The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-25

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exist as a nation. We gave six millions Of
money and millions Of men as the warrant
of faith in these God-givsn principles.
And it is worthy Of note how the American
peoples in the great crisis of the Civil War,
showed instinctyeIy their reliance on God.
When the first shot was fred, men rushed
first to their places for enlistment-then TO
their affairs. When at last Richmond fell,
20, 600 people poured into Wall Street; there
was no diseordant voice to utter vain
boastings then; but as by an ir-
resistible impulse the vast assemblage
broke forth into 90 Praise God from Whom
all blessings dow." Every man knew it and
knew how to sing it. Aud when, few weeks
later, Lincoln fell, and the shuddering wires
bore the news throughout the country,
another great crowd surged into Wall street
with cleaning eyes, compressed lips, set
teeth, and blanched faces with vengeance
in every heart, with dread, and terror and
fearful foreboding as they thought Of the
future-the crowd became mob. Suddenly
a strong man pushed his way through that
surging, living sea, climbed some steps and
stood before them. Something in the face
and manner of James A. Garfield as he stood
there quieted that mob. though no one knew
who he was a death-like silence fell upon
them all eyes were turned toward that
strong face, as if pleading for help. And
not in vain. One single sentence from his
ringing voice filed each soul with courage
and hope. Drawing himself up, he said
- God reigns and the Government at
Washington still lives p Aye, men learned
then what we must learn anew, if we have
forgotten the lesson, that in God, and
loyalty to Him is the hope of the nation-Of
any nation. Patriotism is more than
aroused sensibilities, or quickened emotions.
There must be loyalty to principles and
those principles take root in the teaching OF
them who gave the world the great example
of seIf-sacrifce.
?. 4 second safeguard and solvent of these
! questions is a high standard of morals and
| principles as the rule of political action.
Emerson, in the Grafton from which L
have already quoted, says
| The end of all political struggle is to
establish morality as the basis of all political
| action and legislation. It's not free institu-
| tions, tbs not democracy that is the end
/ no, only the means. Morality is the object
| of government. We want state of things
| in which crime will not pay state of
| things which allows every man the largest
liberty compatible with the liberty Of every
! other man"
| Americans must set high the standard of
/ political morality and action. With Milton
they must say: ''The State ought to be but
! one huge Christian parsonage, one mighty
| growth or statue of an honest man, as big
and compact in virtue az in body" We
| should count az q traitor to his country the
man who resorts to low arts and tricks of the
| politician to win votes; and the demagogue
who appeals to the ignorance and prejudice
| Of the unthinking. and strives to win place
and power by arraying one class against an
! other: and worse still the man who attempts
| to buy votes, and uses the saloon as his ally
| in debauching political power at its foun-
| tain-head
8. This last thought: The great solvent
and conserving power is manly men.
"These constitute the State"
| They founded America When the elder
| Adams was once asked to whom belonged
the honor Of starting the idea of independ-
ence, he said: Neither Jefferson, Franklin,
nor myself Independence sprang from the
hearts of the people. When was a young
man and taught school, and boarded around,
as I heard those farmers talk, I got such
| ideas Of the State, and liberty, and patriot
ism, as satisfied me that we must come to
! this at last" And Jefferson got his first
ideas of republican government from the
| organization of a little Baptist Church in
| Virginia Those men who fastened to Con-
| cord Bridge, and endured hunger and cold
at Valley Forge, were the founders of Amer
lea. And their descendants, who followed
| sherman to Atlanta, and thence to the sea;
and those who patiently, stHrdily, held on
their bloody way through the Wilderness to
Appomattox and Peace, were men like their
fathers, and in them was the hope Of the
Nation that crisis hour.
believe in America. believe that she
will fulfill her destiny, and that it will be a
grand one. In the language of thoughtful
| Englishman who recently visited America:
s.Never in the history of mankind, as we
| know it, have such advantages been enjoyed
Dy & nation as nave DeeO ana are tuS = pPSHaSS
of the Americans of European origin, in the
| New World. They have leaped into the pos
session of their heritage full armed, like
/ Minerva from the brain Of Jove. For them
have all the champions of human rights died
or conquered, and the protagonists Of hui
man struggles for liberty fought. For them
science has trimmed her lamp; for them
the martyrs have died; for them Europe and
| Asia have been in toll and travail for count
less generations. They have been guided
across the sea to u grand continent, where 1t
would seem as if nature had been engaged
for myriads Of ages to provide for their hap
| piness and grandeur. Ali chimes and all
products are theirs; the bounteous plain,
the ore-flled mountain, the treasures of the
deep, the heaven-made ways by lake and
river! And it would be a despair for all
| mankind, if they misuse their glorious in
| heritance; and if all the nations Of the
world should see that the pillar of fire in
tho vast was but an jOnis fat1lLS dancing