, 1863-04-04
PORTLAND CORRESPONDENCE.
ponr1ANn March 9th 1868.

PORTLAND, March 9th, 1868.
EDS. STATESMAN Il observe that the
press in various parts of this State and
Washington Territory have been putting
lecture lately delivered in this city by the
Rev. Brig. Gen. Pearne The subject of
this Grafton was "The Bloody Triumvl-
rate about which Mr.. Pearne showed
considerable quantity of maiS-infoimation.
The triumvirate referred to is that of Robe
spierre, Marat and Danton-not that of
Augustus, Antony and Lepidus. If Mr..
Pearne had chosen the Roman triumvirate
instead of the French very nice applica-
ton Of their example might have been
made to some recent occurrences In Ore
gon, which is a country that is not ruled
by Roman or French tliumvirate but
A BLARsTRD TRIUMvIRATE.
This three-man power may be ftly COM
pared to the Roman Triumvirate and from
one of its actions / believe Bro. Pearne
drew his hatred of triumvirates in general.
To prevent the public from knowing the
names of the Oregon triumUirdte, | shall
use only the initials of their sirnames SO
here they are: Asahel B, who an
swers to the Roman pro ootype Augustus ];
Mordecai Paul D., who stands for An
tony, and Addison G. G., who resem-
bes Lepidus,-a gross fat man OF much
big stomach, and rather stupid than 9TH
erwise,-that is, Lepidus, not G.. Now
be it known that last fall, Asahel and Nor
decai determined to get the Rev. Brig
Gen. Pearne on a pin-hook, by making him
Brigadier General whether he would OF
Pearne of wanting to be a Brigadier-Gen
eral, and followed it up by inducing Addi-
son to appoint the reformed cordwainer to
that office in the State militia establish
ment This gave the enemies of the rev.
erend gentleman chance to pitch into him.
In declining the position, Mr.. Pearne as
signed every reason for it but the right
one namely, his utter incompetency to
command a brigade.
You will ask how it happened that Ad-
olson c. G. could be roped into such a
piece of treachery to lis reverend friend
Pearne, who had been the principal instru-
ment in elevating his ponderous form to the
gubernatorial seat; know then that Addi-
son would as leave offend any other man
as Asahel. know that he will try and
make his peace with Gen. Pearne by say
| ing that he gave him the military appoint
ment from the best of motives; but it must
appear to Mr. Pearne that, unless Addison
was instigated to do it, he never would
have taken the responsibility of doing ii
without consulting the appointee. If Mr.
! Pearne had consented to be appointed a
| Holy Brigadier he would never have de-
clined it of course. Thus, you see, Addi-
son has "shot his arrow over the house and
wounded his brother"
ADDITIONAL FACTS ABOUT THIS MATTER
The fact of it is that Addison has got lis
weather eye peeled for the next vacancy in
the T. S. Senate from Oregon, and has
been played upon by the other two of the
| Oregon triunuiri You will recollect that
! Lepidus, the man of ''unbOunded stom-
ach, was similarly manipulated by Au-
gustus and Antony. They gave their cor
pulent colleague the African possessions oi
Rome, and after getting him away from the
| Capital played him out of all power in the
State. In the same way Asahel and Nor
decai have sent Addison over to the Re-
publicans, (Africa) and intend to leave him
there first taking all his political power
away from him, and getting him to go the
entire African in a most ravenous manner
In a spirit of kindness, | advise Addison
" IU0A 0eso ror DreaKers GlIo gudSoOu % J
has devoured the minnow Pearne) and
the pixies (Asahel and Mordecai) will di-
vide the gudgeon and swallow him.
To comfort Mordecai Antony l would
call his attention to the way Augustus
served his ancient Roman prototype, An
tony. l think clear case has been made
out respecting the Roman Triumvirate and
the 'Blarsted Triumvirate' of Oregon, and
now if Addison can convince Bro. Pearne
that he did not sell him up last fall, shall
believe that the reverend gentleman never
ought to be Senator. For once the Gene
raj has been the victim.
SYMPTOMS OF ROW.