The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-01

army Of freemen endure who were lighting
for truth, juetice and perfect freedom, under
a leader whose greatest aim was their
greatest good.
THE GERM OF LIBERTY,
Born in the soul of every man, had been
struggling for life down through the ages,
cropping cut here and there on the surface
of an unfriendly soil, only to be crushed out
by the iron heel of tyranny, but gaining,
step by step, under the nurturing warmth
of Christian civilization, until brave spirits
dared to claim their birthright, throw of
their yoke, and trust in God to help them.
A little handful Of such men, making
PLYMOUTH ROCK
The stepping stone of new nation, there,
in the virgin soil of New England, planted
that tree of Liberty, whose branches today
shelter ffty-fve millions of freemen. The
history of the desperate and protracted
struggle in defense of that tree is so iamil-
lar to every American that it need not be
reviewed here. ''Thrice is he armed who
hath his quarrel just" found a glorious IL
lustration in that revolution, led by that
great and true patriot, whose grand soul
was never stained by an unholy ambition,
but whose every aim and every hope was
identical with those of his humblest fol-
lower Yonder on the bank of the Potomac,
and overlooking the Capitol of the nation,
stands column, its foundation laid broad
and deep in the earth, its granite shaft
climbing heavenWard half a hundred feet
above the highest pile ever before erected by
human hands, it's bright aluminium cap
glistening in the MONDAY sun, and at night
q seemingly companion of the stars, fitting
emblem Of the life, and lasting memorial
of our own Washington, a name sweet to the
ear of every American; aye, of every lover
of freedom in the civilized world. A great
heart consecrated to the cause of freedom,
he left behind him a political structure.
which, when Bartholdi's work shall be for
gotten, will stand, as it has stood for more
than century, a living, acting, speaking
statue of
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.
As late as N 1850, society of learned men
in England published and gave to the world
q history of our mother country. After re-
counting the details of the separation of the
Colonies from the Home Government, and
speaking of the amicable relations since ex-
listing be tween the two coun tries, it concludes
with these words: 1t may be doubted
whether the Republican institutions under
which they exist will eventually perpetuate
their greatness as nation" English
scholars may be pardoned for such doubts
| at that period in our history. A good, old
New England farmer, who, like his ancestors
for many generations, titled the little farm
of seventy-fve acres, one half of which Was
so stony that it could not be plowed, and
could be prepared for seed only : digging
| up the soil between the rocks with grub
hoes, planting the seed with shotguns. by
putting the corn or beans into guns and
shooting it in between the boulders; thus
he plodded on with two cows, an old family
horse, dog, sheep, and from ten to fourteen
healthy sons and daughters, all educated in
the lore of the rural districts and especially
proficient in the three RS: Reading, 'Rit
ing and 'Rithmetic'' The old man could
never comprehend how his boy, who ran
away from home and went West, could
manage that prairie farm of six Thousand
acres, sowing and reaping three thousand
acres of wheat, and grazing two thousand
sheep and fifteen hundred head of cattle
and accomplishing the vast amount of labor
! in as short space of time required by
| his father to harvest his one acre of pota
toes, two and one-haH acres of corn, si1
bushels of turnips, two barrels of winter
apples and fourteen barrels Of cider tfol
vinegar Those English scholars failed
not only to comprehend the dimensions o.
that
REPUBLICAN FARM IN THE WEST,
But also the peculiar mode of managing it
They forgot that Columbia was not the
property of an Emperor or a Court; they
forgot that the constitution of our fathers
was not the creature of party or a minis
try; they forgot the great republic was {
legacy begueathed to forty millions of free
men, every one of whom, from the humblcs
plowman to the chief magistrate, was ar
equal heir, and when the red hand of trea
son, sustained by the scum of all tyrannies-
| property in man-tore from the halliards a
Fort Sumpter the grandest emblem o.
national greatness ever flung to the breeze
then was seen by a doubling world the
foundation on which rested those republican
| institutions. Two million, six hundred and
sixty-eight thousand men stood forth ant
offered their lives, if needed, to defend thu
| honor Of
THEIR coUNTRY's FLAG.
Not the peasant plowman alone, of New
! England and the West, but men of ever!
| class and condition. The teacher, til,
scholar, the statesman and the divine, thu
| poor laborer and the proud millionaire
stood shoulder to shoulder in that struggle
Of four years, against an enemy entrenchet
en- his own chosen ground, and who Tough
| with that determination which marked thu
| intensity of despair, until treason anC
slavery found their Waterloo atAppomattex
Comrades, we had the honor to bear
| part in that conflict. We left behind us al
! that was dear on earth, and although but a
| few Of our names may be found on the pages
of history, yet we did our duty; nor do WI
covet the honors so richly earned and 81
! generously lavished upon our great comrade
| at whose bedside tonight
| A NATION WATCHES
With tender solicitude-that noble patriot
to whom his country in its darkest hou
looked for help and were not disappointed