The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-31

His references to the brave men o
| the Grand Army who sat, a grizzle:
row before the orator, were both time
ly and pleasant to hear, for being mod
est veterans little of their persona
| bravery on the battlefeIds is known t,
their friends here. General HartwelI'i
| address, in substance, was as follows
GENERAL HARTWELL's AID
DRESS.
| For many years before Honolulu be-
came American Territory, it was the
custom of the Americans of Honolulu
to observe this Memorial Day,-and te
! observe it all the more tenderly be-
| cause they were far away from that
| dear land for which the soldiers and
! the sailors had fought and died, in
whose memory this day has been set
| apart from all other days of the year.
/ And now that the flag of our COM
: mon country floats over these islands
, of the sea, the presence of representa-
tfves of its civil power. and the Off
GERS and men of the Army and Navy
adds impressive significance to these
observances.
We are glad also to see our new Ha-
! waiian fellow citizens taking part In
this service The patriotic songs in
which chiIdren's voices join, augur we'll
for Hawaii.
AS long as there shall be survivors
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
it viii be their solemn duty, their priv
ilege, to see to it that the graves of
their comrades are decked with flow
ers; and they would never fail, in
my opinion, to show equal respect and
honor to the memory of the brave Con-
federate soldiers whose sons and
daughters to-day are full of love and
devotion to the Union
TIE old soldiers. the men who. did
the fighting. whether they wore the
blue or the gray, have not been the
men 20 retain rancour towards each
other. We men of the North, who
believed that the Union must and
should be preserved cannot admit that
the men Of the Southern Confederacy
were right; but all admit and know
that they believed that they were
right, and that like gallant Americans
they were ready to die for their prin-
cipies.
The curse of human slavery was on
the country. The South was no more
responsible than was the North for it's
Introduction into the American Col
opies.
Let US be true to history. Negro
slavery disappeared from the Northern
States because it did not pay. 1t in
creased and fastened itself upon the
Southern States because it did pay.
And to-day, after that terrible Civil
War of which it was the cause. and
after the wretehed period of recon
struction which followed, the great
National problem of the negro win
have to be solved by the intelligence,
the patience and the humanity of the
South.
1t is pleasant to those who, like my
self, think lovingly of the old Hawaii,
to recall the fact that it was the son
of an American missionary, General
Samuel c. Armstrong. who. after the
War was over, did the best work
which has been done in giving prac-
teal training and common sense edu-
Cation to the Southern negroes.
The Americans of Hawaii gave Of
their scanty means to the Sanitary
Commission. Several of their sons
were at the front aiding the sick and
wounded soldiers. One of them, a
member of this Post, left his Eastern
College, enlisted as a private soldier
in the list Mass. Infantry, and was
wounded at fredericksburg and Get
tysburg.
When the War was over. the Union
soldier who came to Hawaii found
here among his countrymen a welcome
and q home.
Among the veterans who have lived
and died here. respected and honored.
We're our Comrades Bates Dickson, |
Asst. Adjt. Gent in the army of the !
Cumberland. William c. Wilder, Cap
tain of Illinois Cavalry, Jonathan Aus
tin, Captain of the 18th NJ Y Volun- |
teers, Charley Eldridge, LIST Sergt. in |
Fletcher Webster's 18th Mass Infy., |
that sturdy Cavalryman, John N |
Wright. The graves are before US of |
two men who served in Massachusetts
regiments with myself,-Jo Tilden and |
George L. Babcock.
The members of this Post are not the
men to tell of their own record, and I |
can only aIlude to it. Here are men who I
fought at Shiloh. Stone River, Gettys- I
burg. Port Hudson, with Hancock's
End Army Corps in the Army of the
N0No4tfsAIs " it9 went VIII sherman
from Atlanta 70 the sea: who rode
with New York, Michigan, California, !
Pennsylvania. Illinois and Tennessee
cavalry, who marched with infantry /
from Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut. !
New York, Iowa. Indiana. Missouri |
and Pennsylvania, who served guns /
in our batteries in some of the fiercest I
engagements of the War.
Our Comrade Tom Cary rode as an
orderly of Gen. Sherman. Our late
Commander Dietz ran away from his
German home at Frankfort on the
Main, il enlist as private in the 9Th /
Conn. We have with US men who serv- |
ed in the old Navy on the Minnesota.
and Lancaster
Our Commander here, Lieut.. Dicaey.
went out as a private in the 4th III. |
Cavalry under that splendid soldier,
Col 7. Lyle Dickey; our Comra lie John |
w Francis in a Missouri regiment Of
infantry. with Comrade Cary was at |
the front IN thai fata1 S,,,y3,-- -