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

honor, nor its courage, nor Its hopes,
nor its resolution IN conquer. One cf
those chances io which the E,rsunes Of
war are ever subject. and SkaiBst which
the most cOnsummate generalship can
not nj all times provide, has given .
momentary advantage to the forces Of
the rebellion. Grouchy did no; pursue
the column OF Bulow. aud thus Water
loo was won for Wellington at the very
moment that victory, with her laureled
wreath. seemed stosFlisx ever the head
of Napoleon. So Patterson did not
pursue johnson. and the overwhelming
concentration of rebel troops that in
consequence cnsued, was probably the
true cause why the army of the United
States was driven back, excellent as was
its discipline and sclfsacrificing as has
been its valor.
Panics, from slight and seemingly in
significant causes, have occurred in the
best drilled and bravest of armies, and
they prove neither the want Of disci-
pline nor of courage on the part of the
soldiers. This check has taught us in
valuable lessons which we could not
have learned from victory, while the
dauntlcss daring displayed by our vol
unteers is full of promise for the future.
Not to mention the intrepid bearing of
other regiments, who can doubt our
future when he recalls the brilliant
charges of the New York Sixty-Ninth,
and of the Minnesota First, and Of the
Fire Zouaves? Leonidas himself, while
surveying the Persian host that, like
troubled sea swept onward to the pass
where he stood, would have been proud
of the leadership of such men. We
shall rapidly recover from this dis
comfture, which after all, will serve
only to nerve to yet more extraordi-
nary cxcrtions the nineteen millions
of people who have sworn that this;
republic shall not perish; and per-
ish it will not-perish it cannot-while
this oath remains.
When we look away to that scene of
carnage, all strewn with the bodies Of
patriotic men, who courted death for
themselves that their country might
live, and then look upon the homes
which their fall has rendered desolate
forever, we realizc-what 1 think the
popular heart in its torbearance has
never completely comprehended-the
unspeakable and hellish atrocity of this
rebellion. 1t is perfect saturnalia Of
demoniac passion. From the reddened
waters of Bull Run, and from the CORY.
field of Manassas, there is now going
up an appeal to God, and to millions
Of cxasperated men, against those fiends
in human shape, who, drunken with
the orgies of an internal ambition, are
filling to it's brim the cup of a nations
sorrow. Woe, woe, l say, to these
traitors when this appeal shall be ans
swered.
/ must offer you my sincere congrat-
ulations on the leadership Of that true
patriot and soldier around whose stand
ard you have gathered. When others
hesitated, he was decided; when others
faltered, he was bold. The Govern
ment laid its hand on his loyal bosom,
and found it burning with the inextin-
guishable fires of patriotism at a time
when 80 many others, from the beat
motives in the world, were carefully
packing themselves to keep in the ices
of neutrality. honor him, Kentucky
will honor him, the nation will honor
him.
When you move, "a soon rs you may,
to the seat of war, Kentucky, despite
the whispered caution OF politicians.
will cheer yon on, aud will hang with,
prayerful solicitude over you, alike
upon your march, and amid tho heavy
currents of battle. Loyal men cvery3
where are exclaimiag, "God speed
vou," and s All hail to your coufl1n
and patriotism" Glory beckons yoa
onward and upward, and could the
illustrious dead hearin the graves where
they sleep, your every foot-fall ~ you
advaace to their country's battlc fields,
il would be music tO their ears.
l am grateful to you all. but especial-
" to our fair countrywOnlen, for this
distinguished reception. 1t can never
be forgotten that it was from Spartan
mother thnt came those words Of hero
ic patriotism which have never been
equaled by any that have fallen frouA
the lips Of man. For moro than twen-
ty centuries the deepening shadowe
have fallen upon the rivers aud the -.
upon the mountains and the platua %
the past, and yet, from the midst osall
this gloom these words still gseaA ont
upon ~ lin siiGhnning iron ss1mmere
cloud. For mNee than two, thpusand
years the earth hae been conSulsed and
shaken to it's moral fOu6dofiooa: M