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SATURDAY
PRESiS
SUPPLEMENT
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands: Saturday, tvtav 31 1884
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Again the (enderest holiday of (he
greatest of the world's republics hns
come and gone, and Honolulu is hcticr
for the coming. To quote a felicitous
line from Mrs. Dillingham's thoughtful
K)cm of the day,
" Ah, here It a slirinc lint Humanity li.ite."
It is no presumption to claim for
George W. I)e Long Fost of the G.A.R.
n perennial pension of gratitude, that
its action has roused from the dream
less sleep of neglect (not surely selfish'
ncss nor yet unkindncss) that most
touching of emotional sentiments care
for the habitations of our dead, Last
year the work was well begun. This
year it has I seen energetically carried
on. Let us never allow it to fall into
disuse.
I.ast Saturday afternoon, and for
many hours on Sunday, loving hearts
and busy brains and willing hands were
busy beautifying Fort-Street Church for
the service of Sunday night. From the
grounds and gardens of the vicinage
came branches of palm and fronds and
feathers of fern and odorous red un
dance ofhrilli.int bloom, and from the
lovely semi solitude of Ulupalakua came
a basket of blue flowers on a special
mission (he largess of Mrs. Hastings
and the Misses Makec.
Surely Fort-Street Church was never
more appropriately decked: over the
organ front were draped two flags, their
stars joining at the apex ; and beneath
the point of contact a large wreath
red, white and blue ; the red and white
were oleanders-; the blue, a mingled
mass of neliotroiw, lark spur and aga
pa nth us. The pulpit was draped with
a flag and flanked with two tall flower
masses, in which cms and callas and
virgin lilies were most conspicuous. In
front of the pulpit were two stands of
arms, across them rested a sword, from
one of them depended a shining drum;
from the pulpit, above and yet between
them, hung a portrait of Lincoln.
Along the gallery front stretched a large
(lag, and over the central doorway hung
a portrait of Garfield, the murdered
presidents facing each other along the
central aisle. On each side of the
room, palm branches were placed at
harmonious distances', and the side
chandeliers were festooned with maile.
At half-past seven the following mem
bers of George W. Dc Long Post filed
into the church : Samuel Nott, Jere
miah Simonson, Jr., R. W. Laine,
Charles RldrTdge, Louis Afller, J. D.
Arnold, J, A. Cruzan, Thomas Campbel,
N. I!. Emerson, Martin Hagan, R. J.
Giecn, J. Lovejoy, W. R Lawrence,
Samuel McKcaguc, William McCan
dless, V. II. I'lace, John Ross, T. H.
ttyuh.-G. VV Smith, W. C. Wilder,
jiiiuac in in,,., jv n vyjlliauK UOinmaLl
vJary, r. I.. Ularke, Uiarles fox aim l
A. Rounds j accompanied by the fol
lowing visiting comrades : Ma I'racht,
G. II. Thomas Post, No. 2, San Fran
cisco ; 1- II. Riley, Stanton Post, No.
55, Los Angeles ; and also by the fol
lowing ex-Union soldiers or sailors of
the Rebellion : Daniel Lyons, M. E.
Newton. Charles Dexter, J. R. Morrill,
W. 15. Smith and three others unknown
by name to the commander of the post.
Previously, Attorney-General Neu
mann, American Minister Resident
Daggett and Mrs. Daggett and Consul
and Mrs. McKinley had taken seats.
Shortly after the members of the post
were seated, King Kalakaua entered,
accompanied by Governor Dominis
and the assistant chamberlain.
Pastor Lruzans memorial sermon
was as follows :
run SERMON.
Kx. 12:14 "Ami this day shall lie unto you
for a memorial."
In the presence of any great deliver
ance, or achievement, or event, or hero
ism, man instinctively seeks to embody
his grateful emotions in some lasting
memorial. God recognizes this instinct
ive desire in man. In the text God
institutes the Passover as a perpetual
memorial 'day. So, constantly the great
events of His providential dealings arc
symbolized and memorialized. The Jew
had his memorial days, and so has the
Christian. Christmas, Easter, the Christ
ian Sabbath are God-appointed memo
rial days. America lias two memorial
days ; the 4th of July, when we took our
place among the nations of the earth,nnd
Decoration Day, which is a monument
to mark the passage of our nation
through that red sea of blood, and by
which she was made in fact as well as
name, a free people. Ilut these days,
and the brave men whose heroism is
thus commemorated, do not belong
to America alone. No great, grand,
heroic man belongs to the nation which
gives him birth. And the work such
men do is not for one nation, but for
humanity. Washington, Lincoln, and
Garfield were Americans, but they be
long to the race, and the world has a
right to claim them, and the race shares
in the liberty which their great hearts
and heroic struggles won. Cromwell
snd Milton, and Hampden and John
Bright first saw the light in old England,
and for her they believed and spoke,
and fought but the world has claimed
them rightly as huinanity's champions.
And so in every land, and in every age,
every great leader who stands forth as
the champion of the coplc, and of the
rights of man, belongs to the race.
In 1 861, in America, a great crisis,
not only in the history of that great
nation, but in the history of (he world,
called into being in (he loyal north an
immense army, (tiey were not mere
soldiers soldiers by profession or
trade, They did not go forth at the
call of ambition, or mere adventure, or
glory, or jiower. They went forth in
defense of an idea. They believed (hat
it was not only the call of country, but
of freedom, of liberty, of equality, of
human rights which took them trom
their homes. Mothers gladly sent forth
their sons, wives their husbands, maid
ens their lovers, to what they believed
to be a holy war. They were brave
men bravely led. They carried guns
loaded with a iwinciple, and swords
that (nought. Wrote some one ;
"DM you at them ester day,
Marcliieg down the broad highway?
