The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-07-08

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grown ZAP 20 strength AID cYaleaee, AID protected by
relieve u from the weight g that heavy tG-3ru uu
der which we le." aud wtu ferFfd slcsUe1Ec Barre
responds. They planted by your cafcr No tsey
were Fi41tei y yclr cFPrcsslsa Ihcy nsuishcd
by your indulgence They grew up iy year neglect
They protected ~ F1EE arms IGey have uobE TAX
en- III arms i1 yeaF defence. They are, i believe. -
truly loyal a- any subjects the King has. iut - PEE.
PIE Jealous 81 their liberties. and who viii y~inLicatc
taem il ;hcy ever should be violated We see the
news 70: this debate creating the widest excitement
in Ameres. aad the enforcement q the act was rc.is-
tel by Massschu-eit-. Maryland, Connecticut aEd
Rhode Island.
The stamp Scr. entered taxation without repre-
S~entaji1n. s-I i5e Boston Post Bill, were steps by
which ,he advance was made, through a period Of
tea years, towards revolution aad when. With
Lexington ard Concord, " the shot vas fred, heard
round the world the war was actually begun. All
hesitation was now abandoned, and = congress was
called together for the purpose Of deciding the future
of the oppressed Amerieaa colonies.
on the 4th Of July. 1875. this body Of representa-
tyes. after many days Of delibeTation. assembled in
Independence Hall, in the city Of Philadelphia, snd
solemnIy protested against Eaglani's aEEressions
upon her colonies, p~r0claiming the "inalicnable rights
Of all subjects Of life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness The inspired pen Of Thomas Jefferson
drew up the Indictment Cf wrongs, and the represen-
tatiyes Of the people, appealing to the Supreme
Being % bear witness 20 the roctitude 81 :heir in
tentions. declared that the English colonies Of
America were, from that time forth, free and indie
pendent States. As the last bold signature was
Fenned, a youthful messenger ran from The Hall,
crying " Ring ring ring and his grey haired
father swRyed the bell hanging in the turret OF the
old hall, pToclaiming 10 the people without that the
United Colonies had made their Declaration Of In
dependence and, as its tone pierced the Summer
air, it vibrated 70 the remotest corner Of the earth,
where purity Of motive Is appreciated or Freedom
cherished. But now the torch Of terror was lighted
on the mountain tops, and for eight long years
England struggled with her eolonies-who were only
aided by the sympathy aud assistance Of FTanCe,-tO
enforce unconstitutional laws upon those who had
been her loyal children. The distance Of these
colonies frrn home the var -punulRrifV of the NaF
in which the great body of the English people saw
the element Of injustice, the repeated disasters on
sea and land, to disciplined troops and her proud
navy but, above all, the determined attitude Of
the United Thirteen, whether victorious or defeated,
at last produced the inevitable results.
With the surrender of Lord Corvallis and his
army to the United French and American forces, on
the 10th Of October, 1871, the war was practically
ended; and, two years later with the Treaty Of
Paris, the United States of America took her proud
position among the Nations of the earth.
In this long contest fo- the principles Of universal
Freedom, a man was brought forth for the occasion,
as though sent of God, like another Joshua. to lead
our armies, and, when the battle and strife was
over. to guide us in the paths of peace. George
Washington! the great soldier, the noble Christian,
the incorruptible statesman, and the unRmbitious
citizen, Our success may not have been due more to
his military genius than to that of others but his
character ennobled our cause and purified our mo
tiyes in the eyes of the world.
The war is over. The long struggle and the
bitter suffering are ended. The dove of peace folds
his wings over our beloved land. The Confedera-
(tJA "a d tAltA AZ AAN hSbAs VI a. NNA-
pie of Freedom are opened widely to welcome the
oppressed of every land. Washington and Adams
are our nations first rulers, and, under their guild
ance, our national life commences, and a career of
prosperity is inaugurated.
A few years elapse, and we lay our Washington to
rest amidst a nations mourning but patriot leaders,
tried in the fires of the revolution, take his place,
and the march of our progress is not retarded.
Nearly a quarter of a century passes, when we
are embroiled for a second time in war with the mo-
Their country. 1t is but a brief struggle, but it is
long enough to gain undying fame for our navy,
under such leaders as Perry and Hall, and closes
with the glorious victory of New Orleans, in which
General Andrew Jackson defeated the flower of the
British Army, fresh from the humiliation Of the first
Napoleon upon the field of Waterloo.
Through the terms of many Presidents we see
various national questions agitating the country.
The Missouri compromise the Notification ques-
tion-in which the Serpent of Secession was born
and, above all, the Antislavery question, which
from its first discussion incorporated itself in every
political campaign, and brought forth the Fugitive
Slave law. During these years territory was ac-
quired both North and South, by treaty or purchase,
and the " Gates of the West" the mouths Of the
Mississippi, were embraced in the acquisition. The
war with Mexico, our only truly foreign war, belongs
to this period, in which our army, small in numbers
but great in valor, under the heroic lead of Scott and
Taylor, defeated the enemy in every field, though
always ou~t-numbered, and, at the end of three brief
years, the contest was ended with the capture of
hiexicO's capital city and the alienation of her Pa
cifc dominion: The Slavery question now became
the chief political subject, agitating the country
from the Canadian frontier to the Gulf Of Mexico,
until we arrived at 1861, the fatal year of the Re
bellion, which had its origin in the one great mistake
of our fOre-fathers, who, when they rang out Free
dom to ALL" made an exception of the African in
bondage. The hour for the trial Of Republican
principles, and the strength Of our Union had ar
rived and the firing on Fort Sumter was, in its
effect, but a repetition Of that first shot at Concord,
arOusing the whole nation. This war is still fresh
in our memories, and calls for no recapitulation here.
We need only remember that its termination saw the
Union maintained, and the slave emanoipated with
the casting off of whose ~shaokles, the only cause of
between the citizens Of this great Re-
public ceased to exist. As the war Of the revolution
gave birth to great statesmen, soldiers and sailors,
so the war of the Rebellion did likewise, and gave us
a Lincoln, a Grant, and a Farragut. The latter
guided our armies and our navy TO victory, while
the former directed our craftsmanship, and when the
battle flags were furled, fulfilled the duty Of the Sa-
marian, pouring in oil and wine upon the wounds of
the enemy, and soothing his mind with paternal
Who can ever forget those words of
charity and forgiveness, addressed to the nation,
when, for the second time, he was called to preside
over its destiniss. "With malice towards none,
with charity for all, with frmness in the right, as
God gives US to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work We are in, to bind up the nations
wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves, and with all nations" But
a few weeks after these sweet utterances Of Christian
love, the drama closes with the death of that great
by the hand of a fanatical assassin. The
nation mourned with a grief which has never been
in human history for their second pater
patrial, and wonld not be conforted. The simpli-
,ity, honesty, aud fidelity of this good mans heart,
ais earnest and patriotic purpose through all the
lark days of the war, carried out without fear, and
controlled by his large and sympathetic nature,
made the nation sob as one being, and pour out one
grand libation of tears to his memory. The North
lad been deprived Of its leader at the moment Of
complete victory but the South had lost its best
riend busy, almost in the last moment of his life,
schemes fog the restoration Of its prosperity
nd happiness.
But the Republic was not dead, though its chief
magistrate lay covered with the funeral pail. A
paralysis, and the nation moves onward, re-
aiming its material strength which the prolonged
Ear had somewhat emasculated, binding up thewounds
f its Southern brethren, and aiding them to resume
With is the march of progress. The North, and the
'Outh The blue and the grey, side By side, with
10 dividing sectional difference to separate again the
lational interest. The results Of the war were