The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-26

D a. 5. Hartwell, Frank P. Hastings, Hon. B. H.
A. F Judd, DR.. c. NJ. Hyde, P. c. Jones, J. o.
Carter. 5. D. Dole, John H. Patty, E P Adams, 5.
: G. Wilder, Jas. \. Hopper c. FurneauH, Robert
Levers. Z. L. Hendry, W. C. Parke. A. q. Ellis,
C.. o. Berger, Thomas Foster. S. n. Castles. L. l..
Rice, c. Manglss, W. P. Toler, G. E. Howe, DR.. 5.
c. Damon. 4. IL. Spencer, NJ. LOuissOn. y. NJ
Damon, Prof. w. D. Alexander, Jas. G. Spencer,
J. F. Brown, Chas. Hustace, w. P. Rowell, DIE.
Thacher. W n Graham, C. spreekelse j. B,
Brown, G. q. Williams, NJ. Hyman, r. W. Lame,
NJ. Green, H A. Parmelee*, W. A. Whiting, y. o..
WE. Aliens, Dr.J. S. McGrew, JIM. Davidson, W.
Il. Castle, W. O. Smith, B. Dillingham;, B. Cart
wright, F. N. Hatch, Dr.. \: B. Emerson, J. NJ.
S. c. Aliens, I. o, Halls, VI. Hyman.
After the healths of the President of the United
Statss and his Majesty the King had been drunk,
the chairman gave the first toast of the evening,
" Our late Minister Resident which was received
in the heartiest mnner.
General Comfy spoke substantially as follows
Mr.. Chairman, Countryrnen and Friends No
language can express the pleasure it gives me to
receive this expression of your friendship and re-
gard. I am hungry for the appreciation of good
men. 1 am well aware that this demonstration is
not to be appropriated by the individual. but is
made 10 the representative character of the indi-
vidual. The thing that makes it precious beyond
price TO me is, that you have accepted me as nearly
enough worthy as such representative, 10 be sent
back to headquarters with your endorsement on
my back. Approved and respectfully forwarded
(Applause.)
For this 1 thank YOU from the bottom Of my
heart. l should do violence to every feeling Of my
nature, not to say that it is inexpressibly crafty
ing to me.
you about the future Of this country, where our
treaty relations have opened up avenues of bust
ness for you, and where you, equally with the sons
of the soil, have and should have, the protection of
the law, in life. liberty, property and the pursuit
uf happiness. But you are all we'll aware that all
political topics here are still tdbu with me. l can
only say that my attachment to this country and
my interest in the welfare of my cOuntrymen who
have made their homes here, will be deep and last !
ing. il shall look upon the course of events here !
with an interest second only to that which l feel in
the affairs of our own country. Where you weep
1 will weep-when you rejoice l shall rejoice. Your
kindness, your support, and approval, in times
past, shall be my pride and reward, for whatever
of service / may have been or done, during five
years Of strong desire and limited performance.
1 cannot close better than by proposing the
health OF my successor MI. DagSett. desire to
commend him for you. He viii need as L did, your
countenance and friendship, and L have no hesitat
ton in promising for you that he will receive them.
For myself l am like the old bear who Is about to
retire to his winters quarters and suck his paws.
MI. Daggctt is like the young cub whose troubles
recall before him. Laughter. When the troubles |
does begin, the best luck L can wish him is, that
he may be like the old maid in the play-"Always
ready and never wanted" Roars of laughter. I
now propose to you, gentlemen, the health of the
United States Minister Resident, Mr.. Daggett.
The toast was responded to with enthusiasm.
In response Mr.. Daggett spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Friends
A travelled American once informed me that
after journeying around the world for nearly a
wear, and seldom seeing an American flag or an
American face in a foreign pert, the most Joyous
sight that ever met his vision was that of the Stars
and stripes in a port in Madagascar, where they
had been thrown to the breeze by a Yankee sailor.
He said it seemed to him thai the very ground on
which the old flag cast its shadow was sacred, and
that the very air was energized by its kiss.
