Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-13


The Washington correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, (Republican), states the
following facts in reference to President
johnson and his determination and policy
which will be read with interest by every
one
l. The President does not get drunk is
temperate and abstemious in all his habits;
does not touch liquor of any kind, and has
not since the day of the Inauguration.
g. He is going to have every man who
holds Office under him support him and his
measures his policy" as set forth in his
22d Of February speech, his veto and his mes
sage. Those who do net support him, and
do take sides with the radicals in Congress,
had better look out for the executive axe, for
it will surely fall.
3. Andrew Johnson is an honest and pa
triotic man as lives on the earth. He is
lust as combative and stubborn as he is hon
est.
4. Dear to him as his frst-born, yea, pre-
cious as the breath of his nostrils, is his pol
icy' Before his determination to sustain
and carry through that policy, all other con-
siderat:ons must godown. 10 that policy
he would sacrifice the Union party were it
necessary. He would sacrifice any and all
personal friendsbips-yea, his very life would
weigh nothing in the scales against his de-
termination to carry it through. Why ?
Because he has, after long days and weeks
and months OF earnest thought, study and
prayer, concluded that the salvation of his
country and welfare of the people depend up
on it.
However much we may differ with him in
Judgment, we can but admire his Spartan he
roism and dauntless courage.
"What is the Presidents policy, upon
which he is risEing so much y many inquire.
What is this chimera, this phantom, this
ignis futuus policy that is leading the Pres
ident this wild dance%'
That I cannot fully answer His message,
veto, and speech will best give it. The prin-
cipal ingredients Of that policy are
/. That the constitutional rights of the
States and the people thereof shall not be
infringed or trampled upon by the general
government.
2. That the States have the right to deter
mine for themselves, the qualification Of yo-
tiers, and that the general government can
no more interfere with that right in South
Carolina than in Massachusetts.
3. That whenever member of Congress
from any one Of thirtysix States presents
himself for a seat in Congress, and can take
the oath prescribed for each and every mem
Der of that body; Congress has no right to
exclude him. that Congress can prescribe
rules that will apply to all its members, but
cannot invidiously legislate against members
from sections Of the country, or only apply
to a part Of that body or a part Of the States.
4. He does not believe in the Stevens doc
trine Of @ State suicide
5. He is opposed to negro suffrage at this
time; thinks they arc untitled for and have
not the requisite capacity to intelligently es-
ercisc that sacred yet dangerous privilege.
A New HORSESHOE Paris blacksmith
has invented a new system of shoeing horses.
Instead of the shoe being placed on the hoof,
and burning it's own resting place, the out
side of the hoof is cut away around the foot
to the depth of half an inch. This leaves a
a ledge into which the shoe fits, and is then
flush with the frog, which just touches the
ground instead Of being raised, as Of old, by
the shoe. The advantages Of this are that
the foot is little pared, and that, instead Of
heavy shoe, the animal is sbod in what are
little more than racing plates. The advan-
tagcs claimed by the inventor are that the
horse never slips, that the shoe allows the
foot to expand naturally. and that il lasts as