The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-30

upon the distinguished gentleman who fills the chair ,
VINO amongst US can fail 10 regret that he had not
been sent TO US long ago, or to pray that he may DE
spared to stay with US many years, to preside over us
on the recurrence of this national anniver sary, to
promote ~orotherly love, peace and Union among as,
IN harmony with all who inhatit 50 the land we live
in,' be their nation or their creed what it may?
But friends and gentlemen, have we left the land of our
nativity for a bad land? L say no. The land we have come
to, and in which We live, is a good land Does it not over low
with milk, and have We not honey. and sugar Of a gu. Liy
equal II not superior to the very best known in other eou itr les I,
Have We not coffee, Of a flavor equal TO the Arabian, to enlfyen
wool to keep US warm and comforta ble when we i've a w ,he
slopes OF our beautiful mountainsl Have We noS cotton Of
Mr.. Jarves and Mr.. TucoIub not shown many ar .,s, !.
We can produce good silk, to dress out cur dear siGes and
daughters when occasion SO requires? Have Mr.. Rolstei 4 and
others who have prohted by his advice and experiments, rot
shown Us that W. can produce rice of a quality approaching
that Of South Carolina, and have We not produced it ? Have
We not oranges, lines, strawberries, lemons and chi riraoyas
bananas, mangos and other fruits, to cool the blood OF our dan-
which to express the oil which best relieves the bowels OF those
cSc@sss az vs ~ atI arov rai aI gose >, them selxes 10
world, Tor the feeding Of our newborn little babies? Have We
not grapes. OF sue and quality unsurpassed, to makee God wine,
so soon as the legislature permits u : to drink whoies ONE wine
Of our own making. at a cheap price, IN place Of drinI ing adul-
terated and unwholesome foreign wine, at a dear price {, Do our
forests not abound in ornamental woods fit TO adorn cur houses
abound in oranGeb blossoms, and beautiful flowers to- adOrn the
heads of our brides ard beauties who SO much abound at
Friends and gentlemen, you cannot deny thar we have all
these and many other advantages. 1t is therefore clear, that
We have come 10 a land, not only good, but beautiful, a land
and where We are governed by a King, liberal, emil ghtened,
and Just whose policy it is u HIS LegisigtHxe ,ett assist
to protect every man in the exercise of his honest crlHng, to
reward the good and diigent, and to discourage vic. and the
idleness which invariably leads to it.
And what shall 1 say OF its cheerful and saIubrio us Climate,
This L will say, there is not one Of you whom L have the honor
to address, that if he leave the land We live IN, will not long to
get back again, and to live and die here, as ! myself mean to
most hoDe-Sjck ladies ana gentlemen. whether liriIisb or
American. All who have gone away have literally pinned to
return. After living a few years in this equable, temperate,
almost unbearable to them. You all know the Honorable Mrs.
Allen. and | am sure there is not one here who does not respect
her. Well in a letter which she did me the honor of addressing
to me lately, she described the climate OF Maine, as "simply
the = land in which we @ i've in ~ Which she lived. an Il" in which VIII
l hope she and her distinguished husband will soon live again,
,n. Gen tie 9sa 6 and friends fe1 n I |. 5 am sorry mr nt that hat ! / cannot q mot do e,, more
trespassed too long upon YOUR time. and I thank You for the
patience with which you have listened to me.
At the close of his speech, as at its beginning,
Mr.. WYLLIE was warmly cheered-
The CHAIRMAN said
My good friends We are bound together by q
common nationality, a common language, a common
fellowship of glory, and | hope by a common brother
hood of love, But while exulting in our own patri-
otism, let us respect that of others, ard be ever ready
to hold out the right hand of friendship to the good,
the honest and the brave of all nations. We must all
have interchanged numberless Offices of kindness and
courtesy with g our foreign fellow residents of all ma
tions,'' and we are all, l am sure, glad of this oppor-
tunity to drink their health. He called upon all
present to drink to OUR FOREIGN FGLLow-REsI-
DENTS OF ALL NATIONS - and upon Mr.. GREEN to
respond.
