The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-11-14
A Man for the Times.


The Hon. Joseph Holt OF Kentucky. lately
Secretary Of War under Buchanan, has recently
made several addresses in Boston and New York
on the State of the Union, and breathing the
warma; patriotism. From these. we make q few
extracts, but recommend our readers to find and
peruse the entire addresses. No one can read
them without feeling his patriotism warmed
What We now need is 4 patriotism that will
abide the ordeal OF fire, n patriotism that is
purged OF all selfShness, and from all fear, which
J. heroic and exhaustless which VOWS with every
thrOb OF life, with every pulse that II Will rally
If stricken down it will rise again, and that
under the pressure of no circumstances of defeat,
OF SORROW, or Of suffering shall the national flag
be abandoned, or the honor of the country COM
promised. What We need is a patriotism which
rises fully to the comprehension of the actual and
the awful perilS in which our institutions are
placed. and which is willing 10 devote every power
OF body and mind and fortune TO their deliver
ance. y patriotism which obliterating all party
hnes-fcheers long and continued, and repeated
again and again, breaking forth in 4 loud hurrlhl
"A patriotism which, celebrating all party lines
and %entombing all party issues, says to the Presi-
dent of the United States Here are our lives and
our estates; use them freely. use them boldly
but use them successfully. For, looking upon
the graves of our fathers and upon the cradles of
our children, we have sworn that though all
things else should perish, tins country and this
Union shall live.
But if true TO ourselves. as | believe we will be
ii true to the memory of the past and the
grandeur of the present-our arms will triumph,
and the Union sentimenLOf the South will make
that triumph complete. And after this turmoil
of battle and bloodshed has ceased, there will
arise a future for our country bright as the rain
bow that spans Niagara's waters.
am gratifed that during the somewha ex-
tended tour | have recently made, | have nowhere
heard the public voice faint or the public pur-
pose falter in the vigorous prosecution of the war
until the Stars and Stripes shall wave once more
over every flagstaff .-om which they have been
torn. [Applause.l Nowhere have 1 heard the
word compromise, u enthusiastic applause, Ia
word which cannot now be uttered except by dis
loyal lips or by those speaking directly in the in
terests Of rebellion. [Applause.l So long as the
rebels have arms in their hands, there is nothing
left to compromise but the honor of the country
and the integrity Of the government, and no man
with Il soul above that of Il coward is prepared
fol such submission.
When the wise man of old, sitting in Judgment
upon the rival claims of two women to a child,
decided that it should be cut in twain, it was the
false motLer who rejoiccd in the judgment, while
the true mother preferred to save the life of the
child. So the man who is willing that this Union
should be severed by the sword of treason may
have been born upon American soil, but he has
not an American heart. The true son of the
country, like the true mother, prefers the Union
above all considerations.
No man can doubt the honesty and loyalty of
the President of the United States; Immense
applause, waving of hats and cries of No" or
his determination to suppress this rebellion. To
him, under the Constitution the popular voice
has committed absolutely the fate of this Repub-
lie. His HANDS are emphatically your hands,
and in weakening him, you weaken yourselves
and you weaken the struggling country that we
are all striving TO save. lie is ut this moment
overwhelmed with a mountain Of responsibilities
and toll such as never rested on no public man in
our history, and he is fully entitled to all the
support and all the consolation which Il generous
and warm hearted patriotism can give him.
II this Union is dismembered, and this govern
ment Overthrown, the grave of every earthly hope
will open at my feet and will open at yours also.
In the lives of families and nations, there rises
from time TO time emergencies of danger which
drive all before them to a common council cham
Der. When the storm is raging at sea when the
Lboring and quivering vessel shricks out from
every joint at the coming destruction, and all
who are on board, alike the humble sailor and
the most distinguished passenger, will feel them
selves possessed of that right which no human
despOtism can control-the right Of self preserva-
ton, even so, amid the heady current OF this ma
tional tragedy /, an humble citizen of this dis
tracted country, have vcntured to lift up the voice
of counsel and entreaty in your hearing, and to
thank you most kindly for your attention.
Three rousing cheers were given for Mr.. Holt,
the audience rising and waving hats and hand
kerchiels, and three more cheers for Kentucky. |