The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-04
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arose His address was-on Our Fore
fathers" being as follows:
IF any people on the face of this
earth have cause to honor and respect
their ancestors. the Sons Of the Amer
lean Revolution can boast Of theirs,
for to them they are Indebted for the
peace, prosperity, happiness and liberty
they now enjoy.
Those grand plain ,and honest men
gave tiieir time, their property, their
talents. and in may cases, their lives
to throw off the British yoke, TO give
to their descendants the precious boon
of Freedom, making our country a
free nation which today is the most
prosperous, richest, the most powerful
and influential of all the nations of the
earth. -'#t So.
|, Many of our. forefathers were train
ed in a school that prepared them for
the great struggle Of 1775 and for
seven long years resisted the force of
Great Britain.
"A hundred and fifty years before
this period. many Of the ancestors or
the men of 1875, were driven out of
England because Of religious persecu-
ton, and settled Oh that stern and
rock bound coast Of New England, i'll
wilderness where even i'm that DESC
late region, they were oppressed by
laws that annoyed by constant changes
and cancellation of their charters, SUI
fering great hardships and privations
thereby. to say nothing Of their con-
slant struggles with hostile Indians.
Then again, about forty years later
G663) among other oppressive mea-
sures introduced by Great Britain,
were laws passed bJ-Parliament to
/ discourage American shipping. In that
year an act was passed, which pro-
claimed that no commodity, of the
growth, production or manufacture OF
Europe, shall be imported into the
Births plantations, but shch as are
laden on board in England, and in
/ English built ships, of which the mas
ter and three-fourths of the crew are
English. This was aimed particularly
at the Americans, to prevent them
from importing goods from England
in American built vessels, placing also
heavy duties on many articles import
ed from other countries except Great
Britain. which aroused the indigna
ton of the American Colonists, and
sowed seeds of future rebellion.
"These pilgrims and Puritans and
others by reason of the oppression of
the home government, had no love for
the mother country.
They trained up their children, and
these, their children for several gene
rations, instilling in them, a love for
their adopted country and not only
taught them TO live the simple life
but instructed them in living lives OF
frugality and to endure hardships and
privations, so when the laws became
more and more oppressive, and they
were taxed without representation, the
men of 1775-liberty loving, all of
1 them-no longer submitted, but united
/ ly, demanded that taxes, duties, stamp
I acts, and oppressive laws, as well as
! obnoxious standing armies, be remov-
/ ed When the news of Concord and
/ Lexington, spread like wild fire
through New England and the other
colonies, how they tlocked in to the
support of their comrades These UNI
! trained men left the pillow, the forge,
! the bench, the office, shOuldered their
muskets and marched against the most
! powerful nation of the world. Putnam
! from Connecticut, Stark from New
Hampshire; the Green Mountain
| Boys" from Vermont and many others
from other parts, travelling over roads
almost impossible, ready to share all
the sufferings and hardships of their
countrymen.
/ Those who survived Bunker Hill,
the spot where British tyranny ended
and American liberty began, with
many others from all parts of the
I colonies, buckled on their armor for
the war. They were poorly paid and
fed, wretchedly clothed often suffering
from cold or heat added to which, was
that terrible winter at Valley Forge
where they were only kept together by
the spirit of the immortal Washington,
these forefathers marched bravely on
through all the battles suffering untold
! privations d hardships, until York
town gave them victory and made
them free. The American sailor play
ed very important part in the Ameri-
can revolution.
while the Americans had no navy
to speak of at the beginning of the
war, they fitted out many privateers
and performed wonders in destroying
British ships, causing a loss of more
than $50 vessels and more than e.
100000 sterling, There were no better
sailors than the American who knew,
not only to reef, hand and steer but