Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-01-05

mcnce his administration till 18th Of
March 1861, and it would be highly
improper, to say the least OF it, for his
now advancing his views.
The allusion of the Pioneer to Mr..
Trumbull's remarks on the Fugitive
Slave Law and it's execution is cx-
tremcly unfair. Mr.. Trumbulls speech
iustitics no charge of dishonesty or
evasion. He says, "tllat if the charge
be true, that such law is practically null
lifted at the North, South Carolina is
not affected in the least, and has no
Just occasion for complaint. The bor-
der States are the sufferers We 90
farther, and assert that the Gulf States
are benefited pccuniarily, by slave prop
crty being made uncertain and difficult
to keep in the border States, thus slim
ulatinS an anxiety on the part of citi-
zcns of such border States to dispose
of that property, thereby chcarening
the value, of the human chattels, in
which South Carolina so loves to deal.
Indeed in seeking a reason to justify
South Cardinals recent diSunion antics,
we have been forced to adopt the the
orv Cf the conservative Union men re-
sidingin the border States, that the fire
eaters of the gulf States have raised all
this agitation to cheaper the price of
negroes.
The Pioneer regrets MIR. Lincoln has
seemingly authorized Mr.. Trumbull to
toke boHWon"' ogni"st secession. Why
then did that paper assume to condemn
Joe Lane for his ridiculous ctti,sion in
favor of secession! Itwon't do. That
journal cannot condemn Joe Lane for
secession, and in the same issue de-
nounce Senator Trumbull for that glo-
rious prophetic :Wowal OF what is to be
the keynote of the Lincoln admins
tration. ."1Hc Union, II must and ShaH
be preserved, and roc 10 tie Traitors who
are unrestricted ay"inst it,
Republicans lave the right to ask :;
suspension of opinion i'll regard to Mr..
Lincoln $ administration until he shall
have committed some OF those dreaded
acts, haunting the imagination of the
editor of the EionrT. There will then
be time to criticsc and condemn.
Surely, with Il Congress against the
new President, Il purity ma oritv on the
Supreme Bench, which painful and hui
initiating as is the reflection, Democrats
boldly rely upon to be partisan, where
can be the danger? And though we
cannot credit it, that even that Bench
which gave life to the hcrcSy baldiscd
the bred Scott decision, are as poriisoW
as that journal claims for them, yet do
we assert, that as it is claimed by high
Democratic authority that the Lcgiala-
tive and Judicial departments, are adj
verse to the Executive, surely, the Pto-
neer ought to be content, until some
wrong is attempted.
We regard Mr.. Trumbulls speech
as the opposite of what the Pioneer
portrays it, in the following language
1--WE would rather view it us cam
paign speech made in the heat of Il
great election excitement, when the
smoke had hardly cleared from the bat
tie field, than as calm production"
That speech has been read from the
shores Of the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the Gulf of Mexico, to our north
crn boundary. Conservative national
men, patriotic journals every where
without regard to party have COM
mcndcd it as a well timed effort, calcu-
lated to allay sectional strife, and call
the whole country to calm detcrmina-
ton to give Mr.. Lincoln's administra-
ton fair trial, before countcnancing
the commission OF that most horrid of
crimes, Treason to the National Union.
Republicans of Washington Terrific
ry, be not dismaycd! just such mis-
representations of our principles as is
made by the Pioneer of Mr.. Trumbull's
sentiments, together with branding our
party with epithcts odious to the pco-
pie, have been rcsortcd to for years,
and by such arguments alone have we