The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-13

Border States, and by skillful navigation and
compromises, the ship of state has been borne
along but the time had come when the question
must be settled, and settled forever, whether free
or slave labor shall rule, or whether North
America shall be under the government of free
men or shareholders. There is no eyading this
conclusion. Whose heart does not leap for Joy,
when there is IL reasonable prospect that freedom
is to triumph? Yes,
"Let music swell the breeze.
And ring from all the trees
sweet freedoms song;
Let mortal tongues awake.
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence br ak,
"our Fathers God to thee,
Author Of liberty
Long may our land be bright
Win freedoms holy Eight;
Great God, our King"
Already have the necessary measures been
adopted for freeing the slaves in some of the
Border States. The slaves in the District of
Columbia are all free, while many thousands
have been freed by our advancing columns armed
with the Presidents Proclamation, and many of
these freed men are now recruiting in the Union
army. 1t is u fact worthy of record, that under
the new policy OF this administration, the foreign
slave trade too, So far as Americans are concerned
has entirely ceased. In 1S59-'GO, one hundred
and fifty slave-shiPs, q blush as an American to
make the statement,) sailing under the L.. s.
flag, landed U 1000 Africans upon the shores of
Cuba; but since the Seward-Lyons treaty went
INV row NbC CldNC lldlC IdS glllOSl Ill
Iy ceased. One slave trader has been hung and
others are now expiating their crimes in peniten-
tIarIes. The progress III this noble and philan-
thropic work has advanced with giant strides
during the last two years, but at present it
attracts little attention, so great and mo-
mentous are the battles. marches, sieges and
revolutions of daily occurrence. Have we no
occasion for thanksgiving? Never had Ameri-
cans more occasion for thanksgiving. There
has been an uprising of n great people, and the
rnopla -, rIra5r ,,iwIE b,,o loou.ol Il. II r
African slavery ON the Western Continent.
They have pronounced it incompatible with free
institutions, and the church has proclaimed it
inconsistent with Christianity, and die it must,
although in its death-throes it shake the pillars
and make the foundations tremble of the temple
of liberty.
Turning from those portions of the country
where the fields are dyed with blood and the
war-clOuds obscure the light of day, l think as
Americans we shall find abundant occasion for
thanksgiving as we look forth upon those i'm
mense fields of corn, wheat and other cereals.
Never were the haryests more abundant. Not
only Is our own population fed, but millions of
bushels have been transported to feed the hungry
of Other lands, and especially of England. BY
an official report made to the British Parliament,
it appears, that for the six months ending June
l, 1862, an amount of grain was imported into
England from the United States, - equal to the
sustenance of between three and four millions of
people for Il twelve month"; - and remarks, Mr..
Richard Golden, If that food had not been /
brought from America, all the money in Lombard
street could not have purchased it elsewhere, be-
cause eLSeCherei IL did not ~eIiSt.'' This same gentle
man tells his countryman, : you get an article
even more important than cotton from America
your f0Od,' Cotton is king no lOnger-Wheat
upon the throne, employing Indian Corn
for Prime Minister.
The people of the Northern States have scarce
ly felt the commercial and pecuniary pressure of
the war, perhaps not so much as would have
Enr fhaIr GOOD Supb ur1S tho Rnr nv }
Anderson's testimony amongst us, and no one
better able 10 give %estimOny in a matter of
this nature. \ recent writer in the South has
made the assertion, that the North might carry
forward the war for forty years on the present
gigantic scale without being crippled. Our
finances were never in better condition.
stocks are nOw. in these war times,
selling 1T 4 premium. Our schools. colleges and
of learning are in a most furnishing
while all of our missionary, benevo-
lent and eleemOsynary institutions are as pros
porous as ever. The efforts which private indi-
viduals and benevolent societies have made to
assist the disabled soldiers have tended to call
play some of the noblest feelings of our
nature. The remote sections of the country
have been opened up and explored. Americans
are coming better to understand and more to
respect each other. Imagine not that the people
of the North and South cannot live in peace
together when the war ceases. Depend upon 1T,
they will be better friends than ever before.
Oli4N ItultNt lAldI = VI
~, and l can see no Insuperable obstacle to
their differentiation and harmony. When Cen
eral Pemberton surrendered with his 81 900 sol
iiers TO General Grant, all fraternized. Southern
admired Northern pluck and endurance,
and Northern soldiers admired the bravery of
those Southern soldiers, who had endured 4 siege
Of %ffty-four days, when shot and shell fell upon
the devoted city like a ummer' shower. So
we believe it will be on a larger scale when the
shall be brought to a close. VIII not
men admire the lofty and daring
of such Generals as Lee and jackson
Americans still-although they are rebels
against their country's flag? VIII not the peo-
pie of the whole South have good reason for
admiring and fearing the people of
the North, who have achieved wonders, triumphs
and victories, which the world said could not be
accomplished? Never was more proud of the
of an American than | I'm this moment.
If the ancient Roman felt proud, when he ex-
claimed 81 am a Roman so, L think every
American may experience a similar
feeling as he exclaims, :" am an American"
Next TO this, [ feel proud that l am a native
Of the old Bay State-Massachusetts. My birth
place was in the very heart of that noble state.
love to reflect upon what that state has done
and is doing in this great and momentOus strug-
gle. 1t was the blood Of a son of Massachusetts,
which was first shed in this struggle, Gas well as
in that of the Revolutionary war; when the
whole North was aroused by the bombardment
Of Fort Sumter. Since that time the blood of
her sons has mingled with that of the sons of
every other loyal state, east and west.
L have frequently in my remarks spoken of
this great struggle, this great conflict, but L
that even now we are not fully awake to
Is magnitude and Importance. 1t Is not a mere
struggle for territory or a conflict based upon
;ome visionary and indefinable idea. This is a