Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-08-22
A Terse Speech,

We learn that our friends in Vancouver
had very interesting time on Thanksgiving
Day. Mr.. Bagley delivered very spirited
and patriotic address on the day, and in the
evening the people assembled and listened
with great pleasure to short addresses from
several gentlemen, among whom were Messrs.
Olphant, Wyche, Avord, Fletcher, Holmes
and McGilvra. We have been furnished
report of portion of the speech of Judge
Oliphant on the occasion, which we publish
with great pleasure. We regret that our
friends did not give us synopsis of the re-
remarks of other gentlemen, for, judged Of
by those of Judge Oliphant, they would have
been read with great pleasure. Abiding to
President Lincoln, he said:
"The man that was beaten by the great
automaton chess player, on being jecred for
his defeat, exclaimed with great vehcmence,
.'There's a man there" When first met
Mr.. Lincoln, at Salem Illinois, in 1882, not
withstanding his apparent obscurity, and his
little dreaming of the Presidency, told
them " there was a man there" Following
him up to. and in the different positions
which he filled by the sufrages of his fellow
citizens, in the Legislature of the State, and
in Congress, l said I" there is man there"
In the debate with Mr.. Douglas, the great
est intellectual contest on record, felt there
was man there" Since he has reached
the eliminating point Of earthly honor. and
sitting in the Executive Char of the Nation,
surrounded by circumstances, trials, and diff
ficulties, unlike, and of far greater magnitude
than that of any other President, and resting
all the while under crushing weight of res
possibility, kno,o "thcre is a man there"
And in his future efforts to save this Union.
as long as he has power and life, the nation
will know and feel "that they have man
there" '.'''
Referring to the gloomy and Respondent
months Of last winter and spring, he said
"When the news of our disasters and re-
verses, were flashing fast and thick over the
electric wires; and when, after musing some
what despondingly, gave vent TO my feel
ings in the presence of a friend. was TT
minded by him that (" the tree of liberty new
or flourished without being moistened with
blood" The sentiment came upon me with
Oeclucu IOTCe. Anu HOW, WITHOUT kOIuS
further back, it was so in England in the
days of Hampden and Sidney. 1t was so
throughout the bright and gloomy periods of
the revolution of 1776. 1t was so in 1912,
and we have the stern and solemn fact that
it is so, in this terrible conflict. 1t seems
that it is not destined that this rebellion shall
be overcome "by the sling of smooth stones
from the brook" Looming up in all its huge
proportions, it became contest in which
Goliah contends against Goliah- -" Greek
meets Greek" The tree of liberty in this
instance has been, and is yet to be "moist-
ened with blood" If such are the orderings
that. by this means it is to survive and -four
ish, let our prayers, our hopes, our wishes,
go out with and cluster around its charging
and ascending branches, buoyed up with the
prospect that it shall yet become so ample,
that redeemed nations will reposc in its shad-
ow, and over it shall ever be heard the wild
scream of our eagle chanting the anthem of
its perpetuity."