Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-03-22

Uiesf. seems to be terribly excited again lie
now threatens to rebel against the legal au-
ihorities If the Government; if the President
does not remove Mr.. Vicier Smith At once.
We do not think President Lincoln will be
very likely to b- Influenced by threats Of this
Kind. All this froih aud fury comes nearer a
",e,npcst in teapot" than anything We have
ever witnessed, and will prove jus, about As
Obstructive.
We arr by no means disposed to justify
the act complained Of, if it was done on the
ground Of preference for subject Of Queen
Victoria over one Of our own citizens. On
the contrary. We are opposed. as n general
thing, TO even going out of the Territory for
men to fill the subordinate positions in the
Government Offices. Still cases may occur
when it would be proper to employ an unnat-
uralized foreigner temporarily, until the place
could be filed with one of our own citizens
competent to discharge the duty required.
We understand from Mr.. Smith, that nothing
more than this was intended in the present
case. 1t is not to bc wondered at that he
should feel constrained to 60 outside Of Port
Townsend for a deputy, if it be true that they
sympathize with and encourage the course of
the North West in threats. not only to resist
the authorities of the Government but to hang
ITS Collector by the me1k withoxt judge or
jury. That this has been done, will be seen
seen by the following extract we make from
their paper of the 18th instant:
"a more bare-faced and wanton insult to all
Americans is unrecordcd in the annals of our ma
ton and were it not for confident hope that the
Collector will be regarded and taken care Of by
the proper authorities rs insane, we should at
once implorc our fellow ctizcns against any ebul-
liton Of temper, lest they become justly excited,
and swing another suit of clothes to tho Custom
House flag staff with different stufIing. Our pco-
PIE have been bullied and outraged until blame
will attach for not showing proper resentment.
We think the Collector makers had better send us
some more men from the Western States to attend
to the commercial necessities of this District"
AS We understand the matter, this terrible
outrage, which in the Judgment Of the editor
of the North Vest deserves hanging, consists
in the fact, that the Collector induced an hon
est Scotchman, very competent book-keeper,
to become an American citizen, with tho un-
dcrstanding that he shoald have for time
the place of deputy collector and book-keeper,
not intending any insult or indignity to citi-
xens of the Territory. He probably thought
that because we had in our army whole regi-
ments Of Highlanders, whose valor at Bull
Run saved us from more disast rous defeat
than we actually suffered. that nothing would
be thought wrong in giving ono Of their co'rn-
trymcn place in the Custom House. While
we are willing to believe that nothing wrong
was intended by Mr.. Smith. we think it was
a very great indiscretion, but not sufficient Of
itself to justify hanging or even expulsion
from Office. The NortA- West and its sympa-
thizers. make the same kind Of vindictivs war
against our unoaending friend, the Surveyor
General. against whom we have yet to hear
the first complaint Of the manner in which he
has discharged his official duties. or Of want
of sympathy with the Republicans Of the
Territory. Hence we conclude that much Of
the hostility Of that paper to the Surveyor
General. a. well as the Collector. is prompted
by its hatred Of "importations from the west. /"
If this war on Government officers sent here
BY President Lincoln il to be continued, il
need not be subject Of wonder Il they should
feel the necessity Of making common cause in
defending their interests aud regulations from
such IN unjust and unnatm.l warfare; . war
fare that viii never BE- sanctioeed q Wash-
ington. and II persisted in BY the pessoasl asa
political fr;eaas of Cur delsgase. Col wallaos.
will greatly lsssoa his ina.ssee ior good in
promoting the interests Of the Tcu;ssry.
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psumPsly connect the sssur BY their ss.ovsl
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our org.nisasioa into Tssriissy; - vhils
re joined in rsoaanssaing or cd eiEissnl
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they ass Ass among ~. and diseharge thsi1
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