Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-03-30

standing. This confession was most
unfortunate for u contemporary. lie
should exercise more discretion.
In the Pioneers article Mr.. Seward
is accused of being an advocate Of a
" higher law" than the Constitution OF
the United States. How does this
statement compare with Mr.. Stewards
conservative standin the present crisis ?
While the leaders Of your party are
striving to sever the Union, who is it
that unfinchingly stands by the Con-
stitution and the Union, and extends
the olive branch to your rebel party!
Who favors compromise and concession
but William II. Seward, who but a few
months ago you branded as "raving
and ranting abolitionist"? Does this
resemble the advocacy Of a "higher
law to end the "irrepressible conflict?
Again, we are infinitely rejoiced to
learn that that editor has finally con-
cluded to support Mr.. LIScoLN's Adj
ministration, at least not to "scccdc'
until some covert act" is committed.
He says: eff the present Administers
ton is highly conservative,-if it for
sakcs narrow, partisan interests it
offers a reasonable compromise to the
South,-if it causes the North to re-
turn also to a sense of it's Constitutional
dutics,--~c are wiWj"g to gire this Ad-
minjshution .fur hiiai."
Just so! The Union-loving citizens
Of Washington Territory will rejoice
with us at this declaration. Uenceforth
the Siamcsc twins of secession, Jolane
and RI, will have no advocate of their
peculiar views in this Tcrritory,-um-
less the above conditions are ignored.
May VIC not expect to have the Pioneer
read out ofthe Democratic party?
1t will be remembered that we have
frequently taken our friend to account
for the base charges made by him
against the Republican party, to which
he never dcigncd a reply. We claimed
that its silence was virtually an admis-
sion of guilt, he being unable to prove
his accusations. A sentence in the last
issue of that paper proves that our sur
misses were correct. 1t says certain
charges "must not 60 unrefuted, or it
would be, on II part, a confession of
Judgment" SO the charges then made
were either the offspring of our cotcm-
porary's fertile imagination, or were
taken from campaign documents, Sc
ccssion newspapers, or Helpers I'M
pending crisis-the textbooks of the
Democratic party.
THE TRAITOR TwIGGs.-Wc had
thought that the higher officers of the
L. 5. army, honored as they were by
mention in their country's history,
would be the very last to desert their
flag. Although we still have mistaken
confidence in military, VIC have to
note one instance in which an officer,
holding a no less rank than Major-Gen-
eral, is guilty of hcason-of delivering
the military property of the United
States in Texas, to that State. 1t has
been shown hat early in February he
had entered into negotiations with that
State for the surrender of the property,
and late accounts say Gen. Houston
was privy to the affair. Col. White
had been appointed to succeed Twiggs.
but he did not arrive there before the
surrender. Twiggs' name has been
stricken from the army roll as a traitor,
and should the report that had been
prove untrue and he be taken,
he will undoubtedly be compelled to
perform his evolutions on a tight-ropc.
SOUTHERN "INDEpENDENcE."- The
word independence" has lately under
gone a radical change, if it is not mis-
applied by the f~ire-eaters Of South Car
olina. They declare themselves "free
and Independent" but are quiN wiNing to
aUow the United States to carry her
mails; her "~chivalry'' delight in sport
ing the tri-colored cockade, while the
button, in the centre of which is the