Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-12-14
A. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, DECEMBER IA, 1861.


The following eloqaeut and strong
lsaguaes - from a sddress Of Colonel
T. p. usaGhsr, of New Ycsk, 10 the
Irish Big1de. The Colooel y true
patriot, and q bright illustr.tiou Of the
only geauine Democracy in the present
crisis.
"Peace indeed! Peace, when the
forts, the sub-treasuriee, the custom
houses of the nation have been seized
and ransacked! Peace, when the
peaceful messengers Of commerce, dis
playing the Aag which no foreign pow
er ever yet insulted without an apology
being demanded and obtained have
been overruled at sea, been plundcred,
driven ashore, set on fire, and sunk !!
Peace, when the Indians, to whom this
nation has given the most dilligent pro-
lection, and for whose improvement
and welfare it has poured out rivers of
gold, have been subsidized by the
South, and the barbarities which called
forth, in thunders that still echo through
the Heavens, the depreciation of Lord
Chatham. by the favored copyists of
the turbulence of England are threat
cned to be revived and let loose upon
the defenders of the Union. Peace,
under such circumstances, such induce
ments, under such soothing influences
are ennobling guarantees! Where is
the marrowless saint, the silly-livered
knave, the peddler in diluted Scripture,
in compromising whiskey, in Georgia
lotteries, in Aldermanic jobs and all
the sweets and rottcnncss Of political
career which courts no danger, howev-
er honorable, but halts at no swindle,
however foul or stupendous it may be
where is the poor drivellcr, where
the pernicious rogue, who in such q
crisis as the present, will distract the
public car with his opportunities for
peace? Away with him to Hell-gate or
Jerico, if you find such a nuisance.
The government which would consent
to peace, with such load of dishonor
upon it's head and such a harvest Of
treacherics and insults to thresh out,
as the present Government at Wash.
ington has ha6 bequeathed to it from
the miserable dotage, if not the posi-
tive criminality, of it's predecessor
such government would, indeed de-
serve to perish.
But whence proceed these 'lamenta-
tions about the war, and these cries of
peace? They proceed, in the first
place, from Democratic conspiritors in
the North that arc in the secret and in-
sidious league with the manlier and
bravcr recusants of the South. You
all know precisely where I stand in the
political classifcations of the country.
I am a Jacksonian Democrat.
Next to George Washington, who
founded this Republic, stands Andrew
Jackson, who, in seditious outburst,
where the supremacy of the laws and
magistracy of the United States was
disputed, instead of vascillating and
shivering at the approach Of the storm,
as the ghastly old creature Jas. Buch-
AMMAN did-in full view of the palpita-
ting earth, boldly went in, faced the
mutineers in their nest and stronghold.
scattered them with his bony arm to
the winds, and high over the scene of
their discontinue and dispersion, flung
to tho kindred skies the STARS AND
STRIPES on new stream Of glory. IRE
mendons cheers.
A Jacksonian Democrat, therefore.
- I am. no one will charge me with
political envy or hostility when Isssert
that the Northera conspiratorsin in league
With the Southern repudiatoss Of the
National Government. are men Of the
Democratic party. But for these con-
spiratcvs, the Moth, IN this wsr. would
have long since been arompect and N
ovespowesing unit and IN he vindica-
ton of The redssal Nagistacy, pseee
On so,id terms might hare @iaksed It's
b,ess;nes with ths vsriea slosies ef the
Fall"
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