, 1865-02-24
Thornton's Loyalty.


Oregon Legislature Under the specious
guise of loyalty, Thornton denounced the
passage of this law from the time it was in
troduced in the Legislature until its final
passage, and not satisfied with his efforts to
defeat the bill, after its passage, he issued
protest in the form of a printed circular and
sent copies to the different newspaper offices
in Oregon and Washington Territory with
the accompanying request to the editors that
they publish and lay the matter before the
public. Some of the conductors of newspa-
pers declined to do this and one editor i'm
portuned in this way suggested through the
columns of his paper that Thornton must be
crazy, for otherwise he would not have the
impudence to ask the publication of his
lengthy and excessively oyal address; but
the editor of the Washington Standard-the
special greenback organ of this Territory
thought he had found just the document he
had been looking for, and published the ad-
dress entire during the sitting of our Terri
torial Legislature, and eulogised it in glow
ing terms He saw in it the pure inspira-
ton of patriotic and devoted loyalty, a Jack
souian effort, directed against the deep and
damning sin of Notification. Some of our
Legislators caught up the inspiration and
Immediately set about studying the life and
public services of Andrew Jackson, hunt
ing up the old heros speeches against nulli
fcation and endeavoring to get them printed
for the use of members of the Assembly
The Lion of the Hermitage had enlarged his
fame and popularity by his bold and decided
stand against notification, and here was an
opportunity for some one to gain prominence
by taking a similar curse; but unfortunately
for our would be followers of the illustrious
Jackson, the public failed to see the merits
of the case or discover that the passing of a
specific contract law to compel persons to
pay their honest debts, was nullifcation.-
True, the Quinn Thornton amendment was
saddled on to the special contract bill in our
legislature, but the public have thus far
only ridiculed the transaction or stigmatized
it as mockery. None of our aspirants to
Office or fame are likely to receive any en-
comiums for endeavoring to follow in the
z footsteps of Jackson or for rehashing and
reiterating the supposed patriotic eloquence
of j. Quinn Thornton.
The sequel to this Thornton's loyalty and
devotion to country, and particularly his
repugnance to Specific Contract Laws, is ex-
planned by the following advertisement
which We copy from late number of the
Albany (O'gn.) Journal;
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC
We deem it our duty to make known the fol-
lowing facts, that the public may know the viii
laiuy of the hoary headed scoundrel who is the
subject of this notice.. QUINN THoRNTON.-
HI borrowed of us, separately, over two years
ago in gold coin, the following sums, to-wit
$435 90, and $500; for which we held his notes
He has now paid us in greenbachsf at par thus
defrauding us out of the interest and part of the
pIluNlpdA VI INC AuOuCy AOdHCu ulAA W u.s. " z
are also credibly Informed that he paid widow
woman S595 90 in greenbacks, at par, for gold
borrowed of her husband, now deceased; thus
robbing the dead and defraudng orphan chill
dren. To those who know j. Quinn Thornton
this notice will be of but little value, for his
general reputation is that of BASE, TREAcHER-
Gus VILLAIN, who has grown grizzly in acts of
dishonesty, but to those who are not acquainted
with the infamous scoundrel, it may be Il timely
warning. This wretch, who has been charged
with nearly all the crimes on the calendar from
marking his neighbor's cattle to the damnng
crime of receiving a bribe from a criminal who
he was paid to prosecute, is now applicant
for the Judgeship of Idaho. We again warn the
public to beware of this treacherous old scoun-
drel. THOMAS MONTEITH,
Feb 3, 65. MILTON HALE.
We are informed that the men whose
names are appended to the foregoing adver-
tisement are old-lino Republicans, and
therefore Thornton cannot avail himself of
the fashionable dodge of satisfying public
opinion and vindicating the purity of his
character, with the mere assertion that his
accusers are Copperheads. The facts set
forth must damn him in the minds of all
honorable men. The plea that he is Cup
holding the government currency" while
defrauding his creditors of their just dues,
can avail him nothing; there is no escape,
no loop hole through which he can crawl to
escape the just odium of his villanOus swim
ding. With professions of loyalty on his
lips, and reeking with fraud and crime he
had the unblushing hardihood to hold him
self up to the public gaze as the paragon of
perfection on questions of loyalty, and es-
sayed to be the leader of a faction that
proclaimed itself in advance of the party
that worships at the shrine of an imaginary
"Freedom." He had his followers, many
of whom, like himself, were totally devoid
of every principle of right and honesty, and
who, under the cloak Of loyalty, were con-
cocting schemes to Illustrate justice, to fill
their pockets with ill-gotten gains and to
defeat good and wholesome laws They, too,
will ultimately End their level in the same