The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-08

doubtless, live ont the remainder OF your days and
by your steady support and Encouragement of virtue,
both public and private, you will secure for your
selves the enviable reward of an approving conscience,
the esteem of all good citizens, and the lively graft
tude of the generations who will follow after you on
the stage of life.
You are selected to guard the public peace, and to
maintain the public laws ; to condemn the guilty
and to protect the innocent. In the language of the
venerable Justice Story, l would ask, :" what higher
objects can engage the attention OF men looking to
the great interests of society What nobler ends
can be proposed than those which administer to the
tranquility and happiness OF our friends and fellow
citizens What can be more acceptable to God, or
more conformable to the dictates of religion, than the
promotion of justice, the succor of virtue, and the
relief of the injured and oppressed" Go forward,
then, gentlemen, to the noble work, and let your
footsteps ever be found treading the pathway Of rec
titude and honor.
Gentlemen Of the Bar, members of that distin-
guished and honorable fraternity upon whose rolls
are displayed the names of so many gifted men, both
among the living and among the illustrious dead, [
bid you welcome as you come up to renew your
labors in that field which belongs peculiarly to your
profession. As men trained in the school of reason
and experience, as professors of that noble science,
which, in its widest extent, may be said to compass
almost every human action, and, in its minute de-
tails, to measure every human duty and, as infu-
entail members of the community, you are bound by
the strong ties of civil obligation, by professional
character, and by the love of virtue, to the faithful
and honorable discharge of your lofty functions. 1t
is a subject of just pride and congratulatiOn to us to
know that among the members Of the Bar of this
court there is to be found so much legal talent, so
much industry and fidelity.
Gentlemen, while I take the liberty of thus adj
dressing you on the subject of your several duties,
I would not be unmindful of the grave obligations
that rest upon me, who, as an humble minister at
the altar of Justice, daily feel my need of wisdom,
patience, courage and discretion.
During a period of nine or ten years, which have
elapsed since the establishment of the Superior Court
of Law and Equity, the administration of justice has
been regular, uniform and uninterrupted, by means
of the judicial organizatian effected in the reign of
his late Majesty, under the guidance of a master
hand, that of our worthy friend, Chief Justice Lee,
whose unavoidable absence to-day, in consequence
of i'll health, we so much deplOre. Frequently have
I heard it remarked by those who have observed the
operation of our courts during that time, that Hon.
olulu juries, selected, as they are, from among the
most respectable portion OF the residents, are more
intelligent and more to be relied upon than those
ordinarily found in much older, and what are often
called, more ciUilised communities. [ believe this to
be true, for I cannot call to mind q single instance
that would lead me to doubt its accuracy. May it
ever be so. Let your good name be perpetuated !;
let your weight continue to be felt for good and not
for evil let your influence tell on the side of right
and of public morality.
Cheered and refreshed by the review of the past,
let us fondly cherish the brightest hopes for the flu
ture let that friendly feeling and good understand
ing, which have hitherto prevailed among us, be
ever Astounding in all time to come and let us all
honestly and fcarlessly discharge the duties devolv-
ing upon us, unawed and uninfluenced, save by the
remembrance of our accountability to Him, the pillars
of whose throne are eternally fixed upon the enduring
foundation of Truth and Justice.