The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-01-19

| defiance To the tottertng hawaiian
monarchy lost no tone Of sternness or
Of courage when you stood at pay
10 the President of the United
| States aud the power which he mis-
used. There is nothing more insplr-
I ing in the annals Of l776 than the un-
waveriug front which you preserved
| in your great emergency. There, on
| the one side. was the chief OF sixty
millions; here WAS an armed body OF
paltry thousand; there was the
| strongest Of modern powers, with Its
army and its fleets; here were few
| lone rocks in the ocean without Tort
upon its pinnacles and without a gun
| upon deck; there was = great Gov
ernment whose President had declared
that our detnroned Queen should reign
again; here was a little band OF men
who said that she must pass over their
I dead bodies first; there in our haroor
were the broadSides of = possible toei
| here on shore was q battalion behind
ITS SanibSgs, The odds were great
I but the patriots of Hawaii took them;
and if the American people, aroused
I by that spectacle, had not placed
| themselves between us and all harm.
/ l feel that here upon this soil would
have been a new Thermopylae, not less
/ consecrated TO human courage than
was that which made immortal the
memory of three hundred Greeks. lt
/ is not enough. fellow citizens, 10 look
| backward with pride, for We must look
/ forward with courage. You destroyed
q monarchy one year ago today;
what are we 10 have in place
| of il wear from today or ten years
/ hence? The problem of January 18th
/ was easy TO solve beside the problems
that may be in store; problems which
/ will tax ths calmest craftsmanship of
\ the great man who is our President to-
| day; which will also rax the wisdom
I and experience of his Cabinet, the 50
/ gaeity and patience of our Councils.
[ We have party at home devoted 10
I the lost cause and moneyed iutiu-
ence abroad conspiring for control.
/ We are in the midst of alien races
and more alien creedS. There is
/ elamor of many tongues within our
I gates; the pressure of foreign Govern
ments at the outer walls. Our enc
mics are powerful and insidious, and
though some work secretly and Others
| openly, all are united 10 defeat the
| objects of the January revolution 1t
| Is for Us 10 remain Steadfast 70 those
objects, no matter who or what may
/ prove false to them; no matter who or
what may eOuspire or oppose; no mat
/ ter what Self-intereSt may undermine;
no matter who may come with the
olive branch in one hand and 8 dag
ger in smother. This is our highest
Z public duty. There is but one political
/ goal and watehword for US all and
/ that is annexation 1t is the begin
ming and the end of our political
/ alphabet 1t is the best hope of the
Americans in Hawaii, and of
| thousands who are not Americans,
except in principle, and it is
/ the best that could happen to the
/ natives. Whatever comes and what
ever proposals of government may be
made, we must be true to the objects
[ of the revolution or we shall be undoue
| by the forces now st work against US
/ But what. il may be asked, If annexa-
ton is long delayed-if the wait be-
comes one Of years? What if We are left
TO work out our own salvation first?
Fellow citizens, in that event, the
best thing We can do is to work it out
on the American plan and oy the
exercise of AnglO-SaxOn pluck, and
leave the rest to the ruler OF all na-
tions. l sometimes think that PrOyi-
dence may have a great political
work for this little island community
10 perform before our common hopes
may De secured and realized. It
Is in such small confines that God has
set the mighLisst forces of the worlds
affairs in II ton. Events upon a
narrow strip OF sea shore, among the
fishers and the poor, have swayed the
world for nineteen centuries Some
OF the brightest chapters Of ciyiliza-
[ ton and the strongest ones Of philOsO-
/ ply and the most heroic ones OF war,
[ opened among the isles OF Greece.
Upon the narrow ledges Of SwitZer-
[ land . few plain people and few
| plain rules did more for mankind in
/ one unhappy day than al the empires.
Z Among the sea girt hills OF Corsica
was born the genius Of Napoleon. In
I Hayti all men were once taught the
[ might OF 3 free people. Nor is this
all, From those little islands in the
I northern seas where the British flag
I first redeemed the dull air, the strong
| st tides Of civilization have flowed
| for = thousand years in q continuous
| stream. You might take those Islands
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/ the many great American lakes and
they could not be seen from the shore;
| but their very name 70 the Zulu Of
I the Cape, 10 the oushm4n Of Austria
I la, 10 the redman in the forests Of
/ Manitoba 10 the high and the Low all
over the earth i the incaFnatiOc Of
one % the worlds affairs. Surely
/ the opportunity 20 DO great things
AMI useful things i not dependent
I upon the size Of the theatre. II may
I be, for aughE Ee know that Hawaii
I has some historical function % perform
| before her Identity l. merged into the
I greatness Of the union No man can
I f1resee where and how the respOnsi-
| biIity i 70 fall; but If It should Be for
I q % sDEezd ideas Of free government
| through the thousands sent among u
from the coast ot Asia; II il becomes
E our privilege 70 inspire the same
eagernesz for liberty among them
which the colonial Americans lodged
/ IN the minds d their French allies,
aud which the latter pat % such good
I service On the 18th Of Januzry I7l1.-