Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-09-14

Fruits Of Secession.
The Territory of Arizona now, under
the secession flag, is in terrible con.
dition. The following from the Arizo-
Man depicts the sort of retribution
which justice has there visited upon
treason. "Lct the CALLED jade vince. "
"Our prosperity has departed. The
mail is withdrawn; the soldiers are
gone and their garrisons burned to the
ground; the miners murdered and the
mines abandoned; the stock raisers and
farmers have abandoned their crops and
herds to the Indians, and the population
generally have fed, panic-strnck and
naked, in search of refuge. We think
no man ever before saw desolatiOn SO
wide spread. From end to end of the
Territory, except alone in Tucson and
its immediate vicinity, there is not
a human habi.atiom.
We are hcmmcd in upon
all sides by the savage and unrelenting
Apache, by whom the unwary are fire.
quently assassinatcd on their very
thresholds. There are very few of us,
aud we have in our midst an over
whelming and naturally inimical Mex
lean element, who only wait until we
become so weakened by Apache raids
and emigration that it may be done
with impunity, when they will, in all
human probability, wipe us out to Il
man. Add to this that most of us are
poor, and many of us arc atoot, and un-
armed, and without q chance to earn a
dollar; and that to the nearest friendly
settlement on either side it is three
hundred miles, through a country hos
tile and for the most part barren and
unwatcrcd, and the peril of our condi-
ton may be conceived. The only rea-
son under heaven that can be ASST gned
for the injustice and bad treatment we
have undergone is, that people of Ari-
zonia are Southern in feeling, and have
dared avow it. The eleven-starred ban
ner that floats over the town of Tue son,
shows that her citizens acknowledge
no allegiance to abolition rule"
bI Parson Brownlow's paper, the
Knorville Wing, has been suppressed
by the JEFF Davis bandisti. The brave
editor, anticipating the event, thus
defics the clan:
So far as we are concerned, we can
suspend our publication, in obedience
to the dictates of tyranny and intoler-
ance-we will yield to the demands ofan
armed mob-turn over to them our
office and what little property we have
deprive ourselves and helpless FAM
lily Of small children of the necessary
means of support-and beg our bread
from door to door among Union men
who can give-but we shall refuse most
obstinately refuse, to the day of our
death to think or'speak favorably of
such Contederacy as this, or agree
that honor, patriotism or love of coun-
try, has influenced the men at its head,
who have plunged the country into this
revolution! And whether our humble
voice is hushed in dcath-whether our
press is muzzled by the spirit OF intol-
erance at Richmond, making this our
last issue of journal we have edited
for almost quarter of a century, we
beg all who come after us and our pa
per, to credit no Secession falsehood
that may represent us as having changed
our principles from those of an exalted
devotion to the old American Union,
and of undying hostility to those who
would perpetrate it's dissolution.
w. q. BRowNLow,
Editor of the Knoxville Wing.
August 10, 1861.