, 1862-11-01
Brigadier General Pearne.D

EDITORS STATESMAN Among the batch of
militia Generals in the list OF appointments is the
name of ThomBs II. Pearne, as Brigadier Gen
cral of 2nd Brigade and in the Daiiy Times we
have a very patriotic and complimentary letter to
" His Excellency in which the appointment is
declined. Now, in boxing at this appointment
a candid spectator, it appears much more like
a farce than serious business between two such
men as the Rev. Editor and his Eycellency the
Governor of Oregon According to the letter the
writer, on returning from the Daes finds await
ing him commission, signed by the Governor and
ceuntersigned by the Secretary of State. (Sam.
E. JAay y having the State seal affixed Il sup
pose the same that has on it the beaver and pine
tree) appointing me a Bngadier General of the
State militia Of Oregon The reverend gentle
man vas greatly surprised and why? Be
cause the appointment came utterly unlocked
for and unsought on his part" But we would
like to ask him, was it unbought? ? What paper
helped the Governor to his present position !?
Did not the gentleman have an itching of expect
ancy that some office awaited him, as a token of
regard for his valuable services? But he is taken
by surprise now that he finds the parchment,
seal, and all awaiting him; and why surprised TO
find his name associated with such men as Elisha
Applegate, and for such an Office and by his dear
friend the GovernorP Only look atit-Reyerend at
Brigadier General Thomas H. Pearne, Second
Brigade Oregon Militia Oh, for the hand and
harp of Orpheus c. Kerr to sound out the praise
of such an appointment The Rev. Editor of the
Christian .4dUOcate an itilerant preacher of
peace Rrigader General of Militia Oh, how
we should like to see Gen. Pearne astride his
charger, dressed in his regmentals with his long
knife by his side or in his hand giving orders %
his land and sea fencibes marching up the hill,
like the king of France, with his forty thousand
men, then turning round and marching down
again.
The Governor could never have imagined that
his reverend friend would have accepted such an
office, especially, as the letter in the Times sayo
The position would be, comparatively, NOM
ina one, and not likely to be Of great importance
to the safety and deliycrance of the State or ma
ton do not therefore, feel myself under obi
CATION to accept it." That is what we call sound
doctrine although it has a touch of the comic
about IT, A Brigader General of Oregon Militia
is not likely to be Of great importance to the sal
walton Of the nation. But we can tell the pa
tTctic, rejecting General what he can do, and be
Of some use to his country, he need not wait to be
drafted, as his letter intmates, let him at once
volunteer; he is an able bodied man-not too DID,
and as he has a capacity for learning, may soon
make a respectable private soldier others OF his
brethren have done this What the country now
needs is not wordy patriots on the stump or in
the newspaper, but men under arms in the field
There is one thing this appointment has done
it has given the reverend gentleman the opportu-
nifty of displaying himself again before the public
His humility, and magnanmty, and patriotism
and rhetoric are all brought forward Who will
saw after the perusa of this letter. that our friend
is seeking for Office or political preferment? Can
not he now boast, A" could have been Brigadier
General, but declined the office and the honor |
preferred to be editor of the .4duocate-to take my
place among my brethren We would like to
know what is the pay of a Brgadier General of
Oregon Militia That's the rub. After all, we
suppose, brother Pearne will now be called Gen
eral Pearne. The Governor has succeeded in
sticking pretty fast another handle to his name
So the .MOuntaineer has it, General Pearne
preached in the Dalles last Sunday night" So
the Oregon Statesman, in that sweet, poetic efu-
sion on the Generals elevation to office. Sacred
shades the fathers of Methodism, on what de-
generate days have we fallen when men, leav-
ing their legitimate calling, bring the office and
work Of the ministry into such contempt.
We have now done with this miserable farce
and hope that the Rev Mr.. Pearne will either
become a volunteer for the defense of his country
or else turn to his legitimate business, for which
he is being paid handsome salary, and try and
make good religious paper, and leave Office
hunting, political stock -jobbng, and them nasty
politics to other parties.