Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — The Solid South Check-Mated Again. [ARTICLE]

The Solid South Check-Mated Again.

The President yesterday vetoed what Was called the Military Interference bill, but which might better have been called a bill to bind the arms of the Executive. In doing this he has but followed the path of duty marked out for him by the Constitution. On Saturday he remarked that ho did not think the time had come when it was faecessary to repeal the laws for the protection of the citizens and the preservation of the Republic, that were passed by the Fathers and signed by Washington. And since sending in the veto to the bill ne has characterized it as “a measure that would tie the hands of the Executive, that would paralyze the arm of Executive power*, and that would prohibit the execution of the law.” A gentleman who talked with the President on Saturday, afterward said: “The Southern people do not know the President. They do not understand him. They have'thought that he was all peace and rcconcifiapoint They are mistaken in himThey do not know that on all issues growing out of the war he is as radical and stalwart as any Republican in Con- j gress, and that he will surrender nothing of the results of that contest, so far j as it is possible for him to#prtvent it. j I tell you tho Southern men do not

understand the President, and to-day his back is full of porcupine quills. Ho will not be coerced,” Tho voto message ho has sent to the House justifies what tho visitor to tho President on Saturday said of him then. The message is strong in all its points and positions. 1 It travels entirely within the scope of the Udhstitution, as it points out at every step—and strengthens and ribs itself with a long chain of precedents on the part of Presidents In Hie past. He traces the origih of the law, which tho bill sought to -repeal, back to the lather of the Republic, and illustrates how frequenfly it ■ has been the power in the hands of tho Executive that enabled “ the Government of tho Union” to maintain its authority and preserve its existence. Ho points but that, it was on this principle and through its power alone that Pm-ident Washington suppressed tho Whisky Rebellion in Pennsylvania in .1794, and that President Jefferson "broke up the Burr Conspiracy in 1806. Reinforcing himself with these precedents of his predecessors, the President plants himself firmly on the rook of tho Constitution, and sends back to

the House originating and passing it, this latest and most dangerous attempt at tho reassertion of the heresy of State rights. Thus the Solid South has been check-mated again, and tho Republic again saved from the further encroachments of that most dangerous element. In performing so promptly and so fearlessly his duty in vetoing this measure tho President has won a new title to the confidence of the country, and the gratitude of its loyal people.— lowa Stale ltcgister.