Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-02-15
The Vnioa Resolutions Arain.

against the nisa r,--e.ufsoEs IN the l>-.i-l--
tur-. and as>sE;s thu; - there ~ss o.; aa .rosr-
od s--cessio'iisi in TIA. I>-is!z;uT,- Ii the
editor mea.s by this. that nas oae a. Ire ..1-
iesn comprising the black list hal !.ro,laiz,,l
himself = sec,ss:oI..yi - the norot he Iou....
or in any Other pai,lie I.l=r.. he i psoaalIy
c0TTcci; bui II j. fair To Pr.~uue tn: thu
have had al ol,j 81 in lTidiis- ;hsir iosi-r..s
when c"Il>id-E that ,he >,cr,izrv. A. d.
ltlE>ii- agent eli tn Gs.,rI.i.i'l Il. ouid have
'-'a IA dHi. hpaHi t. MUS To ysy such
nrsi iE ihrir s.-r,iocs- Thry veH,Ersd. how
ever. t. do y hat Nc c,..l-s.i,s ry.s. xor-. and
scsii cui o. ~. ca,.r,:-- an ofrisl .l.lara,i.n.
cln,hci with al TIA di-4iiy aaI r,sisci dac
til d. lrsair declaIsiioI.- e in, lli:.r.sr mp
T'- .i,ati''s q: : free Iss!lc ihli til. .riH sat
sustain the lrs-id,-si ia his sffuris io ulain-
tain the nioa and suPpart the Cou-,iru,ion !;
that Washington Territory viil 10, h. 'ru, 20
til Government which protects her; AID
equally REASONABLE afiirIAsiioas
Ii Ihrsc g..aiirHen have authorized nesr
Po,nfer Ia plead tg~oraEce Of wha, they were
doing when they voted against the resolutions,
We VIII be bound 10 accept the apology and
say no more about them. feeling sure tina, p,o-
pie viii return sound | Mon men to the next
Legislature who are capable Of comprehend.
ing that a refusal TO support the Government,
Cons,iruiionally administered, IS boA h,gal
and morM treason.
Our very asiutc, hair-spliting friend OF the
Press insists that none of our deductions are
tenahle, and that nothing more is to be in
frrrcd from their voting against the rcsolu-
tons than simply showing their dctorinina-
ton not to allo W outsiders to cram partisan
resolutions down their throats."
Was the member from Pacific mr. Girls.
wold) an consider! And will any sensible
man decide that those resolutions were even
remotely partisan in character! That edi-
tor is exceedingly anxious that the public
should go understand the matter, bat he takes
especial care, like his co-ahorcr of the Herald,
not to publish the resolutions and allow the
reader to Judge as to the truth or talsty of
his assertions.
In one sense they mere strongly partisan,
ard they Were intended as Il platform on
which all true Union men could stand shoul-
der to shoulder in defense of the Constitution
and Union. They wcrc SO worlcd as to ell
able all true Union men to vote for them with
ont ignoring any principle or measure of par
ty policy. and it WIS intended and cxpcct ted
by their mover that Il vote upon them on the
"ycas and nays would indicate in manner
not hereafter to be mistaken, who Of the men,
bcrs of that House were for the Union as our
fathers made it. and those who were willing
to STE it broken up, in order that slavery may
be more certainly perpctuatcd for generations
to cone.
The resolutions were not sprung upon the
House suddenly and pressed to vote, but
they had been pending for a long portion of
the session, and all those who voted against
them had ample opportunities for examining
into their nature and tendency. and must be
presumed to have meant what they declared
by their VOTE namely, that they were not
willing to pledge the Administration their
support in the efforts being made TO maintain
the Union and support the Constitution.
We long since came to the conclusion that
the term Democrat was fast becoming a syno-
nvsm for disunion, and that all attempts to
rally party around the once honored name
was a covert attempt OH part of the secession
leaders to build up Il majority secession party
on the Pacific coast, with view of ultimately
throwing us into the arms of the confederate
States or establishing an independent Pacific
republic, and hence we can the more easily
account for the "wiring in and wiring out"
that has been going on by the leaders of this
trcasona!lc scheme to defeat these Union reso-
lutions in a way that would not either alarm
their dupcs or subject those who should vote
agai,,s, them TO that storm OF Indignation they
would be SIRE to provoke from their constitu-
cnts were lhey to openly avow their disunion
intentions.
We most fully concur in The opinion cx-
pressed by that old s.aneh Democratic jour
i nal. the Oregon Sfafesnam, that II 's I'M
possible now. ariM 50 mary traitors ~ the
spi,e Of Democrats. to Organize the ismo-
cratic party on any honorable or useful basis
IL is plain to the dulles, comprehension that
the great living principle which anima's'- "'iT
/ Democratic wire-workcrs is a desire to recag-
nize the independence Of Southern ccnfrd-