Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-06-15
Our Country.

pleasure tnaC tnrOUSnOuC tue leuStA
and breadth of California, Oregon and
Washington Territory, true love of
country, an unconditional allegiance to
the Constitution, and an unwavering
support of our national Government,
is the prevailing and predominant feel
ing of a vast majority of our fellow-citi-
zens. It is true, that occasionally we
may find the leavcn of disappointment,
or the pride of self-opinion, gcrminat-
ing into incipient toryism; but the
great mass arc true and staunch to
their country; while those who are
continually carping at every measure
of the Administration, however wise
and conservative-who love, though
ignorantly, to pirate about States rights
and State sovcrcignty-who rejoice over
every sensation paragraph favorable to
the rebellious South, and who delight in
predicting disaster to the patriotic hosts
who have rushed to their country's res
cue, are few and far between, and may
hereafter serve to Point moral, or mar
the bright page of history. Twenty
millions of people, for all practical pur-
poses, may now DO considered unit in
their adherence and indignant reproba-
ton OF the attempts, on the part Of
pseudo confederacy, to destroy and an
initiate all the landmarks of our past
political and constitutional history, and
establish in their stead universal an
archy or military dcspotism, for to-
wards this Latter extreme does every
move and motion of Jefferson Davis
and his parasitic satellites most una
voidably and Enthusiastically tend. Such
utterly reckless, unholy conspiracies
never have, never can succeed; and
two hundred thousand men are now
in arms, to sustain the honor of their
country and the integrity Of their Gov
eminent, and to prove to the world
that true patriotism is not a mere by
word, but still fourishes and will for
ever flourish as the sacred birthright of
an American citizen. Virginia, Ken.
lucky and Missouri, the three great
States of the South, and those the most
deeply affected by the openly proclaim
ed, though supposititious causes of this
rebellion, are very 10th to give full
sanction to this reasonable Davis dy-
nasty; their people are alive to all the
blessings of our free Government, they
sec around them all the clements of
prosperity and peaceful happiness, and
they dare not consent, for the redress
of imaginary grievances, to fly to ills
they know not of; tens of thousands of
Unionists in those States, and in other
States, where cotton has been so vaunt-
ingly proclaimed as king, only require
efficient countcnance from the Govern
ment to assert their independence and
rejection of their present anarchical
rulers, and to prove their true feelings
as loyal, faithful adherents to their
country's standard. The protection of
this large Union element in the South
is of prime necessity to the Admins
tration, and must, to some extent, COM
plicate if not embarass the military OPP
crations Of Gen. Scott; his blows, when
they fall, must be heavy and crushing,
wiping out all vcstiges of treason, but
doing as little injury as possible to our
friends who have the misfortune to
live in the midst thereof. We are not
among those who appear to think this
rebellion, this foul blot on our country,
may be fully arrested without an actual
appeal to arms. Were we to judge from
our experience of the attempted rcvo-
luton in South Carolina, in 1928,
where the excitement and bravadoes.
were equally intense, though of smaller
proportions than the present, We might
come to different conclusion; but the
existing efforts at usurpation are more
systematic, more wide spread, ard have
enlisted the services of many misguid.
ed, gallant, though none the less dis
loyal men, whose heads have been in
toxicated with imaginations of plots
and reasonable practices. Such men
will probably fight to the bitter end, aud
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