Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — The Veto. [ARTICLE]

The Veto.

[lnter Ocean.]. When he (Hayes) says that the bonds were sold for gold, and that both parties to th 3 contract understood that gold alone was the coin in which they would be paid, he seems to be utterly oblivious of the fact that he is nor the government of the United States, but only one of its officers. Neither the president uor the secretary of tiie treasury is a party to the contract, for the sale of our bonds. That contract is made by the government through congress, and that contract is expressed iu the law and engraved in the bond, and expressly provides that the bonds shall be payable in just such coin as is authorized by the vetoed bill. And when be, or any member of the executive department, undertook to declare that they were payable in any other manner, he undertook an authority which was not conferred upon him, and which, if it had any legal value, would be good ground fur an impeachment. General John A. Sutter, the discoverer of gold in California, has been interviewed by a Wushiugt >i. reporter, who describes him as a stout, grayhaired man, a little over five feet high. He went to California in 1838 as a farmer, ami built a mill, in the race of which his wheelwright, named I Marshall, discovered some gold, and conveyed the news to his employer. , The num couldn’t keep the secret, the news spread and the general was ruined. He could hire nobody to save his immense wheat crop, into which ‘ the prospecting parties turned their j cattle, no one would dig gold for him, , end finally he lost his laud to the , American govument on a flaw in his ' Mexican title. He has for 13 years ' past beeii trying to get some coinpen ! sution for it from the government.