“The American system of freedom and equality is no longer a partially-tried experiment. We no longer tremble. We fear none of the possible storms that may yet rise. We by no means suppose that Americas sun has reached its meridian; it has but just emerged from the clouds that rested on the horizon; but its rapid ascent to noonday glory is now undoubted. Rev. Luther Halsey Gulick, Physician and Secretary of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, from an oration delivered in Honolulu on July 4, 1865.”