The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-09

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and in a clear and distinct voice read
the Declaration of independence,
after which the audience joined in
singing "Rally Round the Flag"
The Rev. w. Il. Olcson was
called upon and on rising said he
would read that famous speech of
Americas mortyred President,
Abraham Lincoln, at the dedication
of the National Cemetery at Gettys-
burg. Lincoln prepared this speech
while on the cars from Washington
to Gettysburg, writing with n pen
ell on a scrap of paper resting on
his knee. Although very short, it
is brilliant effort and contains
volumns. He then read as fol-
lows:-
-Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this
continent new nation, conceived
III liberty and dedicated to the pro-
position that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in q
great civil war, testing whether that
nation-or any nation so conceived
and so dcdicated-can long endure.
We are met on great battle field
of that war. We are met to dedi-
cate portion of it as the final rest
ing place of those who here gave
their lives that that nation might
live. 1t is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But, in larger sense, we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow, this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it,
far above our power to add or de-
tract. The world will very little
note nor long remember what we
say here; but it can never forget
what they did here.
1t is for us, the living, rather, to
be dedicated here, to the unfinished
work that they have thus far so
nobly carried on. 1t is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us; thai from
these honored dead we take increas-
ed devotion to that cause for which
they here gave the last full measure
of devotion that we here highly re-
solve that these dead shall not have
died in vain; that the nation shall,
under God, have q new birth of free
dom, and that government of the
people, by the people, for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth.
The Band played medley of
American airs.
Hon. ii. S. Townsend, formerly
of Iowa, and at present q member
of the Hawaiian Legislature, was
introduced as the "Orator of the
day" Mr.. Townsend prefaced his
Grafton with the remark that he had
endeavored, in his preparation, to
condense his address into as concise
a form as possible, and then pro-
ceeded to deliver an Grafton that
was appropriate, original, and brim-
full of great thoughts. 1t was so
epitomised by the author, that it
would be almost impossible for a re-
porter to boil it down any more.
Following is the eloquent closing
passage: And as the cords of GER
tain musical instruments vibrate in
response to their own tones when
played upon similar Instruments, ,and
thus join in to strenthen and per-
petuate those tones, so the peal of
Liberty Bell found an echo in every
freeman's soul. 1t rang throughout
the City of Brotherly Love; and it
rang over the hills and valleys hal
lowed by the blood of New Eng
lands brave sons, shed in the holy
cause of liberty. The pine trees OF
the North caught up the peal and
sent it back TO the palmettos. 1t
rang from the Atlantic to the Allie
ghanies-up the Potomac and down
the Hudson. 1t rang till it called
all the heroes of the land from
north to south and from east to west
to do battle for liberty. 1t rang
across the sea and found an echo in
the hearts of Lafayette, of De-
Grasse and of Rochambeau in
France. 1t found its echo in many
q German heart. Heroes there
needed the call and left their homes
to go into strange land and among
strange people to fight for the holy
cause. And when it rang for joy at
the final victory of the right in
America, it re-echoed throughout
the pleasant land of France, calling
the sons of freedom to awake to
glory, and to throw off the yoke of
oppression under which they had
groaned for ages until the mighty
response came, and tyranny was
compel to seek refuge in flight. 1t
re-echoed in Germany and is re-
echoing there still. Free hearts in
tyrant ridden Russia have taken up
the peal and are sending it back and
forth throughout that land, making
the despots tremble. The sound
was caught in our own times by
Castelar, and sent by him re-echo-
ing throughout Spain. Portugal
now celebrates victory for liberty
and permanent recognition of the
rights of the people. That peal of
Liberty Bill has rung and re-echoed
throughout Europe, has crossed the
American continent, has been caught
up in the Island Empire of the Ris-
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