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

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When you have proved to them that the Con
s,ituiion recognizes, and the laws of Congress
protect the institution, they will tell you
that the one is not worth the paper it is writ
ten on, and the others arc null and void be-
cause they arc wrong.
This one idea is the standard by which
they try all men and all things. Sentiments
that are reasonable in the mouths OF those
who will not believe that the abolition of sla-
very is the first and final object of tho war,
become hymns of loyalty and patriotism Oh
the lips of those who sacrifice on the altar OF
ultra abolitonism.
Mr.. Brown d,nounccs the STANDARD be-
cause it claims to support President Lincoln,
and yet atfirms th.t III, proclamation
docs not affect the status of slaves" AL
though we arc misqao,cd in The above sem
tcnct, it docs not begin to carry lis as far as
Wendell Phillips goes when he represents
that same proclamation as not being worth
the paper upon which it was written; and
yet Phillips is held up by Brown as such
determined friend of liberty as to be placed
above criticism. \ little further on it will be
seen that in his high Union pretensions and
low secession principles, Mr.. brown has for
gotten to remember that the doctrine Of
serving two masters to which he alludes so
pathc ically, might possibly be applied to
himself. even if he is an ultra Aboli;ionist.
lie not only refuses to see any object in
the prosecution of the war other than the
destruction of slavery, but he refers in terms
of undi-guiscd cxultaton to the fact that it
docs exist, when he says that /" the great
mission assigned to our nation has been tenn
porari'y thwa,tcd by African slavery, but the
rcactioniry wave now surgng over the land
will carry us onward to point far in ad-
vance of what could have been accomplished
in times Of peace" TO show that we do him
no injustice in the above, we add quota
ton from speech Which he delivered on the
last 18th of July. In that he says:
No grcater cdIomiiy c0n/d lure occurred
than the triumph of our arms at the outset.
In that event, the Union might have been
restored: but slavery, the cause of all our
troubles would have remained to annoy us.
Even now, onr people family appreciate the
disease preying upon our vitals. LET THE
STRIFE CONTINUE.
Such violent cries of war to the knife, ut
tered at such a remote distance from the
field of blood and carnage, do not sound
very unlike the ourlcsquc speeches of Arte-
mus Ward, who said that the war must be
continued that he would 60 any length to
carry it on; that he was willing to sacrifice
the property, and even the lives Of his best
friends for that purpose.
But to return to the letter. When he contin-
ucs .that all opposing obstaclcs will be borne
under and old conservative politicians buricdso
deep that history will write oblivion on their
tombstoncs,' his prophetic curse includes so
many thingshrl sacred and above price with us,
that we would scarcely believe, after his pro-
fessions of patriotism and devotion to the
Union, that he means what he says, did we
not have before us words written by himself,
which can leave no doubt but that the above
sentence includes in its terrible meaning the
Union itself if 1t should be found among the
opposing obstacles to that great mission OF
freedom to which he refers.
In communication to the STANDARD,
dated Jan. 9th. 1861, Mr.. Brown used the
following language:
"The present crisis should have been
reached in 1889, when South Carolina and
Georgia might have Withdrawn for a short
timc 1t should have been reached in 1920,
when results would not have been disastrous
as now. But better now than later, and if
it must come, let us meet it like men. If
slavery has become too strong for the Union,
and if freedom or the Union must fall. then
by all that is sacred, let the Union slide"
The communication Of which the the above
is part, was christened by Mr.. Brown
Consistency" This seems curious, to say
the least, if taken in connection with his pro-
fessed admiration of Mr.. Lincoln, who has
said among many other things to the same
effect: "My paramount object in this strug-
gle is to save the Union, and not to save or
destroy slavery;" but perhaps no more Gu
rious than that he should insist on claiming
the President as the "Princc of Abolition
lists" None but a +" fossilizcd politician" fast
ened like some "gnarled and unwcdgcable
oak" to the dcep-rootcd prejudiccs" Of
thirty years. could deliberately write and per-
sistently stick to such absurd contradictions.
We claim that the STANDARD is and has