Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-23

tne n6HTt VI every u ue auel iCub.
1t is dawning because there is
more cordial welcome at the
threshold of the White House for
Southerners than even they would
have had from any choice of their
own southland. There is one
subject prominent in the minds
of the people Of these isl ands, and
try to avoid it as | may it will
remain uppermost until it is set
tied. Heroic as has been your
conduct across the water its fruits
would not be in such promise of
being fully realized-as Senator
Morgan would doubtless say if he
were here, and whose presence if in
visible at this gathering is yet felt,
all the prayers of your Christian
community would have availed
for nothing but for the far-seeing
statesmanship of your president,
our president, William Mckinley.
Applause.
The Post Commander proposed,
"The President of the Republic
of Hawaii" regretting his absence
and calling upon Attorney Gen
eral W. o. Smith for a few re-
marks.
Mr.. Smith playfully berated the
master of ceremonies for his lack
of consideration in having failed
to give any notice of the call for
speech. What the Republic of
Hawaii represepted--the best that
it represented = President Dole
exem mplified in the true spirit.
When asked to be president OF the
Provisional Government he hesi-
tated for various reasons, but,
once having taken the step con-
cluding that it WAS for good
cause, he never drew back, he
never did after taking a stand. 1t
was matter OF congratuiation
that man like President Dole
should have taken the position
a man always gentle, eminently
fair and Just. 1t had made a great
difference. The harmony, peace
and unity that had been so we'll
secured was due to their presi.
dent.
General Hartwell, Union
veteran, was called to respond for
"Tbe Blue and the Gray" This
sentiment was arranged he
thought in the hope that the
venerable senator for Alabama,
who used to wear the gray, to
show the appreciation the public
here felt for that distinguished
statesman. There might be peo-
pie from the South there, however,
who knew what the gray was. He
could not help feeling sorry when
he thought what the gray had
lost. Sometimes he thought there
was something wrong with this
sentiment - 'the blue and the
gray"--in the sense in which it
was usually given. Why should
they believe that the men and
women of the South should re-
nounce the convictions for which
they went into that WARP We
could all recognise now that there
were two sides at that time. Each
then believed that bis side was
right and the other side wrong
detestably wrong. The people of
the North believed that no State
could legally leave the Union,
while those of the South believed
that it could do SO. Yet when
the constitution was framed there
had to be a compromise on that
very question Of the rights of
sovereign states. Patrick Henry
contended most violently against
that compromise, holding that
those sovereign states had such
rights. Ii they had put that in
our constitution the saying of
Webster, that the Union was for
ever inseparable, would have been
impossible. Senator Morgan if
present would likely say that he
thought it was best that the peo-
pie were knit together, but would
hardly acknowledge that their
principles were wrong at that
time. The speaker had never
met a Southern soldier that he
was afraid to talk to--since the
war. Laughter. He thought
there were no better citizens of the
country today than the ex Con
federates. Applause.I
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