DM you hiar the distant drum
And the people' shout, 'Thejr come I'
If with me you then had stood
Seen the city's multitude
On their front, their rear, their flanks
Pressing In their very ranks I
Gals I methinks you would have spared
Haifa lifetime to have shard
AM the swelling thoughts that then
Met the svtnttiy battle-men I"
Unless that be wild, poetic panegyric,
such an army of men lelongcd not to
America alone, and they fought not for
her alone, but for humanity, for the
world. If this be so, then Decoration
Day, while it is a memorial especially
dear to Americans, belongs not to them
alone, but to the race. And it should be
sacredly observed, not only throughout
America, by Americans, but by Ameri
cans and those who love liberty and
equality everywhere.
Standing here to-night, 1,000 miles
from America, and after the lapse of
more than two decades, we can look
calmly on that great historic struggle.
We can impassionatcly, impartially in
terrogate the patriotism of 1861, which
called forth the Union Army. What
was its motive? Was the north right?
Was it justifiable in going to war? Has
it justified itself to the conscience of
Christendom and to the judgment of
history! I answer: "Yes, abundantly I"
Were the Pilgrim Fathers justified in
enduring the hardships and in making
the sacrifices which it cost them to lay
there the foundations of that nation ?
Has the Declaration of Independence
justified itself to Christendom ? Has
the battle of Hunker Hill justified itself
to history? lly the answer to these
questions we may settle the one before
us. If the patriotism of 1770 was
right, then the patriotism of 1861
was right. I'or what the lormer
established the latter preserved. It
was the uprising of the children
to preserve the legacy of the father.
More specifically the rebellion sought
to accomplish two things, both of which
were wrong in principle and utterly in
defensible in method. The first was
the preservation of the institution of
slavery an institution inconsistent not
only with the spirit of the age, but with
the foundation principles of the Amer
ican Republic, and one which the
Christian conscience of the world con
demns, and which the nation had al
ready began to curtail and threaten to
overthrow. The second (which was,
indeed, but a means for accomplishing
the first) was the dismemberment of
the Union. I he substitution in the
place of one strong, self-consistent gov
ernment, of two rival governments, with
the way open for just as many more, as
there might be found factions to rebel,
and ambitious men to lead. In other
words: it was nothing else than the
destruction of the nation, and this for
the sake of saving from extinction the
unhuman crime of slavery 1 Against
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solemn obligation to oppose
most power of resistance.
The history of America from the lan
ding of the Pilgrims to i860 was a series
of divine providences by which God had
committed to us the sacred trusts which
the rebellion sought to betray the pre
cious treasures w hich it sought to de
stroy. Much as we abhorred war,
and shrank from it, we abhorred base
nessand disloyalty more. Not only with
conscience void of offense, but with a
profound conviction of the approval of
heaven, we took up arms and forth to
battle for righteousness, for home, for
country and the future.
Then came four years of terrible war.
The patriotism of 18G1 proved of
what stuff it was made, when, outlasting
the defeats and disappointments, and
the spontaneous enthusiasm of the first
few months of the war, it settled resolu
tely down to its work, and became the
patriotism ot 1HG2, anil ol 1003, and ot
1864, and of 1865 never flinching or
flagging till its task was done.
Then came Appomattox and peace.
But after all, what did the patriot
ism of 1861 accomplish ? It was
heroic, it was self-sacrificing. It
was persevering. It fought with a
noble courage. It shrank from no toil,
or danger, orinjury. It suffered bravely.
It bled freely It died eloriously. Hut
did the results justify the stupen
dous sacrifice ? What are the results ?
1. In the first place, the Union was
preserved. We kept the trust commit
ted to us.' And that is a result past all
computation.
2. In the second place, we freed the
slave. We did not mean to do it. Hut
God so ordered. It was one of the
incidental results of the war. It is all
the more valuable because so manifestly
providential. If we look at the enormity
of the sin which emancipation brought
to an end, the blood and the treasure
expended in four years of war was not
too costly an atonement for the crime
of 200 years, If we look at the benefits
of liberty to four millions of our fellow,
men, the price paid is not too high.
3. In the third place, we have reaped
new benefits to ourselves. What would
America be lo-day if, instead of con
quering we had been conquered ?
America is a free and prosperous nation
to-day, and we owe it largely to the
patriotism of 1861,
4. In the fourth place, we have de
monstrated to the world, and to all
coming ages, that a free people can
maintain their government against all
enemies without and within. The
Union Army did not fight for America
only, nor for the deliverance of slaves on
our own soilalone. but, for Liberty every
where. That every bondman on the
globe might have hope I That every
iulrio( mmh( reiotce. 1 nat every trauor,
and everv oppressor on (he whole earth
and in all coming time might tremble
and be ashamed. The shout of our
victories sounded round the world. The
lesson of that heroic struggle ::
written on the heart of humanity. The
power of that heroic example will abide.
It will prove an inspiration to genera
tions yet unborn. As in 1861, our
ptriot soldiers remembered (he heroic
struggle of England's common eople,
which at last wrung freedom and Magna
Charta from an unwilling king ; as they
cqnned anew the heroic struggles of
1770. and their hearts were nerved lor
their content by (he example of thoae
town, and suffered with him at Valley
Forge, so will future generations, gain
inspiration from the heroic deeds of the
men who followed Grant down into the
bloody Wilderness, Sherman to the
sea and Sheridan down the Shenan
doah 1 and the men who suffered at
Andcrsonville and Libby Prison
Liberty not only held the ground al
ready gained, but in this death struggle
she gained new ground and made a
grand advance. There has been no
war fought during the past century,
which has carried so far forward the
standard of liberty as this war for the
Union in America. Now, it is true,
and largely as the result of that heroic
struggle and victory, that
" There Is a twilight dawning on the world,
The herald of n full and perfect day,
When Liberty's wide flag shall lie unfurled,
And kings shall how to her superior sway
Already she is on her august way,
And marching upward to her final goal ;
Nations Ihe warning of her voice obey,
Away the clouds of fear and error roll,
The chain is broken that hound
The thralled and fettered soul l"
And this suggests my second thought
Peace has its patriotism as well as war.
