The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-01-21
Baraiialt 6azette.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1880.
Bob IngersoIr's EIoquence.
HIS SPEECH AT THE GRANT RECEPTION IN
Gen. Sherman said:

CHICAGO.
Gen. Sherman said:
Gentlemen-I now invite your attention to
the twelfth regular toast, "The Volunteer
Soldier of the Union Army, whose valor and
patriotism saved to the world government
of the people, by the people, and for the peo-
ple.'" Response by Col. Ingersoil.
An ovation greeted the orator al he mounted
the table and smiled on his vast collection of
hearers. 1t was kept up at frequent inter-
walls during the course of the following re-
Spouse:
When slavery, in the savagery of the lash,
and the barbarism of the chain, and the in
sanity of secession [applausel confronted the
civilization Of our country, the question,
"Will the great republic defend itself?''
trembed upon the lips of every lover of man.
kind. [Applause.1 The grand North filled
with intelligence and wealth, the products of
labor, marshaled her hosts and asked only
for leader. From the people a man, silent,
thoughtfully poised and calm, stepped for
ward, and with the lips of victory voiced the
nations first and last demand-unconditiona
and immediate surrender. [Applause.l From
that moment the end was known. That utter
ance was the first real declaration of real war,
and in accordance with the dramatic unity
of mighty events, the soldier who made il
received the final sword of rebellion. Loud
applause The soldiers of the republic were
not seekers for vulgar glory, neither were
they animated by the hope of plumber, or love
of cruel conquest No, no, never. They
fought to defend the homesteads of liberty
and that their children might have peace,
Applause
They were the defenders of humanity, the
destroyers of prejudice, the breakers of chains
and, in the name of the future, slew the mon
ster of time. They finished what the soldiers
of the revolution commenced. They have
relit the torch that fell from their august
hands and filled the world again with light
They blotted out from our statute books the
laws passed by hypocrites at the instigation
of robbers loud applause and tore with
brave and indignant hands from the constitu-
ton of the United States that infamous clause
that made men the catchers of their fellow
men. [Applause.l They made it possible
for judges to be just, for statesmen to be
humane, and for politicians to be honest
Laughter and applause They broke the
shackles from the limbs of slaves, from the
souls of masters, and from the Northern brain.
They kept our country on the map of the
world and our flag in heaven. [Applause
They rolled the stone from the sepulchre OF
progress, and found therein two angels clad
in shining garments-Nationality and Liberty.
loud applause.l
The soldiers were the saviors of the re-
public; they were the liberators of men. In
writing the Proclamation of Emancipation,
Lincoln, greatest of our mighty dead ap-
plause, whose memory is as a gentle Summer
air when reapers sing amid gathered sheaves
[applause,] copied with the pen what the
grand hand of brave comrades had written
with their swords. [Applause.] Grander
than the Greek, nObler than the Roman, the
soldiers of the republic, the patriotism as
careless as the air, fought for the rights of
others, for the nobility of labor, and battled
that mother might own her child loud and
prolonged applause,l that arrogant idleness
should not scar the back of patient toll
[cheers, and that our country should not be
many-headed monster, made of warning
States, but nation. sovereign, grand and
free. Applause. Blood was water, money
was leaves, and life was only common air,
until one flag foated over one republic, with
out a master and without a slave. Pro-
longed applause and ringing cheers. And
then was asked the question, will free
people voluntarily tax themselves to pay a
Nations debt? The soldiers went home to
their waiting wives, to their glad children,
and to the girls they loved. Laughter and
applause. They went back to the fields, the
shops, the mines. They had not been demo-
ralized. They had been ennobled. Cheers.
Mocking at reverses, laughing at poverty,
they made friend of toll. They said eve
saved the nations life, and what is life with
out honor?" Loud applause.] They worked
and wrought with all of labor's royal sons,
that every pledge the nation made might be
redeemed. Cheers And their great leader
having put shining band of friendship, a
girdle of clasped and loving hands, round the
globe, came home to find, and finds, that
every promise made in war has now the ring
and CLEAN of gold. Enthusiastic cheers.]
There is another question still. Will all
the wounds of war be healed? 1 answer,
yes. IA voice, "Good.''] The Southern
people must submit A voice "Thank Goo" "
Not to the dictation of the North, but TO a
nations will and the verdict of mankind.
[Great applause.] They were wrong, and
the time will come when they will say that
the people are the victors who have been van
pushed by the right Freedom conquered
them, and freedom will cultivate their fields,
will educate their children, will weave robes
of wealth, will execute the laws, and fill their
lands with happy homes. Frantic applause
The soldiers of the Union saved the South as
well as the North. More applause.] They
gave US a nation Ia voice-with big NJ
They gave US liberty here, and their grand
victories have made tyranny the world over
as insecure as snow upon the lips of VOLCANOES.
Ringing applause.
And now let US drink to the Volunteers, to
those who sleep in unknown and sunken
graves, whose names are known only to the
hearts they loved and left, to those who oft
in happy dreams can see the footsteps of re-
turn. Let us drink to those who died where
lifeless famine Knocked at want Let US drink
to the MANNED whose scars give modesty a
tongue. Let us drink to those who dared,
and gave to chance the care and keeping of
their lives. Let us drink to all the living and
to all the dead-to Sherman and to Sheridan
and to Grant, the laureled soldier world [ring-
ing and lasting applause,l and last to Lincoln,
whose loving life, like bow of peace, spans
and arches all the clouds of war.
Life of Charles Lever.