Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1860-11-17

1850, were set aside and repealed by the
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1851, to the
passage of which bill of abomin:tions
may be attributed all the difficulties,
sectional strife, and hostility between
the North and the South. the existence
of Which at this time all true patriots
must dcplorc; that II large majority of
our people must and do unsparin%dy
condemn the course of Isaac |. Stevens,
wlo,-the accredited delegate in Con-
grcss from this Territory, now halls
from Observation-Disclosures for the time
being our Territory and its people, to
engage in movements sustaining slavery
propagandism, ut the hazard of our na-
tional Union. Has the Democratic
party of Washington Territory, or amy
of its journals even doubted the pro-
prictv of, much less ccnsllred the course
of that distinguished gentleman, whom
we now find Chairman of the Secession
Democratic Executive Committee, the
acting manager and controlling spirit
of party whose prominent leaders
openly avow and mediate treason foulcr
than that which consi gned Aaron Burr
to eternal inf,my. Wcsa and believe
that Burr's treason was holy patriotism
when compared to the Vaccinations and
doctrines of YANcEY, kEITT, Orr, and
the Southern wing of the Baltimore
Convention, who preach hostility to the
union of these States, who threaten Sc
cession if the people conStitutionalIy
elect other than their candidates. We
believe that the nct;lrious scheme they
cndcavorcd to accomplish, to pre-
vent the people from choosing thcirown
rulers and to place Gen. LANE in the
Presidential chair, without having re-
ccivcd Il siny gle popular vote for that
office, is far more reasonable and OBJ
noxious than the pl"ttings of Aaron
Burr. And when the Democratic par
ty and its press stand by and endorse
this man, this forsworn Northern, from
our own Territory, or fail to condemn
that treason to, and outrage on, our
people, is more required to prove the
necessity of a Republican newspaper!
We conccdc that Governor Stevens
has right to believe Washington Ter
ritory Slave Territory pcrt"rcc the
bred Scott decision. We deny it. We
yield that he may have right to covct
the election of .JO. LANE, under Il false
prctensc, to the high office of President.
but VIC deny in SO doing he represents
the people of Washington Territory.
The course of that gentleman at
Charleston in going further for Il terri
torial slave code than even ALBERT &.
BROWN of Mississippi, his course at Bal
timore, his conduct through the Prcsi-
dental contest, unrcbukcd by the Dem
ocratic party of this Territory, but ST.
lently and tacitly approved, has impell-
cd us now to hoist the Republican BAN
ncr. Some have thought the time in
opportune. TO them we will say it is
full late enough. Too long have our
people been deprived Of an opportunity
to protest most solemnly against the
world believing that the constituents
of that gentleman entertained scnti-
ments in sympathy with that faction Of
the Democracy with which he now as
sociates, and for whom he is ut present
the accredited political front.
TO wait longer and quietly submit
under such misrepresentation wEwouhD
Nor,-and heartily subscribing to all
and every of the doctrines of the Chica-
go resolutions, covcting for the sake of
humanity and human progress and the
we'll being of our glorious Union the
election OF the nominees OF the National
Republican Convention, we venture on
our enterprise, ready to do battle under
the Republican flag, in this remote cor
ncr of our National Union.
From week to week we will publish
articles on the issues of the day. Ne
ccssity and incxpericncc may compel us
to draw on other and ADLER Journals
which VIC will do when we are satisfied
that such articles should he read by our
citizens to encourage their stcadfastncss
in the cause, or to convince the doubt
ing.
We earnestly invite our fellow-citi-
zens i'm other counties to furnish us with