Patriotism is always timely. A genuine
devotion to the principles of Freedom,
of Liberty, of the rights of humanity,
is needed everywhere, in all lands, at
all times. The world needs brave,
true men in time of peace as well as
war men who love liberty, righteous
ness, truth, home, humanity. Nay
peace must have these that war may be
averted.
We meet to night to honor brave
men who died in defence of certain
great principles. We can honor them
most by standing bravely in de
fence of those principals. They died
for the right. Let us live for the right.
They counted nothing as of moment
when liberty and equality was periled.
Let us emulate their example. They
poured out their blood as water for
principle. Let us stand bravely for
principle, also, though it may cost us
something to do it. This nation,
every nation, has need of brave, noble,
true men who, like those heroic Ameri
cans, in 1 861, at the call of duty, will
go straight forward. We shall honor
these brave heroes most, by being
just such men. Comrades of Geo.
W. De Long Post ; to you especially
I make this appeal. Our service in
the cause of freedom, did not end
when we furled our flags, torn with bay
onct thrust, and riddled with shot ; nor
when we laid aside the dust-covered
uniform, and hung the worn and bat
tered sword or musket, over the chim
ney-piece. Wc have sworn to be true
to liberty. Some of you have written
that vow in blood. Let us live brave,
manly, true, clean, courageous lives.
Let us make the G. A. R. the rallying
point of the most heroic, the most gen
erous, the tmost self-sacrificing devO-
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brothers died. Our order should repre
sent the high-water mark qf courageous
manhood. The G. A. U. should be
(it is where it does its duty) the color
guard of patriotism. As you' stand,
next Friday with bowed heads among
the graves, and hear voices out of the
unseen, give back this answer :
"Comrades, dead but not gone,
honored and beloved, your blood is
not as water spilt upon the ground.
Your sacrifice is not of no avail. Here
vvc gather to refresh our memory of
your heroism; to renew our fidelity to
the trusts you have lam upon us; to
confess again the worth, the power, the
inspiration ol your patriotism; to make
more loyal our faith in God and in the
large possibilities of the future for
humanity, and to take solemn oath
that, so help us God 1 we will remem
ber, -we will be vigilant, wc will be
loyal to principle, (o the right and to
the truth, to God and to our Hag I
Comrades, friends, it is mete that we
do honor to these brave men, our
heroic dead. As we march out 011
next Friday to scatter flowers on their
graves, it will be a holy pilgrimage.
May we get more than we give : get
new inspiration for duty, new devotion
and loyalty to great and sacred princi
ples, more heroism for sacrifice and
more courage for hours of darkness
and trial. The work of these brave
dead men is ended. Ours is still in
part to be done. May we so finish our
course and fight the good fight, that
when wc fall asleep, these men shall
gladly claim us as brothers, and the
ramparts of '.heaven be radiant with
faces we have known to give us " Hail,
and welcome I" to the ever-increasing
ranks of the true and faithful Grand
Army who stand around the throne of
the Great Commander.
The Oburtnntr of tin iy.
Decoration Day opened delightfully.
Light trades were blowing and the in
tense heat of the first part of the week
was absent. In response to the invita
tion. of George W. De Long post, the
legislature adjourned at noon and
many of the members attended both
the exercises of the afternoon and
evening. The march to the cemetery
was very faithfully carried out accord
ing to the following programme:
The column formed al 2.30, In front of the
hall of the post on Koit Street, and moved
along Fort to lleritania, to Nuuanu to the cem
etery, in the following order 1 Guard of Hon
olulu Police, In command of Deputy Marsltall
Dayton j Koyal Hawaiian lland, lest by band
master Merger Ceo. W. De Long Cost, and
visiting comrades, under Commander Noll
soldiers In United Stales sen ice 1 children
ofvctcran Minister Resident Daggett and
Consul McKinley, In carriages 1 Governor
Domini s and staff members of the cabinet,
members of the legislature and representatives
ol foreign nations, in carriages disabled com
rades car containing thirly-elght. little girls,
representing the diffcieni states of the Union
American citiicns, Hawaiian and Hawaiian
residents.
At the cemetery, the exercises were
as follows :
I, Music, Koyal Hawaiian Hand 3. Dedi
cation of Lot, Geo. W. De Uwg I'ost 3.
Music, Koval Haa!lan (land 1 4. Decoration
Services 1 o. Kitual, Geo. W. De I-ong Post)
4 Sentiment, Our Comrades absent from Roll
Call To-day, Comrade Green C. Sentiment,
The WI.I.iwi and Oruhans of our Fallen Com'
who followed Washington at German-'rades, Comrade Hagan 1 d. ScalUuent, The
Army and Nary, Comrade Laine : 1. Senti
ment, Decoration Day, Comrade Kmerson
5. Music, Royal Hawaiian lland j 6. Decora
tion of Graves, Geo. W. De Long Post.
DEDICATION.
Hon. John H. Paly, as an officer
of (he Nuuanu Ccme(cry Association,
publicly (ransferred (he burial lot to
Geo. W. Dc Long Post.
Comnmndei lYolt: In the name of
my comrades of the Grand Army of the
Republic, representing as they do all
soldiers and sailors who defended and
upheld the integrity and authority of
the- l'cdcrai government of the United
States of America, I accept this deed
and the sacred trust which it ronveys.
