Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-31

IS fitting time, II only for the sake Of
our young Americans, to tell the mo-
i've for which Fort Sumter was fired
upon. and the cause of the great up
rising in arms Of the loyal people Of the
North.
The South had long been prepared
for war by its leaders, while they held
control of the L. S. Government Our
small army of about 1900 regular
troops had been stationed about in
small bodies, far removed from each
other, so that they who could not easily
be concentrated. The main part of the
stores of ordinary arms, ammunition,
and military equipments which belong
ed to the Eastern United States, had by
the same persons been placed in South.
ern arsenals, all ready to be seized when
the wat broke out. The people OF the
South had been lead to believe that the
North would not fight, What the
South wanted was certainly a separate
government in order to perpetuatc
their institution of Negro slaves Their
leaders knew that il they stayed in the
Union, slavery was doomed. 1t could
1t stand before the spirit of free labor;
W free labor of the North was rapidly
I " new free states, so that the
10y W, v. sure to come when two-thirds
h ",o. IF all the states would
. ~ 'eaoy 70 holish slavery by constitu-
. .,o" -. a', s. snt. The Southcners
a We" sl, ''." :n,.he belief that every
state had right Il dissatisfied, to
secede from the Union.
The North believed IT,. ~. Comet.
tuition OF the United Sta w.s ~
obligation entered into by 9TH. "oor,.
of the United States" which no S,a,s
could ever destroy. 1t was not to ~
down slavery, but to save the Union,
that the North began to fight Lincoln
said in his first inaugural address, that
at was not his purpose, directly or in
directly, to interfere with the institution
Of slavery" He wrote in 1862, "my
paramount object is to save the Union,
and not either to save or destroy slav-
cry" The Northerners, however much
they hated slavery, felt bound by the
constitution not to interfere with it.
Yet "the mills of the gods grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding fine" 1t re-
suited at last in war for freedom, as
well as for Union. As the contest
went on, 1t became clear that the
North could not fight on peace princi-
pies that slave owners could not be
protected in one kind of property more
than in another Lincoln's Emancipa-
ton Proclamation was war measure
as much as the destruction Of Atlanta.
But at last it was all over The
fighting, the toilsome marching, the
sufferings in Southern prisons and
what to my mind was harder yet, the
patient, weary waiting and watching Of
the brave women who had sent their
dear ones to the war-all this was
ended. The records showed some
500, 900 Union soldiers killed in battle
and died in hospital of wounds and
disease. The South probably lost as
many more. All over the country were
sssn hs mai@sd and s.Ipslsd so. soldiers e,,
expenditure OF money were incalculabic.
Was all this sacrifice too greatp The
answer made them is the same which
we make now. No sacrifice can be
too great to save our country and
to make il what 1t was meant to
be, "the land of the free, and
the home of the brave" The
South to-day would not, If she could,
restore the cause of slavery. The
hum of machinery is head there, instead
of the slave-driver's whip and the bay
of the bloodhound. The South, for all
her losses, is richer now than before the
war The flag of the Union--now as
never before the war-commands res
pect the world over.
Nineteen years ago this week, the
/, armies of Meade and Sherman held
their last grand review in the city OF
Washington. Those men who had
marched from Atlanta to the sea, who
had gone through the Wilderness to the
Appomattox, were body Of republican
soldiers whom no power on earth would
care to encounter unnecessarily. They
kept such excellent time, that at the
tinkling of Stewards bell, the French
were ordered away from Mexico and
: Napoleon left Macmillan and pooI
Carlotta to their fate. 1t was that
marching through Georgia, more thar
Mr. Evarts' law-argument that brought
the Geneva award. II there is anything
with which our mother country sym
!, pathizes, 1t is the cause Of the weak Il
= there is anything it respects, it is thu
: heavy battalions who win the day Bu
: England's Queen was always, even il
the darkest days Of the war, upon tn,
side Of the American Republic. ant
. not of the Southern Confederacy. 81
! England, If she should ever need thu
: :, aid or sympathy Of America, ma.
= yet find that "blood is thicker that
= water
e Comrades: You fought in that hol!
. cause in the spirit Of the martyred Lin
y coin with malice toward none, will
. charity for all, with frmness in tn
: right, as God gives US to see the right.
: AS you look back upon those years q
= high value and higher endeavor q
= you meet the faces Of dear friends VIII
= braved death and met il does not liz
: seem to have been worth the living
- II there is anything that soldit
y must be, II is TO be brave and true;
- there is anything that he must do. Il
:. his duty. As our comrades rapid
y move on to join the main body wh
- have already crossed the ''dividc" 4
- the rest Of US who form the rear guard. d
~ bravely the duty nearest Us. a. Go
~ gives us to see our duty.
|" To day, fair hands have prepare
u the floral offering for ourpr ecious des
Ever state in our glorious Union VI
:, represented by the little ones. in r.
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