The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-14

MIR. JONATHAN AUSTIN.
Comrades and Friends: We have
assembled to-day to join in thought
and feeling with the procession
whose mournful symbols arc dis
played from the busy centres of
civilization to the four corners of
the earth, and while our hearts are
oppressed with sorrow for our dead
commander, onr grief is tempered
with the thought that when the old
soldier answered to the last roll-call
he passed from the aillictions which
have borne so heavily upon the
closing months of his life to the
wcll-earned reward of peace through
life eternal. The whole world is
better for the life Of such a man.
The memory of his deeds, and of
his character, will live to cheer and
encourage true hearts SO long as
justice and liberty shall be priced
by mankind. History furnishes no
record of a leader surprising General
Grant for calm and intelligent
bravery in the face of disaster, or
for the boundless magnanimity of
his heart in the hour of victory.
The persistence with which he
adhered to well-considered plans was
a keynote to his character His
perfect faith in the accomplishment
of the objects which he sought was
cXcmplticd in the fact that he never
turned back. This was illustrated
i'll his reply to u Chief Quarter
master who had reported transport
alton for ten thousand men, and
there were forty thousand to cross
river to the attack, and who ask
ed: "But how, General, if we are
driven back" The old hero's eye
flashed, as he replied, eff we come
back, transportation for ten thou
sand will be ample for all that are
left" Americans are proud of a
nobility which has for its only basis
integrity and capacity, all nations
acknowledge the nobility of this
grand soul who commenced life us q
poor boy, and left it the acknow-
lodged military leader of the world.
The nations of the earth have joined
to honor this representative Ameri-
can. Rulers and people-the high
est and lowest of all lands-claim
with us the right to revere the
memory of the great General, the
noble citizen. Let us, his comrades
and fellow citizens, who have wan-
dered so far from the fields whercon
he won immortal glory, join with
friends from other lands who have
gathered with us to-day in the eX-
preston of our thanks to the Su-
preme Commander of the Universe,
that this man of unswewing in
tegrity and unfailing adherence to
duty came forth from the peaceful
pursuits of an humble citizen, and
slew the twin Reconsideration
and Slavery. So thorough was his
work that if ever the ghost of Dis
union shall show his head, or if
ever the ghost of Slavery shall
crack his whip, the battle fields and
the burial places throughout the
land will give up their dead heroes;
and skeletons of regiments, of bat
teries, and of troops will arise in
their tattered shreds of blue with
the stars and stripes, and of gray
with stars and bars. The dry bones
will rattle, and the rusty arms will
clank as they form the shadowy line
of battle, blue and gray shoulder to
shoulder, to join in one grand
charge and sweep not from earth
alone, but from eternity, the thought
of those two crimes. AS we go to
resume our respective paths in life,
let us draw consolation from the
faith which assures us that our dead
comrade has left his earthly abode
with all of its cares and trials, to
live henceforth in perfect peace, to
inhabit a house not made with hands,,
eternal in the heavens.
Mr.. Yarndley and Mr.. Jones rem
dered, very eXqnlsltely, revere on
the violin and organ. Mr.. James
b. Castle read poetical tribute to
Grant, an adaptation of Walt Whit
mans poem in commemoration of
Lincoln. After which addresses
were delivered by DR.. Emerson, Mr..
Horncr and Consul-Gcncral Putnam.
MIR. j. VI. HORNER.
Mr.. IIorncr was struck with awe
at the large number assembled to do
honor to Americas dead hero. 1t
made him think more than ever that
the country he belonged to was Il
great one, when honors such as these
were bestowed in n foreign land on
cOuntryman. General Scott, when
in command, once said their generals
did not seem to know how to fight,
but admitted there was one who did
the hero of Fort DOnelSOn That