Comrade Chaplain Cruzan, you will
now proceed to dedicate this lo( (o the
uses and purposes for which it has been
obtained- that of a last resting place
for the patriotic soldiers and sailors of
America who may "fall on sleep in
this distant land.
Comrade Cruzan: Ever since Abra
ham obtained the field of Ephron as a
burial place, and Jacob set up a pillar
over the grave ol Kachcl, it has been
the fitting custom of man to hold
as sacred, certain spots of earth, where,
when the spirit leaves the clay taber
nacle, the body may have a hallowed
resting place. Following this time
honored custom, wc would here, on
this Memorial Day, set apart this burial
lot for the use of the Grand Army of
the Republic forever. The Scripture
saith: "There is no discharge in that
war. What man is he that liveth and
shall not sec death? Yet ye (all) shall
be brought to the grave, and shall re
main in the tomb." Aye, our bodies
arc mortal. Decay hath already touched
them. "Earth te earth, dust to dust,
ashes to ashes!" (Here earth was sprin
kled upon the burial lot.) May the
comrades who shall be buried here
"find the clods of the valley sweet
unto them'"
Master Hagan: May the evergreen,
crauiera 01 immortality (here ever
greens were scattered upon the burial
lot) grow over their loyal graves and
declare to every on looker the fact that
true men never die, but live forever.
May Dillingham: Mayflowers planted
by loving hands (flowers were scattered
upon the burial lot) speak to all of the
victor's wreaths awaiting those "who
fight the good fight, finish the course
and keep the faith."
Comrade Cruzan : Let us pray.
God of our forefathers, we thank
Thee for our country. May Thy
blessing ever rest upon America in
the future as in the past. We thank
Thee for Thy sovereign care and protec
tion over her; that Thou didst lead us
as a people in the dayu that were
shadowed with trouble, and gavest us
strength when the burden was heavy;
that thou didst raise up brave and true
men to defend our country when her
existence as a nation was threatened.
tJ&J&j',")'. U'liee that the wrath of vvac has
heerrStllleui llitu-ttoincr msivmttrr
strives against brother ; that once again
we have one country and one flag. We
pray Thee to make our memories stead
fast, that wc may never forget the sacri
fices made for our country. May our
dead be enshrined in our hearts. May
their graves be the altars of our grateful
and reverential patriotism. And now,
0 God, bless and hallow this spot of
earth, as a burial place for America's
patriots who periled their lives for
country. Hallow it for the sake of the
mothers who bade their sons do brave
deeds. Hallow it for the sake of the
wives who freely gave their husbands
to their country's service. Hallow it
for the sake of the children who count
as their richest heritage brave patriot
fathers. Hallow it for the sake of the
brave men who went forth to do battle
for Thee, for right, for humanity. O
God, guard and protect this sacred spot.
May 1 nine own angels stand sentinel
around it until the resurrection morn.
Amen !
In the name of the Grand Army of
the Republic I hereby solemnly dedi
cate and set apart this ground to the
burial of all good and true men, who
perilled their lives in defense of the
American Union. I consecrate it as a
resting place, for those, who in the
navy, guarded our coasts, and on rivers
lakes and seas, perilled life in defense
of country. Let it be a sacred resting
place for those who, in the army fought
for our hillsides, our valleys, our homes,
our native land. 1 dedicate it as a
burial place for all those who, on land,
or on sea, fought for the Union, for the
authority 01 me iou:iiiuiiuii, iur me
Flag, and for Freedom, Liberty and
Equality.
Comrade Jay Green rcsionded to the
sentiment :
"our comrades adsknt from roll
call"
Men have reckoned the cost of the war
of the rebellion to the national treasury,
but human wisdom will never compute
the price paid in physical suffiermgs,
mental anguish and crushed hopes.
The tiny bullet, when it had left its
victim dead or wounded on tne new,
did not stop there, but sped on, piercing
the hearts of fond mothers and wives,
carrying gloom and desolation into ten
thousand homes, blighting the fondest
hopes of youth and old age, robbing
mothers and children of their only
earthly supiort. Two hundred and
seventy-nine thousand three hundred
and seventy six fell on the field, in the
hospitals and'rison-!ens or the south.
To-day that great and busy nation turns
aside from their pursuits and cover
with flowtrs some of the graves of that
great army of comrades who are absent
from roll call to-day. Their graves dot
every hillside and valley, and make part
ol everv family and public cemetery.
from the extreme north to the southern
borders of the great republic, from the
rock-bound hills of New fcngianu,1 west
ward to the Golden Gate. Aye, here,
beneath the sunny skies and the ever
green peaks of Oahu, rest a number of
those who offered their lives tha( (he
nation might live. Ilut while we bring
our floral offerings to the memory of
those that we know, we do not forget
that great post of comrades who sleep
to-day where no mound is raised to
mark (he soot. They are scattered from
ihe Potomac to the Mississippi, in the
a? ..,.. HJ HiklAlftAff ifekrl atttei vm! a elWa? a
Fit vines aim gunuca, isuu uiimiiai vio-
poou ot Anaersonvuic ana uoy.
They rest where we laid them, in the
cotton-fields, the cane-fields and the rice
swamps of Louisiana, uncoffincd and
unshrouded, save with the tattered
suit of blue, with no slab, nor lettered
monument to symbolic the affection of
surviving friends. They slecj) in name
less graves, unknown, except to Him
that hath numbered the stars and call
cth them by name. Hut the duties of
the day, so full of these memories of
the past, arc alike suggestive of the
future. Wc have prepared this beauti
ful plot as a resting place for any of us
that may be called upon to lay down
our arms and go beyond "the pass of
shadows." And when the last comrade
shall have, been mustered out, and there
shall be no post of the G. A. R. to make
its annual pilgrimage to cover these
graves with flowers, then our children
and children's children will remember
the humble part we bore in that great
struggle to preserve the union of the
States, and transmit to them the legacy
bequeathed to us union and liberty
with the dear old flag, "without a single
stripe erased or polluted, nor a single
slar obscured."
