Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-02-27

| Very likely and married his sister, aud lay
with her maid-servant, and then turned her
and h~ child out in the wilderness to starve
and circumcised himsef and boys but he ia
no example FOR me; II he IL for you, be consist.
ent and initiate tie whole pattern, beginning
with circumcision.
"Did not God say: Cursed be Ham; q
servant of servants shall he be, &c.'2
No; nothing Of tho sort. A driveling old
man got drunk, exposed himself. shamefuily,
az drunkards will, and ~hsM so6sf Went to
cursing bis boys for looking at him, aud in
his silly wrath included bis grandson.
But there is no intimation that God Ap-
proved Of it any more than he would IF che
rawlings of any other drunkard. And yet
these were Hams children, of which there il
no proof in the Bible or out of it; and be-
cause q drunken man cursed his son four
thousand years ago, they argue that we
white folks have right to enslave negroes
or black folks although, for aught we know,
we are ourselves the direct descendants Of
the aforesaid Ham.
These objections and questions are 80 silly
that would not repeat or notice them, had
not heard them repeated quite recently, by
men. too, whose judgment in most other
matters 10 entitled to respect. And gentle
man who was thought by An intelligent con-
gregation to be good enough Bible Chris
tian to b. made deacon Of, gravely told me
the negroes were defendants Of Cain, and
their color was the black mark set upon
Cain; but he did not tell me by what line of
80 Nc Ahnx. mad
Good, which drowned all the rest of Gains
posterity.
did not Washington, and the patriot fa-
thers Of the Revolution own slaves"
Yes. And OH! what . lesson to all, to
beware how they permit themselves to even
seem 10 give countenance to wrong doing.
Washington found himself the inheritor Of
slaves, many Of whom intcrmarried with the
slaves Of his wife which he did not own.
He did not emancipate them during his life,
lest family ties should be broken bit he did
not trust them to the chance of being held
the slaves for life of any Of his heirs. 1t is
not for me to say what his or our forefathers'
duties were. 1t is enough to know that
what they thought to be their duty, that they
did. If they did. or did not thiuk it to be
their duty to abolish slavery then, we kno'c
it to be ours to abolish it NOW. That is our
dnty now, and God help US to do our now, as
we'll as they did theirs then.
Let US review. We have found that
slavery is the GAUGE Of this war. We see
that it never had any right to exist. 1t is
plain that it, and it only. prevents the return
Of peace. That it il both our duty and inter-
est that il should be destroyed. One ques-
ton rcmaus to be answered: How shall
we do it:
The theory Of our government is that the
people arc the sorcyy;gns, the fountain of all
power in the State. To record the will of
the sovereign people, representatives are
elected who form legislative body. Persons
are also elected to execute the laws of the
xoceye;gn people, as declared by the peoples
servants, the Legislative body. Both the
Legislative body and the executive are the
peoples Scrcaats, not their rulers; and it is
oh abuse of language to call our public ser.
wants rulers. If it be, then, the will of our
sovereign people, that slavery. the cause Of
all our warning, and all our public woes and
private grief, should be destroyed, we must
appoint or elect mcu for our legislative and
executive servants. who will carry out our
desires. The period when we are called
upon to do this is at hand. It is soon to be
our privilege. and becomes our duty, to ex-
ercise the most important trust ever commit
ted to man; that Of pleeting men to shape
our laws, aud with them, under God, our fa-
ture destiny and according to the manner
in which We perform that duty, depend con-
sequences that shall be seen and felt long A.
ter the grass shall wave above Us. Solemnly
then, adjure you. my brethren and fellow
citizens, to perform this duty - men acting
for time and eternity. II you wish for libcr-
ty for yourselves, vote for those who would
give it to others. If you wish for peace and
prosperity for yourselves and your children.
let your vote tell against the destroyer Of
both-the detestable, internal crime of Sla-
very.
Your friend and fellow.citizen,
HERMoN L. ENMoNs, Sen.
BRISTOL, Kenosha county, Wis, October,
1868.
SHE WILL PAY.-England will pay costs.
and call it quits. If she be held responsible
for the depredations Of her pirate ship. the
Alabou.a land that she will b. 20 beld moth.
ing 10 more certain). she will haggls about the
prizes awhile. and finally pay the bill to the
uttermost farthing. Napoleon says that an
European Congress is tho only means Of pre-
venting continental war and our Govern
ment says, not by boasting. or in words. but
BY its acts, that the only mode BY which
England can keep peace with the United
Statcs, Is by paying the tuu cost Of the