Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-10-19

3oaesl Hoaool HoaooI
Whist IN agn~y for psacs has latsly
seized sl! the advocates far Secession
War isvesy horrible. Let's have resce
BY all means let's tsve peace. How
sealous new converss becunse! They
outstrip old professor. When one
looIS over their past record, how
changed and indeed, how inconsistent
with present practice.
Peace, indeed! The whole country
except themselves, wAs ut peace.
When they were arming, drilling, seis-
ing forts, arrns. aud mo'ey from the
Federal Government, II forbore. They
deliberately chose to take the road to
war, and found hard work to provoke
it. Itseemed us # their chances for war
would be removed, greatly I" their dis
appointment and disgust. Rather than
tail they gathered seven or eight tl'"us.
and men, aud erected batteries to at
tack al unresisting foe IF only sixty or
seventy. They couldn't even wait {"
day or two, to starve out gallant COM
mamdcr and but handful Of men.
They poured upon him delugc of fire;
80 eager were they for war. Then u
high official boasted and threatened that
the Confederate flag should wave over
the Capitol of the United States, that
then stood undefended. If these Con-
federates wanted peace, they had it; ; may,
it cost them great labor and skill to
break the peace. Indeed, peace would
have been the death Of all their cher
ished purposes .t
Their very vitality required that
blood should be shed, and they had
hard work to shed blood. Their allies
here, who are now frantic for peace,
and almost ready to faint over the ca
lamities OF war, did all their skill and
industry could do TO plunge Kentucky
into the war. Had their counsels been
followed, every one sees that Kentucky
sol! would now be covered with hostile
armies. But now they are for peace,
peace! Have they got converted! !
We should he rejoiced to think they
had: but they are too willing. The
Scripture must be fulfilled; "He that
taketh the sword, shall perish by the
sword" They have taken the sword
and must take the consequences. They
can't blame us. We warned them
early and late. They have raised IL
storm they cannot allay. We would
command the peace if we could; hut
we should not bc needed now. War
like an epidemic, will run, its course.
Let those who provoked It, who Ell.
gagged in what they and all the world
/ knew would produce it, not set them
selves ur now to cry S:r peace
When men prepare means ii: rlung-
ing into war, with full understanding
of the result, let them not try to shock
other people with c:,lamities Of war.
They needn't assume that they only
have right to fight, kill, and rob ;
but think it is awfulIy criminal ii, others
/ to do 80. ,',FT A'f
If these irrepressibles want to get
any credit for sincerity, let them keep
quiet about peace. The inconsistency
is too glaring, and the zeal too new
born; it is too fresh and refreshing.
Let them lay down their arms, go home.
and live US their fathers, and they will
have peace. Nothing is easier; and it
they can't do that fur peace, let them
not say they want peace when they re.
fuse it on such easy terms. They want
peace, however, and the fat Offices they
have provided for themselves The
visions Of lofty honor they have inveEt-
ed, they fear i likely to c',st to much,
and wi,af 10 wurse, to Gall together.
They begin tn fear that perhaps they
can't fight enough to succeed-that the
other side n,sy tight t~' much and too
louy.-Loxissilxe DemoeraL