Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-04-06
ROtts amai Stuart.

Virginia, which is being waged between
Bison Bolts and Chawles Jeemes Yellow
plush Stuart. The oily adeptin Shiny sub
tleties gained his first victory as the result Of
his preculiar talent, over the dray- horse.
sledge- hammer. Buffalo blunt Bolts, when
he stole his thunder in Congress and appro-
priated to his own glory, the incubation Of
Bolts mind, and this too without ever Civ
ing him the credit of having originated the
resolutions. Since that memorable event
each of this interesting pair has maintained
to the other the relation which tradition in
forms us the devil holds to holy water. For
while the surface Of affairs indicated a
placid smoothe and apparently tranquil re-
lationship between them; but this was all APP
pearance The bosom of Vesuvius never
heaved and tossed and groaned with more
intense internal commotion and agony, than
did the respective inner-man of the Bison
and Yell. wplush. Although Bolts was de-
voting his attention and talent to the in
teresting, intellectual and philosophical past
time of adjudging the comparative. merits Of
the rump, shoulder, leg and spine ofthe race
morse Nicholas, and Stuart engrossing lis
precious hours in devising short, speedy
and cheap recipe for manufacturing mean
whiskey, still, with all this apparent quie-
tude and evidence Of retiracy from the gla-
diation Of the political arena, these siamese
twins nurtured and cherished mutual an
tipathy, which though for a while latent,
has at length burst out iu terrible explo-
sion.
The recent overthrow Of Bolts by the OPP
position Convention, is attributable alone to
the diplomacy of the Ex-Secretary. which
result has brought about an interesting ex-
change Of bloody epithets between friend
Of the Bison, writing in the Baltimore Clip
per, and the Richmond Wing, which latter
paper represents pretty fairly Mr. Yellow
plush's views, save as to anything bloody,
Yellowplush preferring as the more chris
tlan and less dangerous to his corporal man,
a resort to envy Lord Coke rather than
'.pistols and coffee for two" TIE criticisms
of the Wing, too, have aroused the sleeping
energies of an esteemed friend, who resides
in the ''misty mid regions Of Weyer," and
who plainly intimates that our fellow towns
man, the Ex-Secretary is humbug, rump,
and gives the 'unkindest cut of ALL" in pub
licly proclaiming that he is and always has
been "drag" upon the party This in
teresting family muss about myth, a
shadowy nothing-(fo there is no body to
the Opposition lis vastly amusing to us,
inasmuch as it is verifcation Of the scrip
tural adage, that "bread cast upon the
waters will return after many days"-oar
opinion having long since been recorded that
the Ex Secretary was not only an effete
political institution, but a magnificent politi-
cal cheat and humbug.
AS the time for the meeting Of the Balti-
more Convention Of the Opposition is rapid
ly approaching, we shall watch with the
liveiiest interest the progress of this war Of
the Roses, and avail ourself of the minutest
points, as well as the more important, to
advance correct opinion as to the probable
ascendency ofthe house of the Bison Or that
Of Yellowplush, reserving the inalienablc
right to defend, uphold, push forward, and
make conspicuous our fagorite protege, for
whom we have ever manifested the warmest
sollcitude and affection--notwiths the
youthful indiscretion which prompted him to
introduce a bill securing the right of way
through numerous private farms for a turn
pike road from the Railroad to his own
still-house; his favoring the Goshen rather
than the Greenvile route for Railroad up
the Valley, and his still more indiscreet and
badly conceived proposition of changing
the whole system of the government at the
Lunatic Asylum, which has made it one of
the most excellently managed institutions in
the world. This exuberance of folly we hope
will be forgotten by the people for our sake,
as we intend, painful as it nay be, to ad-
minister to him severe castigation for this
juvenile improperly. Had we been at
home, none of these blunders, so fatal to
the wisdom and cuteness of our protege,
would have occurred. "Tis true, and pity
it's true
The Presidents letter.
We lay before our readers, on the first