The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-05
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A quartette of Saxophones were
stationed on the platform and at the
conclusion Of Mr.. Mcrrill's remarks,
played Marching through Geor-
gia." After playing the piece
through, the audience joined in
singing it.
The President then introduced
Mr.. =. c. Jones, who came forward
and in clear and distinct voice read
the Declaration of independence,
after which the audience joined in
singing orally Round the Flag"
The Rev. w. b. Oleson was
called upon and on rising said he
would read that famous speech of
Americas martyred 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 a pen
Gil on scrap of paper resting on
his knee. Although very short, it
is u brilliant effort and contains
vollmns. He then read as fol-
| lows:-
Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this
continent new nation, conceived
IN liberty and dedicated to the pro-
position that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that
nation-or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated 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; tha5 from
these honored dead we take increas-
ed devotion to that cause for which
they here gave She 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 a 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 a medley OF
American airs.
Hon. II. S. Townsend, formerly
of Iowa, and at present member
of the Hawaiian Legislature, was
introduced as the "Orator of tho
day" Mr.. Townsend prefaced hi;
Grafton with the remark that he haC
endeavored, in his preparation, tt
condense his address into as concise
form as possible, and then pro
ceeded to deliver an Grafton thai
! was appropriate, original, and brim-
full of great thoughts. 1t was sc
epitomised by the author, that il
would be almost impossible for re,
porter to boil it down any more
Following is the eloquent closing
passage: And as the cords of Ger,
tain musical instruments vibrate il
response to their own tones wheI
played upon similar instruments, ant
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 i
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 o
the North caught up the peal ant
sent it back to the palmettos.
rang from the Atlantic to the ALE
ghanies-up the Potomac and dowl
the Hudson. 1t rang till it callet
all the heroes of the land from
north to south and from cast to ives
to do battle for liberty. 1t ran.
across the sea and found an echo il
| the hearts of Lafayette, of De
: Grasse and of Rochambeau il
) France. 1t found its echo in many
a German heart. Heroes Their
needed the call and left their home
to 60 into strange land and among
, strange people to fight for the hol
cause. And when it rang for JOY a
the final victory of the right il
America, it re-echoed Throughout
, the pleasant land of France, calling
, the sons of freedom to awake Il
: glory, and to throw off the yoke o
: oppression under which they ha,
e groaned for ages until the might
} response came, and tyranny wa
e COMPEL to seek refuge in flight. i
1 re-echoed in Germany and is re
g echoing there still. Free hearts il
4 tyrant ridden Russia have taken u
Y the peal and are sending it back an,