The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-09

HONOR TO GEN'L ARMSTRONG.
Kawaiahao Church the Scene OF
an Appreciative Gathering
Last Night.
Speeches by Leading Citizens
Resolutions Adopted to
be Forwarded TO
Hampton.
The Meeting a Tribute to Sterling
Worth.

An interesting meeting was held
in the Kawaiahao Church last even
ing to give expression to the SYM
pathy of our citizens with General
Armstrong in the great educational
work in which he is engaged in the
United States. The immediate occa-
sion Of the meeting was the desire to
join with General Armstrong;
friends in America in their words of
good cheer and encouragement in
view of the Generals serious illness.
Among those in the audience were
Judges Judd and Dole, A. S. Hart
we'll. Esq, Professor Alexander, DR..
VS., DR.. Nichols, the Rev. Drs.
Beckwith and Hyde, Rev. Mr.. Oleson,
Chief Engineer Inch of the San
Francisco, Chaplain Hoes Grams
ferred yesterday to the San Fran
cisco), j. S. Emerson, Esq, S. N.
Emerson, Esq, Hon. w. W. Sever
ance, Hon. j. B. Athertop, 7. Rich
ards, Esq, A. f. Cooke, Esq, and
w. w. Hall, Esq.
Judge Dole called the meeting to
order, and gave brief resume of
General Armstrong; record during
the Civil War, and his still greater
philanthropic labors in behalf of the
freedmen since the close of that con
hict. He remarked that General
Armstrong is even better known by
his works in the United States than
he is here in the land of his birth,
and stated, upon the evidence of one
OF I'll most prominent men in public
America, that the General had
more to solve the race problem
~ any other man in America.
Mention was then made of the mag
nitude and Importance of the great
educational institution In Hampton,
Virginia, presided over by General
Armstrong, which now numbers on
its rolls over 1000 pupils, and whose
influence extends to at least
10000 others of the colored race.
After other words of well-deserved
eulogy, Judge Dole introduced
Chief Justice Judd, who addressed
the audience In Hawaiian. He re-
marked that it was grand circum-
stance that the man who at this time
was receiving so much honor In
America was a Hawaiian, and he,
gave. emphasis to the great work
which Gen. Armstrong had accom-
plished, not only for the negro race,
but also among the Indians.
Judge Hartweli, the next speaker,
who had fought side by side with
Gen. Armstrong in the late war,
stated that the sympathy which had
been extended to the General, especi-
ally throughout the Eastern States,
had been almost phenomenal. 1t had
come alike from all classes of people,
the rich and the poor, the orthodox
and the heterodox. Such men as
Philips Brooks, Edward Everett
Hale, DR.. Gordon, of the "Old
South church, and others Of similar
prominence and influence, had
been unstinted in their praises.
It would be a pity, then, re-
marked the judge, if our citizens,
who knew and esteemed the General
so highly, should withhold their
words of good cheer. Judge Hart
we'll described General Armstrong
as zone of the most fortunate men
that ever lived" He spoke of his
great versatility, and his buoyancy of
spirit, and referred to the deep i'm
preston made upon him by the Cen
eral during an engagement fought
on the 4th of July, 1864, when Arm
strong was Lieutenant Colonel OF
the 7th u. S. Infantry (colored).
This impression bad been empha-
sized when the Judge heard him
speak subsequently In Boston, IN
meetings representing many OF the
various denominations. He repre-
sented him as a large minded man,
who never did anything for mere
show or effect, and described the
many ''ante norton obituaries" of
the General as a just tribute to the
true worth of the mau.
At the conclusion of Judge Hart
wells remarks, Judge Dole called
upon the Rev DR.. Beckwitb, who il
stead of making any extended re
marks concerning his esteemed
brother-in-law aud his work, read the
following extract from long letter
received yesterday, which had been
dictated and signed by General Arm
strong, but written by his wife
81 am steadily improving. Alice his
wife1 is still head nurse, and brings
me all my meal! I have fair ap
petite and sleep well nights. A little
after s every morning, two faith
full colored boys give me hot sal
water sponge bath, followed by {
rubbing with towels till my skin Ii
red. Then they dress me in part
and. leaning on one of them, I wall
into the next room, our parlor, 81
down in an easy chair and have
breakfast, after which I get into m!
rolling chair and am wheeled abou
the house. In the coming warmel
.ALo. T oxoaof RI no whaalod OH