So with me, my friends; one of the most joyous
experiences of my life has been the kindly greet
ings and friendly faces of my fellow countrymen r.
since nv arrival here. They, too, seem to ~yitalize
the the air we breathe, and their presence every
where gives an assurance of social, commercial and
political stability.
To sneak of oneself Is not an agreeable task, and
I feel somewhat as a fellow did in one of the
counties of Nevada, some years ago, when on trial
for murder.
He had taken the stand as a witness in his own
behalf. as he had a right to do, and in his direct
testimony had given himself a pretty good charac-
ter. But the cross-examination worried him, and
after submitting to it for an hour or two, and en-
tangling his testimony with a dozen iatal contra !,
he would much rather the case should be dismissed ]
and the whole matter dropped than be kept on the S
stand all day talking about himself However, the s
personal & 1 - with me is not a very long horse, and s
an old adage has it that-"a short horse is soon
curried."
But first, word or two in relation to our re-
firing Minister, General Comfy. He is eminently =
deserving of the compliment you are paying him
here tonight BE is q thorough American, and is
in full accord with the advanced thought and
aspiration of his people and his race. In a time
of national peril he responded to the very sternest
demand that a Government ever makes upon its
subiect-that of .arming in its defense and well
and faithfully, as the record shows, did he perform Y
every duty to which he was assigned. He Is en- &:
titled to every grace and and every courtesy J
possible for you TO extend, and In honoring him L
YOU honor not only yourself, but the Government i
which he served with so much valor and self :!
sacrifice. :
Concerning myself, very little need be said. 1 S
am a plain western man, whose life has been spent a
almost wholly on the frontiers of the Republic; !:
there mingling with the muscular and adventurous !
elements of orr civilisation rather than with its :
effeminacy and its refinement. 1 believe in the n
employment of direct means in the accomplish l.
ment of honest purpose. 1 believe in inward reso- u
luton rather than in outward form, and / bring e
with me. perhaps. something OF the breath OF the Z
desert in the folds Of my garment. :
Six thousand years ago-de not be alarmed, my :
friends-six thousand years ago, according to II
sacred reckoning, the human family began its t
journey westward-that being the course OF empire q
as given by Bishop Berkeley. On the crest of the :.
sunset wave l have been travelling westward, in II
response to that law of human movement. ever b
since l was a boy. Beyond the Ohio, beyond the 4
Mississippi, beyond the deserts and plains of sage, y
thence TO the Sierra Nevada range, whose snow II
capped peaks fret the clouds, and whose ~feathery Il
pines sing the anthem of eternal storms beyond n
the old Embarcadero, where the weary. immi- :.
grant with the dust of the Platte upon his hat and 4
the alkali of the Humboldt in his throat, turned out u
cattle for the last time in the land Of blue and II
gold, and not far from which was found that little :.
nugget Of gold which set the world ablaze, and Is
the civilised world. And further than that, at n
1 journeyed westward beyond the Golden u
Gate, against whose rugged ribs the waves of !
the ocean beat in everlasting surge even two o
miles beyond to these fair isles, where n
the oldest civilizations Of the earth have met the II
newest after six thousand years OF separation !"
where the children of Cathay and the Orient, drift a
ing eastward, have met the young and vigorous n
manhood Of the great American Republic. To me :
seems to be almost sacred ground. The situa- u
is full of commercial and political as well as ST
poetic interest, and 1 hope TO be able TO meet the a.
of the situation. r
Discretion suggests prudence OF utterance in ie
for others. and especially in one occupy te
ing the position in which 1 now find myself. But II
this 1 may say. that whatever 1 can do to advance ::
American interests in these Islands may be de- u
pended upon, with a due regard 10 the equities of p
rational intercourse and to the rights and and pre- r.
Of the Government and people whose =
hospitality We are sharing. II
1 thank you, gentlemen, for this opportunity CT
-ou have given me of extending to so many of my n,
ellow-countrymen the hand Of greeting, and in :.
dining them in invoking for my friend, the depart d:
ng Minister, that peace and happiness, no matter III
where his path may lead, which always accompany d,
purpose and duty well and conscience -