Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-10-22

- efs =" ssoa mn pr~fzzr-s
to saees ihrm in deadly oss.sies slea s~srs-
s.ry TO rnainiaia the sutlO ny Of til G0v-rn-
rneut. al darger - resn0s-d TL~ eu.lv mia
~ they iEEief sf-oa the esga,Ey by thsir ties
-or.al.L- naaehina;is.us Is b. tn eneosrar--
rsess' they AFFORD III r~l<ls - ssraS-i~ %. n
ihs bOFe 1t recefv4n< substantial As1 froxa
thsir CoPPcshe.A ale. aal thas Iru.rsct
the uzr aid ala hznl.ras of n:llso-ss 20 the
naiiSa=l dsb; ~L5eh might b. sav.-d shs.s.ll
Thy e-zss their eii.,~i-i . 70 tie i.o, crsuseus
=Esd waite then influence ~i-h TIA; q tie Nd
ualui-trai.oa N The Pro>ser- inn Of thr ~zr TO
n SPEEDY ,,rrziaa;iua- IL uill b. euAed By a
Ie>;0I-tiou Of the [ nioa ~iihoui slavery. do
wha; ,hcv nav TO ps~v~H, II. bs-fOrc ;b- end
1t sEO;hsr year. The l Hioa nRsi and ~ill
b. preserved, -vea .LoHld it require eosl;ia.
uaro- oi he s2r aro;be tour Years.
Tie hncrrR has cone into the field too
VIC 20 l. ind IN the STATE, in their strug
gle 10 elec; McClellan and IS Ear as the [ n
ion cause in this Territory is conc.rned.
We anticipate from il sui stantial b.n.tii.
The promise made # an oprn aud fearless adj
vocney of Copperhead rrinciplrs--and which
the first issue is an earn,s, it will PERFORM
homes, men in sympathy with the Govern
ment. BESIDES, the presence Of all avowed
enemy in our midst, worthy of our steel, -"
will tend TO remove all private chickering's in
the Uuion ranks, and unite us in one solid
rhalanx against ..hc common enemy. This
once effected. the disgrace of being ,epres cnt-
ed by Copperhcad at Washington will be
wiped from our political escutchcon on the
frs, Monday Of june next, no matter who may
DC selected as the s.audard-bcarer of the Tn
ion party.
r1w A late number Of the Seattle Gazette
has an exccllcnt article entitled "Thc Elcva-
ton of Labor" We copy the following par
agraphs:
"Labor is in itself honorahl', and the only
men in the United States who have endcavor-
I'd systematically to degrade it, have been the
Shareholders; for their chattrls, bought and
sold in the market like swine, have not been
the less laborers. If the freemen of the
North raised wheat, so did tho the slaves of
the South, corn and rice if the whites cult
waited hemp and flax, so did the blacks, cot
ton. This very degradation OF labor was the
rock on which the South split, for it caused
the formation of an aristocracy more odious
than that of any European monarchy since 1t
existed in Republic, and lowered the poor,
who depended upon their labor for support, TO
a position not far above that OF the sl've.
Bear it in mind that in the South, the majority
of mechanics were blacks; negro carpenters
negro Lricklay, RS, negro blacksmiths, and ne
GRO coope,s. You could any day buy me.
chanic, and, "away down South in Dixie.
the white man has always toilcd alongside,
the negro. VIVA, has been the answer. time
and again, when the white man has asked an
Increase of wages: My dear sir. can't
afford it, well, but you must be aware l
am unable to support my family respectfully
on what receive at present. Il am sorry
for it, but can buy fair carpenter for one
thousand aud iirst-ratr one for twelve hum
, dr,d dollars it will be cheaper for me to do
so than to raise your wages. Such CONVERSE
ton. have taken place; but times have
changed, and the lordly taskmaster has wit
tinply committed political suicide; in grasp
ing ~, the shadow Of extended political pow
cr. he has los, that which he possrsstd. Inc
dcvilsh temple Of slavery. which the people
Of the North had no right TO destroy, aud
with which they did not wish to Interfere
where it cxised-for as n mass they claimed
no right to do so. and wcra only solici'ous to
prevent the extension of an admitted evil
hos been overthrown Ivy those VIII" wor'
Skinned i, it, and lie buried in the ruins.
{" How proph.tic were tho words of the old
hero of New Orleans, in relation t. the Multi
fcrs Of thu South. Therefore the Iariii was
only pret.xt. aud disunion aud Southern
Conitdercy the real object. The next pre-
text will b. the negro or slavery question.
rvA few weeks ago the Seattle Gazette
alluded to the remarkable fact that the brass
button gentry on Puget Sound seem to have
n partially for tho society Of Copperhe"ds
: and rice rersa. The Democrat, as in dut,
bound, .rf, mis- these officers, and claims thai
q. The most intelligent. hospitable aud agreea'
ii. company is fonnd among Democrats.
This sounds yer, much like Artemus Ward
bitter irony" for certain it is that no party
can claim more whiskey drinking. rum-suck
ing toJi,s than this same Democratic par
ty-and i, is universally so. This may prob
! ably account for the affinity between brass
and copper.
II The following card We take from thu
Seattle Ga-efte Of the lth inst: