The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-05-13

q suO-eTVe- 1t seems a dark woe without Oh
bright side or one relieving ray Of light in il
But II 1t 80 indeed? IS / look longer and NOR
closely at IL the shadow begi : 70 lift from IL
vast proportions. II seems lees terribly dark
nay, shall 1 dare TO say it here to-day, l begin
to feel a deep, strong JOY in the event. ] seen
% see IN 1t the promise OF a better day near a
z hand than i have ever before dared ~ hope. |
was needed, IL was essential. Il IL the granC
completion Of all yictOries-the -consummatin
= sacrifice, without which ali before would have
stopped short Of true success. This sanctiher
the whole; this will compel success.
= Men die; principles live. Truth il immortal
But principle and truth live in this world oniy
= by conflict and sacrifice. Every great wrong
must have its victim before it will quit the world.
3 Every right, trampled for centuries, must have
It's martyr. II cannot be restored without. And
a the victim and martyr must be according TO the
q greatness Of the wrong to be overcome and the
q right % be restored Not every one will do. To
a purify and save a sinful world, nothing less than
the blood Of the Son Of God would suffice. To
cleanse and reunite q corrupted and broken ma
ton, the blood Of her noblest son must be given.
\ million inferior lives are not enough. There
comes a crisis in which one life outweighs them
all. For our country that life has been given.
The sacrifice is finished. We NAV now be saved.
4 The assassin little knew what he was doing. He
Z meant a foul deed but the power of a righteous
1 God will turn it into the heaviest blow against
! that domination, for the sake of which il was
4 committed, that has yet been struck. The dark
Inlquity of African slavery, the peerless crime
OF modern history, was not thoroughly purged
from the heart of this Nation yesterday morning.
Today L believe IL is. There was a lingering
tenderness towards the evil, which portended in
finite mischief and difficulty in the adjustment of
affairs that were before US. 1t had the power.
it had the will to do that mischief. To-day, /
believe its power is gone. There is a feeling
toward the InIquity all over the land that never
existed before. The change is immense. 1t will
do for Inc to say in this place what would have
been counted indiscreet and reckless twenty-four
hours ago. /
L speak with freedom you hear with more :
than appreciation. words which, last Sabbath, I
for good by both of us. The day is past for :
such t%imidity. The lines are being sharply 1
drawn. There is a new test Of our position, {
Of the side we will take in the great struggle, &
OF where our sympathies are more decisive than &
has been felt. We shall court the favor or )
patronage of the abettOrs or apologists of slavery s
no longer. We shall court their hostility as 1
more TO be desired than their friendship. We Z
shall ask to be relieved of their patronage. r
Without enmity to their persons let us hope, we 8
shall, nevertheless, feel that there can be nothing +
in common between us without the sacrifice of =
integrity, self-respect and everything that IL man 8
ought to hold dear. And this feeling must have 8
come before the iniquity could be done away s
and the assassin has effected what four years Of IS
blOOdshed could not. "a
You and L know that it is the hand of slavery z
which has plunged US into this deep sorrow 3
the same hand that has filed the whole land b
with tumult and clothed 1t in mourning for four s
years past. ! believe that il was necessary that il e
lld eliminate and come to n head in this peerless "a
crime, that we might be brought to feel the 81
of its evil. We had seen it PLOTTING "a
reason and raising armies, and reddening miles 81
quare OF the earth with human gore to destroy 81
most benign Government on which the sun n
shown. But this was not enough; it called 81
his honorable warfare and would I,oya hoo, Es
by the world as such had it succeeded 81
" e had seen 1t plotting In wholesale conspiracies 81
or assassination that would interrupt the action q
u civil government, and give itself an advantage e
or carrying out nefarious schemes but this s.
vas not enough. The attempt was soon forgot 81
en- in its failure, and perhaps credited with in p
.incerity. All means that could be called fair s.
II honorable. had TO fail, and the dastardly ex- q
'edIent OF cowardice-assassination, it's native 3
york, ITS native method-had to succeed, before b
We could be brought to feel what the pestilence q
Tas-how low the crawling thing could creep-E
nd now, as never before. We do feel this and 81
ow as never before does the Nation see and feel "a
he design of Providence in this long, terrible 81
FAR now as never before is she resolved that 81
Ter million of heroes shall not die in vain. now n
hat the browning martyrdom of all has been 81
dded. The work will be finished more thorough e
= the Union restored more firm and endurinr 81
Or this terrible sacrifice. 81
This, under God, | believe to be the meant "a
ILLS HOs9 tragic anu mOufnlul event. The VIC e
IN was needed. He vas ready. The power of Il
Is death will be greater than the power of his 81
fe- Never was he doing so much for this Union 8
lat he loved, or for human rights and sacred free 81
Om which he loved more, as now, living cold and E
lent IN his coffin. Let us not say that he died =
rematureiy. Though we cannot see the man q
no can stand In his place; though we tremble at +
lie thought that the helm of Government should 8
: placed in an untried hand at this perilous 81
ISIS, let us trust that the favoring Providence
no has so manifestly interposed in our behalf 3
I'd carried us thus far towards the end of a rlori- e
is work, will carry us on and through to it's s
The spirit and wisdom Of the de- 3
lrted VIII lInger In the councils of our Govern ri
ent still. An awe will be upon them TO Law 3
Ieep In great measure the passions which blind s
I'd perplex elaboration and turn action aside p
ON the right way. We were never more likely q
be ruled wisely and well. God will raise up g
e men needed. Our holy cause is His cause, and 3
z IS never at 4 loss for instruments to do His RI
1rk. Let us be calm in this confidence.
Nor need we spend unavailing tears that our s
70 and immortal benefactor has been cut off in 3
and not permitted TO finish his mighty 81 {
sk with his own hand. Let us not imagine that q
has been lost from his bright fame or E
I'm the unspeakable wealth the Nation now owns z
III that fame by this apparently IN 81
nelly death. lie has died without n spot or n Il
adow on ms name. Ii is hallOwed forever, and y I
st all possibility of a stain. Had he lived longer, s.
might have committed some mistake. Per
questions Were before him. To err is
man no mortal wisdom might have been able q I
nave guided our councils with an unerrinp 3
nd. de might have clouded that glory which 81
18th has fixed around his memory in a halo for s
II. Now 1t Is eternally c~loudless. The yerv
Its and errors which his enemies charge upon s.
II are such as will deepen the love without him 8
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