Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-08

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choose Williams guessed the Douglas element
TO be the strongest in>she State. and chung to
lit, in expectancy election to the Senate. He
than Of course, eont9nded that the people of a
fsrlis5fy odght u ss)oy full sovereignty in all
tlsir dDmestic bverninentl equally with the
pdJpleqf Site. Hs eanvassed Oregon in
behalf df the Douglas ticket. 1t received I.
very small vote, but enough to defeat the
Breckenridge ticket and to cast the State for
Lincoln. Williams again tried to be elected
as Democrat--to the Senate The, Leglsla.
ture, by disgracefll barter, chose two Abo-
ltionists, and Williams quit the field Of politics
in disgust for about year.
But the crisis of 1S60-6l promised new and
startling political combinations and results.
In Oregon, early in 1862, q coalition was form
ed of the Douglas men and Abolitionists.
Williams at once leaped into that new ring,
and cracked his whip the loudest. He tried
to secure the nomination for Congress in the
Mulatto Convention of that year. but failed,
and suddenly became apathetic. That year
the death of Senator Baker caused vacancy
in the Senate Gov. Whitaker, Democrat,
had the appointment of the Senator. Will
liams protested his unalterable devotion to the
party, and besought the appointment He was
not appointed. He again openly took the field
against the Democracy, and again led the Abb
clifton canvass--that of 1864. There was a
Radical wing, headed by Pearne, Methodist
preacher, and Conservative wing, of which
Williams became the acknowledged head.
Pearne won the first victory, in securing a
State ticket to suit him, and Williams retired
for while discounted But Pearne's absence.
attending the Baltimore Radical National Con-
vention, gave Williams hope for another trial.
He eagerly seized it. At great mass meet
ing of the Radicals, in Salem, he declared that
Abraham Lincoln was the living flesh aud
blood of the Government; that he was the Cor
eminent, just the same as the Judges who sat
upon the Supreme Bench were the Supreme
Court" This bold utterance for Lincoln
though he had declared after Pearne had beat
him 10 the Convention, in March, that ABE
Lincoln was damned old fool and a traitor"
and his Conservative position as opposed to
Negro Suffrage, Negro Equality, and other ex-
treme measures which his chief opponent,
Pearne, advocated, caused his election to the
Senate, in September, 1864, by a Legislature
composed of Abolitionists and War Demo
Gratis. His record, since he has been in the
Senate, is known He has almost uniformly
acted and voted exactly opposite to the solemn
pledges he made at the time Of his election.
and by which pledges alone he succeeded in
the election. He has proven false to every
sentiment be ever uttered openly, while a can
didate, and has repudiated the previous politi-
cal record Of his life He has shainefully be-
lied every promise. and betrayed every trust
committed to him. He has never observed
faith or maintained bis integrity of character
in his political principles or conduct. and, we
may be very sure, he never will observe the
one or maintain the other. Whichever party
or faction elects him as its champion, may
very certainly count on having in him, on the
slightest offer of reward or expectation Of bet
ter pay from the opposing party or faction. its
most vehement, INSCRIPTIONS, utterly shame
less maligner and foe. He is born apostate,
cultivated demagogue. His face is of brass,
his tongue is double forked. But he is the
Statesman's favorite, and in making him so, it
reveals its own true character. sHt