This Walla Walla Statesman editorial comments with sardonic amusement on the postwar role of blacks in the west. In San Francisco, black veterans marched in the parade - considered a failure by this newspaper - and awkwardly accepted the thanks and…
The Walla Walla Statesman editorializes with approval that U.S. Attorney General [James] Speed does not seem to favor any amendments to the Constitution of the United States, including the 14th and 15th, which would confer citizenship on and…
Democrats mistrusted a large standing military, as a possible tool of despotism. The editor of the Walla Walla Statesman quotes a speech of Andrew Johnson, from 1858, decrying the build-up of the U.S. Army. And, as postwar president, Johnson…
The staunchly Democratic editor of the Walla Walla Statesman takes the Marysville (CA) Appeal, a staunchly abolitionist and Republican newspaper, to task. In an alarming chain of logic, the Appeal's editor suggests that he hopes the assassination of…
This Walla Walla Statesman editorial examines the current "dull times" in the economy, and concludes that gold/silver vs. greenback paper money is not the issue. The greenbacks are unpopular because their value fluctuates whereas gold/silver coins…
The Walla Walla Statesman reprints news items indicating that former slaves expect to seize the property of their former owners and live in luxury and idleness. For territorial readers, this is one article in a steady diet of such articles, shaping…
The Editor of the Walla Walla Statesman points out with satisfaction that Republicans who are radically in favor of black social, economic and political equality are now acting in opposition to President Andrew Johnson's more moderate Unionist…
In the far west, the Alta California speculates on the difficulty of impaneling an impartial jury - as required by law - in the treason trial of Jefferson Davis, in the District of Columbia. The editorial suggestion is to isolate an obscure offense…
As resistance grows to the clearest postwar marker of new black equality - the extension of the franchise to black men - the editor of the Walla Walla Statesman and other Democrats see the opportunity for the party's rejuvenation as a national…
As postwar reconstruction is underway, the editor of the Walla Walla Statesman styles the "irrepressible conflict" of the war as continuing, and concerning the position of those he'd call Republican radicals. The New York correspondent of the San…