The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-07-09
AMERICAS BIRTHDAY.

L
inst. At early morning a salute of So guns was
fred from the water battery and the echoes of the
various church steeples and fire towers we're awake
by the changing of bells the general uproar tend.
ing to give fitting entrance to so fine an anniver.
sary. Flags were displayed from the various con-
sular fagsiaffs, and many residences and stores
were decorated with profusion of American
flags, bunting, etc, in honor of the day. The
steamer ciog Of Paris was dressed from stem to
stern presenting pleasant contrast to the grim
undecorated Italian and Swedish men of-var
tIettor PisuHi and PdHadis), which lay next to
her, The Willard MHdgeH, Queen, Clan Grant.
and Mary Z. Dodge, added to the interest of the
harbor scene, they, as well as the Myrtle Club
aloft."
The regular official exercises usual in connection
with the celebration of the day, and which had
been mapped out by committee of American
residents consisted of Literary and Musical Exer-
clses at 10 am. on the Hawaiian Hotel grounds
Boat race at pm, and grand ball at the Music
Hall IN the evening. Besides these there occurred
as interesting events, participated in by many
people, an excursion to Eord's Point Pearl River
under the auspices of Algeroba Lodge, l. o. G. T..
and base ball match between the rival clubs
Oceanic and Honolulu.
The first portion of the programme of events for
the day, consisting of the exercises at the Hotel
grounds, served as a means of attracting by the
hour set for commencing 10 a. m, a large au-
dience aside from the invited guests which on the
the occasion consisted of His Majesty and mem
bers of the Royal Family, the Governor of Oahu
the Chief Justice, officers of the Italian and Sved-
ish men-of-war, members of the diplomatic and
consular corps, etc. The grounds had been pref
tliy decorated with flags and bunting, trumphal
arches being IN position at either gate miniature
Bunker Hill monument located in the centre of
the grass plot, and the Hotel itself being a mass
OF red, white and blue flags and bunting from roof
to basement, the whole ARRANGEMENT refectino
tnGta NJ
who had the decoration in charge. At few min
utes past 10 O'Clock the Invocation was given by
Rev Geo. Wallace, followed by the following in
troductoiy address by Hon. Rollin NJ Dacpett
American Minister Resident:
Introductory Address.
Friends and fellow countrymen-Away back in
the past, when Europe was emerging from feudal
barbarism, and before the Pilgrim Fathers had
landed on the coast of New England and dedicated
a continent to political and religious freedom,
Lonoikamakahiki, the King OF the Island of Ha-
waii, and grandson of the great Uni from whom
His Majesty King Kalakaua claims his royal strain
was paying visit in disguise to the King of Oahu
whose court had been established at that time at
Wailua, on the northeastern side of the island
This was three centuries ago. Let us Gid the
legend little for the OCCASION and say that it
was Just three hundred years ago this 4th day of
July, 1884 Lono had left the island of Nolokai a
few weeks before in a fit of jealous frenzy. and
wildly padded and sailed his great double canoe
20 the coast of Oahu, and hauled it up on the
beach of Wailua- As he approached, a chief who
had been in the service of his father recognized
N the trappiugs of the canoe some indications of
The royal state of Hawaii, and so informed his
sovereign; but Lono disclaimed any title to ROY.
Atty, and enioining secrecy upon his attendants,
landed and was courteously received simply as n
distinguished chief-for his bearing showed him
20 be that, at least-and was Hospitality provided
Tor by the King.
To find oblivion for his thoughts, he plunged
INTO the pastimes and excuses of the Court and
in wrestling, running, hurting and wardng weap-
ems and other many exercises, he found no equal
among the chiefs of Oahu And he had more
than his share of the smiles of the many hand
some women at the Oahuan Court; but he needed
them not, for his heart was with his Queen whom
he had left bleeding on the beach at Kalaupapa
His prowess aroused the envy of some of the
chiefs, one of whom took occasion to stigmatize
him as a 'nameless chief Looking down upon
the offender in wrath, he promised TO fay him
alive should he ever meet him beyond the protec-
of his King, and then striding TO his canoe drawn
up ON the shore, took from it 4 large calabash
containing the rebelious district chiefs of Hawaii
killed in battle by his father and in the presence
of Court chanted the names the slain and the
achievements of his ancestors in a voice that
echoed through the surrounding hills
In imitation and warrant of this pardonable
desire in Lono to defend his birhright and glorfy
his ancestors and of the permission for him 10 do
so, graciously accorded by the King, a goody
number OF Americans are assembled here to-
day TO speak words of praise of their fathers
and of the land ennobled by their valor and made
glorious by their sacrifices And like Lono, they
are not without anything in their own land, al
belt they claim no privileges here not accorded to
the humblest citizen. In their own might they
are sovereign, every one-uncrowned and untitled
sovereigns-whose throne is the ballotbox whose
scepter is the ballot, and whose strong citadels of
defense arethe school houses that dot their broad
heritage thick as the stars of heaven that smile
down upon them. They are the Joint and equal
rulers of the mightiest national domain that ever
stretched its peaceful mantle of green across the
gfnr God hat 4,
the brow of Ararat; the joint and equal rulers of
country where with the birth of every male child
possible President of the Republic is born and
with his death is translated another soul from the
political peerage of earth to the broader and more
perfect equality of the heavens
But they bring with them no calabashes of the
bones of their enemies. They bring, instead the
brief history OF nation whose battles have been
for political and religious freedom, and whose
victories have been the triumphs of all mankind
Upon the tablet of the worlds annals over the
records of dead empires and governments founded
IN oiooo, maintained by force, and in which the
people had no voice, the history of the Republic
has been written with stylus of steel and has
become the hope and inspiration of the struggling
peoples of all the earth.
