Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-11-08
America before Europe.

No more eloquent defender Of Our national.
ity can be named, either at home or abroad.
than Count Agenor de- Gasparin, Of France.
philosopher and scholar OF deep research
aud high culture. While European writers
and orators are more or or less unfriendly to
our cause, showering invectives and sneers
upon us in our troubles. and making it more
difficult for us to overcome, d. Gasparin. with
words Of earnestness, and truth, denounces
the rebellion, deprecates intervention, and up.
holds our nationality. His entire sympathirs
nr. given to the United States, and with mn
impassioned fcrvor and depth of logic, which
could only come from warm heart and sound
mind, he proves conclusiv-ly the strength and
iustice Of our cause. The positions he u.s.
su,nes for US are i,npregnable, his arguments
unanswerable, and the whole work bears upon
it the seal Of truth. 1t deals'argely with facts.
and displays a. minute knowledge of almost
every event connected, either directly or 9th
wise, with the causes pertaining to the pres
cnt crisis in our affairs. Further, it discusses
the future, and with prophetic eye brholds,
through the mist and darkness Of the present
hour, tho reconstruction Of the Union, more
firmly established, OH the rock of the MS j..
tuition, aud bound together by closer ties of
unity and love than ever before.
In closing tho noble defence Of our country
ID. Gasparin utters these oracuar words:
"Tha chances Of success appear to be great
in tho United States but ask the reader to
do mo this justice, that have not waited to
sec them in order to believe in them. l b..
leved in them because believed in princi-
plcs. greeted from the first moment the up.
rising of great people. because saw from,
the first moment that this great people was
undertaking great thing-that it was fight
ing for justice and liberty. One always up
rises in this vocation.
"Othcrs, know, hav" propounded this
problem differently. VIII they succeed
Such has been. such is, such still will be,
doubtless. the principal question. ! am not
ignorant what the United States lack to be
approved and applauded. A good cause to
b. evidently in tho right against secessionists 7
No. They lack ./IN success. Lot them but
triumph over the South, and shall have no
anxiety about their renown on earth; there
will DO crowds Of people everywhere eager to
celebrate their virtues and greatness.
"Is this to say that it is waste of time ia
seek to establish unrccognixed truths-to dem
onstrato, for instance, that slavery is the trus
cause of the American conflict have bsen
80 far from thinking it that I have written
this larga volume. Another proof Of my
faith in principles,
"Th.y nv. in rsality. 60 powerful that We
gia to veil them. Tho worshippers Of sue
cess know this. for they pervert ideas in order
to succeed in corrupting actions. Every po.
Iitical error has commenced by moral error
If tho Southerners had not for q moment per-
susded Europe that slavery was not in ques-
',tion, they would never have sxtorted the title
of beIligsrsnt.
"W6at force there is in Justice! To ba
rich. to be powerful. to b. able, is to b. small
to be great is to bs the servant Of justics,
pies prevail as surely in social struggles
~ in the operations Of physics and chemistry.
It may take long. but It surely happens At the
end Of tho reckoning.
"What has elected Mr.. Uncolnl What
has created the patriotic impulse Of the North
What has weakened the South What hes
checked Europel What yesterday prevented
IN impious warl WHAT will. perhaps. to.
morrow constrain the South to procl i'm or
suffer abolitionl " hat has opposed an in
supperabls barrier to interests, intriguss and
malavolencel What has given to the Ian.
cashire operatives this resignation worthy Of
respect What has, in % short time,
caused 20 great progress in public opinion
What provides it with weapons in advance
against the possible return Of the policy Of in
terventiou What throws obstacles in the
way Of the dsaire INCREASINGLY sptinging up
on our side Of the Atlantic, to cut the United
States in twol WHAT Justice.
"A just cause has something 20 triumph.
ant in itself that men dare not attack it boldly
face to face. They turn round it, they AZ
firm that it is not itself for IL it werv, who
would dare sustain the shock
II speak, the reader viii comprehend, of