Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-02-13

given up. Aney are pressed 10 make treas
ties with foreign powers by which those pow
ers should be required to give up slaves.
But from beginning to end no grievance was
alleged but what is connected with slavery.
1t slavery, slavery, slavery, from the begin
ming TO end.
And now Mr.. Golden expresses his opin-
ion of the cause, of the nature, and the in
evitable result of the war:
This is war to extend and perpetuate
human slavery. Prolonged applause. It
is war not to defend slavery as it was left
| by their successors-a thing to be restrained,
and to be apologizcd for. 1t is war to es.
tablish slave empire, where slavery shall be
made the corner stone of the social system,
where it shall be defended and justified on
scriptural and chronological grounds. Cheers.
l say God pardon the men who, in this year
of grace, 1858, should think that such a
project as that could be crowned with sue
cess. Cheers. Now you know why
| from the first have never believed it possible
that the South could succeed, and have not
founded that faith merely on moral instincts
which teach us to rcpudiate the very idea
that anything so internal should succeed.
No. 1t is because in Mis morid the rirtues
and Me. forces go together, and tile riees and
~eaknesses are insepara6le. Applausc.
could never succeed. [Applausc.] For how
is it? Here is a community with nearly half
of the population slaves, and they are at.
tempting to fight another community where
every workingman is a free man. 1t is as
though Yorkshire and Lancashire were to
enter into conflict, and it was understood
that in the case of one, all the laborcrs who
did the muscular work of the country in the
field, in the factory, on the roads, or in the
domestic cstablishments-all the bone and
muscle of the country should be eliminated
from the fighting population, and ready to
take advantage for themselves if an oppor-
tunity was offered them of running away
how could community so circumstanccd
fight against the ncighboring county where
every workingman was fighting for his coun.
try: How could the one have chance of
succeeding even if left to physical force,
without the moral considerations to which
l have referred? This is the condition in
which the two sections Of the United States
nre placed. In the one case you have honor
given to industry; labor is held to honor.
What do we hear: Have we not heard by
way Of reproach by some people who fam
cicd themselves in alliance with our aris!oc-
racy-somc of our writer's who wish to be
supposed, they are themselves of the aristo-
| cratic ordcr-as stigma against the North,
that their President was once q rail-splittcr?
Cheers. But why is that rail-splitter elc-
vatcd to be President Of the United States !:
Because labor is held to honor in the United
States. [Chcers. With such conAic,
going on, and with such a result as feel
no doubt will follows it fair to speak Of
such contest as that, and say that it is a
struggle for empire on one side, for indie
pendcnce on the other? sag At is an a.
,stocratic rebellion against a democratic gor-
ernment Applause. That is the title
wovld give it. In all history, when you have
had the aristocracy pitted against the people
in physical force and conflict, tie arisfocra-
cy has a|,cays gone dozen xnder tie heavy
6lors Of tie democracy. Hear, hear.
After showing that Europe is likely to
have business enough to attend to at home
and that the peace of Europe requires that
America should be strong, Mr.. Golden closed
his noble uttcrances upon the American top.
ic. With few of his sentences on that last
point We conclude our extracts from his clo-
quent address:
Why do some people wish the United
States should be cut in two? Thcy think it
desirable it should be weakened. Will that
view bear discussion for moment? hold
not. am of the opinion which our states
men were in the time of Canning, who
thought it desirable for Europe that America
should DO strong, because it would thereby
prevent European powers from interfering in
American affairs. That has been the case hith.
crto. That has prospered, and it hos never
come to interfere with European politics,
whilst it has kept European Governments
from interfering in other American States
which have been less prosperous or less or
derly than the United States. What has fol-
lowed Of this disruption: You have France
going into Mexico, and Spain into St. Do
mingo. There are horrors unutterable going
on in St. Domingo, because Spain has invad-
ed that country hear. hear, with view
to rcconquest. And the French Emperor
has embarked on a career in Mexico, which
will only characterize as the greatest mis-
take he ever made. Loud applause.
Those enterprises would never have been
undertaken if the United States had not
been in this difficulty, and it is the leost
crcditable part of these enterprises that they
have been undertaken because America was
weak.
- To the Dutch the ladies of all nations
are indebted for the invention Of the thimble.
The Dutch achieved this great invention
about the year 1890.
- Beef of the most inferior quality is