Doctor Hagan spoke upon
"thk widows and orphans of our
fai.lf.n comradrs."
At the close of the war of the Re
bellion in the United States, there
were fifty thousand widows and more
than one hundred thousand orphans.
These noble patriotic woman, with
enthusiasm, with courage, with devo
tion never excelled, with a purity of
purpose perhaps never equalled, had
encouraged, even urged their husbands
to join the army in the cause ofliberty
and for the preservation of the Union.
These men, stimulated by the self
sacrifice and loyalty of their wives and
the love of their children, not
only fought to arrest the insanity
01 secession ana save the old Mag,
but finally to redeem a promise, or
compact in the declaration of Inde
pendence, that every man should have
the "right to life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness." They fought and
settled the question of human slavery,
they died to liberate four millions of
slaves. Wc owe the accomplishment
of these great ends to the devoted patri
otism of American women. These noble
heroic dead, whose memories we recall
and honor to-day, were the men who
helped to maintainthe old flag, with
out tho loss of a star. Disheartened
at no defeat, discouraged at no ob
stacle, appalled by no danger, these
men neither paused nor swerved but
contributed their lives, until a stain
less flag floated over all our wide do
main, until every human being be
neath its folds was absolutely free.
The observance of this occasion to
day, gives assurance that time has not
effaced from the hearts of the Ameri
can people the sense of their obligations
to these talen heroes. Nor has the
yinUl State? Government, -forgotten
III (KUW.IIHHBI. IU..lll,iilmMi
Millions and millions of dollars arc
paid annually to provide for them the
necessaries and comforts of their lives;
this is poor retribution considering
(he loss sustained, but they have further
the sympathy, love and aid of all the
friends of the Union. And to-dav the
American nation bends over the graves
01 mcir ueroic ueau, anu pays re 111cm us
tribute of gratitude and love.
Comrade Lane spoke upon
the bred waves them to the rhythm of
n this tropiThe decorations of nature
iur work to d'jnie are glorious. Yet
"THE ARMY AND NAVY."
Comrades and friends, I am called
upon to respond for "The Army and
Navy" I feel inadequate to the task,
for, it is a subject replete with glorious
and patriotic acts on the part of our ar
myand navy. From the days of Washing
ton, Paul Jones and Perry, to those of
Grant, roote, 1'arragut, and the martyr
Lincoln. The battles of 1775-1812
and 1860-3 were fought for that
grand principle, freedom 1 A free
dom which our beloved country
guarantees to all, regardless of col
or or creed. And she stands to-day
preeminent as "the land of the free
and the home of the brave," and that
she is so, is due to our leaders, naval,
military and civilian. To Washington
a name dear to all Americans and his
brave army, we are indebted for the
colonies. And when in 1861, the
question arose, "which shall it be, dis
union and slavery, or union and free
dom ? thousands and tens of thousands
of brave soldiers and sailors gave up
their lives to perpetuate the great prin
ciples bequeathed to us by our forefath
ers with tlie answer : "The Union it
must and sAallhc preserved." By the
efforts of our brave army and navy, as
sisted by the "God of Battles" it was
preserved ; and our country is destined
to remain forever "the sweet landof lib-
berty." We have assembled here to
day to honor our heroic dead of the
army and navy : and may we all strive
to emulate their patriotic and heroic
deeds, so that when our great comman
der shall muster us out, may we have
such loyal, fraternal and charitable lives,
that He will say : "Well done, good
and faithful servants."
Dr. N. II, Emerson spoke as fol
lows on
"decoration day."
Comrades, in order to appreciate
the beautiful significance of Deco
ration Day let us transport ourselves in
imagination to a land where rigorous
winter, for half the circuit of the year,
seals un the frozen bosom of the earth.
There, when the warm air of spring
breathes again and the vernal sun turns
on his course, with what a joyful resurrec
tion does dead nature leap into life
from her dreamless sleep and forgivingly
deck her own grave with memorial
(lowers. The marks of war arc more
cruel and relentless than those of winter.
But the loving hand ot nature toucnes
the scared and blood-stained fields of
Shiloh, of Chanccllorsville and Bettys
burg and makes haste to decently cover
the hallowed mould of ;(le eVad with
sweet sod and the MMM of tender
recollectioa To-day, 'jy comrades, in
feeble imitation of or 1And mother
nature, we conMwttbowMMui mem
orial wreaths in our nuuke Mfk . the
graves of our dead Ityt m'wc look
about us, lo, nature has anticipated our
office, she has carpeted these mounds
of the dead wkb velvet turf ; she lifts
aloft her banners of puvlt, of scarlet, ol
. mr
in
our
of the Grand AtJ'iii remote outpost
It is linked by chalrV "ot superfluous,
lection and a liuman"( lender rccol
lifts us above nature, to Umcnt, which
which our distant conuadcsC.rcmonics
republic across the water ah? Src,lt
enacting. The garlands, (wined tJIa
and loving hands that a nation this V
places on its graves shall fade ano
moulder intj common dust ; but the
sentiment that inspires the deed is
worthy to live forever. If our action
sha'l serve to keep this sentiment alive
in our hearts and to keep green and
fragrant the memory of the unselfish
deeds of the brave men who ofTercd
their lives that the nation might live,
our work of this day will not have been
in vain.
" Mow sleep the brave who sink lo rest
lly all their country's wishes blest I
When Spiing, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
" lly fairy hands their knell Is rung,
lly forms unseen their dirge is sung ;
There Honor come", a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay,
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell a weeping hermit there I"
IN THE UVKNINCi.
