Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-02-09
A Confession by the Pioneer.

A Confession BY the Pioneer.
The Pioneer in its last issue publishes
an admirable sermon of that gifted
young devinc, the Rev. r. J. Evans.
After devoting almost the whole first
page to it, merely to keep a promise
made Sin a moment of good nature
int;mates that it may W again pub
fish IL m This we regard as Il
wise determination, for VIC hardly think
that journal an appropriate place for
such productions. The Pioneer in al
luding to the publication says:
sit does good service in purifying our columns,
in the same way that they fumigatc a ship al sea
for purposes of health. The old types have led
rather q hard life .-indced have been engaged in
some discputoble fighting, and it is well enough
that they should. for once i'll tEtir life. join the
church militant
We have no comments to make upon
the taste Of the editor in thus confess
ing the sins of the institution of which
he is now the presiding spirit. 1t may
have been unkind thus to pass upon the
f%railties of his predecessors, but we had
hoped that with such a confession he
would at least have endeavorcd to re-
form. But that habit Of disreputable
fighting" to which that sheet was so
addicted, still clings to the type, press,
and journal, with the tenacity of the
shirt of Ncssus. In the same column
with the above extract, we find the fol-
lowing unfair, s%pccious, and untruthful
squib:
"Thc rate Of exchange in New York is now ten
per cent. in places where. before the election, it
was only one-half per cent. If the country has
lost millions upon millions Of dollars merely be-
cause the Republicans are about to come into pow
er, what will happen if they attempt to carry out
their principles? Which can we afford to lose
best, our Government or the Republican party. 1t
is certain that one must be broken up-the Union
or the Republicans. We have our choice, which
is the most va. uablcY'
Dare that journal sincerely assert the
opinion that the present empty treas
ury of the National Government is the
result of the election Of ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN! Dare it assert that the Repub-
licans are blamable for the imbecility
of Howell Cobb, who cowardly deserted
his post as Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary
of the Treasury, after he had by his ig-
norance and mismanagement brought
the nation to bankruptcy! Will that
paper, in the face and eyes of the hor-
rid developments Of infamous and
wholesale corruption of this admins
tration by the "Covode Committee"
charge that those vast robberies of the
National Treasury and mal-appropria-
tons of public money are attributable
to the success of the Republican party !
Will he pass over the several infamous
swindles Of Secretary Floyd, and his re-
cent implications with ONE of his ia
vorites and partners in the late defraud-
ing ofthe Government out of a million
of money, say nothing of the thou
sand and one robbcries of the Treasury
by officers of less grade than advisers to
the President! This panic has nought
to do with the success Of the Republi-
can party, and we are surprised that ed
itor has not sense enough to know it.
But the Pioneer must say something
rs a set-of to its indications of reform.
Is this fair? Its party has had the gov
eminent for eight years. The course
of the Democracy has brought the ma
ton to bankruptcy, andworse than that
and o to be deplored, to the very
verge of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, civil war, and
anarchy. Mr.. L1NcoLN's duties, were
our domestic affairs in a state of quie-
tude, would be sufficiently onerous and
delicate. Why adopt this policy of
condemning beforehand, and rendering
his labors more difficult? Time and
again have we commented on this en-
cessively bad habit Of that journal in
classifying II party and its creed, belly
ing its statesmen, and misrepresentine
their sentiments and acta. Never has