Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-05-21
The War of the Radicals.

views, that we adopt it as II own.
The Mountaineer now stands pre-emi-
nent, upon this coast, as an able, bold
and consistent advocate of the princi-
pies upon which the Union party is
based, and which if adhered to, can but
secure to the Union party in Oregon
and elsewherca glorioustriumph. The
effort o being made by the radicals
to reconstruct the Republican party,
by excluding from official position all
who were not avowed Republicans in
the Presidential contest of 1860, not
withstanding they may have given,
from the firing of the first gun upon
Sumter to thcprescnttimc, Jealous and
efficient support to the present Admin
istration, and who arc now struggling
for his denomination against the infu-
cnce of Greeley & Co. If the radicals
succeed in defeating MIR. Lincoln and
in the election of Messrs. Fremont or
Chase, they will, of course, have mat
tiers pretty much their own way. Il
they should tail, however, they will not
complain if they arc required to stand
aside to make place for more consistent
Union men.
AS a further indication of the dcspc-
rate wal that is being made upon Pres
ident Lincoln, says the Momtaineer, we
copy to-day, from the N. Y. Spirit Of
the Times, an article in which not only
Lincoln and his Cabinet, but Gen. Grant
comes in for his share of abusc. From
all these demonstrations, it would seem
that Greeley and Sumner, and all that
school, are determined to crush out
every man who is unwilling to sub
scribe to what may be termed the red
republican theory of government.
Adopt the policy indicatedin the Gree
ley platform, and we would not only
have civil war at home, but we would
be involved in q wal with Franco and
England. These z%calots, apparently
maddcned at the sight of blood, appear
to be determined to bring on arcign of
anarchy, and.with it the bloody scenes
that characterized the French Revolu-
ton. Looking to the influence these
mad radicals WELD in the councils of
the nation, and the probability that they
may gain control of the Baltimore Con-
vcntion, it is we'll that the more con-
servativo men should be on the alert
and prepared for any emergency. In
the hurly-burly of civil war, changes
tread upon each other in such rapid sue
ccssion that it is impossible to foretell
what a single month or day may bring
forth. This, however, is certain, that
the Government of the United States
can only be administered on a liberal
basis, and any attempt to carry out the
policy of the fanatical school Of politi-
Clans, OF which Greeley is tho high
priest, can only result in the dismem-
berment of the country, and the crea-
ton possibly of a score Of republics,
each warning for tho mastery. That
such is the end for which the "archi-
tects of ruin" are laboring, is clearly
evident, and hence it becomes the true
friends of the Union and constitution
al liberty to be prepared to checkmatc
them, and if needs be, crush them out
with the strong arm of power. For
twenty years, it is notorious that Gree
Icy and Garrison have been laboring for
the one single purpose Of dividing the
Union, and their movements of to-day
their opposition to Lincoln and Grant
afford the very best evidence that
this object has never been reliuquishcd.
At the breaking out of the rebellion, it
will be remembered that the Tribune
cc.-scllcd hat the South be permitted
to depart in peace, and even went so
far as to contend that secession was a
constitutional right. True to its in
s%tincts, the Tribune to-day is arrayed
against those who are laboring to re-
store the Union; and in making war
upon President Lincoln, evidently has
but purpose-that of rendering res
toration impossible. 1t is proper that
the true friends of the Union should
understand the issue that's being forced