Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-09-14

tees Of the Constitution. You are
bound to guarantee to rs republican
form of government, and we ask it %
Constitutional right. We do not ask
you to interfere US party, as your feel.
ings aud prcjudices may be Que way or
another in reference to the parties of
the country; but we ask you to inter-
fere as a Government according to the
Constitution. Of course we want your
sympathy, and your regard. and your
respect; but we ask your interference
on Constitutional grounds.
WHAT THE TENNESSEE UNIoNrsrs MEAN
TO DO.
We want the passes in our mountains
opened; we want deliverancc and pro-
lection for a down.trodden and op.
pressed people who are struggling for
their independence without arms. If
we had had ten thousand stand of arms
and ammunition when the contest
commenced we should have asked no
further assistance. We have not got
them. Weare rural people; we have
villages and small towns-no large cit
les. Our population is homogeneous,
industrious, frugal, brave, independent;
but harmless, and rode over by usurp-
ers. You may be too late in coming
to our relief; or you may not come at
all, though do not doubt that you
will come; they may trample us under
foot; they may convert our plains into
graves, aud the caves of our mountains
into sepulchrcs; but they will never
take us out Of this Union, or make US
land OF slaves-no, never. We intend
to stand as firm as adamant, and as un-
yielding as our own majestic mountains
that surround us. Yes, we will profit
by their example, resting immovably
upon their basis. We will stand as
long as we can; and flare we overpow-
cred, and liberty shall be driven from
the land, we intend before she departs
to take the flag ofour country, with a
stalwart arm, and q patriotic heart, and
an honest tread, and place it upon the
summit Of the lotticst and most majes-
tic mountain. We intend to plant it
there, and leave it to indicate to the in
quircr who may come in after times,
the spot where the Goddess of Liberty
fingered and wept for the last time, be-
fore she took her fight fr m peo-
pie once prosperous, free aud happy.
THE REBELLION CANNOT TRIUMPH.
My faith is strong, based on the eter-
nal principle of right, that thing so
monstrously y wrong as this rebellion is
cannot triumph. Can we submit to it
Can bleeding justice submit to it Is
the Senute,' are the America people
prepared to give up the graves of
Washington aud Jackson, to be encir-
clcd and governed and controlled by a
combination of traitors and rebels? /
say let the battle go ont is freedoms
cause-until the stars and stripes (God
bless them) shall be unfurled upon ev-
cry cross-road, and from every house.
top throughout the Confederacy, North
aud South. Let the Union be reinsta.
stated; let the Constitution be supreme.
II the Congress of the United States
were to give up tho tombs of Washing.
ton and Jackson, we should have rising
up in our midst another Peter the Her
nit, in much more righteous cause
for ours is. true, while his was delu.
sion-who would appeal to the Ameri.
can people and point to the tombs Of
Washington and jackson, in the pos
session 0f those who are worse thsm the
infidcl and the Turk who held the Holy
Sepulchre. Ibclieve the American peo-
pie would start Of their own accord,
when appealed to. to redeem the graves
Of Washington. Jackson aud Jederson,
and all the other patriots who are "
ing within the limits Of the Southern
Confedency. I do not helisve they
would stop the march until again the
Aas Of this Union would Be placed over
the eraves nf tlsoss distinguished men.
Do not tslk ahout Republieans do
not Talk about Ds0oessss nov; do not
talk about whiss or Amerioans now
talk about your country and the Coasti-
tuition and the Union. Save that; pre-
serve the integrity q the 6ovesnmsnt /:
and place il erect among the natious Of
the earth; and then If We want 70 d.
vide about questions that may ssise IN
our midst, v'e have . govssnmess so|
divide IN. IN e s
nor var AOATusf 0lAvuRY.
I know Il has besa I'D that ~ ob-
iect Of this war b to make var on
Southern iustitutioos. I hare beea in
ftvs States aod I eave beea ia e)ave
States and I thaale CD that - lhr -
I have been, thsss base epea enc osivee-
sal disclaimer II any speh pasposA Il
80 Z war upon no posnItar institution