Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-05-15
Nomination of Marshall F. Moore.

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Washington Territory acted in accordance
with, if not upon, our advice, in unanl-
mously nominating Gen. Moore as their
candidate for Delegate to Congress. In
point of ability, personal integrity and
patriotic devotion. Gen. Moore has no SUI
pcrior among those in that Territory who
oppose his election. lie graduated at
Yale College, read law with Daniel $.
Dickinson. of New York. abandoned an
extensive and lucrative practice in Ohio
to volunteer in the army for the = defence
of the Union and to maintain the para
mount authority of the Constitution,
and achieved for himself honorable dis
tnction in the war. with the rank of Brig.
t;cm. and received wound from the effects
of which he has not yet recovered. In
commenting the military career of Gen.
:. Moore, we will not be guilty of the du-
plcty of pretending that'it had the ap-
proval of our judgement. AS sincerely
devoted to the maintenance Of the Union
and the paramount authority of the Con-
stitution AS any man who pledged his life
to that cause. we did not believe that the
party then in control Of the Government.
and having the direction Of tho war, had
the least desire or intention of prosecuting
the war, for the preservation OF the Union
under the Constitution. We could not
believe it possible that the leaders of the
ruling party-Sumncr. Wilson. Wade,
Chase, and their personal f"llowers--whosc
whole political career had been characterize
cd by malignant assaults upon the tonsti
tuition and the Union, had inStantancouSly
become the subjects of miraculous dis
pensation by which alone they could have
been converted into | l'nion mcn. We be-
licved then. as we now know, that every
man who volunteered in the Federal army
became an instrument in the hands of the
ruling party for the destruction of the
Union and the subvcrSion of our republic
can system of Government but We never
for moment questioned the patriotism of
the hundreds of thousands Of Democrats
who accepted the motto of Gen. Jackson,
The l'non---it must and shall be pre-
served" and freely pledged their lives
and all their material interests in defence
of that principlc nor have we ever ceased
to kccnly sympathizc with those victims
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relatives and friends of the thousands who
were betrayed to their death by the false
prcicnscS Of the ruling powers. All who
will now see that the war was the most
sturcndouS fraud ever pcrpctratcd by any
government upon contiding people. This
| fact however. does not dctract from the
patriotic motives of those who manifested
their sincerity by the devotion Of their
lives. and sacrificed their prospects of per-
sonal promotion by their fidelity to the
principles upon which the war was avow-
ely waycd. Gen. Moore is ono of these;
he volunteered in the army as Democrat,
by principle and by political association
welded to the Union and the Constitution.
and intent only ON their preservation and
he adhcrcs with unswcrving fidelity to the
same principles STILL rejecting the brilliant
bribcs Of wealth and position by which so
many Democratic officers have been Sc
duccd from their fidelity to the Constitu-
ton and Union for which they proicsscdly
fought
The contrast between the position and
services of Gen. Moore and the opposing
candidate, beautifully illustrates the con-
sstcncy of the Republican party. At the
very time Moore volunteered to fight for
the defence of the Union, under an Ad-
ministration opposed to him politically,
Garficldc was engaged in an active canvass
to secure nomination for Congress from
tho Democratic party. publicly avowing
his opposition to the Administration fail
ing i'll this, at the time when the officers
of the Government were engaged in en-
rolling those subject TO military duty with
a view to drafting, he fled to the British
dominion and remained out of the iuris-
diction of the United States until the
quota of soldiers demanded had been made
up by volunteers. Moore was four years
in active military service, during which he
was engaged in many battles and in some
of the most desperate conflicts of the war.
Garfcldc, during portion of that time,
was fugitive from the draft, and the
balance engaged in making speeches, first
for one party and then the other, and in
triguing with both for civil Office. The
Radical papers affect to regard the Dem
ocracy as inconsistent in nominating
Union General for Office. The Democracy
never had any disagreement with Gen.
Moore on principle. The Democratic
party was Union party before the war
and during the war, and since the close of
the war it has been the only Union party
in the country. SO long as Democratic
principles prevailed in the Government,
dissolution or war were not apprchended by
any. If any Democrat disagreed with
General Moore, it was merely disagree
mcnt as to the adaptation of measures to
an end which they desired in common all
such differences ceased with the causes
which gave them birth. But how will
Republicans reconcile their rejection Of
man who voluntarily fought for the Union,
for one who fed from the draft, their re-
cent professions of subordinating all other
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