The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-05-31

We are glad also to see our new Ha-
waiiah fellow citizens taking part In
this service. The patriotic songs In
which chidren's voices join, augur well
for Hawaii.
AS long as there shall be survivors
OF the Grand Army of the Republic,
1t will be their solemn duty, their priv
ilege. to see to 1t that the graves of
their comrades are decked with flow
ers; and they would never fall 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.
The old soldiers, the men who did
the fighting, whether they wore the
blue or the gray. have not been the
men to 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 We're ready TO die for their prin-
ciples.
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
onies.
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 1t was the cause. and
after the wretched period Of recon-
struction which followed, the great
National problem of the negro will
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 wns 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
We're at the front aiding the sick and
wounded soldiers. One of them, a
member of this Post, left his Eastern
College, enlisted as private soldier
in the 1st 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 home.
Among the veterans who have lived
and died here, respected and honored
were our Comrades Bates Dickson,
i>ust. Adjt Gen'l in the army of the
cumberland, William C. Wilder, Cap
tutn of Illinois Cavalry, Jonathan Aus
tin, Captain of the 18th N. 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 1
can only allude to it. Here are men who
fought at Shiloh, Stone River, Gettys-
burg, Port Hudson, with Hancock's
End Army Corps in the Army of the
Potomac; who went with Sherman
from Atlanta TO 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
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, to 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.. Dickey,
went out as a private in the 4th III.
Cavalry under that splendid soldier,
Col. T. Lyle Dickey; our Comra1e John
W. Francis, in a Missouri regimen. Of
infantry, with Comrade Cary was at
the front on that fatal Sunday morn
ing when Beauregard's Army sprang
upon our lines at Shiloh, and Corarade
Copeland, in Lew Wallace's command,
coming down from Crump's Landing,
was in the next days fight.
There Is an incident In the Battle OF
Shiloh which ought to be told now. A
sister of our Commander Dckey. Mrs
General w II. l.. Wallace. had in
that battle, besides her father, her
brother and her husband, four broth
ers OF her husband,-Col, NJ, II. Wal
lace, Capt. John Wallace, Sergeant
Matthew Wallace, ana Private HIT
Wallace, cousin of Congressman hit
who may be- our next Vice. President
She had succeeded In being appointed
AN Army nurse, and In reaching the
field In time t0 be present aud nurse
her husband, who received his fatal
wounds In hat battle
Ana We never forget our l0wnHman.
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