The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-07-09

and the Gentle of every nation. During the terri
bic contest that is now raging In our land, II there
had been any other form of government than Repub-
lican. | believe our government would have presented
TO the world at this time the most melancholy form
of a despotic government. No-Repuo!ican insil-
tutions have not been a failure. They have survived
and they shall survive the shock Of secession and
slavery and although the garments of our coun-
try have been dragged in the dust by her reoelllous
sons, she will yet stand forth arrayed In the gar
ments of freedom and liberty. The body OF the slave
shall become the soul of the man.
And whatever may have been heretofore our lndi-
vidual opinions concerning the institution OF slavery.
as il has existed in the United States, L say that We
can now have no doubt that that, and that alone.
has served as the cause of revolt on the part OF the
traitors of the South. Let every Free State answer,
that it clings TO the American Union. Let Western
Virginia, East Tennessee answer and everywhere
throughout the land, where the scourge OF slavery
has not existed, there you will find a loyal popula
ton. And when peace again shall hold ITS sway
over our country, the chain of every slave shall be
loosened. and stronger bands than ever VIII unite
the people OF every section OF the Republic.
And here although the eye shall fire, aud the blood
shall mount the cheek, when We hear many OF other
nations in their prejudice and Ignorance take the
side of the enemies OF our country in their attempts
TO subvert one of the best structures of government
that has ever been erected, we can afford TO ba just
and generous, until the history Of theretellion shall
have been written, and we can read lts page OF
wrong and infamy. and the triumph @! the right
and true. Even now we can see that truth is
triumphing over error and prejudice, ana that the
great land of Shakespeare, and Milton, am! Hampton.
is showing some sympathy for the cause O. tight and
Freedom. That land whose past is so riCl with me-
MORALS of triumphs and Of fame, whose: past is so
brilliant with victories over wrong and Suppression,
whose constitutional freedom has in the ;past been a
bulwark and a beacon to the oppressed patiOnalities
of Europe, that land, / say, can never b& the ally OF
slavery and secession.
In reference to our country, l have spoken of our
hopes and aspirations for the future: tn crushing
the great rebellion constant progress has been made
from its inception. The Unicn army Gas wrested
from the traitors of the South more thas two-thirds
of the territory, that they claimed threts years ago.
And even now their Capital awaits the cQ4uing of the
Deliverer, who shall free her and her beavtiful State
from the bonds Of Secession, and PLACES them once
more beneath the folds of the flag of Preston. Yes,
their Capital that has rung with the "Ties OF her
starved prisoners of the North, is even now being
wrested from them. The Army of the Union is
knocking at her gates, and as surely as hight shall
triumph over Wrong, so sure will the Army of the
Union enter therein. Liberty and Law shall dwell
in that Capital, and free speech, free labor, and free
men shall dispense the blessings of q new and refined
civilization.
| cannot depreciate the courage Of the traitors of
the South, who are fighting in a dishonored and un-
holy canse but time would fail me. TO speak Of the
valor, the patriotism and the heroism oil the Army OF
the Union. They are fighting for national life, for
that q generous people holds dear, and
for their own freedom and Liberty; for had the South
.riumphed in her unholy cause, the North hereafter
would have been dragged at her cnariot WheeiS. Anu
we may not wonder at the enthusiasm aud the great
uprising of our people, when State after State seeded
and threw of the gentle yoke of the Union, that had
proved 90 great a blessing to the Race.
With a voice that shook the land the guns of sumter spoke:
Wake, sons of heroes, wake! The age of heroes dawns again;
Truth takes in hand her ancient sword, and calls her loyal
Lo, brightly DER the breaking day shines Freedom holy star.
Peace cannot cure the sickiy time. All hail the healer, War!
And wheresoer the summons came, there rose an angry din,
AS when upon a rocky coast a stormy tide comes in.
Southwark the hosts are hurrying. with banners wide unfurled,
From where the stately Hudson floats the wealth of half the
world
From where amid his clustered isles Lake Huron's waters
From where Kentucky's fields of corn bend in the Southern air;
From broad Ohio's luscious vines; from jerseys orchards fair
From where between his fertile slopes Nebraskas' rivers run;
From PennsyIvania's iron hill; from woody Oregon;
And Massachusetts led the va as in the days of yore,
And gave her reddest blood tocleanset the stones of BALTIMORE
Peace indeed has her victories. From her lofty seat
Science and Art. Commerce and Manufactures, Civil
and Refinement, follow in her. path. But
war, Notwithstanding the horror and desolation that
follow in its footsteps, has some bright sides to its
character. History. recording the experience of ma
tons, shows that out Of war many a nation has
emerged from the darkness of slavery and despotism,
10 the light of Liberty and Freedom. From Their
and Marathon, from many a battlefield of
the principles of Right and Freedom have
perpetuated. And so the war, that gives the
century such a pre-eminerce, that sad
our households, that brings the tears of sorrow
% our homes, that darkens for a time the life of the
nation, shall, in the Providence of God, bring order
,ut of confusion and the blessings of Liberty for all.
is not the worst evil that can befall a nation.
to the cligarchy of the s nth in their
ban war. And on the page OF history. you will not
ind a nobler struggle than ours, for the supremacy
# the laws, for the life of the nation, and for the !
lights and freedom of mankind.