Washington Statesman

The editor of the Oregonian, not content with having his person covered all over with brass buttons, arrogates the right to question the right of one of our correspondents to speak of the Rev. Mr. Pearne's address on the occasion of Col. Baker's death, and takes us to task in extremely dictatorial terms, for admitting the matter in question into our columns. Now, we hold that Mr. Pearne's attempts as an orator are public property, and as such our correspondent or anybody else has the right to speak of them as they see fit, in decent language; nor are we aware of any rule or sense of propriety, that would exclude all notice of preachers except to puff them. The allusion of the brass-buttoned gentleman to "former relations," is probably intended to leave the inference that we are under obligations to the reverend subject of the criticism, and for this reason should be silent touching his acts in the future. If this is the meaning intended, either by "heads together," or by the editor alone. we are compelled to inform him that no such relations exist between the parties.