The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-05

waiting TO hear the news Nor is it DOS.
| sibe to improve upon descriptions al
| ready familiar OF the anxiety of the
! crowd which waited for the old historic
| bell to ''prOclaim liberty throughout the
! land to all the inhabitants thereof" But
| surely it did ring as no bell ever rang
| before. And as the cords OF certain
musical instruments vihrate in response
| to their own tones when played upon
similar Instruments, and thus join in to
strengthen and perpetuate those tones,
SO that peal OF Liberty Bell found an
echo III every free mans soul. 1t rang
throughout the City of Brotherly Love ;
and it rang over the hills and valleys
hallowed by the blood of New England's
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 Allan
tic to the ALE hanies-up the Potomac
and down the HOlstOn. 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 aud found an echo in the hearts
of Lafayette, of DeGrasse and of
Rochambeau in France. 1t found
its echo in many German
heart Heroes there needed the call
and left their homes to go into a strange
land and among ii 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 OPP
preston under which they had groaned
for ages; until the mighty response
came, and tyranny was compelled to
seek refuge in flight. 1t re-echoed in
Germany and is re-echoing there
still. Free hearts in tyrant- ridden Rus
STA have taken up the peal and are send
ing 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-echoiDg
throughout Spain. Portugal now cele-
nent recognition of the rights of the peo-
pie. 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 Rising Sun, and
has even penetrated the dark places of
the FloWery Kingdom. When the
Chinese students were recalled from
America in 1881 they left the wharf at
San Francisco, with sad hearts, singing
of America the sweet land of liberty"
The peal of that bell has re-echoed-hOW
it has re-echoed I'm the islands of the
broad Pacific. And as the blast OF Ro-
lands horn is said to have echoed and
re-echoed from crag to crag and from
peak to peak through the pass of Romeo
wales calling Frenchmeu to arms against
the victorious invaders, till the mighty
response turned victory into defeat and
drove the proud Saracens across the
Pyrenees; SO the sound of that peal OF
Liberty Bell has rung on and will ring
on, and on, and on, and on in the hearts
of free men, please God, till the politi
cal rights of man are everywhere ac-
knowledged, and till it has proclaimed
liberty throughout all lands to all the
inhabitants thereof.
Rally Round the Flag" was sung
after the hearty applause that greeted
the orator subsidized, and Dr. Beckwith
dismissed the cOncourse to refreshments
with the benediction