The argument is that Philips was a fanatic, who was the "boasting destroyer of the union," willing to sacrifice the United States to a single principle.]]>

A participant in the military occupation of the Shenandoah Valley reports burning all the barns, but not farmhouses, and not feeling bad because along the road you can "find your brother hanging to a tree with his ears, his nose and his lips cut off."

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Speaker of the House Henry Miles of Lewis County, is a "hard-shelled Democrat," is "intensely opposed to the nigger" and voted for the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 in Territorial Convention of 1863. (Claiming that the states can declare federal laws unconstitutional.)

Includes:
Mr. Henry of Thurston (a relation of the late Surveyor General, Dr. Henry)
Ruth and Longmyre of Thurston (Democrats)
Mr. McGilvra of King County, "Mac"
Mr. Clymer of King County
Mr. Eldridge of Whatcom, "an uncompromising Radical in politics."
Mr. Van Bokkellin of Stevens County
Fred A. Clark of Pierce County
Mr. Morgan of Jefferson
Mr. Ford of Chehalis
Mr. Simmons of Clickitat

Also mentions: Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Denny.]]>
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The "Wide Awakes" were a paramilitary organization of young men affiliated with the Republican party during the presidential election of 1860. Many would go on to serve in the Union Army. (Source: Greenspan, Jon: The Journal of American History)]]>

The Walla Walla Statesman editor, along with others, published the misstatement as fact, not knowing that the text had been tampered with. He is justifiably angry, and clearly accuses "loyal" editors and others of deliberately tampering with dispatches sent west. This is not the only instance of newspaper editors in the Pacific Northwest mistrusting the dispatches.]]>