, 1862-07-26
The Itinerating showman's Mouthpieoe.

! o'NA- NH "HO'nOi 0ulClO1 VI Ine " prlnclpa
facts " connected with the Beatty Garrison
rlotous descent upon our city few week,
since; and IN this attempt that paper ha;
kept just about as near the truth as it die
IN giving currency to Beatty's infamously
lying report. Itsays we intimated that the
" OregOnian should copy our article in JUS
tice to the people of Walla Walla county.
We intimated no such thing, inferentially
or otherwise, as the article will show fol-
itself to all who will take the trouble to
read it; nor could we have reasonably ex-
pected, from the apparent eagerness exhib-
tied by that paper in giving credit to Beat
tvs story, that it would copy our denial OF
the allegations therein made if requested to
do so, and thus evince disposition of fair
ness towards our city in laudabe effort to
preserve a good name against the malignant
aspersions of an unscrupulous liar. We
believed that the good sense and judgment
of discriminating public-and we ought
to say as much for the editor himself would
place at least as much confidence in our
statements touching this affair, as in those
of an itinerating Snowman but notwith-
standing the fact that the Oregonian disa-
VOWS its endorsement of Beatty's " state
ment, and wishes it ''distinctly understood
that it favors neither side,' at the same time
it bellies its own words, and in truth would
have its readers believe that very statement,
and would have the officials of Walla Walla
county in particular "receive the unquali-
fed condemnation of every honest patriot
and law and order loving citizen of the
country" We can attach no other mean
ing to the article as it is. 1t is true that
paper says "Jf" such state of facts ex-
ist, Beatty has been wronged and the peo-
pie should be condemned; "if" another
state of facts exist, why then it is clear that
Beatty is a scCundrel 1t cowardly sneaks
behind very small word in its attempt to
be g everywhere in general and nowhere in
particular - and instead of coming out and
frankly owning that it has been grossly i'm
posed upon, it interposes this very conven-
lent but equivocating provision ''if, in or
der to detach itself from the responsibility
naturally attending the publication of foul
aspersions upon private character.
The main reason assigned by the Orego-
nidn for " believing the statement" is the
alleged fact that Beatty represented Wal
la Walla county in the last legislature of
Washington Territory" The editor prob
ably made this blundering statement through
ignorance. 1t is not at all likely that he
intended to tell an untruth but Beatty
told him that he represented Walla Walla
county in the legislature, and he supposed
it was So It's pity the editor couldn't
have had this among the allegations which
make up Beatty's " statement" as it would
have enabled him to sneak out of the res
possibility of its publication. For the Or
egonian'S special edifcation, we will state
that the g talented tragedian never rep
resented the people of Walla Walla county
in the legislature; and further, that the
only indication of confidence he ever re-
ceived at the hands of those people was a
prompt and emphatic refusal to place him
even on a committee of resolutions. What
ever indiscretions the people of Walla Walla
| county may have committed, they have new
er descended so inconceivably low in the
scale of manhood as to lend their sufrages
to place such a creature as Beatty in a res
ponsible and honorable position. And we
want the OregOnian to take this statement
back, as refusal to do so would be mani
festly unjust to the people of Walla Walla
county. We don't want its readers to be
misjed 6y such a ridiculous statement, and
besides it would cast stain of eternal in
fanny upon the county.
The OregOnian publishes as additional
corroboration of the g statement" certif-
cate of discharge given to Beatty by Justice
Horton In words it is an honorable
discharge" but the facts are that the JUS
tice had no means of arriving at this con-
clusion from evidence adduced upon an ex-
amination-for there was no examination ;
nor could he possibly have done so from
" Information obtained outside of the re-
cord, so that the certificate is without au-
thority and void The truth is that the
g honorable part of this discharge was
wrenched from the Justice by the menacing
attitude of the soldiers under the lead of
the man to whom it was given-the justice
himself apprehensive of positive violence.
And Beatty owes his own deliverance from
felon's cell to fear on the part of the COM
plainant of personal violence to himself
We might easily obtain, and in fact have
been rendered tie use of any number of
responsible names certifying the truth OF
our charges against this man for whom the
OregOnian has become so willing a mouth
piece but We will not crafty it by para
ding certificates or names in our columns.
satisfied that an " intelligent public will
discriminate fairly between the people OF
Walla Walla and the man whose infamous
! daade and acaf,l oon d,,ct hove O., b;oot