Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-23
MR.. KMBALL'S LECTURE.


heard the temperance address Of the Rev.
Mr.. kimba.l on last Sunday evening. fully
endorsed his views, especially the temper.
perance portion Of it, for who can portray
the evils of Observation-Disclosures which
no pen can describe, no pencil depict or no
tongue adequately tell? 1t comes upon the
fair face Of nature like a mldew, bighting
everything that is virtuous, amable aud
wise, and dcbasing our honor and nature
to depth Of dependency infinitely be-
meath those of the brute creation. Many
of the finest inteliects have been entirely
debased by this fell destroyer, and we
claim it to be the imperative duty of every
individual member Of society, to use his or
her best influence to reclaim the drunk.
ard and prevent so far as in their power
lies, the young and inexperienced from
falling into evil ways. Hence, we are in
full accord with the Rev. gentleman 10
his cudeavor to turn aside the waves of
iutemperance, warn the unwary and res
cue the rising generation from this degre-
dation worse than death. But while We
agree to all his propositions, on the main
issue, we decidedly and emphatically OBJ
ject to the side issues promulgated, for we
cannot conceive what Southern slave.hold.
ers had to d. with the subject of temper
ance, or blood.hounds aud dog tails which
We thing only existed in the gentleman s
vivid imagination). Now we are going to
make a statement which may startle the
gentleman and many Of those who so vo.
ciferously applauded him, when he spoke
SO feelipgly Of the "glorious martyr, old
John Brown" We charge that the gen.
tleman, who breaches the saving, chart.
table gospel Of Jesus Christ @ aud his an.
cestors, arc alone chargabie with and an
swerable for all the sins and iniquity fol.
lowing 10 the accursed institution of slav.
cry, for they stole them all from their ua-
tive Africa. They fitted out all the ships
with their capital. They manned them
with their sons. They maintained slave
corralls on the African rivers. They got
up local wars between rival chiefs, and
then bought their prisoners-a bottle
of New England rum being the price paid
for a likely, wel-formed negro, good
wench bringing little more, as her issue
would bring more tobacco from the " Vir.
ginia plantations" aud bring more money
to the Golfers Of the Puritanical fathers Of
New England Rhode Island refused to
adopt the Constitution of the United States
because it prohibited slave-trading, and to
satisfy her virtuous soul it was agreed to
allow them until the year 1905 to get their
shipping into another channel of trade.
In all the New England States VIC be-
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ton, but after the suspension of the trade
between the African coast and the planta.
tons of Virginia, they, these self consti-
tutcd dictators of morality and religion, dis
covered it to be sinful to hold human
being in bondage, and provided for the
emancipation Of their slaves but allowed
themselves sufficient time to sell large
number of them to the plantations Of Vir
giuia, and this is the manner in which
they rid themselves of the horrors of
slavery. They then sent out missionaries,
not to convert the holders from the
error of their ways, but to steal their
slaves as they had before stolen them from
Africa, and run many Of them off by, as
the system was then styled, the under
ground railroad. In sclf-defense the
men who had bought the stock In trade
were forced to enact laws furnishing these
meddlers with their affairs. We charge
this man and his ancestors with having in
augurated the Revolutionary war, and not
fighting i, out; and claim according to the
record that Washington did not gain vic.
tory until he crossed the Potomac river
into Virginia. Then, with the troops raised
in this much abused part of our country,
he conquered peace by the capture of
CORVALLIS at Yorktown.
We charge that this man and his ances.
tors during our second war with great Bri
tain opposed the war with all their power,
and placed "bl3e lights" on their rock
bound coast to warn the enemy's shipping
of the dangerous points, as very many of
these much abused Southern men had
strayed into that inhospitable cline to
defend the national honor. We claim
that.in our war with Mexico, that brought
as much honor aud more gold and terri,
tory than any other, was opposed by this
gentleman aud his people, by contributing
nothing to the resources Of the country
and hoping that they, the Mexicans, might
Welcome them with bloody hands to
hospitable graves" We charge that when
the war for the freedom of the slaves was
inaugurated these same fanatics seized
their swords, threw away the scabbard
anil imported hordes of Dutch and Irish
(their own phrase) to fill the ranks for
their quota, and the natives Of the soil
went in for the grab game of steal all you
can, silrer spoons not excepted. The re-
marks of the lecturer, who processes to
preach the gospel Of peace, has already
stirred up strife 10 our community, as it
has come to our knowledge that two gentle
men who had always been friends had a
quarrel, came to blows, and for want of a
pistol one failed to kill the other. Hard
feelings and hard words have alieuated aud
| will continue To ALLEVIATE peiphbors and