Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-01-02
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matters, Tor whatever else don't concern it,
and scal for the Union cause, comes forward
to the support of Secretary Evans in his
raid against the Union organization. That
support, gf course. consists of false state.
ments and foul cpithets concerning DR.. Hen
ry and Senator Harding. The article Itself
is too contemplate to be noticed, but the cur
who wrote it deserves a passing kick, he
/ooks SO sncahiaS.
A rascal in principle always assumes and
acts just as Holbrook docs) upon the by
polhcsis that oher men are as degraded as
Himself. Bred in tho dirt, and the dirt bred
in him, he has no weapon of assault but
filth. Those whom he has betrayed he calls
trcachcrous those whom he is spending his
life lying about, he call Lars those whom he
dare not meet and look in the face, he calls
towards when at a very prudent distance.
If a. Holbrook has one rcdccming trait
about him, it is that he is so ashamed Of
what he is, he assumes to DO everything that
he is not. Immoral, vulgar and wicked in
his private habits and associations, he affects
religion in public; bcastly drunknrd and
sot, he lectures on temperance: trcachcr-
Gus dog in everything, he breaches consistcn-
cy in politics.
At the Presidential election, too addle-
Drained to discover which way the straws
were pointing, he sold himself to tho losing
party, and pretended to belong to the other;
and for the purpose of bctraying it at Bakers
election, he broke his faith, his word, and
every obligation that man could break. In
attempting to ruin the party with which he
acted and bctray his friends, he ruined his
own fortunes and betrayed himself Snubbcd
and disgraccd at Washington for his impu-
dent prctensc of patriotism and claims for
oficc-despscd at home for his shameless
toadyism to those who had turned their backs
upon him for his dirtness-with every door
to place and profit shut against him by the
party in power, it is not strange that his bad
heart should be filed with malicious hatred of
those to whom he has in vain attempted to
do so much injury. The buxzard scents the
carrion afar off, and SO if there is knave Or
traitor in the party from whose honors he
has been excluded, Holbrook is the first to
discover, and the rcadicst to bolster up and
sustain him, as far as that can be done by
blackguard abuse Of those whom he sup
poses to have either standing or influence
which it is very natural for such men to
dread with no monition save tho sense Of
shame and guilt in their own bosoms.
If there is any truth in the saying THAT
"men are known by the company they
keep" VIC fear that the Secretary's friends
and supporters here and in Portland, will
reflect no credit upon him at Washington.
Proves TOO MucM.-It appears from our
report of the proceedings in tho House upon
Mr.. Wards Union resolutions, that Mr.. Du-
gan stated in speaking against them that the
power of suspcnding the writ Of habcas corpus
was vested entirely in Congress, and that no
other branch had ever exercised it, except in
one instance, and then the person so exercis-
ing the authority was fined $1,000. The
case referred to is SO strong an authority
against Mr.. Dugan's view, that we must sup
pose his partial statement was made in ignor-
ancr Of history or that no assumed degree
Of ignorance in his auditory. The facts are,
that after the declaration of martial law, in
1914, Gen. Jackson arrested one Loualicr,
member Of the Louisiana Legislature, for cir
culating q report that peace had been estab-
lished. Upon application mndeto him, Judge
Hall issued writ Of habeas corpus. which
was disregnrdcd by General jackson, Two
days afterward official intelligence Of peace
was received, and Gen. Jackson was sum-
moned before Judge Hall and fined $1,000
for contemp. Of court. which he paid. Tn
opposers of the war of 1912, said the same
things, and used the same arguments in refer
ence tu the suspension of the writ Of Aa1eas
corpus by Gen. jackson that are now used
against Mr.. Lincoln for the same act. Nearly
thirty years afterwards, when party prejudiccs
in the matter had cooled down. and when
there could b. no motive in resurrecting de-
cision that had bsen so long acquiesced III.
other than as an act of justice establishing
true principle and wiping out dangerous
precedent. Democratic Congress fully sus-
tanned Gen. Jackson's course by refunding
the $1,000 which hc had Eeen fined. The
distinction between the two cases, if there is
any, is. that Old Hickory acted upon his own
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