Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-04-26
The Love Of Freedom.

~ connection With the accoun,. of The Uni
ycrs Il ra@crr,ss with which the happy and
cnnicutcd >la,rs" in !Lc vicinity q: rori Roy.
al clutch "a, tl.r ~ luJ,tuniiy 10 become free
read The lnl!ovi..g
nlg. ~. G,.or.. Tucker. ot Virginia, pro-
f.>.or Of llw in thc University of William and
Ms.y. ,:llishrl lritcr To- Il mr:,l''tr If ih"
Virginia I.--islaturc in 1901. In 'h,cou-sr oi
!: hr SAYS:
The love Of freedom. sir. il nm inhnr, sem
timen, AZ III, first Favorable, moment it
springs forth, and d,.ies all check. Wiener
oat he ivye of itccdom Hcp trW h0cc IN c"c-
yncgroadctided t;Tcad."
In debate in III, Ni;-inir Legislature, in
the Wn;,ro. ISL, Mr. NOR sid:
IL lay i; down Il, ii naN!:n hI' ~ H. diSpu-
ted thai our slaves are now. and ever will tr,
actuitcd hv Il desire tor liberty. 1Icy w,N
Mways he diyosed IN "raH Hcmsc'rcg of Il
.t,ro,aMc oppor'~"Hy tof asserting Mcr MT
ur0i rtghts. |, may SAFELY be- assumed that
wherever the slaves are rs numerous Is the
whites. it will require onr.halt If the effective
free of the whites to keep them quiet"
On the same occasions Mr.. McDowrl
(sincc Govrrnor.) of Virginia, said:
"Sr, You may place the slave wher" you
please, yon may oplr'ss him as yon please,
YOU may dry up to your uttCrnost the toun
iains OF his feeling and the springs of his
thought; but the idea that he was born free
will survive it all. 1t is allied TO his hope of
Immortality; it is the ethereal part part of his
nature, which oppression cannot reach"
In the same debate, Mr.. Preston said:
My old friend (Nlr. BrUce) has told us that
the Virginia slave was happy and contentrd.
Mr.. Speaker, that is impossible. Happiness
is incompatible with slavery. The love of
liberty is the ruling passion in man, and he
cannot be happy il deprived of it,
In the same debate, Mr. Ghoisoii, Of Virgin
in, said:
"1'hr love of freedom. and the prospect Of
obtaining it would iniamc their hearts and in
sprc revolution
Mccall, in his history of Georgia, alludins
to the slaves SAYS:
This class of people, who cnnno: he sup
posed TO bc contcntrd in slavery, would grasp
with avidiy at the most desperate attempts
HAT promised freedom"
The Rev. j. u. Paxton, Of Virginia, who
was reared in the midst of slavery, and had
himself bcrn STAKEHOLDER, published vol
unc Of Letters on Slavery, in which he thus
states the result of his observation:
"Thc slavcs-nan, woman and child--arc
longing for freedom
William r. Allen, son of Il Presbyterian
clergyman in Huntsville, Alabama, published
Il statement in 1899, in which he says:
at is slavery itself, and not the cr,,eltics
merely, that makes slavery unhappy. Even
those that are the most kindly treated are
generally far from happy. The slaves in my
fathers family are almost rs kindly treated
as slaves can be, but they pant for liberty"
~ The body of +. NJ. Alphin, who was
frozen last January while ON the way from
John Day to Des Chutes. was found on We'd
nesdny, April 2, by NJ. j. Alphin, about II
miles from the crossing of John DAY, aud
some "a miles from the Des Chutcs. The
body was wrapped up in soldiers coat, and
to all appearance he laiddown completely ex-
haustcd and in that condition sunk away.
Deceased leaves wife and two children.
From the condition of the remains, it was inn
possible to remove them. In the search for
the remains, Mr. Allphin WIS aided by John
Irwin. The search was unrcmttimg, and was
continued for tliry-six days.-Adr0catc.
y When the |. =. Senate removed from
their old to the new Chamber, several irloi;a-
ting speeches were made, among which one 10y
John G.. Brcckinridgc who said:
"ls there an American who regrets the
past Is there one who will ,lcrilr his coun-
iry's laws. pervcrt her Constitution. or alsem
ate hcr peopic II there is such man. iri
his memory dcsc,1d to posterity, M,ita ~ifA
hc sTcryu,iors ~ oH manIiwd.
This was before the rebellion. a,:d before
he became known a. Il traitor. nwittingiy
h. pronounced his own sentence in advance.
Ic. il b. executed Oh him aal Lis iry..:ory
forever.
llALcNoN p,YS.--ila,cyon days are oiiea
spoken Of, hu: what do they inc@n, and
whence the phrase! Ilalcyon Is ilr anrirnt
name was a na.nc given in antiquity 20 scscn
days before, and rs lnany after .hr wiGle.
solsticc bccauss. AT this season ihe llicyon.
iiiyiicd by The c.slmncss oi the weather. laid
it, er.s il nrsi> huili cl.,ss. by The blink of
the -; and he..ce the ll,rase hnl,.yca days.
is expressive of days Of peace anl Tranquil
iiy.
l.1' NJ Glatari has invented harness hat
t'.ii y" ues9cucN iI"in 'he h"isc bs Mcit.. pa
ling a rein. A brake at the same time stops
the carriage. This permits III, driver IL
case hi- horse becomes un,nanagcil,!e TO let
him go entirely free from the li'.r,css, and 10
iha, be- will no, injurc himself
~ We don't see how the rcbc.s are Ia
s-, even with US. unless thev hrsicn to carry
cut their plan of invading Cincinnati. Phi!s-
delpliia. and other Northern cities" We adj
wise JEFF Davis TO lose no tinic but TO invade