The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
Senator's toga or the Judges gown
(Applause.)
THE UPRISING OF A GREAT
PEOPLE,

The movement that resulted in the
election of Abraham Lincoln was aptly
described by de Tocqueville as 1.-The up
rising of a great people," 1t was a
moral awakening and triumph. The
American people declared through the
organization of the Republican party
that neither the constitutional jugglery
of the bred Scott decision, nor the
dogma by which it was proposed to
confer prematurely upon territories the
rights of sovereign states, should serve
to extend over new territory 1.-The ever
lasting curse of human bondage" They
declared further that slavery should
no lohger be protected in Haunting it's
shamelessness in the streets of the ma
tional capital. They conceded only that
within it's established boundaries it
might remain, surrounded by a Gordon
of free states, until like scorpion en-
circled with fire, it should sting itself
to death.
THE CIVIL WAR.
Lincoln was elected, the Southern
Confederacy was organized, Sumter
was fired upon, and civil war was upon
us. The details of that war, Its bat
pose to recite. Never before was war
made upon such gigantic scale, and
never before was war made with so
pure, so just, so generous a purpose.
The Republican party did not fight for
power, for plumber, or extended rule -
1t did not fight to obtain commercial
advantages or to punish those who as
sailed the nation, but it fought for the
orr nd nd no. rin nf
ing the government our fathers found
ed. and making this the free nation of
which our fathers dreamed.
THE DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE.
The Southern Confederacy was swept
away on tornadoes of battle flame, be-
cause God and the 18th century were
against it. And what, during the grea
contest was the attitude of the Demo-
cratic party? It's members left it by
hundreds of thousands and joined the
Republican ranks. The result was that
those who remained in it so controlled
its organization that they presented a
record of treason and blood at the
| South, of obstruction and malignity at
the North. AT the South it's members
| hurled armed legions against a flag
which had never waved over them save
in protection and kindness. At the
North they discouraged enlistments.
and resisted drafts, and deprecated
credit and in their National Conven-
| ton in 1864 they cried out for peace
even at the price of national dismem-
| berment. They derided and insulted all
those who honestly fought for the coun-
try; they encouraged and applauded
those whose treachery, incompetency
or faint-heartedness precipitated disas-
| ter upon the armies of the Republic;
| they denounced Grant and cheered for
Mcclellan; they cried out against Sher-
man and eulogized FitZ John Porter;
i they paid nothing voluntarily into the
! Federal Treasury; they contributed
| Sparingly or not at all to funds for the
relief of our wounded soldiers. Ever
those who professed devotion to the
l Union were opposed to all stringent
measures to preserve the Union Those
who favored the war were opposed tC
bIoodshed. They denounced Lincoln a:
a tyrant and usurper, and their mos
i widely circulated journals placed
:, Wilkes Booth on their list of martyrs
The Democrats of those days mad,
their own record, and from that record
the party organization cannot escape
w neTeVer a convention resolved tina
! the war was failure and demanded
that the Southern Confederacy be rec
ognized it was a Democratic Conven
ton. Wherever men conspired to re
sist the draft, or laid a plot to infec
a city or destroy its public works
there was a Democratic meeting. CAP
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do not mean to say that thousand
upon thousands of brave true Demo
Gratis did not enlist and fight and sacri
tfice and die for the good. cause. I d.
not mean to say that the Democrat