, 1856-04-18


shapes, and bearing many names" desire tC
be distinguished by the appellations o.
Republicans and Americans" i. e.
abolitionists and know-nothings 1t is tc
the representatives Of the people in con
gress to whom we must look as giving
character, sentiment and name to the
various political parties of our country
and to the press, generally, as giving
tone thereto. As there is no such thing
as whg party in congress or the coun'
try, and as a public Journal cannot be an
exponant of party that has but an i'm
aginary existence, the Steilacoom paper
must either express the views of the lead
ers of the negro-worshippers or the know
nothing faction, or both, and hence the
question 70 be determined in July, is,
whether the people are prepared to endorse
the reasonable, Union dissolution designs
Of the abolitionists-the intolerant and
proscriptve objects of know-nothingism, or
whether they will sustain the principles Of
the only national party in the United
States-the party of the country--thc de-
mooaey
With the people here, there is no choice
left but to either rally under the standard
of the bats and "kinkey-headS," or fall
into the ranks of the democracy; and it is
to be hoped that between the present time
and July, the electors will calmly conclude
whether or not they are prepared to en-
dorse the position of the opposition to the
democracy, as enunciated through the pub.
lication at Steilacoom-the INSCRIPTIONS
course Of which paper under the circum'
stances surrounding us, is, in our reccollcc-
tion, without parallel .t.
In 10 vain attempt to overthrow the pres
ent administration, long before, and ever
since the commencement of the present In
dian war, that paper has been incessant il
its efforts to misrepresent the cause of the
war, and vilify in unqualified terms, the
manner of its prosecution by the executive
and commander-in-chief; and should the
present congress neglect or refuse to allcvi
ate the misery and privations to which ouI
citizens and volunteer forces have been sub
jected for more than six months past, by
granting liberal appropriations for the pay
ment of the just demands of our people, the
responsibility will fall with fearful weight
upon the fusion majority in congress en-
, Wool and his apologists, and all who give
aid and comfort" to the organ Of the op
position here. Should not adequate ap
preparations be made to liquidate the ex
peuses Of the war, our delegate in congress
and the party in this territory to whom he
is indebted for his election, we doubt moi
will be able to exhibit clean record, ant
suffer the responsibility in the premises to
attach where It ofright belongs
At the last election, the mass Of the peo
pie were slow to believe that the proscrip
tive order of know-nothings were ORGANIZED
in any considerable force, or that they
could exercise much influence in the cleo
tion Of last summer. Up to late day,
many doubted the existence of wigwau
at this and other places, and through false
hood and arti6ce, suffered themselves to b.
betrayed into the support Of the fusionists
In the county Of Clark, containing deci
ded democratic majority, mixed delega
ton was sent to the last legislature. IL
| Lewis county, unmistakably democratic, thu
fusionists elected both members In the last
} house of representatives, and the result o
the workings of the know-nothiug factories
in Thurston, Pierce, King, and other coun
ties, is now well understood and duly up
preciated. 'fY m .flY u rH
But the mass Of the people were deeeiv
ed; and the shameless course Of the (. n
majority Of the house last winter, to render
neugatory the powers and prerogatives o
Of the council, as related to the election o.
Territorial Printer, was an attempted out
. rage upon the latter body, that will not be
soon forgotten. And we desire the people
to bear in mind that in consequence Of the
unprecedented course pursued by the ma
jOrity in the house last winter, the publica
ton Of the laws passed by the last session
have been unjustly withheld from the legal
territorial printer-( GEo B. GoUDY, y.
and unnecessarily delayed; and the Journals
the record of the infamy Of the house, is
up to this time withheld from publication
for the perusal of the public. .aq ,o.1
1t is not the fault of the people that
they have been deceived aud betrayed
once ns many were at the last eleption and