Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-03-15
SATURDAY, MARCH Is. 1859.


The Statesman and the 0Eegonian.
Az to 1.-The great evil which may rcsul, to the
cause by undeserved attacks we commend the
Oregonias 20 a retraciion of its own TRADE and
charge Of disunion made against members Of the
Washington Legislature OF unJursiiviiet loyalty
because. voting for n set Of sound Union resolu-
tions, they fit not To vote for another set. not
sounder. purporting to emanate from men, or a
man. not above the suspicion Of holding pariyism
above country .-Orcsoa Std'esman.
1t is probable that the Statesman is labor
ing under q misrepresentation in regard to the
history Of those resolutions. We do not be-
lieve the editor of that paper would defend
the action of our Legislature for the purpose
ofventing his spleen against the Orcsonian
The comments Of that paper were based on
our statement of facts, and in our judgment
were just and proper. We charged that it
was determined by the secession Democrats
in the Legislature that no resolutions endors-
ing the war policy of the Administration should
pass that body, and the facts show that this
resolve was carried into execution through
the agency of Legislative trickery."
If the Statesman had been aware of the
fact that these Legislative wire-workers were
patrons of the Portland Adrertiser, and that
the action Of the Legislature was influenced
by that reasonable sheet, we think that it
would not have been so ready to denounce its
Union friends of the STANDARD and Adrocate.
Ifthe last two numbers of the Statesman
are to be regarded as indicating its course in
the coming canvass, and the spirit and tenn
per manifested towards its Republican friends
as indicating its true feeling towards them,
we are of the opinion that the Union party
in that State will but prove a mockery, and
the sooner all effort to act together in harmony
is abandoned, the better it will be for the
Union cause.
The editor Of the Statesman is an expert
enccd politician, and is generally very care
full to ground his assertions or. facts. In the
present instance, he has undoubtedly been
misled by the statements Of designing men,
or his old party prejudices have got the bet
tor of his judgment. If he has more conf
dence in the statements of his Democratic fol-
lowers than he has in the facts, sabstantiated
by the journals of tho Legislature, we are
justified in the belief that he does not thank
us for the interest we have manifested in re-
gard to the Union organization in Oregon,
nor care for our aid, nor that of the Orcgoni-
an and other Republican journals, in the
coming canvass. 1t would appear that hav.
ing committed leading Republicans to coali-
ton with the Democratic party, he has NO
further use for them.
We regret that the Statesman should have
felt called upon, jest at this time, to inaugu.
rate a warfare against those whose whole in.
auence, public and private, has been welded
in behalf of the Government. This is the
FIRST time that paper has been guilty Of such
gross inconsistency. The triumph Of the I'm.
ion cause in Oregon will require the com.
bined effort Of all Union men. They will
have no ammunition to expend ON their own
friends. The State is full Of the same kind
Of lurking. covert treason as controlled the
action Of our Legislature.
DisrRIcr COuRr.-The District Court for
for the I'd Judicial District is in session al
this place-Judge Oliphant presiding; Judge