arrayed against it, with the President at their
head. AS yet, we have seen no evidence that
any compromise is desired, or expected, or ia
vored, on that side. Whenever they shall re-
spOnsibly offer one, we feel sure that it will be
candidly considered, with an earnest desire to
find its acceptance consistent with the require
ments Of Duty and Honor.