Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-07-26

DR.. Brewuson argues that slavery has pro.
duced our present national crisis-that the
rebellion tsslf is only the armed phase of the
slavery qtsstion-and that unless this ques-
ton is disposed Of 60 that it can never come
up agaih.t oil the efforts Of our government
and people will be idle. and all our sacrifices
of men and money will be worse than lost.
In this view. the time has come when the
slave system and the free labor system can
not exist side by side. He says in his Our.
'erly R..s;e'e;
at is. we suppose, the object Of the Uni.
ted States in tho present civil war to break
up the Southern Confederacy, to put down
and utterly extinguish the present rebellion,
and, as far as human foresight and human
ability can go. to guard against any like rc.
bellion in future. The aim Of every nation
should be, first of all, self preservation, or the
maintenance Of its own existence and the in
tegrity of its territory. Our nation can do
this only by rendering universal therthe slave
system or tho free labor system, legalizing
slavery everywhere in the land, or permitting
it nowhere. Were we to beat, as we are
beating, the armies Of the Confederacy, and
crush its present military power we should
so long as slavery occupied its former posi-
tion, at best gain only truce for some few
years, no solid or durable peace. The EN-.
bers of the rebellion would still slumber. ready
to break out and burn afresh on the first op.
portunity. The slaveholding interest might
consent again to govern and use the Union
for its own ends, hut it would not be extin.
guished, and would break out in still more
formidable rebellion. and again convulse the
nation the moment that the interest Of free
labor should show itself able and determined
to assert its own rights and Legitimacy.
"The attempt to combine the two systems
has been tried under the most favorable cir
cu,nstanccs, but without success. The expe.
rience of the future, with the same object 10
view, would only b. refutation of the past.
"lt is useless to multiply words about it.
There can be no permanent union Of freedom
with slavery, no national unity and integrity
with slavery in on"-half of the STATES and
freedom in the other. We have tried the ex.
pertinent for the best part Of century, and
it has failed, utterly failed. Freedom has
made all conceivable sacrifices TO slavery.
Compromise after compromise has been con.
| srnted to. We have suppressed the utter
ancc Of our noblest convictions, done all that
WI could to stine the rrcpressible instincts Of
humanity, lest by some word or deed we
might endanger the safety Of the Union. aud
the result has been contempt on the part Of
the South for the Union-saving North and
the present rebellion. A new trial of the ex.
pertinent can succeed no better. for the peo.
pie of the loyal States. if they would retain
the slightest approach to selt.rcspect, cannot
possibly make greater concessions, or do more
than they have already done to render practi-
cal and permanent that union. Tho expert.
nent has failed. as fail it always will and al.
ways must 1t is not const itutional govern.
mrnt, it is not Rcpublicanism, as some Of our
European friends pretend, that has failed {;
but the attempted union Of freedom and sla-
very, Of two essentially hostile and mutually
repellant systems in the State"