Walla Walla Statesman

Loyal Publication Society.

The "New England Loyal Publication Society," which has its headquarters at Boston, Massachusetts, has for the past year or two been sending us by mail a mass of radical literature—anti-slavery speeches, pamphlets and documents of various kinds, but all thoroughly imbued with "John Brownism." These documents the Society is pleased to term "Broadsides."

A few days ago we received the following printed letter from the Society, making inquiries as to what disposition we had made of its "Broadsides," and also asking for information upon a subject intimately connected with its extremely loyal mission:

Office of the New England Loyal Publication Society, No. 8 Studio Building, Boston, Jan. 23d, 1865.

Eds. Statesman, Walla Walla, W. T.:—The Directors of the New England Loyal Publication Society request you to favor them with a reply to the following questions.

1. Have you made use of the broadsides which the Society has heretofore sent you in the making up of your paper; and if so, have you made use of them frequently or seldom?

2. Are the opinions which the Society has maintained in its publications generally acceptable in your region?

3. What is the feeling in your neighborhood in regard to the admission of the freed blacks to the rights of citizenship?

Per order,

J. B. THAYER, SECRETARY.

As the foregoing letter came to us in printed form, we suppose there is no impropriety in our re-printing it, and giving it a conspicuous place in our columns; and besides, this loyal matter ought to have a wide circulation and be made known to the public in general. Therefore we take this newspaporial method of answering the questions.

To the first interrogatory, then, we have to say that we have made no use whatever of the Society's "broadsides" in the making up of our paper, for the reason that we considered them unfit for the columns of any respectable paper.

To the second question, we answer that the opinions maintained by the Society in their publications are not generally acceptable in this region, though a small minority endorse them.

To the third, we reply that the feeling in this neighborhood in regard to the admission of the freed blacks to the rights of citizenship, is decidedly hostile thereto. The people of this section have not yet attained that "high moral culture" which predominates to such an enlarged extent in most loyal Massachusetts, and which exults in the belief that the African is the equal, if not the superior, of the white American citizen. Our people reject the idea accepted by the people of Massachusetts, that "all men are equal." They cling to the prejudice, if it is a prejudice, that the white is the superior race—that nature endowed the white race from the beginning with superior mental powers; and that no amount of legislation or education can alter this condition of things. In brief, our people, at least a large majority of them, are unalterably opposed to negro equality and their admission to the rights of citizenship. If Massachusetts thinks it is a good thing, we have no objections; but let her "ply her vocation" in her own dominions, for we of this latitude can't perceive the beauties to result from a miscegenation policy.