The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-11-19

love, the other for money. Never, in the history
Of any nation, has a rebellion of such magnitude
been so we'll planned, commenced, and supported
in all Its minutia and details, that has not
proved successful, and resulted in Remembering
the revolted section from the mother country
No wonder, then, that the first sentiment o.
the half-bewildered loyal people of the Union
was-let the rebels 60, it Is useless TO stop
them. No wonder, when they turned back to
history, they found little TO encourage them to
hope for a restoration of peace, and much that
the rebellion would prove successful, and the
Union be remembered. No wonder that foreign
governments-the Hawaiian government among
the ~rest-hastily stepped forward to concede
national rights to the rebels.
Thus the rebellion began-its leaders all flush
ed with hope and confident of victory from their
well-laid plans, its papers boasting with a
hundred tongues that the national seat of gov
eminent was the object Of the contest, and would
soon be conquered. More than half the Repub-
lie was infected with the rebellion. though con-
tanning but a minority of the population. With
a firm hand, however, the constitutional gov
eminent set TO work To- put down the uRcOnsti-
tutiOnal one, and for more than two years the
struggle has continued, with what success, we
may see by a hasty glance. Maryland, Missouri,
Kentucky, and half of Virginia, once claimed
by the rebels, are as firmly in the old union as
is Maine. Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
~sissippi, Florida and Texas are virtually redeemed
from the control of the rebels, and can afford
them little or no support. The rebellion is now
circumscribed TO the five southeast slave States,
and these are SO hemmed in, and cut off from
outside aid, sympathy and support, that their
resources are greatly crippled, and the prospect
of their holding out successfully much less than
ever.
Thus we see the rebellion, which in 1861,
numbered thirteen States, has been suppressed
and brought within the limits Of five while
the power Of the National Government, and its
ability to conquer, are now increased tenfold.
If there was anything to encourage the govern
ment and the people two years ago, to undertake
the suppression of the rebellion, and the pre-
of the legitimate government, how
much more is there to encourage them now
How d: fferent the tone of the Southern news
rapers now from the defiant and eXultant lam,
field be LOST cries one of them, in the language
or Milton = TeDelS, All Is nOG lOSt. linen
their language was nothing but victory and exul-
alton now all is despair, destitution, poverty,
md speedy defeat. If ever the American peo-
Die had occasion for devout thanks giving, the
Frightening prospect now before them of the
inal suppression Of the rebellion, and the ter
of one of the most destructive civil
vars on record affords it.
But especially have Americans and the friends
# freedom here and everywhere reason to join
n public thanksgiving, for the Presidents de-
rec of freedom to the slaves in the rebel States,
ut the Union. for the decree is the most power
al means yet employed for the extinguishment of
he rebellion. There are no slaves in the rebel I
to-day they may ca. them L" slaves"
they are now by law, and will soon be in
lct as free as Mortimer. There is not to-day
slave in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana or
lississippi-aH are freemen undT' that p%rOcama-
which like the law of the Modes and Per-
ians, can know no repeal. In the border States
here are still slaves, but the days of their bond
re are numbered. and slavery will soon be
in free America. This is the consequence
{ the slave-mongers' rebellion, and the only good
NAV ever arise from it. Whether Provi-
ence has permitted this rebellion for the sole
urpose of bringing with it the freedom of the
laves, man may not be able to say but certain
is that this will be the result. We cannot
quoting here the closing sentences of the
peech of Senator Sumner, bearing on this same
uestion
- Thus far we Ithe American people, have been known, chiefly
rough that Vita force whlch slavery couId omy "tsraie hut
1t subdue. Now at last, by the death Ct Slavery, will the Re
live. For what IS life without liberty , Stretching from
al TO %ceaa nd ,fIim wIIn sSPTni ynr oufra . ! IN resources
III be more than cOnqueror. Nothing too vast for its power
,thiug too minute for its care. Triumphant over the fouest
ever ~inhicted-after the blo"diest war ever waged-it will
now the majesty of right and the beauty of Peace-prepared
ways to uphold the one and TO cultivate the other. Strong in
own mighty siature-flled with all the funness of Il new life,
Id covered with "A panoply of renown, 1t will confess that no
1minion is OF value which does not contribute to human hap
ness. Born in tins latter day, ana the chitd OF It's own strug-
IS, without ancestral charms, but heir OF all ages-it viii stand
nth to assert the dignity Of man. and wherever any member Of
t human family Is to he succored, there It's voice will reach
the voice of Cromwell reached across France even to the per-
+upstart among the nations. Aye! as the steam-eneine, the
legraph and chloroform are upstart. Comforter and helper
,e these. it can know 10 bounds to its empire over a willing
Ird. But the frs. stage is the death of slavery"
But for more than all this have Americans
.use for thanksgiving-for the uncxampled pros
Gritty of the nation. even during its civil war
II the rich harvests that have blessed every part
the land.-and for the absence of foreign war
hen so many and perplexing questions have
.iscn during this rebellion to threaten it. In
e entire history of the Republic, there has
been a year when an everything Providence
1peared to smile more bcnignantly on the ma
on. There have been disasters and defeats,
it'll heavy taxation, but for all these its pro-
has been onward. and it's prosperity great.
nd we trust tfat Americans and those sympa-
izing with theEL. will heartily Join on the Doth
November, in the observance of 1t as a day of