Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-06-29
The Uniou.-Ths Whole Union.

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States, with more unanimity and earn
cstness than they ever exhibited before,
concur in opinion upon the following
propositions: -, .f ....., !.
I. They demand that treason and
rebellion shall be speedily crushed in
every State and Territory of the Re-
public. -.
II. They insist that the whole Un-
ion shall be preserved; that not q sim
gle stripe shall be erased, nor single
star polluted, on our National ensign;
and that the Federal Government shall
not be shorn ofany ofits ancient powers.
III. They require that all forts, ar-
senals, navy-yards, mints, and other
public property now held by the Gov
ernment in the Southern States, shall
be preserved at any cost; that all of
that description Of property, together
with all vessels, arms and munitions of
war, which have been stolen from the
United States, by the pirates below the
Potomac, shall, (unless absolutely des-
troyed), be re-taken at all hazards; and
that the freebooters who seized them,
shall, as soon as they are within our
power, be punished for their crimes.
w. They demand, that at the earli-
est practicable day, the Federal laws
shall be enforced in all the States, and
not merely the laws for the collection
of the revenue, but all laws. For ex-
ample, there are Federal laws concern
ing navigation, patents, pensions, copy
rights, public lands, postal service, and
cognate matters, in which the whole
American people have an interest. All
suits springing from these sour :cs must
be tried in Federal Courts sitting in
States where the controversies arise.
To determine these, as we'll as to en-
force the Federal penal code, which
embraces long catalogue OF offenses,
the Federal Courts must be restored
and maintained in all the "a States.
V. They look to see traitors within
our own jurisdiction speedily arrested,
and in due time tried, and, if found
guilty, punished. All who give "aid
and comfort" to the Confederate reb-
els, by furnishing them with ships, pro-
visions, weapons, powder, and informa-
ton i'm word, all who could, under
the Articles of War, be hung as spies
if found acting in our camp as they act
out of it, are guilty, and should at once
feel the rigor Of the law. Let them
beware. ft...,i..s,. ftl l.. .
vi. They intensely feel that any
thing short Of crushing out this rebel
lion from the Chesapeake to the Rio
Grande, and enforcing the authority of
the Federal Government over every
rood of Federal coil, will prevent a
general breaking up Of the Union that
# the States beyond the Potomac are
allowed to separate from the main body,
all those lying west Of tho Alleghanies
and north of the Ohio may copy their
example; and that if we can now look
with complacency upon one President
in Washington and another in Mont
gomery, tho time may be near at hand
when we shall witness the inauguration
of a third ut st. Louis, to be followed
by fourth at San Francisco, until the
united Republic of the West, once 60
great and powerful. becomes confused
mass of petty and feeble municipalities,
the prey of adventurers at home, and
the contempt of foreign States. L..
VII To secure these benefits and
these calamities, the people of the Free
North will send any number Of men to
the battlefield, aud give any amount
of money to the State and National
Treasures. They only ask that the
means they 30 lavishly bestow may be
wisely directed to legitimate ends.-
They demand that the Government ad-
NIT that the loyal States are at war
with rebels, and that the contest cannot
be waged merely on the defensive, but
must be msde aggrsesive. While.
therefore, they desiIe that the Capital
be adequately defended, they hope to
see armies Of sufficient magnitude and
powcr TO master the exigency, sent in
due season, into the rebellious States,
with directions to extend protection to
all LOYAL citizens, and TO subdue By
force Of arms IN Who resist the suthori.
ty of The Federal Government
VIII. Finally-knowing the des-
perate charactee of he men We are coa-
lending with, and that both parties
must stand the hazard Of the die, our
people warn the rulers against I'll half
way expedisnts, Ill atbsnpe 70 meet
the foe on some middle ground, bat
urge them to ponder tho apothegm Of
Edmund Burke. Az that great man
said, "In . conflict between nations.
that State which u resolved to hazard
it, existence rather than 70 abandon ~