Traitors in Our Midst

Title

Traitors in Our Midst

Subject

Newspapers, suppressed

Description

As editor of the Portland Advertiser, George L. Curry, a former governor of Oregon and a recent contender for the U.S. Senate, does "the bidding of a handful of traitors on this coast, headed in Oregon by such men as [John] Whiteaker and Jo Lane, the authors of a crafty scheme by which the Pacific States could be made the field of a bloody conflict, and still in the same breath, with the effrontery of Satan, shouting forth their insidious cry, 'Peace!' 'Peace!' 'Compromise!' 'Reconstruct the Union!' 'Let the South go, and guarantee her rights!' ... That sheet never attempts to tell you what grounds the rebels have to ask for a compromise..."

Also on pp. 2-3 is "Democracy, Secession and a Free Press," a letter from "Uncle Sam" denouncing the San Francisco Herald, the Oregon Herald, the Corvallis Union and "Joe Lane's hireling, the Portland Advertiser... It is true that Portland is not under martial law, but are Oregon secessionists any the less traitors? ... This country has had enough of them; they are as full of Virginia pride and South Carolina logic as a hog of fleas; they smell of Cotton Confederacies and negro monarchies..."

Abstract

Accuses George L. Curry, editor of Portland Advertiser, of being the apologist for traitors. The Washington Standard waged a vigorous campaign against the Advertiser, urging that the newspaper be suppressed as treasonous.

The title of this article is so significant - that there were traitors in the Pacific Northwest.

Creator

unknown, probably John M. Murphy, editor

Source

Washington Standard

Publisher

Olympia, WA: John M. Murphy

Date Issued

1861-08-24

References

Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

Medium

Microform

Type

article

Identifier

A234

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. 1, No. 41, p. 2, col. A

Temporal Coverage

1861

Provenance

University of Washington (Suzzallo)

Start Page

2

End Page

2