The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-19
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| would have to solve, for he had to
fight mot enemies, but friends. We
| must not be enemies. .
After reviewing briefly the early
life of Lincoln and showing that it
was his peculiar training that had fit
ted him for great responsibilities, Am
| bassador Jusserand said:
esHe was accustomed not to be sur
prised, but to decide and act. And so,
confronted with circumstances which
were so extraordinary as to be new to
ali. he was the man least astonished in
the government. His rough and shrewd
instinct proved of better avail than
| the clever minds of his more refined
and better instructed seconds. 1t was
| Lincoln s instinct which checked
Seward complicated schemes and
| dangerous calculations. Lincoln could
not calculate so cleverly, but he could
| guess better His instinct, his good
sense. his personal disinterestedness,
his warmth of heart for friend or foe,
/ his high aims, led him through the
| awful wears of anguish and bloodshed
| during which. ceaselessly, were in
creased the number of fields decked
with tombs. and no one knew whether
| there would be one powerful nation or
| two weaker ones, the odds were SO
great. They led him through the worst
1 and through the best hours; and that
of triumph found him none other than
what he had ever been before, a man
! of duty, the devoted servant OF ms
| country. with deeper burrows on his
| face and more melancholy IN his heart.
| And so. after having saved the nation,
| he went to his doom and fell, as ne
| had long foreseen. victim to the
! cause for which he had fought. The
emotion caused by the event was I'M
mense Among my compatriots, part
| were for, the South, part for the
| North: they should not be blamed; IL
| was the same in America.
nWhen the catastrophe happened,
there were no more differences, ana
| the whole French nation was united IN
feeling. From the Emperor and EN-
| press. who telegraphed to Mrs. LIN
| coin. To the humblest workman, the
emotion was the same; wave OF SYM
| uatby covered the country, such one
as was never seem A subscription was
| onened tn have a medal struck, ana
a copy in gold presented to Mrs. Ian
| coin. In order that it might be
| trulv national offering. it was decided
that no one would be permitted 10
subscribe more than two cents. Inc
necessary money was collected III an
instant. and the medal was struck
| bearing these memorable Woros'
Dedicated by French democracy TO
Lincoln, honest man. who abolished
slavery, reestablished the Union, saved
the Republic, without yelllng the
Statue of Liberty.
e'The French press was unanimous
in expressions of admiration and or sor-
row. a Christian, said the dazette
de France. has just assembled before
the throne of the Final Judge, accom-
panied bv the souls of 100000 slaves,
created like ours in the image OF Goa,
and who have been endowed with Tree
dom by word from him.
"When. in a log cabin of Kentucky,
hundred years ago this day, tnat
child was born who was named aIter
his grandfather, killed by the Indians,
| Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon FIRST
swayed Europe, Jefferson was President
of the United States and the secohu
war of independence had not yet come
to pass. It seems all very remote. but
the memory Of the great man whom we
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| THOMAS, U. S. A. T., Lyman, at Ma
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TEXAN. Am. S. S, from salina Cruz
for S. F., Feb. 16-
WILLIE de MULHOUSE, FIR bk.. Bony,
from Hon. for Sydney, Jan. %
VIRGINIAN. Am. S. s., ar. Salina Cruz
from Hilo. Feb. 10.
VERMONT, Br. S. s, ar. Newcastle
from Eleele. Jan. 18-
| ". Fl. MARSTON, Am. schr., ar. Hilo
from S. F.. Jan. 20.
". B. FLINT. Am bk., ar. Port Town
+, send from Hon, Dec. "a.
WM. P. FRYE, Am sp., from Hon. fof
! Philadelphia, Feb. II.
w. s. PORTER, Am. S. S, ar. Gaviota
B from Hon, Feb. 10.
W. T. CAIRNS, Am. sebr., from Nitrate
ports for Hon, Dec. II.