The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-07-09


upon the street.
So grave and determined with bent brOws and lips
1 compressed,
purpose pressed.
Maid and matron age and childhood gaze with anxious
Where the massive tower gigantic loom. against the
| Summer sky.
All this weary expectation; how the minutes drag
HushI good friends, you'll be rewarded with the
richest, rarest song
Ever rung from brass and iron. HusSi be still and
On the swinging Ct Yon metal hangs our eouutys life
or death.
Have they signed ity' Not all-heur them-thcY arc
OH pass on, you sluggish moments and let US know
| our fate.
Then the waiting throng is sileneed-Over ali still
When si.ns eans' from the belfy peal. the thunder
Hear its grand reverberations! swelling oer the silent
Ringing joy to all the people, bringing sorrow the
Crown
ringers we'll and strong
Ring in the joys Of Freedom, ring out the Of
wrong;
Ring right Justify. my brave boys for children yet
Shall bie. the glorious music you've made for Us thi.
morn.
Ring out and never weay-thc great pledge signed to
Shall 6c sealed with trecmen's bcs; blood in many
No sooner was the peal stcd than burs, the bell in
twain,
After such glorious message it could ring no meaner
Ger hundred years It's silent, but the memory of
Shall on echo forever until the end Of time
Echo through other nations, bidding other hearts
And ike it. in Freedoms honor, lifting up peoples
voice.
At the conclusion of the poem, which received
consid cradle well merited applause, the patriotic
air of Red, White and Blue was vocalized by
Mr.. James T. White, a veteran of the late war.
The orator of the day, Mr.. jay Green, then.came
to the front, and delivered the following Grafton
The Grafton.
Nv. Chairman, Ladies aud Gentlemen:
| had the pleasure many years ago of listening
to venerable clergyman who had spent his life
| as a missionary among the Indians Large as
semblles met TO hear him account of his expert
ences and labors among the red men of the forest.
On the occasion to which allude he began his ad-
dress by saying that he was never much of
preacher, but that he loved to have a Bible open
before him. and that he was careful to choose a
large text that he might not wander away from
his subject. He then proceeded to announce as his
text for the evening these words: Prom the rivers
| to the ends of the earth"
| / have thought that as Americans we have a
background of history which furnishes with
subject matter for thought and conversation, so
broad, varied and so exciting that no native
American, however humble his position in life
need be at a loss for something to say whenever
his name was called, and especially on the anni-
| versary of our national birthday. We may be al
lowed to-day to talk about ourselves, to praise our
selves and TO boast of achievements as ma
ton. But while do this, we do not forget that
We are but one integral member of the great fam
lily of nations and in respect to aga yet in
| our childhood. We do not forget that while our
mother county looks back, through nearly
nineteen centuries of her history, we have but
Just passed our first centennial anniversary. We
fOr
the language we speak, the experience, the wis
dom and learning of all her ages, and the great
Fart she has borne in the great work of civilizing
a world. And we should be ungrateful indeed did
forget her great kindness to US when we started
little business for ourselves on the western shores
of the Atlantic. Her generous gifts of ship loads
of tea, muskets, powder and bulletsJ and her pro-
found maternal solicitude for welfare, which
led her to watch over US by day and BY night, in
sunshine and storm for seven long years, follow
ing our footsteps wherever went about the col
onies, until at Yorktown, becoming satisfied that
we could keep hotel on another than the Euro
pean plan, she gracefully showed her boat from
our shores and returned to her home beyond the
| sea.
The average American has long been considered
| a very good musician. / refer to that class of
music known chin music. But it would appear
that the enervating influences of this tropical eli
mate has somewhat impaired his vocal organs, for
your committee have canvassed faithfully for
more than two weeks in search of orator for
this occasion, but have failed utterly, notwith-
Il
names to choose from. believe that the uniform
excuse has been that the person asked had served
before. This would be capital rule to apply to
politicians, but fear the rule would be rejected
by an immense majority. Your committee did
however, secure, as they thought, whom we
should all have been delighted to hear, but alas!
the appointment proved like many other Ameri-
can enterprises, only "castle in the air."
The American has another characteristic, name
ly, love for travelling in foreign lands. Go where
you will, and he is there fixed.
