The Oregon union. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-28

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this district, on charges
of disloyalty. Writs
/ for their arrest were is
sued, in pursuance of
a recent order of Gen.
Wright, directing the
military and military
authorities to arrest
and hold in confine-
ment all persons guilty
of uttering reasonable
language against the
| Government. Such a
course is eminently po-
litic and wise. The on
ly wonder is, that trea-
sonable utterances
should have been so
long tolerated, without
the summary notice
now taken under Gen.
Wright's order.< Such
treatment of the men
who assail the Govern
ment reasonably
would have been highly
salutary in the begin
ming. 1t is not too late
to teach these seditious
fellows a healthy lesson
of their responsibilities
an duties to their coun-
try. When the order
was first issued, we had
not the most unbound
ed faith that anything
efectual would be done
under it; but we are
satisfied that General
Wright meant what the
order said, and that it
will prove, under his
administration, a most
efectual check upon
the insolent spirit of de-
fiance so rampant on
this coast. The villain
Gus enemies of the Fed
eral Union, who have,
while shielded by a
condition of peace here,
and the forbearance of
the people, spared no
effort to bring into con-
tempt and weaken the
hands of the constitu-
ted authorities of the
Government, are now
to learn that treasona-
BILE conduct here is as
rankly offensive and
worthy of punishment,
as though perpetrated
in the immediate thea
ter of the war.
We are glad of it
glad, not only that the
Government has decid-
ed to vindicate its honor
in all parts, howey-
er distant, of its do
main. but that traitors
shall no longer stalk
about among people
who yield a willing al
legiance, and be suffer-
ed to override loyalty
by unrebuked express
ions of hatred and con-
tempt for the Govern
.nent. If Gen. Wright
will extend this kind
of surveillance to the
Northern portions of
his district, he will not
only perform an act of
deserved justice to the
reasonable wretches
themselves, but will
win the gratitude of
every CO m m u n ty
which he may thus re-
lieve of pestilent seces-
sion peddlers and ar
rant rebel abettors,-
We think there is
scarcely a county in
Oregon or Washington
Territory but could
spare a few such hom-
bres, and be all the bet
ter and safer for their
departure.
1t is not by any
means sure that rebel
sympathizers here have
given up the scheme of
separating the Pacific
Coast from the Union.
The outbursts of pa
t1iotic en- t h u S i asm,
sweeping over the
country, have, for the
time, somewhat smoth-
cred the expression of
such diabolical purpos-
es, but they none the
less exist, and wait i'm
patiently the time when
their fierceness may
be loosed upon the 10y
al portions of the popu-
lace. We have con-
stantly the information
before us that not a
blatant secessionist in
the country is without
arms, and plenty Of
them-that the Gov
ernment guns used in
! the Yakima war, are
mostly in the secret pos
session of men who
have, at some time
since the troubles be-
gan, been known tc
hurl the most violenr
denunciations at the
Government, and tt
express TIL c most
shameless sympathy
with the rebels. + =
We have no fear thar
an opportunity will bt
soon afforded for sucf
uses of a rm S tn u
boarded, but the intenr
! is none the less hellish
and deserving of swift
exposure, and condigr
punishment. That sucl
men are more than or.
dinarily prepared, witt
offensive weapons, is a
least suggestive of thu
propriety of keeping ar
eye upon them, ano
preventing the conse.
quences of permitting
such an element to gai1
an ascendency, any
where in the country