The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-07-05

summer rain and winter snow in our childhood fell;
where are the graves Of our fathers, and rnotners
and patriot dead; the place whence the elements
came into us to form this wonderful frame Of flesh
and blood and make rs what We are; and where
beloved spirits, angels and messengers OF Graees
hover unseen over the old home, Is II any wonder
that we love Il!
-Breaihes there man with soul 30 dead
Who never 10 himself hath said
This Is my Own. my native land,
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
As home his footsteps he ha turned
From wandering on foreign strandi
High though his tiles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim
Despite these titles, power and peh
The wretch, eoneentred allin self.
Living, shall forfeit fair rcnown.
And, douey dyiEg, shall 60 doYn
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Inwept, unhonored and unsung
Deep and tender in the breast Of every true
man is this love OF country. Love of country IL
is self-love. What are We but part of the country
which We love Our country-AsEE1cA lis not
outside of Us but within rs also-invisible parcel
of ourelves 1--WE are members one of another
and limbs atoms of the Nation-that grand
Person which the Father has made our Mother here
below.
So, because the Old Flag baptized and rebaptized
in the blood of our fathers brothers and sons sym
bolizes AMERICA. country, the sight of il stirs
our hearts quickens our pulsebeat, and bedevs our
not fade, because it has been dipped so often and
so deep in our own veins, and dyed anew in our
patriotic devotion and trust.
IL. The sight of the Stars and Stripes quickens
the emotions of every true American BECAUSE IT
Is THE SYMBOL OF CERTAIN GREAT TRUTHS
]. IL Is tie symbol Of national unity. BY four
years of terrible war we Americans decided that
ours was not Confederation of Sovereign
States, but Nation: that Star once added to
the Flag cannot drop out, or be torn from it. any
more than planet can be torn from the frma-
ment that, thirteenth or thirty-eighth, the Star
once stitched in yonder field of blue, once craven
m the shield of the Nation tbpra II
forever.
raj address:
THE supremacy Of the Nation and its laws is
no longer a subject Of debate. That discussion,
which for half century threatened the existence
of the Union, was closed at last in the high court
of war, b. decree from which there is no appeal
Over tie door in home in old Massachusetts
are two crossed swords. One was the sword car
red by the grandfather of the owner of that home,
on the field of Bunker Hill and the other was tho
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 the har-
mony of domestic peace, live happy and con-
tented and free family under the guard of our
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
no longer the motto Of section. but of q Nation
of fifty millions of freemen.
.. The Flag Is the symbol Of Libey1y The
founders of our Republic loved liberty more than
home and kindred. Driven from old England.
Laws freedom truth and faith in God.
Came with those exilcs DER the waves"
They sought liberty of the body and liberty of
the soul. And when at last the Nation was born,
the old bell in independence Hall, which rang
forth the glorious tidings bore as a motto around
its brazen mouth, Proclaim liberty unto oil the
inhabitants thereof
How strange. how mOnstrOus. il seems to US now,
that a Nation builded by such liberty-loving men,
and founded on such principle Nation that
ftrrry
and oppressed, and covered every fugitive from
tyranny with its protecting shield-should have,
for scores of years, cherished and protected
African slavery as one of its peculiar mstitu-
TONS
But at last "the cup of slaverys iniquity was
full" Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad Slavery madly raised her armed
soldier from the Northland was a Moses called of
God. They went down into that Egypt, and they
led out four millions Of Gods poor TO manhood
and freedom.
Slavery persisted when Gods anger was kindIed
but little, and America was free, not o. i
Maine but In truth. Well wrote Whittier EraBit
glad day;
lit Is done!
Clang Of bell and roar OF sun
send the tidings up and down.
How the bclfIics rock aud reel.
Finn Hey g The S, yS, g Ia peal Pc ,o on peal
Now, the Stars and Stripes are doubly dear |
because they float no longer over a slave. Now |
they are In truth symbol
:. For Freedom in the name OF Him
Who came TO raise Earths dropping poor
To break the chain from every limb.
The bolt from every prison door,
3. The STARs AND STRIPES IS alec ss,aJol Of |
Equality.
Listen TO those grand words once more I've |
Eod these truths to be self-eyident that all men |
are created equal, and are endowed by their |
Creator with certain inalienable rights among /
which are life liberty and the pursuit of happi- |
ness" Those men OF iron, who came oyer /
in the NdUioirer, founded "a Church without |
Bishop, and State without King For years
il experiment. The lesson of all history |
was against its success. Fifty years ago Webster
said -" If we fail Popular Government is impossi-
BILE" When, in 1861, the lurid fires of war were |
reflected on the western heavens, Carlyle, Eng
lands cynic, said " A foul chimney is burning |
itself out over there :" Despotism said at IS |
the beginning of the end. Free government is a |
failure r. Tyrants breathed freer as our Republic
tottered TO its fall The lown-trodden and |
oppressed throughout the world hid their faces in
the dust of despair. But one million five hum.
dred thousand oitizen-soldiers reached out their
hands to stay the lettering temple of Liberty.
Three hundred thousand Americans offered thdsr
lives upon its altar Free government IS no longer
az experiment.: II Is an established fact. And til
old Flag, with stripes dyed deeper red in th
veins of our patriot dead, floats the symbol |
that heaven born truth, God hath made of one
blood all nations Of men,
III. Having spoken of the sentiment, and the
truths symbolized, note, in closing, n, strength
That light strip Of bunting, blown to and fro by
the wantOn wind has in it weight and will. II
means million swords and many million hands.
Ii means protection from mis-rule and mis- govern
ment-in person and property-to every American
in whatever land his temporary home may be. 1t
says to Emperor King, and ruler, of whatever title
world-round. that every American is a Sovereign
and counts no man his SUPERIOR but claims in
every land his kingly rights.
How that flag rises again wherever 1t may have |
been lowered and has in itself the power Of the
Nobody must touch its staff, pull
at its halliards, but with respect. Nobody shall
taunt if, though it were only a child's plaything
with inpunity. Butler hangs the Mumford
for his assault OH it in New Orleans. Dix would
shoot the man who hauled it down in New York.
Barbara Fritchio is held in immortal honor for
displaying it at the risk of her life, while
"All day long through Frederic street.
Sounded the tread Of rebel feet
And Abraham Lincoln, 9rasping the ropes TO hoist
il in Philadelphia, while on his way to take up his
great task, declares that rather than give up the
principle of equality which the Flag symbolized,
he twas about to say he would rather be assassin
ated ON the spot" how little thinking that, for
that principle, another spot, assas-
siuated he would be- Yet the assassin, catching
in the folds of he EIao IN fall lame