The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-23
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''Calling to his aid all those gifts
with which nature and experience had
endowed him, he sought by alp reason
able means to avert the inevitable con
flict which was soon to deyas5ate the
land; on the one hand was loyalty to
recognized authority; on the other cries
of right, justice and humanity. HIS
choice once taken ne pursued it IN
fiinchingly 10 the end Once his pur-
pose formed. every o5her consideration
was relegated to oblivion in his sub
lime effort to obtain liberty for his
countrymen. His was character
winch well merited Lafayette's excla-
nation at Monmouth; Never did | be-
hold SO superb man.
=. Washington, says Guizot, did
the two greatest things III politics IL
is Permitted to man to attempt. He
maintained by peace the independence
of his country which he had obtained by
war. He founded free government;
in the name Of the principles of law
and order
.1Rut history tells rs that he accom-
plished more than this. He was not
only the founder OF national liberty,
bus most important of all, he formed
and maintained an lnseparabie union,
which to the day of last account will
shed It's Iuster and beneficent influence
upon civilized world. 1t may well
he said that owing to the patriotism
and steadfastness of Washington ou1
banners now proudly wave among the
nations Of the world To him was due
our Magma Charta, which guaran-
tees to all life, liberty and the pursuit
fhappiness.
3'ae was well fitted to take the part
he subsequently assumed in our ma
tional independence. He was born OF
| sturdy stock. and God-fearing parents
| His early youth gave promise of hi
ability. for IN the year 174S, at the age
| of sixteen, he received commission a:
public surveyor, and during the thre
years following he acquired knowi
edge of the topography of the country
| which stood him in invaluable neet
when the great conflict arrived.
overcame Handicaps.
LATTER this period of service we fin'
the young Washington, at the age o
/ nineteen, entrusted with the position
/ of an adiutant general in the colonla
| forces in a war made necessary on &C
| count of French and Indian depreda
tions and invasions. Upon his appoint
ment he entered with zeal on the stud.
| of military tactics and strategy, ant
! such was his industry and ability in HI
new vocation that he was soon know
| and proclaimed as leader of men.
"At several periods of his caree
i the shades of Mount Vernon calie'
| him, only to be recalled by his country
| men to lead in the extreme struggi
that made him the savior of his coun
trv. Of this last bloody act in TIL
drama of independence suffice it to sa
that the dominant spirit of Washlngto
| was ever present and with sturdy coul
| aee and indomitable will he at las
carried the banner of right and trut
Ito the altar of freedom.
CHS was labor of love and patrlt
tism. With all the handicaps OF lac
of men. sickness, interneclne strife, II
sufficienev of munitions OF war, SIT
had he ALWAYS in view the yoke undt
which his eonntrymen were lahorin
with but one goal in view-iiberty
Knudsen Speaks.
In the course of a brief address, Sci
ator Knudsen of Kauai declared tn;
the element needed in the political III
of the dav was more of the spirit
seIf.saerifce for the sake of prinelp
that dominated the founders OF Il
Republic -,