The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-16

'SNA taNubc Vi lug anu dI the SDITitiSSS DeO-
pie OF the great North, who were being driven
TO dissolution and infamy without an effort
at resistance, and ~relinquishing their nation
atty TO a rebellion without striking a blow in
Its defense.
We had a brief ~foretaste of the ignominv
that awaits a nation which baselv surrenders
lis integrity and Its independence, and we
heard the prelude of the shout that would
greet the downfall of the Union, and the epi.
taPh that should record -
/" But yesterday il might
Have stool against the world nov lies II there
And none so poor to do it reverence"
Assured Of the integrity and patriotism of
the President and the wisdom of his Cabinet.
the North waited as only a brave people.
conscious of their strength and of the Justice
oil their cause, could afford to wait. The
strength OF the Government was gradually
developed, the war and navy departments
began 10 exhibit signs of life-and the great
statesman of the West, who, SACRIFICING no.
lItIcal ambition and personal preferences, had
consented to preside over a depleted treasury.
renewed the miracle attributed by Webster
to Alexander Hamilton % He smote the rock
OF the national resources, and abundant
streams OF revenue gushed forth. He touch
ed the dead body of the public credit, and it
sprang upon its feet"
desperate as our situation seemed, CAPT.
talists demanded no other security than the
name of Chase, and when he asked for n
loan OF eight millions more than thirty mil
lions were instantly offered.
Gentlemen, | have not time to dwell on
Inc attack on Sumpter, the attack of ten
thousand men on one hundred men. and the
illJudged boast of Governor Pickens that
they had humbled the star-spanpled banner
Tor the first time in seventy years. Thew
themselves by that act and that boast init
a'ed an irresistible conflict that will hardly
cease TILL the stars and stripes again float in
tleIr beauty from every fortress in the land.
lhat bombardment, as was remarked bv
one oil the Judges OF the Supreme Court.
" oiew all the plots of the traitors into the
AIR. and lnaugurated a change in the senti.
ment OF the country that seemed all but
miraculous" 1t awoke the deep love of
country which had sIumbered beneath the
platforms OF party and commercial interest.
1t ended at once the absurd cry of "no co.
ercion," as applicable to a government in
ITS laws and protecting its existence.
Inc rebels by that act closed the door of
and reconciliation which had
thus lar been kept open. They rejected the
appeal TO a convention of the American peo-
pie, TO which the President in his INAUGURAL
had assented. They selected, instead: the
OF force, the gceat trial by battle.
They struck at the very heart of the nation
when they sought to humble the flag of our
Union that had protected them from infancy.
md which from childhood we have loved.
hey themselves ~inaugurated war. Thew
imposed upon US the most sacred duty that
devoive upon a people, of protecting their
nationality, and the world that had wondered
1t a torbearance which they could not under.
now wondered again at the spontane.
Jus uprising of a mighty nation.
The threatened attack on Washington. the
llsloyalty of Baltimore. the cutting off of all
COMMUNICATION by railroad and telegraph
'etween the national capital and the great
Worth, completed the work begun at Sumpter.
Party lines grew faint and vanished as
ompletely as though they had never existed.
v ashlngton has been described as leaning in
ne darkest hour of the Revolution with one
rm resting on Massachusetts, and the other
n North Carolina. The faithlessness of the
liter TO her historic memories, prevents the
arallel being now complete, but we NAV
ny OF Lincoln what can be said OF no other
resident since Washington, that in this dark
our he rests with one great arm upon his
Official friends, and the other on his political [
pponents, and that, as he looks abroad over :
lie country whose destinies are in his keen .
lg, he sees neither Republicans nor Demo-
'ats-nelther ~nativists nor aliens-he sees
1T two classes, loyal citizens on the one side,
nd traitors on the other.
The feeling exhibited throughout the loyal
ates is not, as some Europeans have sup. 4
'sed, an ebullition of enthusiasm, based upon =
ldden and evanescent passion, but the ex-
esslon of a profound conviction gradually
reed upon them by a long train of facts
at eliminated at Sumpter, that both duty
I'd honor imperatively demand that they
all crush this gigantic conspiracy against s
c integrity of the country. =
THE ARMY OF THE UNION.
1t was this that, within six weeks, called
nth, as If by magic, an army of two hum
ed thousand, converting our cities into
mps, and making the repression of this re-
lion the one great business of the Ameri-
n people.
The scene has been one which, dav by
y, has thrilled us with emotion, one upon
lich the Bancroft and the Motley of the
Nt century will linger with admiration.
Massachusetts, first in the field, as in
olden days of trial, shedding the first
'Od at Baltimore, first to occupv and pro.