Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-04-03
II the coarse of The South, since

mocrats IN the Congress u s'ie
United States have not yet COM
menced to realize anything as 10
the situation of our common
country. before tat var the
Secretary of War Of the United,
States was a rebel who used his
high Office to cripple his country
bv distributing the munitions OF
war. the property OF his country
amongst his country's enemies
Before tile war tue halls OF Con
gress were noisy with the voice
Of rebellion. To-day. thirty years
after the South was whipped into
submission. there are sixty-eisst
rebel Brigadiers in the balls OF
Congress and son in law ef that
notorious Cobb. who WAS Cover
nor of that rebel slaughter house
Castle Thunder. IS the Secretary
of War for the United States.
Since the war. the South has
le rned nothing. It's whole mind
has been bent to accomplish the
dominamv of tie willie over the
/ black. To accomplish this any
means has been justified however
.deplorable. The South of to-
day is the South of forty years
ago, with its fields neglected and
untitled. 1t fingers in the ruins
of an old tent, where once it had
/ bread and shelter, and refuses to
believe that it will ever again
find aught so dear, 50 sweet
so graceful as the beautiful yes
/ terdav so we'll exemplifed in the
"Old Slavery Days Southern
fathers and mothers sit and weep
amid the ruins If their pet sys-
I tenn. teaching their children the
cruelty of those Yankee rob
bers from the North, who despoil-
ed them of their happiness.
They refuse to believe in the
new, the to-day; and ever walk
with averted eyes. like these
monsters who can only look back
ward.
after twenty years of exper-
fence the Northern States OF
America have learned that " All
men are born free and equal
and that the law of Compensation
cannot be evaded; that it is the
voice of good politics as we'll as
| Justice that says to the soul of
the most debased:
Fear not, then thou child iufirT,
/ Tt err's TO god dare wrong worm.
Laure' crowns cleave to oeserts,
( Aud power to him who pc ger exerts;
/ Hast not thy share? On winged teet
/ Lo. it rushes thee to meet;
! And all that Nature made thy own,
+ Porting in mir or ent III stone,
/ VIII rive the hills and swim the sea.
And, like thy shadow, follow thee"
What nonsense this is. "The
white race is endowed with bet
ter brain aud character than the
black. Why suppose he is Does
that give him the right to rob
his weaker brother? But is the
black race inferior? Why there
never was a slave so mean who
differed from you. Mr., Writer.
except in the position which for
tune and the laws cast him. The
history of race distinction, Of
human slavery and persecution is
a history Of endeavors to cheat
nature, to make water run mp
hill, to twist a rope Of sand. It
makes no difference whether the
actors be many or one, tyrant
or mob. Hours of sanity and
cons deratIon will come to com
manities. as to the individuals,
when the truth is seen and the
last of composition is felt.
A great man is willing to be
little. Whilst be sits on the
cushions of advantage he goes to
sleep, but among the toriuents
and defeats of real life he is
awake. He is cured of that
insanity of conceit which be-
ileves IN Face superiority and
which longs to meet good. it
has not earned.
No, the friends of humanity.
of justice. Of good government
are not found in south Of Mason