The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-07-06

hoops, highheeled Shoes or bolster hips shall in.
cur the penalty of the law now in force against
witchcraft /; AMI the marriage, upon conviction,
This law is still unrepealed: but New Jersey Is
the only State in which there is now any need Of
such law.
We hear much lamentation about the present
low tone of Washington society. But let me give
you leaf from history. Margaret O'Niel, the
pretty daughter of Georgetown tavern-keeper,
married an army paymaster. Scandal making free
with her good name, her husband committed sui
eide. Gen. Eaton, tho fast friend of President
jackson, married the pretty widow. Tennessee
made Eaton Senator, and jackson made him.
few weeks later Secretary of war. But the ladies
of Jacksons Cabinet refused to call on Mrs Eaton.
Jackson took the matter up and tried to force her
social recognition. Washington society, and in
fact the society of the nation, divided into two
hostile camps. 1t resulted in breaking up the
Cabinet. And Van Buren,, most smooth and politic
of men, won Jacksons lasting gratitude by his zeal
in pushing Mrs Eaton into society; and to Jack
sons favor he owed his elevation to the Presidency.
Think you such social drama could be re-en-
acted in Washington to-day?
We think of the people of America hundred
years ago as being very cody and religious peo-
pie. But 1t Is not true. InhdelitY widespread
and Tom Payne was its apostle.
In 1870 there was in America one church to every
1447 people; now there is one to each $50. Then
there was one communicate to every ~ of the peo-
ple now there is one to each five.
Perhaps there was some excuse for our fore
fathers not attending church, for in their bleak
winters, with the mercury below Zero they thought
1t sacrilege to heat their churches and We read of
Rev. MIR. Miller, who paused III the midst of
two-hour's sermon TO sharply rebuke his people
for the noise they made in stamping their feet to
keep them from freezing.
The comparative question of morals and religion
is settled by the nexoraable figures of the census.
Therein we learn that during the past one hundred
years Christianity has increased in America more
than eight times as fast as the population.
In what have said l have not, tTnst, given the
impression that | do not honor Americas past.
Nay, that past Is dear to me. | reverence those
men of iron, who laid so broad and solid the
foundation of the Republic. They were grand men,
and nobly did they do their work. They loved lib
erty and freedom. And through terrible scenes of
carnage and suffering, beneath the broiling rays
of the summers sun, and through frosty, frozen,
icy winter they went straight forward in the path
of duty. Their estates wasted by the enemy, their
clothes IN tatters, their blood marking their foot
steps, price upon their heads and the hangman's
moose dangling before them-still they counted 1t
all as nothing that thay might win freedom, and
establish
A Church without Bishop,
And State without King"
The world had never seen such heroism and
patriotism before. Nothing IN Roman fame or
Grecian story, or Anglo-Sdxon glory was CON-
parable with it. am not blind to the glories of
l776, neither am l blinded by them. have sought
to give you true picture of that elder day."
that we may take courage for our work in tho
present and the future. The past of America is
secure. The present is in our hands. l think we
can say, without egotlsm or exaggeration, that we
men worthy to look back upon such past as
only America can show-that we who have the
blood of our Evolutionary sires IN our veins have
not disgraced it.
What of the future That rests largely with
the young Americans of to-day. And TO Young
America say Count it grand thing to be an
American. Let no "croaker " implant within you
dstrust of American principles, coward fear for
her future. 1t is grand thing to live in this age.
Math wa man cd rrffh
some of the middle-aged pen before me. Why,
would rather live forty years in America while the
18th is rounding into the 10th century, than to
have stagnated thousand years IN the Orient, in
that slow, ox-like age IN which the son Of EnOch
lived. The earth is becoming smaller. Time is
becoming longer. This planet on which we live
seems to nave shrunk so in the past hundred years
that the Earth is but neighbOrhood of
nations. 4 day is now as pregnant of results as
year used to be-
In such times-times big with possibilities, and
great questions coming to the front-as never
before America
wants men, large-hearted. manly men
Men who shall Join its chorus. and prolono
The psalm of labor, and the psalm of love.
The age wants herOcs-heroes who shall dare
To struggle in the solid ranks of truths
To clutch the monster error by the throat;
To bear opinion to lOftier seat;
To blot the error of oppression Out
And lead universal freedom
II thou indeed wilt be what patriots should
II thou wilt be hero, and wilt strive
To help thy fellow, not exalt myself
Thy feet AZ last shalt stand on jasper hOOrs
Thy heart at last shalt thousand hearts
Each single heart with myriad raptures filed
While thou shalt sit with princes and with kings,
Rich IN the jewel of 4 ransomed sOul."