The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-06

PIE ana urlnRlng mop peer. LII cOn-
clusion he brought down the house
by comparing his position on this
occasion with the orator selected to
inaugurate the opening of new
bridge "Out West" who after re-
peating three times, in crescendo,
the statement that, Forty years
ago the place where we now stand
was bowling Wilderness" broke
down with the sentiment that he
wished it was n bowling wilderness
still. Mr.. Jones was vociferously
applauded as he retired.
Mr.. Avery was called forward as
n representative of the Sunny South,
and delivered an impassioned adj
dress upon the elements of the
nations stability.
Hon. S. b. Dole completed the
list of impromptu efforts. His
speech dwelt chiefly upon the Ame-
rican spirit dominating Hawaiian in
stitutions, the influence being one
that came to stay and forming
guarantee for liberty and justice in
this kingdom. Want of space com
pcls the laying aside of full notes of
this and the previous speakers ex-
celent addresses.
The band had now arrived, and
led the singing of TRAMP, tramp,
tramp"
THE GRAFTON OF THE DAY.
Mr.. Henry y. Castle then stepped
forward. and delivered the Grafton
given below, speaking entirely with
out notes and without break. The
only defect in the mastcrly effort
was too rapid delivery--what was
gained in speed was lost in power. y
John Bright, Ivy some considered the
first living English orator, gave as
the secret of effective speaking, slow
utterancc. Through the kindness of
Mr.. Thrum, President of the Press
Publishing Company, who loans the
type ready-set, our readers have the
oration here in full: =
A day has again arrived Of peculiar signli-
cance to every man OF American birth. II
commentaries an achievement whose interest
is not confined to single continent OF hemi-
sphere, nor to any single nationality or order
Of men, but is co-eX,enslre NTH the planet
and the race. The fourth Or July marks a
moment in human progress, and its celebration
cannot be Indifferent to any dislnterested lover
of his kind. 1t offers us the opportunity to
look before and after, to forecast the future by
l.. F,l., nr, hun IrnI and No
years ago to-day body of men were gathered
in old independence Hall at Philadelphia.
They were inconspicuous then. The eyes of
the nations were not upon them. But their
deeds have passed into history now, and their
leaders shine as stars in its armament forever.
They met to assert a truth forever cd and
new. little understood then as now, equality OF
human right, the liberty belonging 10 them by
a title older than all precedent constitutions
or prerogative, based upon human nature it.
self, and as permanent as that foundation. They
met TO declare the independence of the thirteen
colonies, and on that new independence TO
found a new state. Who can forget The names
of Adams and Franklin and Jefferson and
Washington? Whose heart does not beat with
the recollection of their service to mankind?
a century has rolled away since the
Declaration Of Independence passed into his
tory, and the nation which our fathers founded
still exists Problems have arisen which they
did not solve, facts and forces have sprung into
being which they did not contemplate. The
nation of 5000, 900 has grown 10 90, ,ooo, 900.
The little colonies now cover half continent
and have stretched from sea to sea. In
population, in territory, in wealth, in material
resource, in commerce, manufactures and the
arts, we have made progress OF which our an
cestors never dreamed. The nation ha, be-
come great al sing lie stride, has leaped full
armed into life, like Athena from the head OF
Jove. By fertility of invention, by material
resource, by triumph over nature and happy
combination, the secrets Of matter have been
wresled from her grasp and made to bend to
the thousand uses Of man. Dazzlcd by the un-
rivalled splendor OF these material triumphs,
we are led to eXClam "What were We, and
now what are we not :" and to turn . broad
back to the glory of the stars. But ii is no,
in triumphs like these that the true glory Of a
nation consists. 1t is not in these that the
American Republic can ever find her severe gn
excuse for being. 1t is upon no material
achievement that her SONS must rest for hcl
justification in the court of the nations. l,
was not for any such tha, they have fought and
died. Americas truest claims TO glory mus,
be sought in another sphere. 1t is in the
moral and political world that her most en-
during victories have been won. Here, il
anywhere, she has been torch TO the nations.
And it is upon these aspects Of our national lie
that | propose TO dwell, and not upon the
more dazzling but adven,itous and ptrishng
lriumphs of yesterday. Seventy years agl
our material prosperity did not exist. But the
true golden age OF American history had beer
lived, and American liberty had risen like
Venus from the sea.
l propose to inquire, as briefly as possible
what are the IDEAS illustrated by American
history and embodied in American life Wha
has been our service 10 the general cause O
progress? How have we carried forward the
loren OF civilization ? In what lessons have We
instructed the nations?
The first great idea illustrated by American