should receive party pap, ergo the party lines must be drawn, says the verdant bush; amen! says "our near neighbor," forward march! into the party lines shout the quintessence of democracy of Salem....
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"Hudson's Bay Company"
The Democratic Standard, Portland, September 27, 1854
Alonzo Leland, Editor
The Democratic Standard was first issued by Alonzo Leland in Portland on July 19, 1854. It was "used to express Leland's doubts as to the advisability of asking for statehood. His stand on this question was referred to by the Statesman as the 'Iscariotism of the Standard'." He was a graduate of Brown University. He later moved to Idaho and conducted newspapers at Lewiston.
In another column we publish intelligence, communicated to us by Mr. Gardiner, relative to the late Indian massacres near Fort Boise. The reader will not fail to observe that our informant states that several hundreds of Indians were gathered in the immediate vicinage of the fort; that some were in possession of considerable money, and engaged in disposing of a quantity of clothing, and that persons in charge of Fort Boise were selling to those Indians powder and ball. Fort Boise is the property of the Hudson Bay Company, and is in their possession and used as a trading post.
... The directors and servants of this huge foreign corporation existing on our soil by their traffic, are not merely in different to the fate awaiting the immigrants upon the plains, but they are countenancing, encouraging and aiding the Indians in the robbery and murder of Americans, and richly deserve to be dealt with as outlaws and murderers. Not only should all their business be interdicted, but their forts should be leveled and destroyed with fire, their trading posts rooted out, trunk and branches, and the whole tribe of its governors, factors, directors, managers, agents, traders, servants and slaves, hunted from the face of the country.
