The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-05

z-ssoI.LowING is the Fourth OF
-~s yuiy address delivered at Hiio
Yesterday by Colonel Thomas
Fitch:
WA hunsred and twenty-six years
~, he Continental Congress, after
xarx Of debate. reached the conclusion
xanogaced in the document TO whose
stately phrases we have listened 10
dry and 1t was conclusion as ~
naEnfozs in It's consequences As anx
vvhirf, ever influenced the destinfes OF
nAznkfnd-
7Fnr sentences Of the declaration con-
.xsituted a spell whose sorcery spoke q
txeopie into freedom, nation INTO lae,
9ud continent into such mighty ana
aeusheent development as blessed hu-
xzznify and amazed a world
F5bn ruf.fs of time and distance are
scared away by the white light OF pa
erSDtfz memory that Is shining upon on.
fuces today, and we behold, gatnereo
around the cradle Of our Repupnc, tle
ysaxriofs of 1776-Joi1n Adams. the bos-
zxmue4 Adams, the Boston merchant,
enthusiastic, passionate and uncom-
s,rDfnfsing; Benjamin Franklin. pnilah-
sszrapfst, humanitarian and patriot: the
Virginia Lees, descendants OF E,iollSo
cavaliers; Sherman and Trumouil. oe-
philip Livingston, descended from the
grim Dutchrnen who opened the dykes
1r,ss gave their land to the ocean ratner
MAN surrender their liberties; ROBERT
MORRIS, who tossed his wealth into the
uuytex of the Revolution as hShty az
= lover bestows upon MS mistress
hxrd won fayors of the tourney. Anu
.s.ief among the chieftains OF tnae
mighty baud-oufIined against the SKY
@f history-the imposing figure OF
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was alike by impulse ana
by habit of thought a hater OF kings.
and his spirit was eagie-wirgeq IN itg
seerehings for the uppern1ost ether OF
E1>erty, The Declaration OF Inuepend.
snce which he penned, Is knitteo
chain OF logic and a persuasive and
PASSIONATE appeal. Even at this DAY
Tts sentences stir the blood IKE tne
Mare Of trumpets. 1t proves the gov
errrnant of George the Third. to have
Been the most unconscionable OF tyrr
raurfes 1t states the case OF the colon
lists with the force Of demonstration
IN mathematics, and with the poetic
beauty of a song OF David. H Is Mr
noRu.s ideal definition OF eeloquence-
-<veason permeated and made hot vita
y,assion-" It is at once the protocol ana
Che epfc of the revolution. It's diction
s. as faultess as its spirit Is hign- IL
Is the most powerful and the most elo-
auEnt state QOCQIfltIl ia Lie -
IF history.
When the audacious freedom-seeking.
COMMUNICATING Thomas Jefferson said
that all men are created equal, ne
gathered the advanced thougnt OF INC
century into sentence which, neated
with the passion or the reyoiutlon: nc
hurled into the faces OF kings; ana ne
nsade a contract with Almighty Goo
that freedom and justice should hence
Forth go hand in hand in America
All great movements of history nave
Heen the offspring of singieneSs Oh
purpose. All great reforms nave peer
ACCOMPLISHED by enthusiasts VINO re-
fused to accept compromise, or Submf'
20 abatement of their demands. 1t was
fortunate indeed for their descendants
IL was fortunate for the world. thai
the controlling spirits OF the reSolutior
of 1875 were men whose clear VISIONS
MERGED the nists of uncertainty, whose
brave hearts defied the apparent ODDS
against them, and whose wise ant
Burning words uplifted the purposes
and aroused the enthusiasm of race
II was Jeffersons mission to inaug
rrate a revolution, to inspire people
10 uphold The equality of manhood. u
agftate for reforms, and to aid In Sc
curing the results of victory In TN
Seid; but not to guide or promote Tn
movements of armies. He left the con
Nfcts of war to those gifted with mill
aary genius, while he assumed the dut,
Of inparting an anti-monarchial direc
zion to the new government which n
foresaw must issue from the war
Thomas jefferson, the political phi
yosopher: George Washington, the sol
der, and John Adams, the statesma
and diplomat, constitute the ilustriou
4riurlvirate of American revolutionar
history. and without the work of eac
She others might not have succeeded i
creating establishing and guiding TN
new nation.
The military services of 'Georg
washington were pronounced by Fred
rrlck the Great to be 1.-The most bril-
liant achievements recorded in militar
annals" and that monarch ser
Washin gton his royal portrait. accom-
panied with the inscriptions: FroI
the oldest General in Europe to tn
Greatest General in the World
II the true test OF generalship cor
sists in the results achieved in proper
kion to the forces employed, then tn
greatness of Washington's New Jerse
campaign was not dwarfed even by tt
Titanic battles OF our civil war. Toda
Of all the days in the year 1t is OF
privilege and our Joy to forget tt
later contests of brethren engaged
domestic strife and to recall with prit
now the "old fox" as Lord Howe del
fgnated him, turned upon the enem
- urested victory from the jaws of a.
feat. and with his ragged, hungry ar
half armed continentals sen the traiI
ed veterans Of Europe flying in disa
Ter from every field between the Hut
son and the 6chuylkill
Yet even the courage and the STRAIT
xicgE genius of Washington might n
have availed to establish the revolt
tieaary cause had 1t not been for Il
spirit of sacrifice and the steadfastne
of purpose which possessed the Anne
Ican people British gold was as poy
eriess as British steel to control Il
fathers. and Arnold was the only ira
, tor. There was a public spirit tn
made impossible the successful and u
punished betrayal Of a public tru!
Colonel Mazunia was not then born.
there had been one member of the Co
gress OF 1776 justly suspected of ha
ing received money to vote for the l
terests of Great Britain, he would ha
been promptly thrown out of windC
at independence Hall, and he wou
never have reached the ground, for
fail would have been stopped by a rol
The Declaration of Independence W
y,nSsihIe the Success of the reVOiuti