Should a successful Attic explorer reach the
North pole and find new world beyond, he will
| doubtless find some Yankee there, starting new
| ice company, or gas and telephone company.
But, at what time in the history of our country he
| began TO go abroad l do not know. But / re-
member that, in 1868 and 1854, it became quite
| fashionable in New York and New England, to
visit foreign soil, and Canada the objective
point. Many left late at night very early in
the morning in order, suppose, to avoid the pain
| of leave-taking. Now it was never thought the
climate of Canada possessed any advantage over
that of the New England States, but these brave
and patriotic men, fancied that they would be less
exposed to strong drafts" which at that time
were not uncommon. But these men were not
less Americans, because they sought the shelter
ing arms of our Colonial neighbor. have not the
least doubt, that, sooner than see the great Re-
public destroyed, they would have sacrificed all of
| their wives relations. | do not know how many
Americans immiggrated to these beautiful is
lands in the Pacific during 1864, but if any did,
they certainly found a more agreeable climate. 1
doubt if there is any state territory in the
| American Union which is not represented in this
audience to-day, besides the District of Columbia
| and New Jersey. But our government has very
wisely sent us guardian, to watch over us, least
we might carry of the volcano and ut out the
| Kapioani and put out to sea IN search of some
| new field of operations. But love the little
Kingdom its freedom, its charming days and
more charming nights,its pebbled beach, its shady
| bowers, and its peaks clad IN eternal verdure.
But people we have been taught from our
birth, TO see God i'll history, TO believe that He, to
whom q" the nations as drops in the buckle -
| Il n in fha
| history of the people, men trained and fitted to
| lead and guide that people upward and onward to
a higher level Of national life and prosperity If
this faith be true, send me love to cherish it, then
who shall call the roll of honored names of those
who have fed the fires of Liberty and Union for
the past century. Our minds turn instructively to
| our Washington and our Lincoln. HonOred names
indeed, names reyered to-day wherever the sun
shines a civilized race of men. But the life and
| youth of the Great Republic has not depended
| upon the leadeEof her armies, nor her presidents
brilliant host of others have welded an intiuence
less felt in their day it may be- but not less potent
in developing and moulding the character of the
nation than the great work performed by him who
| was first in war, first in peace and first in the
| hearts of his counrrymen," or him, by the stroke
of whose pen the shackles of four millions of
| slaves fell TO the earth. These were but the
servants Of people, inspired by the principle, of
freedom. But whence came that inspiration and
how has it been transmitted. Let review briefly
| some of the influences which have served to keep
| alive the spirit of &c, and to sink deeper the
| public Who shall estimate the influence of a
| single thought, properly phrased and thrown upon
the hearts of thinking free and enlightened people,
| That thought might contain in embryo, the
| armies and navies which shall overturn an empire
| or plant nation
Go with me back 100 years 10 the convention of
delegates of Virginia. The great struggle for in
dependence had already begun in Boston Vim
ginia paused in doubt whether to cast her lot with
| the colonies, listen TO the premises of the
| British Minister. Patrick Henry stepped to the
front at that critical period fraught with such vast
interests to the world and with heroic hand, lifted
the standard of liberty where every man see it
and choose between it and slavery.
Heed his words, :" Is life so dear peace so
sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery! Forbid it, Almighty God know
not what course others may take, but for me, give
me liberty or give me DEATH A motto fixed up
on the banner and stamped upon the hearts Of
three million lovers of freedom.
History shows up the fruit-a land of the free,
where the oppressed of every nation on earth
have been welcomed, aye more, raised to the high
est type Of citizenship known under heaven.
Fifty years have passed and Columbia the gem
of the ocean,, floats proudly over the great sea of
national life. Twenty-four stars now deck her
field. bow Waterman, looking southwark, dis
Germs cloud, and with ear prophetic, hears the
low murmurings of the surf ON the distant shores
of disunion. Hear his notes of warning on the
floor of the Senate in 1880, when my eyes shall
be turned to behold for the last time the sun IN
Heaven, may not see him shining upon the brok-
en- and dishonOred fragments of a once glorious
Union; states discovered, discordant belgerent;
| on a land with civiI feuds or had may