The decoration of Music Hall was a
work of art. The stage was set with its
prettiest villa-garden scene. From the
centre of the proscenium arch hung a
composite floral wreath a red frame, a
blue centre, and the white initials "G.
A. R." standing out from the blue. At
the left of the stage was a picture of
Lincoln. The frame festooned with
flowers and ereencry: across its front,
two muskets; hanging from the linked
bayonets, a drum; behind the picture, a
tlag. lo the left and a little to the
rear stood a column, entwined with a
long garland. The column was in
scribed: "Gcorce W. Dc Lone Post,
No. .15, G. A. R., Department of Cali
fornia; in memory of J. 11. Dickson,
II. McKay, C. H. Rose, H. A. Scott,
U. S. A.; and G. P. Shirley, U. S. N.
In the centre of the stage front was a
picture of Lieutenant Dc Long, of the
ill-starred Jcanctte, whose memory the
post name enshrines. It was garlanded
and across its front was a sabre. Be
hind it was the reading desk. At the
left of the stage was a picture of Gar
field also garlanded and panoplied with
a stand of arms and a cavalrv bimle.
Around the balcony railing depended
flags and streamers, harmoniously dis
posed so as to secure the best ossible
effect. Our pretty little theatre looked
never prettier.
inn Exr.Rcisr.s.
The hall was well filled before half
past 7. The exercises began about a
quarter bclore 8. The staio was occu-
laftelrwTfFa
literary exercises. The king accompa
nied by Chamberlain Judd occupied
the royal box. Many foreigners, una
ble to find seats below, were in the bal
cony, which was additionally occupied
by many juvenile Ilawauans.
The evening's exercises were as fol
lows:
I. Music, I.e Diadeinc Overture, A. Her
mann, Honolulu Symphony Club ; 2. Roll
Calls, I of Geo. V. De Long Post, 2 of
the Dead; 3. Music, Klegic Funeral March,
II. G. I'auvonicr, Honolulu Symphony Club j
4. I'rcvcr, Comrade Cruzan; 5. Music, The
Slar Spangled lianner, Key, solo by Mrs.
Cruzan, chorus by choir and audience ; 6.
Original I'oem, Mrs. II. I'. Dillingham; 7.
Music, Sadowa Military March, II. Millard,
Honolulu Symphony Club; 8. Music,
Viva L'Aincrica, A. Millard, solo by Mr.
Varndtcy, chorus by choir and audience ; 9.
Reading, Under the Flag, Wendell Phillip.
Wm. It. Kinney ; 10. Music, The Red White
and llluc, Anon, solo ty Mr. Max I'racht,
chorus by choir and audience; 11. Oration,
Comrade A. S. Hartwcll ; 12. Music, Medley,
Recollections of the War, lleyer, Royal Ha
waiian lland ; 13. Closing Exercises, Geo. W.
De Long Post.
THE P0KM.
Ti North on Ser kncscUpfih SovtHtnrttr fcrt.
Cm tWt, rttrnr, Irist death tlnno prt.
And thu;l)fCotllon Day d' lis nt hrMth,
And rtn lo full bring, an crTprtn( of death.
Now loved ones who fell on the fir tattle troanl,
Whererer they lie, are rememtiered and crowaed
Now longings are aatWIed, jealondes ceatt.
And high o'er the land hangs tht banner vf peace.
Thee Mes c f delight that have apread their green Wore
On Ihit threshold enchanting of aunet' wide door.
Where tiles are soft veiled ty the orange and palm
Where sneet hreath of fern rillalh air with its balm,
ave welcomed from earth's larger nations rrrmita
Airst 'neath tea shadows, to taite Its swet fniltt.
New LJti blithe summer of flower and song
All cUeery day, evety Joy lo prolong
1 hit land tljisllonshere mingle a, one,
1 he aouud tint ra conqueit by cruel war w an
il the beautiful iutl.nearett the cannon's hoare roar
' breals on the shore
Itut children have brough.
Thegermvof true losally, aTl Ihe fatherlaads dear
And naught can dUlurb Ihe hon, sincere,
Ilul Ihe hearts of all patriots leap It" w ' '"
Hawaii tent forth In those terrible da).me
llrave men. to retpond lo loud calls for rcK
Ami proudly she owns midit her cttirefts how
True heroes who fought lo crown liberty's blow.
In yonder green vslley are sleeping to-night
Dear friends who once shared in IhU struggle for rigfct ;
And ours the sweet privilege, granted lo-day,
To honor their retting place, tributes to lay
Orer headi, hands and feet that so faithfully bora
Their part In the strife, our gieat land to restore.
Aye, cheriih moit tenderly gravel that are ours
Snd bury them deep with our lovllett flowers.
is a fitting time, if only for the sake of
our young Americans, to tell (he mo
(ive for which Fort Sumter was fired
upon, and the cause of the great up
rising in arms of the loyal people of the
North.
The South had long been prepared
for war by its leaders, while they held
control of the U. S. Government. Our
small army of about 1,700 regular
troops had been stationed about in
small bodies, far removed from each
other, so that they who could not easily
be concentrated. The main part of the
stores of ordinary arms, ammunition,
and military equipments which belong
ed to the Fastcrn United Slates, had hy
the same )crsons been placed in South
ern arsenals, all ready to be seized when
the war broke out. The peoplu of the
South had been lead to believe that the
North would not fight. What the
South wanted was certainly a separate
government in order to crpctuatc
their institution of Negro slaves. Their
leaders knew that if they stayed in the
I Union, slavery was doomed. It could
I ' . . -' .. ... .- r , ,
nt stand Deiore tne spirit 01 irec lanor,
J. ' free labor of the North was rapidly
, "sg new free states, so that the
- 5re to come wncn a iwo-iiurus
.IjUlUV
nf all the states would
No heart bat has cherished some memory dear;
No love without loss In love's first, sweetest year;
No sunshine but cautws some shadow to fall;
No sound but nukes somewhere an echo to call I
No winter but surely followed by spring ;
No error but pennauce muit certainly bring ;
No strife bold in conquest or loyally brave
But lavs all lis bitterness down In the grave
M anUnd,tri rough the length and the breadth of ihe earth.
