, 1864-04-29
THE WASHINGTON STATESMAN
FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 30, 1864

FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 90, 1864
THE NEws.-Unless the dispatches now
a-days make mention of bloody and hard
fought battles the "news" is given by the
reader to the anxious inquirer as "nothing"
But the indications now are that something
is to be done. BY the appointment of Grant
to the command ofthe armies, that full con-
fdence in the ability of the Union arms to
accomplish everything they undertake, and
which has never existed since the days Of
Mcclellan, seems again restored. With this
weeks dispatches comes report that Nc
Clellan is to be placed by Grant in his old
command, and as Mcclellan has always been
a favorite of Grants and regarded by him as
the abest General that has ever had COM
mand of that army, we incline to hope, at
least, that there may be some truth in the
report Gen Grant has no ambition to
crafty save the insurance of the success of
the Union arms, and we may hope that un-
der his reign there will be no interference
with the plans of under-generals. through
the fear that they may eclipse him in honors,
as has too clearly been the case with both
Stanton and Halleck A rumor, which
would some time ago have been equally graft
flying to some, comes that Halleck is about
to resign and retire from the army. Like
his predecessor, Stanton, Halleck forfeited
his right to the sobriquet of cold Brains
by his overweening ambition and desire that
the people should learn to look upon him as
the great 81 am" of the hour-believe that
all the wisdom of the Government and the
army was concentrated in him, and hail him
as their only choice for the next Presidency.
The indications seem that the rebels con-
template raids into Pennsylvania and Ohio,
as device to divide Grants army. They
are evidently preparing for fercer contest
than has yet been waged; but they will find
foemen worthy of their steel, and though
the struggle may be terrible we trust it will
be brief and final. The people of the north
fele that they have still Union to save, and
so long as that is the cause for which they
fight, their war spirit will not die until the
last vestige of the rebellion is crushed
THE two political parties in Oregon are
laboring with great zeal, each to show that
its opponent is rank, traitorous, disunion
party. The evidence brought forward in
the respective party organs is alarmingly
conclusive that both organizations are trai-
torous to the core-absolutely reeking with
treason. Looking at Oregon politics from this
"elevated standpoint" it can't make any
difference which party triumphs, it's dis
union any way. We might have some char
ity for both parties and allow that neither
is so wicked as they make out, but we are
bound to believe what we see in the papers
to be unadulterated truth, and therefore it S
as "clear as mud" as ''plain as the nose on
mans face" that there is not a solitary
loyal Union man in the whole Webfoot ma
tion. What blasted set of hypocritcal
political traitors those Webfoet people are,
and what shameful pity it is that they
can't make each other "see it" Just think
Of it, the Republicans down there claim to
be loyal to the Government, and the Demo
erats, ditto ! They make loud professions Of
unconditional, devoted, undying, never
yel1ing loyalty to the Government, yet we
find by referring to unimpeachable authority
that these loud -mouthed protestations are
all hypocritical eant-a garb of loyalty worn
to cover up "damn'd treason " A people
clothed with so much deceit are most beau
tifully fitted for ''treason, stratagem and
spoils" especially the spoils. 1t is sad to
think that in these times of national disas-
ter, and when hundreds of thousands of pa
triotic men have given up their lives in de-
fense Of republican government, there are
men in every nook and corner of the coun-
try intent upon nothing more than raven
Gus pursuit of the dirty spoils of Office and
fat contracts. Oregon is 10 worse in this
respect than other portions of the country,
but it must be apparent to all that the Office
seekers who will be likely to disburse the
largest amount of spoils, are the ones who
command the largest number of votes eec-
ton times. Once in. a while patriot gets
into Office, but he is the last man to squan-
der the peoples money unnecessarily, and
hence will always be unpopular with the
shoddyites and spOils eormorants. At time
when there should be the strictest economy
in all departments of the Government and
the purest patriots in Office, there seems to
be woeful lack Of economy almost every
where, and a superabundance of demagogues
filing the Offices of the country. In Ore
gon, as elsewhere, we hope that only the
ablest and purest will receive the support of
the people for official positions. However,