Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1860-11-17
The Pr0sJect.

the tirSt lllin',cr oi our journal on the
81 instant, and preliminary to the day
of the great Presidential struggle. The
delay Of the steamer Brother Jonathan
in making: her trip, and the sailing OF
the Oregon before she had arrived with
our letter ordering the press and mate
rial, will be our apology for not COM
plying with the promise made in our
prospectus. We trust it will prove sat
ist:,rtory to our patrons and friends
We had hoped before the contest was
decided to have placed III our masthead
The names Of LINCOLN and 1IAMLIN, as
sorting them as our choice for the IT,
Sponsiblc and honorable positions OF
President and Vice President of the
United states. While unforeseen cir
c,mStanccs have defeated us in that
darling object, we are in the ring in time
to glory witt, the Republicans if they
have achieved success, and if defeated
to bear with them the disappointment
and regrets attendant upon SO mclan-
choly result. The politics of this pa
per will be Republican in victory or de-
feat, in sunshine or storm, in season or
ont of season. We shall lo battle for the
advancement of free territory, free la
Dor, free speech, and free men, at all
times. 1t is true we live in Il Territory,
and have no vote in the Presidential
election: it i; true that both factions OF
the Democracy quarrel about the time
when we shall assert our prcrogativc as
to whether soil honorcd by the name of
Washington shall be dcSccratcd and
polluted by the hlighting curse of sla-
very; but we have an interest, and in
the language OF the Platform of the Chi
ca"o Convention, we assert that the
normal condition of every Territory is
freedom that the natural condition of
every man is proclaimed by the Dcca-
ration of independence, that hcposSe+scs
the inalicnablr right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, and that until
local law and municipal regulations
permit property in our frllow-man, by
recognizing the institution of slavery,
that in the absence of any law of Con-
..rcss creating this Slave Territory, it
is part of the domain of trccdom.-
We pay no Difference toa judicial die
tum of Il ma jority of IL political court,
which, high authority says pronounced
the bred Scott decision son THE CUES
TIoN or DIFFERENCE IN THE nEMocRATIC
RANKS--A DECISION WHICH PREVIOUSLY
EVERY DEMOCRAT HAD soLEMNLY PLEDG-
ED HIMSELF TO ABIDE BY As THE AUTHOR
IrATIvE EXPOSITION OF THE nEMocRATIc
FAITH" Hear that and blush, Amcri-
can ircc,mcn! The bench perverted
from deciding questions arising under
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, travelling out of the record to
decide questions of difference in the
Democratic ranks. Who made the
agreement to submit that question to
that tribunal? And is any one bound
but the parties differing? Who au-
thorized that court to say Washington
Territory was slave territory by force of
the Constitution, without the interview
ton of Congressional or Territorial leg
i.lation, without any authority save the
fact that because certain States in this
conicdcracy permitted slavery, that cit
liens of those States could carry outside
of its limits the force of local enact
mcnts, which ceased to be binding as
soon as the jurisdiction for which they
were enacted was ovcrrcachcd.
These matters, we trust, have been
settled by the triumphant election, on
the 9th of November, of the candidates
of the Republican party. We cannot,
of course, now give the result, but if
Judgment can be based upon the tones
of States journals the Democracy and
Scccssonists have been defeated in al
most all the States. The latest news
indicates that all the Northern States
will have been carried by the Republic
cans, securing the triumphant election
of ABRAHAM LINCOLN that the South
crn States, with but few exceptions, will
be carried by John Bell. In our next
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