No matter what language, no inAtlcr what birth,
Though uever a creed or religion be taught,
1'osKii. a pure instinct, unbiased, unsought,
That shrines a divinity sacred to each ;
Whose filtar, our hands ever tinting tq reach,
Would cover with gifts that are cottly and rare,
Nor count any sacrifice great offered there.
Each age, tn all climes has Its faith, and each (
Impatient of error, stnVs reason in rage
Tlul its own special creed may not rule the whole world.
The rlag of the tealot has never been furled.
Ilut uaturvs the roughest, the hardest to move,
At sorruw's still touching, the world's lunthiu prove;
And where beats Ihe strong heart so stoie'ly brave,
Ilut melts not to find midtt its treasure a gravel
Ah, here is a shrine that humanity shares,
Each family grave common brotherhood hears.
The aged, Ihe young, fullest prime, freshest bud,
Stir fountains of love, mingle tears Ilka a flood.
Ilut these stepped aside from the ku ranks of life,
.fa osver engaged In Its (rmtUtl strife,
Abu for the thousands whom nations must mourn,
That detpcrale war from their boMima has torn I
With breath slowly drawn, we remember to Might
The heroes who pctMicU defending the light.
The years sweeping by, while they soften Iha pals
That blighted the land, wuh its strife audits stain.
Have cherivhed a memory, blowomiag sweet
With perfumesof peace ami forgive oeiw compter.
A uscm'ry that hallows lh eau it eatbtdmt,
And changes sad pawns lo thanksgiving peAleas,
Ah, cruel thai war, though now over so kmg
When brothers were Iocs, and their hatred waaed strong.
The" mine" aad the' thine" suoa had shattered Use
"whole,"
Had right not the power thai great strife lo control.
We Mourn the rich blood shed those tcmble years.
The mad watte oT manhood, the couotns first peers;
Tha sufferings, privations, the carnage sosd woe;
Tha homes asade so desolate, hearts brought eo low.
Tha South bad chuj treasure the North longed to share).
Tha dead, precious dead vera all left to her care,
tsstldc sunny rivers, 'neath palmetto's thade,
la fated SJid valley, their budics veto laid.
On bcautifal day Southern Udics adorned
Tha lurf o'er rarr heroet, wiir heroes were scorned;
Ilul plghl stole the fieedmeo, reauwb'f tng their debt,
And placed aiaspla wild flowers, with grateful tears wet.
Uekf yean roll away, bitter grief has grown tales,
And liana has applied rcaigoatsou's soft balm ;
Agsln Soulhera ladies go forth with their towers
To crown their loved dead, but they raw Ilea twees
showers
Alike over boys tlsMSSwrf eVaw.asSMrynv,
Hring emblems of peace, of contentment aad rrvt,
firing anchors, bring cronies and crownt forthe blett
Illot out every symbol of pain and dittresi ;
11 victory's palms on their sacred sod press.
With hearts throbbing warm heap the flowers so sweet,
Let myrtle and msile and rotes there greet ;
And under the sunahine and soft snmmer showers.
We leave to Ihe angeN thete dear graves of ours.
THE ORATION.
The Athenians, when they selected
Isoctatcs to deliver an address in honor
of their countrymen who lell at Mara
thon, told their orator to take all
the time he wanted to prepare his
address. He took fifteen years, and
then delivered his famous panegyric
which is read to-day by every classical
scholar. If, during those fifteen years,
every city, town and villiagc of Greece
had listened to the story of the battle
of Marathon from their first orators and
poets and historians, I doubt if the
panegyric of Isocrates would ever have
been written.
I can add no new thought to the
tender words spoken by our comrades
this aftennoon by the soldiers' and
sailors' monument at the graveyard in
the valley. Hut the lessons of the
great Rebellion cannot be too deeply
impressed upon our minds. There
are many, I do not doubt, who do
not undcrstond the meaning of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
When soon after the close of the war,
the veteran soldiers and sailors of the
United States army and navy began to
form themselves into an organization,
known as the -Grand Army of the Re
public, there were those who dreaded
the results. To their minds, it portend
ed a combination for political purposes
wlucli boded no good to the country.
iiii!Sii!J9we-'lrv,.an(i.no wonder, wc
-7 - --j'-MlnriiiMrvsee,iev'ww
the names ol posts and departments,
extending.-all over the North, grated
harshly upon th'cir cars They thought
that trouble miiht come of it all, and
that it would only serve to keen alive
the embers of sectional discord. How
little such men knew of the material
with which our union army and navy
was made t So far from even tending
to produce any of the evils which were
prophesied, the Grand Army of the
Republic has served to promote har
mony between the North and the
South. The sailors and soldiers who
fought that war resolved that as far ns
in them lay, they would make perma
nent the results for which they fought.
Loyalty to the Union, a common
brotherhood with old comrades, and
aid and sympathy for each other, and
for the widows and orphans of those
who had fallen these the objects they
sought and they were objects to be
dreaded by no one who loves his coun
try. It was the Grand Army of the
Republic who invited the people of the
loyal North, to join in keeping this
great Commemoration Day ot tne
nation.
It is the privilege of this George W.
De Long Post of that Grand Army to
lie the only organized body of its vet'
crans outside of the territory of the
United States.
May not we Americans, who, cast
our lots among these islands of the sea,
take comfort in seeing the general
respect which our Memorial Day re
ceives here f 1 lie cannon which are
posted at each corner of the soldiers
and sailors lot in Oahu Cemetery were
gracefully and modestly given us
fur that purpose by the king.
