The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-07-05

| over, to guide US IN the pains OF peace 6eorg
Washington the great soldier, the noble Christian
/ the incorruptible statesman, and the unambitioui
citizen, Our success may not have been due more t
bis military genius than to that of others; but hi
! character ennobled our and purified our mo
! tives in the eyes of the world.
The war is over. The long struggle and thu
bitter suffering are ended. The dove of peace fold
| his wings over our beloved land. The Confedera
ton has become a Union, and the doors of the tenn
! pie of Freedom are opened widely to welcome the
! oppressed Of every land. Washington and Adam;
nations first rulers, and, under their guild
! ance, our national life commences, and career Of
! prosperity is inaugurated.
A few years eapse, and we lay our Washington to
rest amidst a nations mourning bat patriotleade
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 ein6roiled for second time 10 with the mo
Their county. 1t is but a brief struggle but it i:
long enough to gain undying fame for our navy,
under such leaders as Perry aud 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 see
various national questions agitatiug the country.
The Missouri compromise; the Notification ques-
ton-iu which the Serpent of Secession was born
and, above all, the Anti slavery question, which
from its first discussion Incorporated itself in every
political campaign, and brought forth the Fugitive
Slave law. During these years territory &C.
Quired both North and South, by treaty purchase
aud the " Gates of the West" the mouths Of the
Mississippi were embraced in the acquisition. The
with Mexico, our only truly foreign war, belongs
to this PERIOD in which army, small in numbers
but great in yaIor under the heroic lead of Scott and
Taylor, defeated the enemy in every field, though
always out-numbered and at the end of three brief
years. the contest was ended with the capture of
MexcUs capital city and the alienation of her Pa
chc dominion. The Slavery question now became
the chief political subject, agitating the country
from the Canadian frontier to the Gulf Of Mex leo,
until arrived at 1861, the fatal year of the Re-
beliOn, which had its origin in the great mistake
of fore fathers, who, when they rang out Free
dom to all made 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, bat repetition of that first shot at Concord
arOusing the whole nation. This is still fresh
in memories, and calls for recapitulatOn here
We need only that its termination saw the
Union maintained, and the slave ena ucipated with
the casting off of whose shackles, the only Of
dssensi0n between the citizens of this great Re-
public ceased to exist As the of the revolution
gave birth great statesmen, soldiers and sailors
the of the Rebellion did likewise, and gave
a Lincoln, q Grant, and a Farregut Tue latter
guided armies and navy to victory, while
the former directed craftsmanship and when the
battle flags were furled fulfilled the duty of the Sa
maritan pouring in oil and wine upon che wounds Of
the enemy, and soothing his mind with paternul
sympathy. Who forget those words Of
charity and forgiveness. addressed to the nation,
when, for the second time he called to preside
over its dcstinies. "W With malice towards none,
with charity for all, with frmness in the right, as
God gives US to see the right, let us strive 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 just and lasting
peace among ourselves, and with all nations" But
few weeks after these sweet utterances of Christian
love- the drama closes with the death of that great
man by the hand of a fanatical assassin. The
nation mOurned with grief which has never been
paralleled in human history for their second pater
patrial, and wonid not be conforted The simpli-
city, honesty, aud fidelity Of this good mans heart,
his earnest and patriotic purpose through all the
dark days Of the war, carried out without fear, and
only 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
had been deprived of its leader at the moment of
complete victory but the South had lost its best
with schemes for the restoration Of its prosperity
and happiness.
But the Republic was not dead, though its chief
magistrate lay covered with the funeral pail.
brief paralysis, and the nation moves onward, re-
gaining its material strength which the prolonged
war had somewhat emascuated, binding up thewouuds
Of its Southern brethren, and aiding them to
with rs the march Of progress. The North, and the
South The blue and the grey, side by side, with
no dividing sectional difference Separate again the
national interest. The results of the war were
accepted by those who had thrown down the gage
Of battle The good fight for the Union had been
fought; and our flags baptized in the fires of many
battles, restored to without single star
botted from its azure field.
Thus have we permitted to pass before US some of
the phantoms Of our cOuntrys history. But inter
with it ALL is another history Of great men who
have risen amongst us,-many of whom have COM
peted their good work, and been gathered to their
fathers,-with whom material advancement
is inseparably associated. Before your mental vision
rises without detation the long galaxy of statesmen
who have adorned legislatures, presided the
nation, represented in foreign lands, from the
days Of Adams, Jefferson and Franklin, to those of
Clay, Webster and Sumner our great generals from
Montgomery. Putnam, Stark, and Wayne, to Grant,
Sherman, Thomas, and Sheridan naval heroes
from Paul Jones, Lawrence, and Perry to Farragut,
Porter, and Cushing.
Mechanical ingenuity has, in land, seen its
greatest trumphs in the inventions of the GIN
the steamboat the electric telegraph, and the sewing
machine Science has achieved a worldwide fame
through the discoveries and abors Of Franklin, Morse
and Dana. In modern literature there few names
filling higher place on the scroll of Fame than Ir-
wing, Cooper, Hawthorne, Motley and Emerson; or
Longfeow, Bryant. Whittier aud Lowell while in
the arts boast the of Copley, Alstcn,
Church and Bierstadt among painters. and in sculp
ture Powers, Crawford, Story and Harriet Hosmer.
Would you observe material and social progress
60 to that eastern city where independence
first proclaimed. There is met to-day a " congress
of nations, under palace roofs assembled on the in
vitation of the Great Republic to compare her ad
vancement with their own. From all parts Of the
world from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the isles of
the sea- they have come with the best products Of
their culture industry, and skill, to place them in
friendly competition and here, the display of
own products, with demonstration of our resources
and achievements, we shall find an epitome of our
position in all that makes the wealth and greatness
Of nation
The Centennial morning dawns As the fiery
chariot of the God of Day rises from the bosom of the
Atlantic, and the mountain peaks catch his first
beams, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, the
lannon's voice is heard from ten thousand threats Of
iron, hailing the birthday of the Nation and the
chorus Of thunder is swollen into ean Of praise by
the mingng shouts of patriotism. As the sun moves
upwards in his what does he look upon this
Centennial morning? He finds Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the Uuited States for the second time,
and ruling over n happy and prosperous country at
peace with all mankind. The thirteen states of the
Atlantic sea-board with less than three millions Of
people, have increased to thirty eight states and
eleven territories with population Of forty mil
lions. Passing the eastern forests she has conquered
the treeless praires moved to the Rocky Mountains
and far Western Serras; scaled their snow-capped
SUBMITS, and embraced the slopes of the Pacific with
their stores of gold and silver She has increased in
every material way, and accumulated enormous
wealth has covered the sea with shipping, and ex-
tended her commerce to the ends of the world; she
has feed her forests I'LL their place with cultivated
farms, and popuOus cities centers Of manufac-
ture she has gathered all her children into schools
and colleges her land is covered With network Of
railroads. teegraphs and CANALS while her rivers and