The President's veto of
the Bill in regard to the
colored schools in the
District of Columbia.
On its side it was busy with a project which, though not intended as a blow at him particularly, was not in accordance with his view that the
The Fifteenth Amendment.
It is certainly true that full freedom implies civil liberty and civil equality, but there was another way, and a better way, to have secured
Criticism of the
Republican view.
This proposed Fifteenth Amendment was not sent to the President for his approval, but went, according to custom, to the Secretary of State, to
Johnson's retirement
from the presidency.