Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
" The Gospel of Hate"

The Seattle Dispatch administers a
merited rebuke to Rev. j. F. Ellis,
for some very uncharitable senti-
ments enunciated in his Grafton on
Decoration Day. The language used
by this professed teacher of morality,
to which exception is taken, is as
follows:
F." But wherefore decorate the graves of
the Gray? What alchemy has time to neu.
tralize the poison OF treason? Treason
fifteen years ago is treason now, and trea-
son century from now and forever !!
day drops flowers on disloyal graves !!
Turn livfd with leprosy the hand that dec
crates the graves Of the Gray!
We have but space to copy por-
ton of the Dispotch's article, which
so thoroughly exposes the bigotry of
the reverend gentleman. 1t says:
Ignorance, the inseperable COM
panion of bigotry and intolerance,
is as grossly displayed in these
terms of invective as in the dialect
of the Billlngssate fish-mongers.
To designates any portion of Gods
earth, the common resting place of
the evil and the good, by such terms
as loyal" or disloyal," is a figure
of speech without sense or meaning
but to serve tho purpose of malig-
nant vituperation; and to "turn
lirid with leprosy" is as stupid per-
vision of language as the notable
phrase: Mountains covered with
re,tlure of perpetual snow" But
these expressions only show the
small calibre and narrow prejudices
of the man. The more serious part
of the matter is, that be is a repre-
sentative of class who falsify his
tory, pervert facts and ignore the
Divine teachings and political truths
which form basis of popular gov
eminent, to justify themselves in in
culcating and practising the Gospel
of hate, which follows its objects be-
yond the grave and consigns them to
everlasting perdition, exclaiming
with the pious WawwOrm: "You
are alleging to hell, and that's a
kconsolation to mel"
N In common with all patriots, low
trs of peace and fraternal union, we
would gladly bury in oblivion the
memory of the causes aud conse-
quences of the late civil war, which
deluged the land in fratcrnal blood
and involved the country in burden
of debt which it will take genel atoms
to discharge. There cal be no OBJ
ject, no purpose in mutual crimina-
ton and lecrimination, in exchang-
ing denunciations and words of bit
ter hatred, but to crafty spirit,
of bigotry and intolerance alike hos
tile to the spirit of Christial religion
and principles of free government.
In the matter of our civil war all
questions at issue We're settled by
the wager of battle, and it is not
only Improbable but exceedingly
detrimental to the public peace to
discuss dead issues; but so long as
one party claims that the other was
alone to blame, the accused is
necessarily put upon the defense;
and when it comes TO that, the very
men who were the most active in
provoking the strife, are those who
are now the most persistent in per-
petuating it, and none more uncom-
promising than the party politicians
in the Christian ministry. Nullitica-
ton and secession were not of South
.rn origin. but were tolerated and
cherished in New England and 9TH
er portions of the North twenty
years before john G. Calhoun and
his followers asserted the right of
State notification or secession.
When this country was at war with
England, the Hartford Convention
was called under a resolution of the
Legislature of Massachusetts, for
the express purpose of forming a
New England Confederacy, and pro-
positions were entertained through
British Commission for union of
the New England States with Cana
Ga under BRUSH protection. There
was not member of the Hartford
Convention living at the time of the
formation of the present Republican
party but who become a member of it.
There was not leader of the pres
ent Republican party at its formation
who was not an avowed sec essionist
under certain conditions; many of
them Internationally, and Union
savers" was term of reproach np.
piled in derision to the Democratic
party. Did our space permit, we
could give abundant proof of the
statements, declarations and utter
ances and party Endorsements of al
most the entire Republican pa. ty of
that day. The very first Republi-
cans in Congress signalized their
advent by the introduction of petit
tons for the dissolution of the
Union, emanating principally from
New England; and all from recog-
nized members of the Republican
party. As early as January lS47