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 28 W. C. WOODWARD trust is awakened. The Union party has been cheated by this kind of management and for that and other good reasons, sin- cere Union men will insist that there shall be frank and decided devotion to the cause of the country alone," This tacit appeal to "sincere Union men" was evidently efficacious as Mr. Pit- tock, publisher of the Oregonian, received the nomination the next month for state printer! There was this inevitable jealousy between the two parties making up the Union organization. There was also the factor of personal interest and ambition, always quick to make capital out of an appeal to patriotism. The Douglas County Union convention condemned the practice "prevalent in this state" of men who held offices, actively engaging in political meetings and influencing men by promise of patronage, as a practice cal- culated to corrupt conventions and legislatures. 2 ? Further- more, there was political jealousy between different sections of the state. Southern Oregon demanded political recognition. The Oregon Sentinel of Jacksonville asserted, March 12, 1863, that when the war broke out, "whisky-soaked, taunting treason was hopefully jubilant in Southern Oregon" and that loyal men felt that but little was wanting to create revolution and parti- san warfare in their midst. But the treasonable doctrines that had been taught us as the tenets of the Democratic party had been spurned and refuted, the wavering had been recalled to their allegiance, and now the southern part of the state asked in no uncertain tone for the nomination by the Union party of Orange Jacobs as Congressman, or of some southern man who would look out for the interests of his own district. 28 Subjects to which the Southern Oregonians demanded attention were their mining interests, the opening and protection of an emigrant road into their section and a proper disposal of the Indians which were on their borders. The Jackson county convention in its instructions for Jacobs, declared that the northern part of the state having had four representatives and five Senators in the past four years, the South should have the undisputed 27 Deady correspondence, March 23, to San Francisco Bulletin. 28 Oregon Sentinel, March 19, 1864.