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President Johnson’s Veto Sparks Crisis

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 13.

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President Johnson’s Veto Sparks Crisis

Exciting and startling scenes have been transpiring in Washington. They may be summed up in one sentence. The President is a rebel and traitor. This he has in various ways intimated, and has now openly shown by his veto of the "Freedman's Bureau Bill." Rebels are jubilant, and drink toasts to Jeff. Davis, Gen. Lee, and President Johnson. Unionists are filled with grief and amazement. The Chicago Tribune of Feb. 22, says, "We are suddenly called upon to face the fact, in all its dreary reality, that whilst we fancied ourselves in the plenitude of peace, we are again on the brink of war!"