The Fourth
Sandwich Islands News:
Thursday, July 6, 1848
THE FOURTH. –The fourth of
July has come and gone, and with it went many a bottle of liquor, and many a
patriots’ dollar. Yes! The “Fourth of July” –the anniversary of the
independence of Yankee-doodle-dum-has made his seventy-ninth appearance, his
face begrimed with seventy-eight years use of powder, and his nose dyed with
seventy-eight years’ imbibing of the ardent. This eventful day entered upon its
duties with all the dignity becoming its station in the calendar, and all
seemed disposed to render due its honors. Jonathan, John Bull, Johnny Crapeau,
Sawney, Pat-Mister, Monsieur, Mynbeer, Senor-English, French, Irish, Scotch,
Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, and last of all, Hawaiians –all had their fingers
in the patriotic pie, and each vied with the other in bellowing forth his
patriotism, and drinking the health of the great Republic of Yankee-doodle-dum.
Numberless were the loyal bumpers drank on that day, and countless were the
bottles that suffered. –Bruised noses and black eyes attested the devoted
patriotism of their owners. In fact, the day passed off as such a day usually
does, with a mixture of patriotism and liquor, singing and shouting, eating and
drinking, pleasuring and fighting.
It is gratifying to our
national feeling and vanity to see all of the foreign residents, without
distinction of Country, engage in the celebration of this day; but we must
confess that we do not like to see them actuated to it merely by the spirit of
wine. We believe there were one or two parties who spent the day in rational
amusements in a manner highly credible to themselves, and more befitting the
character of the anniversary.
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