Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-06-22

and amazing that the people of the
Southern States-perhaps it were bet
ter to say their leaders or any number
of men great enough to control any
one of them-should dare to make ac-
tual war on the civilization of the
North. This is what they have done,
at last. Not content with following
different policy for them selves, and con-
tending for the ascendency Of that poll
cy in the general councils by legal and
tolerablc means, they have undertaken
to drive us into its adoption by open
warfare. The whole country must yield
to South Carolina and Mississippi, or
take up arms in its defense. There is
no neutrality permitted. The general
government must be theirs or it must
be destroyed. 1t must be modelled af-
ter the South Carolina pattern, or cease
to exist. They do not propose to stop
at half measures even, but will march
on Washington the moment that such
raid promises to be successful. They
are as restless and aggressive as Mo-
hammedan propogandists, and all who
do not accept slavery as the corner
stone of social and political institutions,
must be put to the sword if they bear
rule.
The world will see with amazement
this assault of half barbaric policy
on the strongest, the most free and
prosperous people of the age. 1t dit
fcrs but in degree from the thousand
precedents of aggression by reckless,
desperate and really weak bands upon
the higher and stronger States near
them. They assail US because our cities
are populous, our agricultural districts
crowded and rich. Our States are, tax
ing equal areas, ten times as strong
and rich as theirs, and because of this
peaceful and superior development they
are mad with rage. We must yield
our industry, destroy our manufactures,
degrade our labor, and become such as
they are, or be assailcd. They demand
the control Of our affairs as the sole
condition of peace. They must have
all the benefits of the national Organi-
zation, yet they will bear none Of its
burdens. If the public debt accumu-
lates they seccde long enough to avoid
payment. They are for law when 9TH
crs are to be coerccd to their views,
but against law the moment it affects
themselves.
TO prevent us from making any fur
ther resistance to their will, they have
at last opened actual war, war which
they will prosecute vigorously, TOO, if
we give them reason to believe that we
are not strong enough and decisive
enough to put their violence down at
once. AS if to tempt them 10 the ldst
degree of boldncss in all this, they have
had extraordinary good fortune in
possessing themselves Of the arms
and property of the general govern
ment. Traitors in the Cabinet aided
them as treason was never aided before.
Arms and war material were thrown
into their hands without limit, and they
were tempted to seize everything on
their own territory because facilities to
perpetuate such outrages were deliber-
ately placed in their hands, and because
of the protracted incredulity of the
body of peace.loving citizens as to
their real intentions.
But having got all this, and having
begun the war in contest where q
hundred were opposed to one, and
where, therefore, they gained what they
called victory. what are they to gain
in the end? Where can they meet the
force now reused to sustain the gov
ernment? They have no feet. They
cannot keep single port open to COM
merce. They cannot control water
area large enough to build ship in.
With an exposed coast line of thou
sands of miles, and an inland frontier
equally extended, their power exists
everywhere by the forbearance of our
power. We have no wish to assail
them when they cease to be rebels; but
one movement of theirs across the from
tier, or in the attitude of aggression on
any non-secedcd State, will bring as the
immediate recoil the possession of half
their territory by our forces. An at
tempt at what they have so long threat
ened, which their buccaneering Presi-
dent now invites in the way Of priva-
teering, will bring signal vengeance on
the port from which the privateer shall
come. IF Mobile engages in the out
rage, we will destroy the city, if that be
necessary to stop It. Not one Of the
ports of the Gulf or Atlantic coast
within the seeded States will be per-
mitted to become nest Of pirates on
our commerce, and an effort by JEFF.
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