Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-07-08

| An an sel.,uard Of love and graces lie;
Around her knoe. domestic duties meet
sa RS .po hs Ct ssh be
nou ss.S and So%sep thy ioo,.1ssps roam
That land nv country aud that spot Nv homsi
. Our eyes are dim-uot with tho sprny of OF,
Ocss las we turn away from our longing East
ward gato. We look around; wroathed ovei
Countless doorways, floating from 6sg-staffs, anC
IN ,st.heads we SEQ the SrAns AND SrurFs. III,
mist In our eyes bscomes n rain
vnv does this bit Of bunting thus touch ou
efned he,rts1 Because 1t Is the sign OF ou
Nationality. and becauee America has stitched
and dyed into u our Democracy, and certain
| grand ideas
WHAT IS rHB MEANING OF the fIAo-oUB FLAG
10 me 1t means three things: I. A sentiment; 2
me symbol OF certain truths; and .. II isa power
Ih ssntirsr, o. patriotic f.eiiag ieifch cteatsd
ING reg, aud mhieh The sight of IL sirs ~ or hsnrts
Nhht ~ the reason of this sensation, or emotion
that swells the bosom and vets the ewes when per.
haps suddenly, far away in the mids, of the Pacific
or IN Oriental seas, the Stars AND SrRIrEs ripples
Al erican home however humble. in these Islands
do you dnd the old Flag7 Becau,e II means our
country, home and native land. 1t means pro-
lection, IN return for love and loyalty Ii means
citizenship, and that back of tho humblost Amori.
can over whom II floats stand fifty millions OF PEG.
PIC pledged to support him, in every cline, in bis
inaiienable rights Of life, liberty and the pursuit
OF happiness." That Flag 10 your hom @ is AMgnfc.
II is the Government aud portable State No
onarch pope or power, dares violate 1t, or touch
u, a.,
mob bold possession of the city, burning and
p,iiaging at their pleasure. An American hung
over his doorway the Stars AND STRIPES, aud the
mop respected that house rs If 1t had been one of
their churches.
This feeling In the Flag is one Of tho strongest
IN our nature: After love of God and of kindred
losophers like Buckle, tell us how the climate the
scenery, tho soil where we were born and bred
affect and mould US.
II am a cosmopolite," said Bayard Taylor "but
I Anna all ,
49, L his sentiment Is as wholesome rs IL is deep.
Whore our birth place liz tho spot OF our nurture;
whore nature impressed "a frst with her beauty,
bright IN tho sunshine, fearful In tho storm;
whore the brook ran, and tho sea roared, and tho
tide ebbcd and flowed, aud the bills stood and tho
summer rain and winter snow in our childhood tell
whero arc the graves Of our fathers aud mothers
and patriot dead; the place whence the elements
came into us 70 form this wonderful framo OF flesh
nnd blood and mako Us what VIC are; and where
beloved spirits, angels and messengers of grace,
hover unseen over the old homo, Ia II any wonder
that We love il ?
Who never to himself hath said,
Whose hear, hath n ne ' within I him burned,
p, From wandering on a foreign sranai
y y such there breathe. so, mark him WELL
ss!gh though his ti;e,, proud hi. name,
Boundle.s his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite these titles power and polf
Living shall e icFiei, isr re- rene 10 ,s"
And, douby dying, shall go down
unwept, unhonored and unsung"
Deep and tender in the breast of every true
man - this love of country. Love Of country 1t
Is self-love. What arc we but part Of the country
which we love Oar .country-AMrRIoA ia not
outside of us but within us also-inyisible parcel
Of ourolvos. "we arc members one of another.''
and Limbo or atoms of the Naton-that grand
Person which the Father has made our Mother here
below.
so, because the Old Flag, baptized and rebaptized
in tho blood of fathers brothers and sons, SYM
eolizes AMERICA our country, tho sight Of stirs
our hearts quickens our pulse beat, and bedews
eyes II takes Its color IL is fresh, and does
not fade, because II has been dipped often and
SO deep In our own veins, and dyed anew in our
patriotic devotion and trust.
III. The sight OF the Stars nnd Stripes quickens
the emotiona Of every true American BECAUSE IT
rs THE SYMBOL OF CERTAIN dnHAT TRUTHS.
l.. e ne symbol Of rational unity. By four
ouis was not Confederation of Sovereign
Statea, but Nation that Star once added TO
tho Flag cannot drop out, or DO torn from it, any
more than planet can DO torn from the frma-
ment: that, thirteenth thirty eighth, tho Star
once stitched in yonder field OF blue, once craven
on the shield of the Nation, there il must remain
forever.
Well said JAMES ABsAM GARFIELD in his naugu-
raj address
Tho supremacy of the Nation and its laws is
no longer subject of debate That discussion,
which for half n century threatened the existence
of the Union, was closed at last in the high court
of war, b. decree from which there ia appeal"
are two crossed swords. One was tho sword car
ried by the grandfather of the owner of that home
on the field of Bunker Hill and the other was the
sword carried by the English grandsire of his wife
on the same field, and on the other side of the
conflict. Under those crossed swords, in tho bar
mony Of domestic peace live happy and con-
Republican institutions. So, North and South,
Americans have crossed their swords and locked
their shields In defense Of this idea of Nationality
" The Union-it must and shall be preserved ~ is
Of hfty millions of freemsn.
2. Ihs Flag is the symbol Of Liberty. The
homo and kindred. Driven from old England,
Laws, freedom, truth and faith In God,
Came with those sxiles DER the waves"
They sought liberty Of the body and liberty Of
tho old bell In Independence Hall, which ranl
forth the glorious tldings, boro as motto around
it's brason mouth, "pro0laim liberty unto all the
inhabitants thereof"
How strange, how rnonstrous, 1t seems to us now
that Nation builded by such liberty loving mon,
and founded on such aPrinoiPls-a Nation tnat
and oppressed, and covered every IN tive from
tyranny with Its protecting shiold-should have,
for scores Of years, cherished and protected
African slavery as ons Of its peculiar institu
TONS"
But at last "the cup Of slavery's iniquity was
full" Whom the gods would destroy they frs,
on mra az a @ ess
soldier from tho Northland was Moses called of
God. They wont down into that Egypt, and they
lod ont four millions Of Gods poor to manhood
and freedom
Slavery perishod when Gods anger was kind!ed
but little, and America was free, not only in
name but In truth. Well wrote Whittier OH that
glad day:
ut Is douei
Clang OF bell and roar OF gun
Send the tidings mp aud down.
How the belfries rock and reeli
How the great guns, peal on peal,
Fling the Joy from town to town"
Now, the Stars and Stripes are doubly dear.
because they float no longer over slave. Now
they are In truth symbol
FOR Freedom 10 the name Of Him