The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-08-16

tional policies and the natural relations
between the two countries now formal
ly and indssolubly united.
Inevitable as has been this union,
we may rejoice that 1t will take its
place in history with the awakening OF
the American people to sense OF their
responsibility among nations, in that
splendid procession Of events begun at
Manila and which has now embraced
these Islands in its broad sweep.
You are no strangers to your coun-
trymen across the sea, bound to them
as you are by the achievements OF their
sons and brothers here, and by all the
activities that make up a country's life
You are no strangers, certainly not In
the momentous present. For as II
comes to every nation in the dread Or
deal of war to test the loyalty OF all its
sons and the devotion OF all its friends
so they have tested you, tried you and
found you true-when you refused to
listen to the suggestions of the selfish
and timid, and at your peril, offered
up all that these Islands had to offer,
as n sacrifice on the altar of devotion
TO a country you had not yet the right
TO call your own.
and your cOuntrymen can never
forget that this loyalty and devotion
and the opening of hearts and house
to our soldier boys that followed this,
was the loyalty. the devotion and the
hospitality, not of Americans, though
this were sweet indeed. but Of men who
sought to be Americans and had been
denied, of men who founded u state
for the purpose OF admission to the
American Union and had been denied,
Of men who presented this strange
spectacle to the world that they stood
ready, as you gentlemen about me to-
day, to give up office, and power and
personal emoluments and glory, for
the simple dignity OF American citizen
ship. Even as you have given up a
flag you love, and surrendered the SOW
ereignty of these beautiful Islands,
that Hawaii may take her place, how
ever humble that place may be, in the
protecting circle of sovereign American
States.
"This is the consummation you wit
ness today, which you and your child
ren's children will have the right to
celebrate, and let there be no mistake
as to its meaning. II means the tri-
umph OF no party or faction among
you, the opportunity for no personal
gloriication or personal resentment,
the confirmation in power OF no author
ity over you that shall not commend
itself to the sense OF fairness and OF
justice of the representatives OF the
American people, but rather the burial
OF past prejudices, the obltteration OF
narrow divisions and the ultimate po-
litical advancement of the humblest
citizen over whom this flag shall float.
But 1t is not for you to rest con-
tent in the enjoyment OF free institu-
tions. 1t is for you to help maintain
them, to maintain them in the spirit
they will be extended to you, in the
spirit you have sought them, in the
spirit OF fraternity and equality, in the
spirit OF the Constitution itself, now
the supreme law Of your land, to estab-
iish justice, to ensure your tranquility,
10 provide for the common defense, to
promote your welfare, and to secure
the blessings OF liberty to yourselves
and your posterity.
This Is the work before YOU my
countrymen and bid you advance to
1t. Hand in hand may you go, you of
the home race with those whose faith
er's land this was, and whose generous
virtues have won for them the regard
OF all mankind. Hand In hand may
you go with them as they carry with
them their unfaltering love OF country
into the broad plane OF American cit
izenship.
Advance to the uplifting and up
building Of this land to prove 1t worthy