Walla Walla Statesman

NOT SUBJUGATED.—Hon. Jas. D. Fay, editor of the Oregon Reporter, in an article published in its issue of April 29th, is very severe upon the mob which recently made such havoc in the destruction of newspaper material in San Francisco. General McDowell, in the same article, is also severely censured for addressing the mob, in a speech made to them, as "his friends" and telling them that they had in mobbing the Presses "but anticipated him." The Reporter asks the question: "If the Democratic editors were guilty of treason, would not the loyal Grand Jury of San Francisco gladly indict them, the loyal courts try, the loyal juries convict, the loyal Judges sentence, and the loyal Sheriffs hang them? The Democratic presses are guilty of no crime, amenable to no criminal laws, subject to no punishment, and chargeable with no offense save the publication of views hostile to the party in power. The very head and front of their offending hath this extent: no more." The Reporter concludes by saying that the people of the Pacific coast are not a subjugated people; that even if they were, they should be spared the disgrace of having been conquered by a General more famous for the swiftness of his heel than the strength of his arm—more celebrated for the celerity of his retreats than the ardor of his advances.