Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-30

III uUHOT Vi TIE Hltlell dAuIN tISdES
OF the issuing of the Proclamation of
Emancipation by Abraham Lincoln.
special services were held in the
Central Union church last evening, at
which Charles A. Cottrill. collector of
internal revenue, spoke on What
Emancipation Has Meant to the Re-
public"
Rev. DR.. Doremus Scudder presid-
ed at the services and an excellent
musical program. which was ar
ranged especially for the occasion,
was given. The church was well filled
and over one hundred cadets from the
Kamehameha schools attended in a
body and occupied one section. Mr..
Cottrill's address dealt at length upon
the great advance which the negro
race has made during the past fifty
years. He spoke, in part, as follows:
No Racial Lines Here.
We are assembled to celebrate the
fiftieSh anniversary of the issuance of
the Emancipation Proclamation. am
deeply sensible of the honor done my
race variety by the invitation to me
to participate in these exercises. No
one familiar with the history OF this
beautiful island territory can question
the plopriety of holding such a meet
ing here, where racial lines have
reached the minimum in their infiu-
tence upon the opportunity and welfare
of the individual. e..
Here, no such thing as human slav-
cry has ever cursed the land, or the
inhabitants thereof, and pray God
that the awful curse of racial preju-
dice may never secure a foothold in
this the fairest land under Gods
heaven. voice this hope not merely
for my race variety but for all others
of the various varieties who are not
purely Caucasian. To my Caucasian
friends appeal for square deal for
all men and for the continuance of the
splendid inter-racial feeling existing
here at this time, but which Is likely
to be disturbed by the movements
elsewhere. ~ -
Two Great Glasses. ...<.. F..
The people of every nation are d.
yided into two classes, the many who
with backs to the sunrise worship the
pu0I--LAC lCW VIM WI N d1Iu OdCI 1ISC
for the future, for the generations yet
unborn, and labor to relieve the OPP
pressed, to remove the distinctions of
caste and to civilize mankind. In the
Revolution, the fathers of the republic
grounded their standard On the solid
rock of human rights. They sub
scribed to the doctrine that All men
are created equal and are endowed by
the Creator with. certain inalienable
rights-that among these are life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness
His First Object Lesson.
"On Feb. IL, 1899, a babe was born
in the woods of Kentucky amidst the
hardships and poverty of pioneer life
He was schooled in the University
of Nature In the spring of 1881,
while still a young man, he went down
the Mississippi on a flatboat. He Wis
tied New Orleans, and with some COM
panions went about the city He Wis
tied slave market where men and
women were being sold at auction like
cattle E.-.. -.
A young colored girl, one of my
race, was put on the block. Young
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the bidders, the brutal words of the
auctioneer. The scene filled his very
soul with Indignation and horror. He
swore vengeance upon the unholy in
stitution and, turning to his compani-
ons, said: ..r.E
Boys, if ever get a chance to hit
slavery, by God, III hit it hard" -.
From first to last, Lincoln was the
real leader, and kept step with events
On July o.. 1861, he called a meeting
of his cabinet. When they came they
found him reading Artemus Ward.
Some Of the cabinet were greatly dis
pleased at this seeming Eghthearted-
ness in such serious times and We're
impatient to go. He then took up a
document he had prepared and said:
Gentlemen, have called you togeth-
er to notify you what have deter
mined to do. | want no advice, moth
ing can change my mind He then