His attendance at our comrade
the Rev. J, A. Cruzan's memorial
service last Sunday eveninc, shows
that he is in full sympathy with the
objects of the Grand Army,
It is not Northern hands alone to-day
that have strewn flowers over the graves
of our deceased comrades. Our coun
trymen and our countrywomen at the
South have placed these sweet offerings
over the last resting places ot tne tioys
in blue, as well as the boys in gray.
Could more be asked to show that the
victories of peace may be greater than
those of war t I he Grand Army ol the
Republic has played no small part in
gaining these peace victories. Soldiers
of the Union army while they do not
forget the past are (he quicices( (o
forgive, and (0 lay aside (he bitterness
and passions o( war. No brave man
can fail to do homage to the heroism
with which the men of the South fought
through that war. At Gettysburg,
n.au) 10 ,lolis) 8, , con,tjtu.
tional amenity .,.,,' cj0(ltllCMcr.
"7 -"" ."'.he belief that every
state had a "giU dissa,i,ficd t0
secede from the Unioi.
The North believed u h Consti.
tution of the United Sta.
(hs. , !,
tate
't
Chickamauga, Stone River and on a
hundred other battle-fields, the chivalry
of the South showed its metal Hut
they were fighting against men no less
brave than thtmselves. The Southern
heart was more quickly fired, but when
the North had once aroused to the
magnitude of the task before it, there
was no stopping it until that task was
done.
It is now (wentythree years since
(he first shot was fired upon Fort
Sumter, on the morning of (he 1 Jth day
of April, 1861. It was the second shot
in the history of the United States
which was heard round the world.
It is easier now than it was then, or
for many years after, to consider calmly
the menu of the war. Memorial Day
obligation entered into by '
ot the United btatcs, which no
could ever destroy. It was not to
down slavery, but to save the Union;,
that the North hegan to fight. Lincoln
said in his first inaugural address, that
"it was not his purpose, directly or in
directly, to interfere with the institution
of slavery." He wrote in 1862, "my
paramount object is to save the Union,
and not either to save or destroy slav
ery." The Northerners, however much
they hated slavery, felt bound by tlie
constitution not to inteiferc with it.
Yet "the mills of the gods grind slowly,
but they grind exceeding fine." It re
sulted at last in a war for freedom, as
well as for Union. As the contest
went on, it became clear that the
North could not fight on peace princi
ples ; that slave owners could not be
protected in one kind of property more
than in another. Lincoln's Emancipa
tion Proclamation was a war measure
as much as the destruction of Atlanta.
Ilut at last it was all over. The
fighting, the toilsome marching, the
sufferings in Southern prisons and
what to my mind was harder yet, the
patient, weary waiting and watching of
the brave women who lnd sent their
dear ones to the war all this was
ended. The lecords showed some
300,000 Union soldiers killed in battle
and died in hospital of wounds and
disease. The South probably lost as
"manv more. All over the countrv were
JSlie.cn.lhe maimed and crippled soldiers.
-T"" ."!,'ut,,""asTrjrjvi,rtia?wfeir
expenditure ot money were incalculable.
Was all this sacrifice too great? The
answer made them is the same which
wc make now. No sacrifice can be
too great to save our country and
to make it what it was meant to
be, " the land of the free, and
the home of the brave." The
South to-day would not, if she could,
restore the cause of slavery. I he
hum of machinery is head there, instead
of the slave-driver's whip and the bay
of the bloodhound. The South, for all
her losses, is richer now than before the
war. The flag of the Union now as
never before the war commands res
pect the world over.
Nineteen years ago this week, the
armies of Meade and Sherman held
their last grand review in the city of
Washington. Those men who had
marched from Atlanta to the sea, who
had gone through the Wilderness to the
Appomattox, were a body of republican
soldiers whom no power on earth would
care to encounter unnecessarily. They
kept such excellent time, that at the
tinkling of Seward's bell, the French
were ordered away from Mexico, and
Napoleon left Maximillian and poor
Carlotta to their fate. It was that
marching throtiRh Georgia, more than
Mr. Evarts' law-argument that brought
the Geneva award. If there is anything
with which our mother country sym
pathizes, it is the cause of the weak ; if
there is anything it restwets, it is the
heavy battalions who win the day, Ilut
England's Queen was always, even in
the darkest days of the war, utrou the
side of the American Republic, and
not of the Southern Confederacy. So
England, if she should ever need the
aid or sympathy of America, may
yet find that "blood is thicker than
water."
Comrades: You fought in that holy
cause in the spirit of the martyred Lin
coln " with malice toward none, with
charity for all, with firmness in the
riuht. as God cives us to sec the rittht."
As you look hack upon those years of
high value and higher endeavor at
you meet the facet of dear friends who
braved death and met it ,does not life
seem to have been worth the living f
If there is anything that a soldier
must be, it is to lie brave and true; If
there is anything that; he must do, it it
his duty. At our comrades rapidly,
move on (o join the main body who'
have already crossed the "divide" lei
the rest of us who form the rear guard, do
bravely the duty nearest "us, as God
gives us to tee our duty.
To day, fair hands have preavrti
the floral offering for ourprecious deo4
Ever state in our glorious Union wot
represented by the little ones, in red
white and blue whom Comrade Whit
cared for as tenderly as he did for hit
battery at Stone Klvcr,
There is an hour for tears, and (or
mourning for (host who are gone.
But it is not to-day. We moum not
now over the pa(.
It ut not on Memorial Day phvcaj
the stars and stripes at half matt in
signs of grief. Rather let k floe
proudly at the mast head, for tail it a,
day ofprivilages for the sons and dugJi
Urn of America.
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