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Final Period Land Grant BUI 115 CHAPTER V THE FINAL PERIOD OF THE LAND GRANT PROPOSITION The veto of the land grant bill by President Buchanan was a great disappointment to the friends of industrial education. The agricultural papers both east and west had fully endorsed the bill and the press was without doubt correct in saying that the people had looked with more real interest to the passage of this bill than that of any measure that had been introduced for many years, for to them it was no party measure despite the fact that it had been made to assume that aspect by certain politicians at Washington. The reasons offered by President Buchanan for his veto were plausible and were sustained by arguments that seemed sufficient to satisfy him of the rectitude of his course, but the people neither approved his logic nor sanctioned his deductions. Cincinnati^, edited by President F . G. Cary, of Farmers college, Ohio, strongly expressed its disapproval of the action of the chief executive. In its March, 1859 issue, prepared before the veto, the editor had predicted that President Buchanan would sign the bill because he had said only a short time before that "he should feel while he lived, as he had ever felt, the deepest interest in the success of Agriculture, because after all it was the greatest interest upon which the foundation of Nations and States must rest." 1 In its April number written after the veto the Cincinnati admitted that it was a very uncertain procedure to draw conclusions from such sources and that an extravagantly liberal margin must be allowed for the interpretation of political principles as well as for that of political platforms. The editor asserted that the veto power, especially when it arrayed itself against the decided and deliberate decision of the people through their representatives in congress was a doubtful expediency. In saying this, he revealed, of course, his deep feeling of regret and even of resentKftntfimatus, March, 1859.
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