The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-09-27

5000 had gone to the little green tents
whose doors never opened outward.
About year ago this Post bought a
little plot in the cemetery, in which
there were now six of those little green
tents. But they could teach their chill
dren those principles for which they
fought, SO that if ever America was in
necessity again their children could
take their places.
Sergeant Major F. l.. Clarke re-
sponded for "The Mothers, Wives and
Sweethearts of the Boys who Saved the
Nation" While historians we're busy
writing about what those people did
who went to the front, who had all the
"pomp and Circumstance Of glorious
war" to sustain them, he thought that
something should be said about those
who stayed to guard their homes and
allowed them to 60 to what they sup
posed might be death, and whose fare.
well words and letters kept up the
courage Of the soldiers. AS the war
went on they could go into battle with
the feeling of confidence that custom
gave; but every report Of musket,
every cry of newsboy in the street,
send thrill through their wives, their
mothers and their sweethearts, who
could still hear of those things and yet
sent them words of encouragement and
in thousand ways help them Then
to the soldiers stricken down in battle,
and amongst those carried to the hos
pital, the ministrations of tender
woman's hands brought remembrance
OF those at home, and nothing that so
kept them up as thoughts of the
mothers, wives and sweethearts far
away. He spoke of the services rend-
cred by the women at home in pre-
pairing lint, bandages and other articles
for the relief of the wounded and sick.
All this time it was only their prayers
that the women had to sustain them.
Reports Of great victories only meant
to them the possible death of those
they loved. The soldiers first thought
when granted furlough was that he
should see his mother, wife or sweet
heart and encourage them not to fear
so much. When the war ceased and
the soldier was called on to lay down
his arms, it was due largely to those at
home, and to his early training from
his mother there, that he was enabled
to do SO with contentment. Those
mothers, in the twenty-five years since
the war, had mostly left them and they
revered their memories. 1t was a pleas
ure to their mothers and wives that
they were able to meet on such ar
occasion as this. The speaker referred
to the organization of the "Women'.
Relief Corps" and concluded with the
sentiment; "Our wives, our mother,
and our sweethearts: God bless them.
"The Military Forces of Hawaii,
was responded to by Officer of the Da,
v. V. Ashford. His sympathy will
the Hawaiian military began before hi
connection Herewith, having felt deepl
their friendship in turning out 81
strongly on Decoration Day. He spok
of the value of military force even il
country like this, where need nigh
occurin such mixed population o
dealing with internal disturbance. HI
favored the organization of the miitar,
forces of Hawaii and, in opposition t.
the popular impression that militar,
service was necessarily demorallzing
instanced the procession of $1,000 G.
= A. r. comrades in San Francisco, il
which not a man was intoxicated. He
thanked the Post for the compliment
to the Hawaiian military, and assured
them that the kindly feeling was recip
rocated.
"The Blue and the Gray" wa.
spoken to eloquently by Mr.. II. f
Avery, who said he was deeply sensible
of the honor conferred on him il
being called upon to respond to thi'
toast, but regretted that from his poo
vocabulary he could not find word,
to express his admiration for the mer
who wore the blue and the gray. Pro
ceeding in an eloquent strain to eulo
+ gize the valor of the American soldiers
on both sides in the fratricdal strife
he referred to the annual reunion o.
the blue and the gray on Decoration
Day. The courage of those soldiers
had been tested. They we're enemie.
worthy of each others steel. A more
terrible struggle the worlds history die
not record than that between the blue
and the gray, but to-day let foreign
invader lay his hand on their reunited
country and they would fight side by
side as hard as ever they did before
The heroes of that sad time were
vanishing from sight. Grant and Lee
had passed away, with thousands who
had followed them IN the fight, but
when the last reveille sounded they
would form a glorious cohort, anc
there would be liberty and union of the
blue and the gray.
Hon. A. +. Judd, Chief Justice, re
sponded for "Our Invited Guests" He