Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-09-21

IN no hOt1ef cause than that in which
you are engaged. Remember, too. the
millions whose hearts are breaking un-
der the anguish Of this terrible crime,
and then strike boldly, strike in the
power Of truth and duty, strike with q
bound and shout, well assured that your
blows will fall upon ingrates, and trait
ors, and parricides, whose lust for pow
er would make this bright land one vast
Galgotha, rather than bc balked of their
guilty sins, and may the God of your
fathers give you the victory.
should have rejoiced to meet you
within the limits Of yonder proud com
monwealth, from whence you came,
and whose name you bear, but wise and
patriotic men, whose motives 1 respect
while dissent from their conclusions,
have willcd it should be otherwise.
Here, however, you are in the midst of
friends, and have, doubtless, received
brothers welcome, on the soil of State
which is not only loyal but proud of
her loyalty-a State which, by the
marching Of her volunteers, announces
every hour what u portion of her people
have recently proclaimed by formal res
olution, that "the suppression of this
revolution is worth more to the world
than all our lives and all our money"
and that she "cares nothing for life
or worldly goods, when they can only
be cnjoyed amid the ruins of our coun-
try" No Spartan hero under the
grandest inspirations of patriotism, ever
uttered nobler sentiments than these.
Indiana and Kentucky, it is true, are
separated by broad river, but in their
history it has proved but thread of
light and beauty, across which their
hands and their hearts have been
clasped in friendship and in faith.
In those stirring conflicts, for prin-
ciple which have arisen in the past, they
have stood together, and on more than
one bloody field, shoulder to shoulder,
they have borne onward through the
thickcst Of the fight that glorious BAN
ner, whose stars, trust, will never
grow dim; and now, your presence
to-day is a gladdening assurance that in
the momentOus contest on whose
threshold we stand, these States so long
allied will not be divided. For myself
I must be pardoned for saying that next
to our own beloved Kentucky, my
bosom most OverAows toward the noble
State under whose hospitable shelter
we have met to-day. 1t was my fortune
to pass my childhood and youth on my
fathers farm on the banks of yondcr
river, and in the light of the morning
and Of the evening sun my eyes rested
upon the free homes and forests of In
diana. I played upon her hills, and
tished in her streams, and mingled with
her people, when I was too young to
know--what trust I shall never be old
enough to learn-that this great coun-
try of ours has neither North or South
East or West, in the affections and faith
of true aud loyal citizens.
Soldiers, when Napoleon was about
to spur on his legions to combat on the
sands of an African desert, pointing
them to the Egyptian Pyramids that
loomed up against the far.of horizon,
he exclaimed, "From yonder Pyramids
twenty centuries behold your actions"
The thought was sublime and electric;
but you have even moro than this.
When you shall confront these lnfaria-
ted hosts, whose 5attle-cry is "Down
with the Government Of the United
Ss;.ates," let your answering shout be,
"Thc Government rs our fathers made
it ;" and when you strike, not only do
the good aud great Of the past look
down upon you from .heights infinitely
above those of Egyptian Pyramids, but
that uncounted generations yet to come
are looking up to you, and claiming at
your hands the unimp.ired transmits
sion to item Of that priceless heritage
which has been committed to our keep
ing. say its unimpaired transmission
jim all the amplitude Of its outlines,
in oil the symmetry Of its ma'chIess
proportions, In I'll the ralpitating fnll-
mess of it, blsssings-not . miserable
shrivelcd and shattered thing, charred
by the fire and torn By the tempests Of
revolution, and oil over polluted and
Scared BY the bloody poinards Of trai-
tOrx.
SOldiers, you have como up to your
present exalted positions over many OBJ
stacles. and through many chilling dis
enur,eemsata. You nov proclaim to
the world thst tie battles which ere
about to be fonght in defence Of our
common country, its institutions and
homes, arc your battles, and that yon
are determined 70 share with your iel-
low citisens of other States their dan-
Rers and their lsnrels; and sure am I
that this dissemination hss been in no