The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-07-06

-. NF "EhN
torelgn csidcntS, sons Of American Missionaries.
or Hawaiian natiSc-bom, who fastened To enlist
under the banner of the frcc-who fought -
calamity in the East and West; wounded
IN the bloody battles of the Wilderness: in
the fore front Of the fight at Gettysbur. with
Terry when lie accomplished the impossible cap
turc of Fort Fisher. or with the persistent Grant
when. with iron grasp he Jhrottlcd secession IN
the siege OF Richmond Present or absent, living
or dead. We are all our honorcd guests to-day.
And bark with what hearty shouts Il grateful
people cher tie hcrueS of tie war,
Favored a. well a. honored men the opportu-
nity II fight FOR such 4 cause comes rot in every
mans lifetime iierpic history il not written ~
rapidly in every age. The pathway Il - honor
able 4 fame lies not ever open u all. But
for the great interests involved. and the worthy
principles lor which You contenIed. Your ya,or
hal been vain. Your sacrifice Il waste and Your
risk of life only a f~ool-hariy reckleSsneSs. These
interests We're world wide for the remOtest nations
were affected by the conflict and deeply interested in
the result. Those principles were well worth dying
for and, though they cost the best blool Of the nation,
the sacrifice was not too great. Would that all who
braved the dangers of ~ many battles to maintain
them might ever remember that those same princi-
pies Of national honor and of political right, for
which they were willing 10 lie, were well worth hv-
ing for. Whether NJ home or abroad, You must have
more Of self respect from all true men ii you mantully
assert them.
Chosen forms OF government. true Americans must
ever be lovers of liberty and champions of the rights
OF the people. No circumstances can compel them to
lose their love Of country. no temptation allure them
to forsake their cherished principles Those princi-
pies are adapted to Keep in any climate. They may
not without political guilt and personal baSeneSs he
forsaken under any form of government. The
traveller who changes his politics as readily as
he changes his passport who i Il radical Repub-
lean to-day and a cringing absolutist Tomorrow; who
Justify shouts, long Ars NE people with one breath,
and tong lire their opprssSOrs with the next, i alike
diStrustel and detestel by the sincere democrat ana
the discerning monarclIist.
Nor does this steadfastness of principle in any wise
unfit a consistent Republican to be both a peaceful
citizen and Il trustworthy adviser under other forms
Of government. Sensible SOvereigns always want the
most honest counsellors, and he who advises in the in
terest oftIe obScurest subject advises not less in the true
interest Of the king. since their welfare Is lnter-icpen-
cent and their interests are always coincident.
The shallow sycophant, who for the advancement of
his own selfish ends, persuades Il monarch that by
cnrtailing the rights of the people he guards his
kingly prerogatives and ensures the stability of his
throne, Is the worst enemy OF the king, whether or not
he is the worst enemy of the people.
This doctrine that every act Of oppression weakens
the power of the oppressOr, finds fitting expression IN
the beautiful motto upon the royal standard of
Hawaii, IA MAU KE "a EA ANA KA roNo"-
1.-The throne is established by righteousness -
" The life of the nation depends upon national rec
titule.'
Those great principles of national honor and political
integrity for which some Of you have 80 braVely
fought are condensed III that most significant sentence
IN the Declaration Of American lndcpendence-"W We
hold these truths to be selt-cvident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights; that among these are
life, hbcrt! and the pursuit of happiness and that to
secure these rights Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their inst powers from the consent of
the governed. The absolutst disputes these ~self-evi-
dent Facts. He hates this doctrine of human equality at
the start, and all through his political life it is his effort
to increase the privileges of a favored class and to
curtail the inalicnable rights of the many.
1t WAS against these fundamental principles and
these self evident facts, that IL dominant faction in
the South projected itself with Il fearful power and Il
fendish malignity. That a favored few might, with
out IL fair equivalent, enrich themselves by the invol-
untary toll of the many; that a system of forced
labor might be perpetuated, which gave the lie to
all those professions of liberty and equality upon
which the very idea of n democratic Government
rests that slavery might live even though liberty
should die, they dashed themselves Samson like in
their blindness against the great pillars of the Re
public; content To perish, if need lie, in the ruin
they wrought. But no, more senseless than Samson,
they did not expect to perisi So accustomed had
the Free States become to the .luster and bravado,
Ia the cheap threatening and the windy vengeance of
the South, that they could not persuade themselves
they should ever be called To encounter anything
more tangible and dangerous than mere threats.
And SO accustomed were the dominant and disloyal
faction at the South to the tame and timid acquics-
celce of the peaceful, law abiding, industrious,
money getting North, that they could not persuade
that any effective resistance would be
offered, If once they threw down the gauntlet of red
handed war and made sufficiently positive demon
of violence. Such was the mutual misun-
derstanding which resulted in something more than
Il s'slight unpleasantuess." ~IIumorists may in irony
designate it by such soft phrases but oh, how many
desolate homes, how many broken hearts, now many
noble lives, sacrificed to this MOluch of treason, for
us ever to mollify the crime and palliate the guilt
of those who decrccd that human slavery should he
perpetual, even though ii cost the life of the Rcpub-
lie. That nation shall deserve to be blottet out. and
that people utterly TO perish, if ever they shall cease
to regard such II rebellion, as one of the most mon
strous of crimes.
But the guns that fired on Fort Sumter Weakened
an echo of patriotism in the people of the North
which surprised themselves hardly less than the
guilty instigltors of the rebellion. The most san
guine lovers of liberty at the North and West had
not dared to hope for 81 much patriotism in any ma
tional crisis. The plotters of treason ut the South
were startled 10y it; but pride and presumption for
babe them to draw back. Only the most discerning
Of European statesmen recognized it a. the resistleSs
uprising of a great people; an avalanche of popular
Justice, which no gigantic wrong and no organized
iniquity could withstand. Tie CottonOcracy, conf
dent OF an easy if not n blooilcSs victory, had not
counted upon this. The foreign Secretaries of some
OF the strongest as well as some of the weakest ma
tons, covertly if not openly sympathiling with the
made unseemly haste to proclaim b~eliger-
emit rights placing a great friendly power. with
which they had long been allied, under equal dis
utilities with rebels who had hardly gained as yet a
status as organized States. | shall not venture here
10 hint that some of them, with yet more unseernly
lelay, have failed as yet To- revoke that obnoxious
proclamation so that, as the record stands, an ex-
rebel cruiser might enter this port Tomorrow and
haunt the rebel rag in our faces, and the HIWGiiIR
gaLy would have the right, If not the power, To re-
train yonder ship-of-war from administering that
swift retribution to rebel cruisers always due.
Over-contident that the power of the United States
was destined to he permanently divided and weak
ned, European Diplomats stultiied themselves by
Irging that the treaty Of Paris, making privateering
piracy. should be indorsed by the Unitel States and
when they were willing to do this, inserting the re
narkable proviso, that its principles should not be
applied to the privatcers of the Contederacy during
he then present war. Equity So unselish, human
~ so discriminating, magnanimity 80 refreshing
duly appreciated at Washington, and the poll
icians of Europe were permitted to establish a pre-
edent, the consequences of which they must in all
uture wars abide. Retribution may lie slow, but it
= ,a,,r;Ilr Sura blind ;ustice WEIGHS with imnarti,I