MIR. GREEN said he regretted that His Excellency
the Minister of the Interior, Mr.. Hopkins, who was
to have responded to this toast, was unavoidably alb
sent from ill health, and he trusted the company
would excuse his (Mr. Green's) being somewhat uu-
prepared to answer the toast at the same time he
felt his duty to be an easy one. In this small COM
munity we were mixed up with people of all creeds
and countries; we were mixed up with them in soci.
ETY. and in commerce; we go into the same jury box
with them; we attend the same church and go to the
same balls and parties, and as a general rule, we
treat each other cordially and courteously. He con-
sidered it to be the duty of every one of us to respect
the natural and national feelings of others;-he would
90 farther and say let us also respect, or at any rate
bear with, even their prejudices. We were all here
in the same boat; we have come, most of us at any
rate, with a common object-to better our fortunes.
As a general rule, we Englishmen have been treated
by Americans. and by others also. as well as we had
any right to expect. At this point he could not help
referring to one exception-an article had that MORN
ing appeared in the columns of Mr.. Whitney's news
paper, headed WHO WAS ST. GEORGE 30 and evil
IDENTIFY intended as an insult to Englishmen by its be-
ing published on the day of their anniversary dinner.
The writer wanted to know who st. George was he
might as we'll ask 50 who was the Dragon 20 He (Mr.
Green) did not suppose any one at that table cared
who St; George trgs WAS ;nc;;n nor ~ who iSt the DIR, P5ag 60 G Essr n 6f CAR SanD S5eega
George r not, seems to be a question among the learned IN such
having for the last thousand years O more been in such good
ever great a rascal he might possibly have been originally, had
now become a highly respectable character. st; George ana
the Dragon > was an emblem and symbol of Englands great
ness. ." England and st. George" was the war-cry of many
ban nf ~ ncu am yictorv' st George y being then the
e enIlen TO Of Tng u = sr cbivaiiry and the banner we honor. there
could he no doubt it was a great scandal that such an article
had been published on that day as the article headed " Who
was st. George? Many of the leading American residents re-
pudiated that article altogether as showing a malicious animus,
and written and published evidently with the sole object of con-
veying insult to Engiishmen. He did not believe there was one
honest man in the community, be his native country what it
might, that approved of that article. (Cheers) He would now
let that pass by and conclude by repeating that on the whole,
dents of other countries. lie thought We should not be too anX-
ious to proclaim our country's greatness. Every Intelligent
man of every country knew the greatness of England, and with
those who were not intelligent enough to know it, or candid
enough to admit it, it was no use talking about it, Let us all
promote as much as we can each others happiness and pros
perty.
During Mr.. Green's speech frequent marks of
approval were testified, especially when he re-
ferred to the newspaper article in question.
Al the conclusion of Mr.. Green's speech, the
Chairman read a letter from an American gentle
man of influential position, and whose very
ardent patriotism was well known, utterly repu-
dating in his own name and in that of his
countrymen, the newspaper article which the
Vice. Chairman had so justly stigmatized. [See
NoTE below.
The CHAIRMAN, in replying to the toast of his
health proposed by Mr.. Green, said
"Gentlemen, my countrymen and good friends,
I thank you very heartily for your kindness. 1t is
a source of very great pride and pleasure to me
worthily, our beloved Queen, to see so many of my
countrymen around me. 1t has ever since my arrival
here, been my wish that on some one day in the year,
we should meet together socially to think aud talk
of home, to call up the memory of Aud Lang Syne,
aud to pay the willing homage of grateful love to the
dear old Mother land we have left behind us. | have
the honor to be an Irishman, and at one time l
thought that we Irishmen might meet 10 celebrate
the festival of st. Patrick, that the Scotch might pay
similar respect to st. Andrew, and the English to St.