, 1857-06-12

eerely desires the payment Of the war in.
debtedness-enLghtcHs the public as to how
the war debt was created-upon whose au-
thority the volunteers we're called out and
kept in the field, designating to whom they
should look for their pay. That he had
ensured the employment of volunteers in
the enforcement Of martial law-that he
had JoresaW several things-that he was
right, because the action Of Congress agreed
with him in opinion, and that eaphatioaLly
he almost k,lcV, that the war debt would
have been paid, had not Gov STEVENS de-
cIared martial law. Such are the decisions
and opinions of Messrs. GIBBS and GoLDs-
BOROUGH, to be inferred, as we presume,
from the deductions from their letter to
the secretary Of state. How clear it is
that the above pair Of worthless fore
shadowed and fore-knew what would be
the action Of the president, the depart
ments aud congress concerning the war
debt Of our territory Only think Of
it Although the last congress made no
provision whatever for liquidating the war
Indebtedness Of Oregon, or any other ter
ritory; at its last session, that body en-
tirely oonHrred in the views Of Messrs.
GIBBs and GoLDsBoRoUGHc concerning Wash
iugton territory They kHelc II! What a
remarkable coincidencel
Paragraph No Alb of Gen. GrBBs' cir
cular, seeks to convey the impression (else-
where more fully made apparently that the
volunteers at Camp Montgomery we're
sought to be intimidatsd into the signing Of
the representations sustaining Gov. SrEv-
EMS in declaring martial law Old feder-
al idea, that
MUST BE LED LIKE ASSES.
What think you Of that, volunteers Of
Washington territoryY Are you willing
to have your independence, manhood and
intelligence thus called in question by a
rank, blue-light federalist-the reputed bi-
ographer Of JoHN ADAMS, Of alien and Sc
dition law remembrance, and of Hartford
convention, black-cockade and non.resis-
tence recollection No ! we are sure you
viii not. The assumption, in the same par
agraph, that the article in tho Pioneer"
to which be refers, was written by Gov
STEVENS, is false
The 9th paragraph refers 10 the censure
that Gov. STEVENS received at the hands
Of the President through Secretary MARcI
for declaring martial law, and says that We
have never yet dared to publish the let.
ter" Not having time or room to dwell
upon this paragraph at this time, we will
promise to publish the letter in our next
issue, as it appears in the Republican, and
comment somewhat thereon concerning the
idea that "a more severe or deserved re-
proof perhaps never fell on the head of o
delinquent" Oh what a rebuke it was
In reply to the 9Th paragraph, we would
say, in general terms, that Gov STEVENS
conduct Of the war was denounced, in the
main, on the aOOr of the senate, by the
deVotees of kinkey-headed nbolitiOnism,
under the firm Of HAZE & Co; that within
the last six weeks or two months, Gov.
STEVENS, zoe kROSO, has received letters from
Gen. CAss, expressing the most kindly SEN
timents, and in which be expresses desire
to be understood, that in anything be might
have said on the floor Of the senate con-
corning martial law, he never for a moment
doubted the purity of bis [Gov. STEVENS !
motives, or the honest convictions he en-
tertained in declaring it, in the emergency
Of the war with which the country was bar
rassed, &c; that senators DOUGLASS and
WELLER, General LANE, Col. ANDERSON
and many others, battled manfnlly in de-
fence ofhis conduct Of the war on the floor
and outside Of the hall of congress that
it has ever been the policy of the govern.
ment to keep separate, in all the territories,
the Offices Of governor and superintendent
Of Indian affairs, and that as far as this
territory is concerned, many of US have
heard it publicly stated, the said Offices
we're well nigh separated some three years
ago-before the treaties east of the Cas-
cades were made-before the alarum Of
war was sounded ; that it is simply ridicu,
lous, that persons distant from the field Of
danger two or three thousand miles, are
able to determine, on any representations,
the fact that an ertreme measure was not
the only one to be resorted to in certain
contingencies.
A reply to the personal vindictiyeness Of
Mrs. Brig. Gen. GIBBS against the demo-
cratic nominee for congress, needs no reply
from us-the alkalies arcomnanv tho oc;Js