The significance of this article is the Walla Walla Statesman's clear racial conviction, that blacks will not equal whites as fighters, just as they will not equal them in any other way.]]>
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At this time, Wells, Fargo and Co. was a West Coast institution. They offered banking and “express” (rapid delivery of gold and anything else of value).
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It may be that the Washington Standard meant to write "Victory" instead of "Victoria." Regardless, Editor Reed took advantage of the situation to criticize Gov. William H. Wallace, the Republican nominee for Delegate to Congress.]]>
"Stand by your candidate and the platform adopted by your Convention. The results are worth striving for; they are 'Union and Liberty. Wallace and Victoria'."

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The man referred to is likely Abraham Frankel, who came to Washington Territory from Macon, Georgia, and was a member of the Olympia Masonic Lodge. This reader could find no record of his political party affiliation. (Source: www.freemason-wa.org)]]>

On p. 1 is "Origin of the Horse Rake." Slaves are told to rake the hay in a field in the master's absence, but it is hot and they give it up. Later they get worried they don't have the time, so one of them rigs up a big rake that can be dragged behind a horse, and they get the work done. Thus the horse rake, "and the lazy negroes were the inventors."

Also on p. 1 is a story about a negro's meeting with a black bear, which he does not recognize, and talks to. The bear chases him up a tree and out on a limb. "The limb broke, and down came bear and nigger." The bear breaks his neck and the negro says, "Dere, you black devil, I tole you so; dis is all your fault."
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The significance of these articles is that the Puget Sound Herald, an independent newspaper that will be by no means pro-Confederate after secession, considers this racist humor of interest to its readers.]]>