The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-07-11

Will. after all, ma II ratner pieaSihl uoNSAnS y
steam towards the millennium of free schools and uni
versal suffrage. Let Tories only continue TO outWit
the Progressives in charging the circle OF voters
and Radicals to outwind the Conservatives IN free
ing the land of established churches, and ofd Eng,
land, and the world Of Fourth OF July devotees, VIII
have occasion for ever increasing Jubllation.
La Belle France is just now so encased IN accou-
trements of war-so engaged, in common with the
neighboring nations, IN keeping the peace-,hat sne
cannot do more this bright sunny morning than give
US a polite military salute But even France Is look
ing towards the Frightening future, and IT would be
no matter Of surprise if the apparent efforts of her
present Napoleon, to give her a little more hDerty,
should any day result in her taking more liberty than
he might think best for her own, or even for his own,
highest good.
Italy is struggling against great difficulties, both
internal and external, towards a practcai UNITY ;
and though she has been painfully and shauefully
checked. it may be that retardation was necessary
for proper consolidation. The next great shock Of
European arms may burst the ecclesiastical barriers
that detain her outside the Capital of Italy. =,
Protestant Germany, under the needle-gun ana
general education, has suddenly sprung into a first
class nationality, based on affinity of race, accounting
to the present best law of national development IN
Europe. Her constitutional Government, giving
large exercise of the franchise to all her subjects, Is a
fit matter of rejoicing to every progressive pilgrim
from the glorious German Fatheriand.
Catholic Austria-cold, impressive Austria-also
moves. Hungarian nationality has been restored (;
and the awakened Emperor, rather than abdicate his
throne, has broken his hberty-crushlng COncordat
with the Pope. Even Austria moves.
The Islanders of Crete, as did the Greeks of forty
five years ago, have thrilled the heart Of humanity by
their heroic attempts at emancipation from the bar
barities of Turkish rule, and for union with their
kindred of the Kingdom of Greece. While our hearts
sicken at the horrid details, our souls exult that again
we have evidence of the most undaunted heroism tor
liberty, the Cretans being pledged, in the burning
words of Daniel Webster, in 1924, regarding Greece
40 to persevere until they shall have established their
liberty, or until the power of their oppressors shall
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The Sultan of Turkey was reused for a little while
year visiting his Royal Cousins in France and
but he seems to have yielded again to his
sleepy :. fate" 1t is said, however, that railroads
are about being built from the Mediterranean to the
Persian Gulf, and if so, Fourth of July Celebrations
in due time raise the dust along the Euphrates.
And, strangest of all, the Manchu rulers of the
Celestial Empire, having studied in their own Ian
the exposition of International Law by the
illustrious American Wheaton, now put the arrange
ment of their external relations into the hands of an
other illustrious American, and are seriously endeav-
oring to bring themselves into harmony with the
spirit of the age. May success attend the effort, and
it spread through all the teeming Asiatic homes
our race, and even react favorably on the present
foreign and home policy of the Kingdom Of the ka-
Friends Of Progress, the American Eagle, from his
soaring height, sees all the petty perturbations of
this lower earth, but they do not rufie a feather over
his undaunted bosom as he returns the fiery gaze OF
yonder sun. So need not we be disturbed by any
mlSSulutu dttcIuptSs tuul /" SuINSJ VIC may uic-
cover, on the interests of America and Liberty. 1t
we're not meet, this glowing day, to damp our hearts
by records of failure and retrogression, whether un-
or willful 1t is sufficient to indicate that
there are such, and then to stimulate, each the other,
to another years enthusiastic labor in developing all
is good and great in humanity.
The idea Of nationality founded on oneness of race,
is certainly an advance on the arbitrary divisions
in Europe by the Ua-holy Alliance of fifty
years ago. We hail the idea as one OF progress, as
one indicating that the people themselves will have
somewhat to say regarding their own national rela-
lions. But in America we have a bond far stronger
han that of blood. Oneness in freedom is more than
oneness of race. Equal rights and free manhood are
\ broader basis than color, language or origin. To
10 by our neighbor man, in politics, as We would be
lone by, is the surest of national bonds. This prin-
siple, which received one of its most formal express
,ions in l776, is the germ of that life which is TO re-
to one brotherhood the scattered tribes of all
nations and chimes. Let this but continue to grow
Is it has grown the last ninety-two years, and not
sery many ages hence there will be virtually but one
on the face of this earth ; not, perhaps, the
Yankee nation, but a confederation of nations, in
which the principles we today celebrate will have
heir full development and glory.
Again, We may to-day learn from our review of
recent Human Progress, that it is not so much blood
,r climate which makes n people and nation as Prin-
,iple. We must not wildly reject the plain fact that
physical circumstance affects mind and character
Tor must we over-estimate the power of external,
physical influences and conditions. Man is not
mainly material, but mainly immaterial Materiai,
physical, circumstances 10 indeed a1Iect MIN, Dut mat
which reaches his mind and his higher spiritual ma
ure influences him vastly more. Right Principles,
rue and noble, will produce a people true and noble,
whether under polar cold or torrid heat The tropics
ire moderated, and races under the torrid zone are
lot understood. When the principles of Christianity
principles of the Fourth of July-shall have
ully reached them, there will be no more sturdy
of law and of right than the now obse-
,uious Hindustani, or the proverbially luxurious
Islander of the Pacific.
We, American citizens on these Hawaiian Islands,
90 freely excuse indiiferentism to heightened princi-
BE in ourselves and others, because of the climate
The climate is made to bear the burden of sins not its
'wn. The delicious balmy air of these evergreen
stands may indeed have some drawbacks, but there
also much in it to directly assist in a life Of virtue,
ntellectuality, and intensest activity in every good
nd noble enterprise. 1t is not the climate that re-
axes us, but the contagion of lax principles.
1t is not the change from a high to n low latitude
which so lowers the tone of many that travel SOUTH
ward from the centres of virtue and liberty. Ii that
gere all, the importation of ice might help correct
hat sad contagion. of late become so notorious
.mong us, of hoopiii-mea-di.s 1t is not ice, or any |
hange of external circumstances, but active, intel |
igent virtue which is needed in any region, tropic or
to correct easy-going acquiescence in the
grong.
No, lovers Of liberty. God has not doomed the most
beautiful of the zones of the earth, in
onseauence of a few additional degrees of heat, to
weller forever under the miasms of ignorant LETTER.
y. The principles we to-day celebrate, are what
re needed, and are all that are needed, to render
he tropics the political Edens of earth.
There may, and will, be men as undaunted and
rue under the equator as under 40 north latitude.
'es, and we already have on our own sunny Islands,
has been abundantly seen during the last few
Teeks, men of as sturdy political virtue as any in
older lands. All honor, this Glorious Fourth, to
he scandinavian, and Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Ha-
allan, and to the plebian and noble-born Hawaiian,
tho in Legislative Assembly. unin1uenced by cli-
late, or food, or drink, or the tinkling of high
ounding title, have stood unflinchingly by the Free
ON of Speech, and the Freedom of the Press, and
y all the true interests Of the Hawaiian nation.
And now, Fellow Citizens, it only remains for me
} express the hope that before another Fourth OF
the United States of America will have entered
n another epoch of truest glory to itself and of be-
efcence to the world, under the Presidency OF
'LYsEs s. GRANT.
The Grafton was replete with patriotic senti-
tents and was well delivered. The speaker was fire.
uently interrupted with warm applause from the
especially when he referred to freedom
{ speeeh and of the press. which have So recent