The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-12
Gov. chamberlain,s Speech at Lexington.

leone. fellow-eitizens, 10 remind you, on this
great day, Of the early, unbroken Friendship be
tween Massachusetts, and South Carolina through
out the whole revolutionary period. Differing,
however, widely n Lineage, IN habits, in instltu-
ti5ns, they were still bound together by a COM
mon love for civil freedom. Together they
watched the beginnings Of tyranny, together they
planned resistance, together they declared their
independence from Great Britain. together with
their lives and fortunes they maintained that de-
c~laration through the long war. together they
devised the fabric of government under which the
Republic has grown 10 its present proportions,
together they lave long labOred 70 build up the
strength, the prosperity aud the glory OF America
Those precious memories OF the past are secure.
To-day, at least, we nav recall them. At Lex
ington. surely, South Carolina may still claim 4
place 70 do honor TO the common cause OF Amer
lean Liberty and independence. | know that l
am commissioned here, to-day, 10 say tor South
Carolina that she joins with equal gratitude and
reverence with all her sisters Of the early days IN
honoring the nineteenth of April, IT'S; that she
claims her share in the glory of the struggle be-
gun at Lexington; that as Of old she babe Mas
sachusetts cheer in the struggle, so now she
unites with her in these patriotic services.
1t is not for me, it is not for any one, on this
occasion, to speak of latter events, IN which these
two ancient allies stood face to face as enemies.
Who that has an American heart does not rejoice
that, back Of all the recent bitter struggle. there
lies the gracious heritage OF those common labors,
dangers and sacrifices in founding this common
government? Who that looks with Il just eye
even on that recent struggle does not now see,
on either side, the same high elements OF eharac-
ter, the courage, the devotion to duty, the moral
lineaments of the Adamses and the Hancocks,
the Gadsdens and Rutleges of a hundred years
ago? Who that has faith in the destiny of Amer
lea does not see In the early friendship, ay, and
even in this latter conflict, potency and promise
of that coming Union under whose protection
liberty shall forever walk hand in hand with
Justice, wherein the North and the South, re-
united in spirit and aims, shall again respond to
every call of patriotic duty in the old tones Of
Samuel Adams and Christopher Gadsden, OF
James Otis and John Rutledge That spirit still
lives, fellow citizens, in South Carolina. If in
later days she has erred, forgive her, for even
then she dared and suffered with a courage and
patience not unworthy IN its strength of the days
when Gadsden and Rutledge illustrated her civic
wisdom, and Sumter and Marion her martial
proves. " Magnanimity,' says Mr.. Burke, 'is
not seldom the truest wisdom and a great EN-
pire and little minds go ill together"
Fellow-citizens, / offer you, to-day, the frater.
nal, patriotic greetings of South Carolina-of all
music of that Union which, u hundred years ago
her wisdom helped to devise and her blood to
cement. There, in that hallOwed Union, endeared
and sanctifed by 60 many blessed memories, there,
there she " must live or bear no life Oh, wei
come her anew, to-day, with honor. Let US,
therefore, build in the hearts of all the people
that imperishable monument, " an Indestruetible
Union of indestructiblc States"