Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-05-27

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because they w,sh to sscl,~h slavery. bot
en- account of the means they have endcav-
orcd To use tn effec, ,ha, abolition. II
brown we're living ! doubt whether he
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| nion. Most or many in the North do,
and open y curse the In On if the South
are TO rvturn and retain a single right
guaranteed To them by every tie which We
once revercd as sacred The South can
make no choice. 1t is either determination
or slavery for themselves (worse than
death) to draw from. know my choice.
| have also studied hard to discover
upon what grounds the light of State to
seccde has teen denied, which our very
name, United States, and the Declaration
Of independence, both provide for seces-
sion. But there is no time for words.
write inhaste.
know how foolish shall be deemed for
under taking such step as this, where, ON
one side, | have many friends and every
thing to make the happy, where my profess
sion alone has gained ire an income Of
more Man twenty thousand dollars year,
and where my great personal ambition in
my profession has such q grea: field for
labor.
On the other hand, the South have never
bestowed upon me one kind word place
now where have no friends, except be-
meath the sod; place where must either
become a private soldier or beggar.-
To give up all Of the former for the latter,
besides my mother and sister whom love
SO dearly (although they So widely differ
with mo in opinion) seems insane; but
God is my Judge. love justice more than
! do a country that dsowns it; more than
fame and wealth; more (heaven pardon
me, if wrongly more than happy home
have never been upon battlefield; but
oh my countrymen, could you all but see
the realty or effect of this horrid war, as
| have seen them Tin every State, save
Virginia,) | know you would think like
me, and wonld pray tho Almighty to cre-
ate in the Northern mind sense of right
and justice. (even should it possess no sea-
soning of mercy,) and that lle would dry
up this sea of blood between us, which is
daily growing wider. Alas! poor country,
is she to meet her threatened doom2 -Four
years aggs Aes|d have given thousand
knew herr powerful and unbrokcn. And
even now would hold my life as naught to
see her what she was. Oh! my friends,
il the fearful scenes Of the past four years
had never been enacted, or il what has
been had been but a frighlfal dream, from
which We could now awake, with what over
flowing hearts could we bless our God aud
pray for his continued favor! How ! have
loved the old flag can never now lie known.
A few years since and the entire world
could boast of none so pure and spotless.
But have of late been seeing aid hearing
of the bloody deeds Of which she has been
made the emblem, and would shudder to
think how changed she had grown. OH.
how have longed to see break from
the mist of blood and death that circles
round her folds, spelling her beauty and
furnishing her honor. But no, day by day
has she been dragged deeper and deeper
into cruelty and oppression, till now lin
my cyes) her once bright rcd stripes look
like bloody gasAes on the face Of heaven
| look upon my early admiration Of her
glories ns q dream. My.love las things
stand today 10 for the South alone. Nor
do deem It dishonor in attempting to
make for her prisoner Of this man, to
whom she owes 50 much Of misery. II
snccss. attend mo 60 pen"ilrss To her side.
They say she has found that "last ditch"
which the North have SO long derided and
been cndcAvoring to force her in. forgetting
they are our broshers, end that IL is impcli-
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