Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-05-31

visaged war rose like midnight
spectrej when the people were par
alyzed, many crying, owe perish; our
Government is failure" the nation
wept, and we'll might she weep, for it
seemed that our death knell had souded;
when $4,000 had failed to retake
the forts, and in respone to the call,
New England joined with the noble
West in shouting the chorus, owe arc
coming, Father Abraham, 800,
more;' when we realized that Ame-
ricans were to meet Americans
brothers, fathers and sons were to bathe
the land with each others blood, we
knew the living active present had come
and to decide the future it required
"a heart within and God overhead" :"
The causes leading up to or pro
ducing that gigantic upheaval, arousing
and continuing that conflict of discord-
ant and opposing elements, l have not
now the inclination, neither is this the
occasion, nor is there time to discuss
In fact time for writing the history of
that civil war has not come. Its
Humes and Bancrofts are yet in the
womb of time l believe, however,
the results are, fully appreciated and
acknowledged BY the world. When the
nation arose from the baptismal waters
of its own blood, it stood among the
nations of the earth, cleansed of many
sins, steadier, firmer and with more
faith in its future than ever before.
True, we may be charged with being a
boastful Yankee nation, but have we
not the right to enter the plea of justl-
fable selflaudation
With disparagement to none. with
out desire to pluck single laurel from
the fame of Others, yet when we con-
template those mighty, hostile armies,
drawn
From the same mountains and plains,
With the same blood in their veins.
With kissing shot and shell, washing
each others heads and limbs away, and
suddenly transporting their souls into
the camping ground of eternity, and
within few short years find that those
who were brsvest are first after. peace
to be brothers again, with
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
Are We not justified in predicting that
when the years shall have increased
and the impartial historian shall re
count his stories, among them, all the
valor, tenacity firm and answering fdel-
ity to principle of the American soldier
will stand out boldly, side by side with
those celebrated in song, to inspire and
elevate the sentiment of future genera
tions?
Though the fower-wreathed graves
are strewn all along, from the whisper
ing pines of Maine, out beyond the
Golden Gate, to this island Kingdom
Of the Pacific, marking the resting
place of the remains of those who once
stood behind the the REFazzegsthEea5ed Ez q l.al mons
destruction and death into the rank.
of kindred though from the Potamac
! to the Rio Grande, there are sepul
chered the bones of the uncoffined anc
unknown though the blood Of kindred
lately crimsoned the brow OF Lookout
Mountain, and roaring cannon mingled
with the shouts of armed legions in the
Wilderness, crying Give US victory Oh
give us death )" though but yesterday
,, from beside the singing streams of the
East, from the plains of the West, tht
,, factories of the North and the land o
: the magnolia and the palm, therl
sprang up such crop of glitterinC
steel as the world had never witnessed
, thongh but few short years ago saber
. were sheathed, guns silenced, sentrie
withdrawn, ambulances made their las
dreary rounds, or the mother, sister o
lover pondered over the long list o
dead, wounded or missing, yet we hav,
lived to see the floral wreaths of tn,
South blending with those of the North
+ and the leading actors bend and mingl'
their tears over the graves of the con
' quering heroes of Gettysburg, Antietan
and Appomattox, as
From the silence of sorrowful homes
. The desolate mourners CO.
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe.
. We realize that there is a noble spiri
. permeating the hearts of the people
proclaiming, as the law Of the land
S this granted amnesty to the living-w'
. certainly will never refuse it to the dead
t 1t is but natural that as individuals
r or as a nation, we are proud to hav'
, watched the flag floating on its crest a
t the bow of peace cleaned through tn,
r smoke of battle and clouds of civil war
S to witness the results of the activ,
brain, the inventive genius, the compe
: tition of noble rivalry bubbling W
through the debris of factions from tn,
, heart Of united people-to observe
| our armies silently melting away, going
to their homes, their farms, their shops
: and armed with the implements o
S honesr toll, crowning their yalorou
/ deeds with permanent peace-tc
/ realize that every man combines tn,
f soldier, tiller of the soil, commando
5 and private, as duty directs; to know
S that the debt of the nation is passinj
, away, while its credit and reliability a
r home and abroad so rapidly increased