But, great as have been its victories in arms its
peaceful triumphs have been grander still.
hundred years ago, when the first Kamehameha
was preparing for the conquest and consolidation
of the Hawaiian group, three millions of worn
and weary people were sitting beside their desolate
hearths after seven years of war. Upon the gar
ments of many of them were the blood-stains of
Yorktown, and their feet were still blistered with
the blains OF Valley George. There was no corn
in their granaries, and their public treasury was
empty. They had few laws, and no constitution
besides the Colonial compact, which had thus far
served them well. But they did not require laws
Tor they were Just and peaceful; they scarcely
required money, for in their pov rty and self
sacrifice they had learned to live without it. -They
| trusted in God and their own strength. They had
achieved the greatest victory of all time In their
blood they had established the equality of all men
before God and the law, and their right of. and
capacity for self-government. Into constitution
these principles were crystalized and under their
benehcent action nation has grown greater and
greater every year, until the world now stands
amazed at its progress and awed at its overshad-
owing future.
The growth of the Republic had indeed been
marvellous, even to those who have watched it day
by day. AT the close of the War of Independence
its area was but little more than 10000 square
miles, and its western boundary was the Mississippi
| river. upurchased Florida from Spain: louisiana,
and with Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas, Nebraska and the great West, from France,
the lower Pacific States and Territories from Mex
leo; and, finally, Alaska from Russia. And it paid
cash for all, and will continue to paw cash for all
although 1t need but stretch forth mailed hand to
| take and hold CONTINGENCIES, a hemisphere. And
| so, by purchase the acres of the Republic have
been multiplied four while is population has been
multiplied thousand fold. The geographical center
of the United States has in less than centuv been
1
bla, In Oregon, and two hours after the sun bids
good night to the icy capes of western Alaska with
Its morning beams it gilds the bay of Passama-
| quoddy, in Maine.
During the past twenty months an empire has
grown up IN the Territories north of the fortythrd
meridian, along the completed line of the Northern
Pacihc railroad. Everywhere, from the great lakes
which some one has called the ''unsalted seas 10
the Pacific ocean, the air is filled with rising rafters
and the sound of the hammer and steam whistle
never ceases. New states are being hewn from
the wilderness, and new cities are sprlnniup nm MS
| If by enchantment-the enchantment of equal pri-
viges to all. So great is the progress Of the Re-
public from year to year, from day to day from
| hour to hour, that he who would speak of il must
do so curty, lest the statements at the beginning
of his discourse viii need correction at the end
The wealth and strength of the Republic can be
| expressed only in figures whose aggregates almost
| bewilder. 1t has 175,0000O0 acres of land under
cultivation, and 500 900 that have never been
marked by the plow. 1t has 124 900 miles of rail
way-enough to wind six times around the earth
and telegraph wires sufficient to stretch in dou-
bic lines to the moon Its grain yield last year was
260O,000,OOO bushels, worth $2OOO,OO0OOO. Its
commerce amounts to 81, GOO, 10000 annually, and
the balance of trade in its favor has been over 81
OOO,0OO,OOO In the last ten years Its apprepat z
waelth is 900 600 COO 900 900 more than
the wealth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Sl3,OOOOOO,0O0 more than that of France, and
the days Of the years of our national pilgrimage
have been but hundred years
But will not trespass upon the regular exercises
of the day. A poet has asked:
" What was the song that Miriam sang
By Egypts dark and troubled sea,
When Ger the land the anthem rang
That set the seed of Jacob free ?''
Well, no matter what song Miriam sang or t.
| what metre the lines were framed But she die