Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-07-11

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Il remains to consider the chief aud hual
service which America hos rendered To the
general cause Of human progress set,l0e
which gives 10 this memorable LAY the major
part II is significance, aud upon which the
natous greatest eliim to future honor must be
founded urcl not say that refer TO the
services rendered by the United States VI
America tp the cause of political liberty No
new theme but one Of perennial interest aud
importance, right understanding Of which
Institution. which depend flf their existence
upon IT,. and which afc indissoubly connect d
with the interests NJ every American ctytn,
The doctrine u human rights had never be n
50 wel understood a. by the baud VI palri,ts
whn headed lhe new movement In tho ncw
world They stood century in advance oil
their time. Everything Of value in the Eng
lish eob.titHlon IS II existed IN 1870 all that
Wa useful OF true in the French Revolution
Of 1850 was involved IN that Declaration Of
independence which We are here to commence.
rate and incorporated in that constitution whose
bcnehccnt influences We still cnioy. Our
Fathers achieved liberty without license instead
OF, as In France, license without liberty. They
recognized ON the one hand the abstract prn.
eiplcs Of right which the English constitution
ignored, aud respected on the other the estab
lishcd concrete right which the French Re,o.
luton wildly destroyed, They combined and
hamoniauSlyc hesutdics elcmen,sof
English conservation with the broslcs, prinri.
pies Of french theorists They applied princi.
pies with sober regard to existing fact, aud
limited the deductions oi the speculative reason
by differences drawn from practical experience.
They were Statesmen IS well as philosophers,
men Of affairs ~ we'll rs theorists, at once
radicals and conservatives To the old hstimrd
elinging 20 anl1ua,cd forms and customs. which
emasculated the fine genius Of Burke, they op.
opposed the BREADTH the wisdom, the radical
views oil Hamilton. To the hcn,ied enthusiasm
Of the Iacobin clubs, were contrastcd the
PRACTICAL sense and enlightened conservation
Of franklin and Washington Liberty was
nevc, more finely achieved, never with more
patience. more moderation. more freedom
from excess. They destroyed to create, they
pulled down TO build again on
broader foundations. And every American
must echo the prophecy that the gloriods
fabric OF American Liberty, which our fathers
conceived in wisdom, erected with patience, and
finally consceia,ed with their blood, and which
now lifts in finished pericctncss its sun. kissed
spires to heaven, shall still endure, still stand in
morning and in evening light and under the
shining consultations, until the star OF civili1a-
ton shall have set beneath the Pacific and the
sccptrc shall have passed away forever from
the Anglo Saxon race.
1t was in the application Of liberty that the
American triumph consisted. Liberty itself
was no new thing. The Arabs had it. flashing
, actoss their boundlcss deserts from horizon to
horizon. The Chaldean shepherds, watching
the silent stars from the plain, the rising and
setting of the slow consultations, had tasted
its wild freedom 1t had splendid dawn in
the fierce Athenian democracy twenty centuries
before It's benignant beams shone upon the New
World. 1t Sc, again in stormy eclipse, to rise
anew "upon some iarer shore and she'd the
Inn t,,, l,,bt nT ,,lo he
depths OF German forests, upon pirates securing
the North Sea. Again in the lapse 81 oentu'
ries ii shone with bright, fierce transient
splendor ON the Italian Republics, the SHOWS
OF Switzerland, the bikes Of Holland, until
finally in our own old England like the star oil
Bethlehem it settled, and Became the glory o
the morning and the evening sky. |, has an
nextnguishabc being in human hearts, and
never has suffered total eclipse. Blu, in I77t
il came with The redoublcd brightness OF
''ano,her morn risen onmid noon, and it re-
manned for the American people o demonstrate
in labor and blood and tears, that"government
Of the people, by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth"
And how has this liberty been purchased
Dearly bought with blood and devotion ant
costly sacrifice, Everything that the individual
holds most dear, home and friends and oppor
tuni,y and life ITSELF has been freely given, tn
private yielding to the larger need, the indi
vidual to the richer opportunity all ha
been devoted for love OF country and principle
and 'honoI that never shall die The sacri
nee of ,oo, 600 lives has made American liber,
a sacred thing, no mere name, rhodomontade
buster OF boast, but ndescribably precious I,
every true American heart. And as We Of IN
Younger generation hear from older lips III
} story of the war, il sacrifices, its hardships
its devotion, of the heat and struggle Of III
battle, of the long watchings by silent cam
fires, of the bivouae under the open heavens
, as We hear OF the WEAKNESS OF forced march
! ings, OF the torture OF wounds, OF cold, hunge
c and thirst, and worse than all OF separatio
4, from friends, Of imprisonment, suffering an
n death, all cheeriully borne for the nation
c cause, OR pnlses will beat, our bosoms burr
\ as we catch the echo Of that immortal strife
i and our hearts will invest with a new 5'eanin
4 those old, old woSsss ut is swee, an
: beautiful thing 10 die Tor ones country.
y We, who live in these happy islands, breath
Il another air than tina, which supported q
fathers. The dome which bends above .
2 serenely flushed with morning and evenir
: lights, is not the inhospi,ablc Ny which irowns
: upon the Pilgrim Fathers. This smiling sea
u in which tIawaii'nei floats like an opal-is /
dsssrent from that stormy ocean upon Shi'
C the cradle oI Anelo-Saxon Liberty Was rookie
The face Of natrie is ceasged. She sho'
J. US a smiling visagS, and the physical difiicr
: ties with which other generations coniende
\ coniron, us no more. Vet We who travel aero
d the sea change our skies, not our neral relation
The glorious traditions Of American his,o
al gre ours. Deep in our hearts are engsav,
a..l Al.