Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-05-14
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY II, 1861.
The Union County Convention.

The Union County Convention.
The Union County Convention meets in
this city today, for the purpose Of nominate
ing a county ticket to be- supported by the
Union party at the June election. This con-
~vention, under the call addressed to the Un-
ion msn Of Tllurston county," will doubtless
be compose Of delegates Of both Republican
and Democratic antecedcnts, and will, We
confidently trust, selecta ticket which will re-
ceive the undivided support Of the Union
party, which is composed of all men who are
in favor Of sustaining the Government and its
measures for crushing out the rebellion and
restoring the Union. We do rot admit that
there can be any just distinction taken be-
tween two men who now stand upon the same
Union platform because the one has been a
Democrat and the ether.a Republican, nor do
VIC believe that the people will ever recognize
any such distinction at the polls, the final tri-
bunal where all political questions must be de-.
cided and all parties must weigh their
strength.
We only want good. sound, loyal men, who
will stand up. to the Government, sustain its
measures for the suppression Of the rebellion,
and carry with them the strength Of the In
ion party, and such we have no doubt the
convention will give us.
The necessity of nominating such a ticket
as shall leave no cause for either wing Of the
Union party to suspect an intention to ignore
it in the distribution of the patronage and
honors Of the party is SO paramount that it
must present itself to the mind Of every dele
gate. A just and fair observance Of this ar
rancement will, we have no doubt, secure a
glorious triumph to the Union cause; and
surely no true patriot will permit his personal
opinions or desires to stand in the way of
what is first last and almays the object aimed
at by sound Union men.
RErAL1Ar1oN.-We are heartily gratifrd
at the spirit with which our Government is
determined to meet its enemies. Acommittee
has been appointed by Congress n inquire into
the barbarities alleged to have been commit
ted by the rebel forces at Fort Pillow upon
the persons Of the colored Union soldiers win
defended and were captured in that defence,
whose investigations appear to have estab-
lished the fact that some Of the negroes were
buried alive, with additional circumstances Of
barbarity the recitation Of which cannot failt
make the very marrow shrink in the bones of
those who even hear the dreadful particulars.
Horrible a. such things must appear, they
carry with them the terrible. retribution Of
God. 1.-THE blood 9fAc martyr Is the seed
ofMe church," and those who shed it sharpen
the weapons that will insure their own de-
etruc:ion. Retaliation, by e~xactins "an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is, in war.
tho only means by which man can protect him
self against outrages instigated by the Devil.
Revenge'is the work Of Heaven, and is never
complete until its enemies and their cause are
blotted from the Earth. ~~g /
70 The suffrrings Of the last Tennessee
refugees are calculated to draw forth the ut
most sympathy. An agent Of the Sanitary
Commission, who has recently returned from
Knoxville. relates some terrible experiences.
He saw hundreds of these refugees at every
point-the children barefooted in the cold,
and the women and men shivering from scant
clothing and haggard from stinted food. Many
Of the men wers clad in carpets fastened
around the neck, aud hanging down like 4
gown. There was much sickness among
them, and the mortality was great ,sr .lss
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