The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

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,P.Brfljtrit Ritil Matto.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1853.

THE annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the
United States, is an event which cannot fail to pro-
duce, a season of bitter recrimination in both
Houses of the American Parliament, and no small
discussion in the diplomatic circles of Europe.
Already the London Standard directs the attention
of its readers to the importance of the official dis-
patches which appeared in the NORTHERN DAILY
TIMES of Thursday.
The history of annexation, whether European
or American, does not, we must confess, redound
much to the honour or humanity of the great
aggregationists, The inroads of civilised nations
upon the rights and sovereignties of the aboriginal
peoples, have been marked in all ages by a degree
of ferocity which brands the professional civiliser
with all the worst crimes of the savage. In every
direction we turn, we find the aboriginal tribes of
distant countries plundered and prostrated deeper
and deeper in the abyss of darkness and of slavery,
than they ever were before. How to govern the
Hindoo -Low to treat) with the Tartar—on what
terms to negOciate with the Mogul—in what
language to lead the African negro—and in what
way to guide and to define the actual rights of
the civilised nations, appear to be in as much
obscurity as it was one thousand years before men
wrote or the Messiah preached.

The annexation of Indian sovereignties to Eng;
land, has produced bloodshed and miseries on
both sides, which are too appalling to relate. The
annexation of Algeria to France has proved no
less terrible in its consequences for the hopeless
Algerine; and the annexation of Texas to the
United States, brought massacre upon massacre
on the Indian tribes, while it extended and per-
petuated the horrors of African slavery on a soil
where it had been for ever forbidden. Here, then,
the common interests of humanity forbid the pro-
gress of annexation. At some period of human
history, a limit must be set to the aggregation of
nationalities, and this may prove the period best
suited for the enforcement of some intelligible in-
ternational understanding on the subject.
Here again we have the utmost urgency exist-
ing for the close alliance and active co-operation
of the Liberal Constitutionalists of Europe, and the
enlightened and anti-abomination section of the
American people. An annexation south of MADI-
soN's line is a signal for The abolitionists of the
States to prepare for the defence of the indepen-
dence of the Sandwich Islands. They look more
closely to the statistics of humanity as the basis
of a proud nationality, than the despotic princes
of Europe or the pro-slavery advocates of the Ame
rican Union. Mr. LUTHER SEVERANCE, the United
States Commissioner, approaches the question of
annexation with great tact and plausibility ; but
the antecedents of annexation have fortunately
gone before his able exposition of the law of na-
tions. The protest of the British and French
Consuls is explanatory and concise. They begin
by informing the King, KAMEHAIIIA, that they have
heard of the extraordinary course adopted by
some American merchants, landed proprietors,
and other citizens connected with the Protestant
missionaries residing on Oahu, with a view to in-
duce his Majesty to alienate his sovereignty and
the independence of his territories, by an imme-
diate negociation for annexation to the United
States; and that they were aware also of the coun-
tenance and support that a memorial which those
gentlemen had addressed to his Majesty to that
effect, had received from high official functionaries
at Honolulu, all of which proceedings had caused
considerable excitement among the French and
British residents. In this portion of the Protest
of the representatives of England ant France, we
see strong grounds for maintaining the indepen.
deuce of the Sandwich Islands. In the christiani
sation of the people of Eastern Asia, England has
quite as much interest as she has in the conversion
of the people in the Western portions of that con-
tinent; and it is a matter of the first importance
td have a free and independent State in the
Southern Pacific, as the basis of our missionary
labours among the Asiatic nations.

In addition to this strong ground of opposition
on the part of England to this annexation pro_
ject, the protest points out with great force,
that Great Britain and France have entered
into solemn treaties with the Sandwich Islands,
by which the king, his heirs, and successors,
are bound to extend at all times to French and
British subjects the same advantages and privileges
as may be granted to subjects or citizens of the
most favoured nations; and that the joint declaration
of England and France, of the 28th ITovember,
J 843; was founded upon the clear understanding
that KAMEHAMA was to preserve his kingdom as an
independent State. - • •

On the strength of these treaties and the con-