Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-08-05
SAT- RpiY MORNING. AUG. ). l-s5.
Our Position.

Thor arc a few individuals who arPelr
10 have an iniens- desire 10 assaIl and mis-
yeprc-en, thu position taken by Us upon
all questions of public policy. The views
held by US regarding negro suffrage. though
they meet with the approval of the great
mass Of the Union party. find no favor
with those who hav. labored for the past
thirty wears to bring about contest IN
(which either slavery or the Union should
po TO the wall-the latter alternative being
with them infinitely preferable to long
er covenant with hell, as they expressed
it. We have never expected nor tried to
please this class Of people. We have no
sympathy with their visionary schemes
and have not learned to pander to their
ego,ism. We intend to be, as nearly as
lies within our power, the faithful exponent
of the principles of the party We represent
the party Of the Union, founded and
built up by Mr.. Lincoln, and of which An
drew johnson is now tho leader-and not
yield jot to the unwise schemes which
demagogaes wish to incorporate within its
creed. 1t is true we have been stigma
tizcl as Copperhead for daring to assert
that the Union party does not favor the
ind;scriminate grant of the elective fran
-chise to the negro race, ignorant and uned'
ucated as they now are, but we can afford
to smile at such impotent shafts, winged
as they are by hatred and pointed alone by
falschood and deceit. Such epithets have
no terrors for us. We have been too long
faithful to our duty, to be read out by a
faction whose record is as checkcred as
the varying fortunes Of jeff, and whose
claims upon the Administration rs well
founded as the arch-traitors' claims upon
Mercy. And still they presume to estab-
lish the test of political fealty Are the
men who only endorsed Mr.. Lincoln's
course when the exigencies Of war made it
advance also their peculiar views; who en-
barrassed his Administration by arrogant
demands, and threats if he failed to obey
who exposed the aggregate amount of
brains of their faction in nominating FIRE.
mont to defeat such man as ABRAHAM
LINCOLN; who heaped abuse upon the
Administration and its defenders without
stint-are they, we ask, the men to pre-
scribe the standard Of loyalty for those who
have stood by the cause Of the country
through ill as we'll as good report, and
never swcrved in their endorsement Of all
measures for the suppression Of rebellion?
Are we now to b. bound hand and foot,
and delivered over to the men we fought at
Cleveland:
The principles Of the Union party as
enunciated at Baltimore, and practically
carried into effect by the subsequent &C.
ton of the Convention. are good enough
for US. We see no plank in it favoring
universal suffrage. Neither did Mr.. LIN
coin when he submitted his plan for r-con-
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