The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-30

| brave snOulder-StfapS are tOilinp, and
sweating, and bleeding in this "Restora-
ton" War!
The Attitude of Affairs at the Cap
ital---The President, his Cabinet,
his Policy, &c.
| We make the following extracts from
what the Cincinnati Commercial indorses as
"a letter from Washington, giving an in
side view of matters of the greatest general
interest" The writer, who signs himself,
! "THE GERMAN" after setting forth, In con-
siderable detail, the present political where
abouts of Chief Justice CHASE Secretary
SEWARD, DENNIsoN, STANTON, Attorney
General SPEED and Senator SHERMAN, of
Ohio, closes with the following brief of
THE FACTS:
First-The President does not act drunk
is temperate and abstemious in all his hab-
its-does not touch liquor of any kind, and
has not since the day of the Inauguration
Second-Hei is not going over to the Cop
perheads- nor Is he going to appoint any
man to office who was not with the Union
party during the war.
Third-He is going to have every man
who holds office under him support him and
his measures. his ''policy," as set forth In
message. Those who do mot support him.
and do take sides with the Radicals in Con-
gress. had better look out for the executive
ak, for it will surely fall.
Fourth-Andrew johnson Is as honest
and patriotic man as lives on the earth.
lie is just as combative and stubborn as he
Is honest.
Fifth-Dear to him as his flrst-born, yea,
precious as the breath of his nostrils. Is his
policy. Before his determination to sustain
and carry. through that policy, all other
considerations must go down. To that
policy" he would sacrifice the Union
party, were 1t necessary. He would sacri-
flee any and all personal friendshjps--yea,
his very life would weigh nothing In the
scales against his determination to carry
1t through. Why? Because he has, after
long days and weeks and months of earn
est thought, study and prayer, concluded
that the salvation of his country and the
welfare of the people depend upon it.
However much we may differ with him
in Judgment, we can but admire his Spar
tan heroism and dauntless courage
What is the Presidents policy upon
which he Is risking so much ~ many in |
quire. What is this chimera, this phan- |
tom. this ignis Jatuas policy that is leading |
the President this wild dance ~
That | can not fully answer. His meg
sage, veto and speech will best give it. The
principal ingredients of that policy are:
First-That the Constitutional rights OIL
the states and the people thereof shall not |
De in1ringed or trampled upon by the Cen
eral Government.
Second-That the States have the right to
determine for themselves the qualification
of voters, and that the General Government
can no more interfere with that right in
South Carolina than in Massachusetts.
Third-That whenever member of Con-
gress from any one of the thirty-six States
presents himself for a seat in Congress, and
can take the oath prescribed for each and
every member Of that body. Congress has
no right to exclude him that Congress can
prescribe rules that will apply TO all its
but can not invidiously legislate
against members from sections of the coun-
try, or that only apply to part of that
body or a part of the States.
Fourth-He does not believe in the Stew
ems doctrine of state Suicide"
Fifth-He is opposed to negro suffrage at
this time; thinks they are untitled for, and
have not the requisite capacity to intelli-
gently exercise that sacred yet dangerous
privilege.
MY CONCLUSION.
Congress and the President will never
harmonic. They will remain assunder
and divided even unto the end.
1t is immatetial how this separation Is
eaused-the result is equally dangerous In
It's consequences to the party in power. 1t
may be charged, on one side, that the Pres
dent has switched off the party track, and
on the other hand, that Congress has fol- !
Owed the lead of these crazy Radicals un- {
III they have run them into the camp
Of the enemy-the disunionists. The fact '
are separated. My own
is, that Congress, under the
cad of these old parliamentarian Radicals,
las gone little too far and too fast, and
got away from both the President and the q
people.
The President will use all the power he
ias, in the way of patronage and influence,
o bring men TO his support, and will cut
III those who are against him. For this he
an not be blamed. A new deal will prob d
llply De made IN the cabinet. Secretaries