Year: 1866

restore the country to peace and tranquil ity, and the Union to it's pristine vigor and glory.

 Had Congress proclaimed q liberal policy for the restoration of the Union and the reconstruction of the South, the Pres ident would have joined hands with it but this it refused to do, and denounced the President and his policy in terms of the most bitter hatred--offended that he did not adopt its do-nothing policy, SC well calculated to keep the North and South antipodes forever. Like the dog in the manager, it was unwilling that the President should have anything to do with the South, nor would it-the object being to keep the country divided until its own ends were accomplished, and it's own par ticular views carried out--no matter how detrimental the result might be to the welfare of the entire nation and 1t was ready, as it now is, to read every one out

 FA of the Republican party who did not sub scribe to its doctrines-the chief of which being the right of every negro to exercise the elective franchise.

 eIt was not content with abolishing sla- very, but the late slaves, notwithstanding their ignorance and degradation-their utter inability to understand or compre- bend the principles of our Government, must be allowed the freedom of the ballot which has heretofore been considered of too sacred character to be bestowed in riminately-intelligent citizens of oth- CT countries being required to undergo a probationary season, that they might ac- quaint themselves with our institutions, before being permitted to exercise the cleo tive franchise.

 "The Radicalsin Congress, with spirit of combativeness too apparent, passed bills which they must have been conscious, It conscious of anything, that the President would veto, and then, after the vetoes had been promulgated, were terrible in their denunciations of the executive whom they accused of everything save being an hon. est man and lover of his country--the veto power in their opinion, being danger ous to the welfare of the nation, and en- tirely to enormous to be entrusted to a single man, particularly if that man was President Johnson.

 "But the Executive has not been alone in the exercise of the veto power The Senate has vetoed greater number of bills that have passed the House than has the President, while the House has also tried it's hand in the same line and with consid- erable freedom. Even. the great leader of the Radicals, Thad. Stephens was opposed to the passage of the Freedmen's Bureau bill just previous to the final vote, while Bingham voted against the Civil Rights bill, and Sumner blowed his horn in oppo- sition to the constitutional amendments,

 The exercise of the veto power is sometimes necessary particularly so when domagogues and fanatics pass bills which arc in direct opposition to the spirit of the Constitution-an instrument for which they have very little respect or reverence, and which they have no hesitation in set ting aside, when their schemes conflict with its hitherto sacred provisions. The Radicals are responsible for the quarrel which is now being waged between the President and Congress, and in their ef- forts to keep the north and south apart can but be looked upon, by all patriots, eas lit tie better than the Rebels and Copper heads of the late fratricidal war.