Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-06

this country, GIVE m'eIhSeh..C
rage committed by an Englishiwha'e snip uPo"
The sovereignty and peace OF the sana"icn is-
anJers. Most Of our countrymen KNOW, w
-, ,ho, since The introduction of christiani-
~ in those islands, rhe people have become en-
liph,ened. comparatively industrious and mo,
raj. and nave established a government ana
code of law suited 10 their want and condition.
The advanced state of public morals authors
ed and emboldened the chiefs. a few years since,
to put an end, by a special Tdbre or law, 20 ie-
males of bad character visiting forrign ships
,ouc hing a. those Islands. And this IS the
cause Of all tie aggressions and .ierocious NO
Iations Of law, morality and public justice,
which civilized me- in those seas have prac-
,ic. d, ard c%ontinur TO practice upon a race once
ipnorant and DECEASED, bot now rendered, oy
the elevating nature Of cnrisIianity, a portion
and an interesting portion OF the family oil CT
yilized pan.
The story of TIL last attack upon the island
e,s is this, as we find i in ne Journal Of Com
merce, The crew Of ne English whale ship
John Palmer, Captain CLARK, (who is Said to De
an Americsn) secretly en,iced on board seve"
raj native females; on learning which, the o'o>
vernon demanded Of the captain that they
should be sent on shore. He pretended com
p'iance a day or two, but falling t" meet the
demand, he arrested O. detained The captain on
shore. Upon the mediation Of the misslona-
ries, he was permitted 10 go TO the ship, upon
condition Of complying with the Governors
rrquisIiion. Threats in the mean lime were
made ,ha, The town should be fred, and on the
captains release, a bonbardment Vi the place
was commenced by the ship.
We will mol pretend 10 anticipate what may
be the feelings of others, but for ourselves we
look upon these doings with no small degree
| of indignation. We should like 10 know upon
what principle a captain of a whale ship, an
swerable to the laws Of civilized society, dare
to fire upon the dwellings Of the Sandwich ISL
| anders. We should like TO hear what apology
can be offered by these lawless and violent men
for knowingly violating the laws and deiyIng
the government Of a people, who have them
selves, and for themselves, made these laws,
and established that government. Is any mans
moral sense so perverted, that he would Justify
an infraction Of law in the Sandwich Islands,
that he would condemn at home; or will any
man Of honor, any lover Of justice, and friend
Of liberty, hold in light esteem the equal laws
and The just and mild administration Of them
which have been established in those Islands OF
the Sea. Upon every moral, just and uprigh:
man, they are as binding when within their
Jurisdiction, as the attachments Of the British
Parliament, or the Congress Of this Union.
OF The serious injury TO the cause of morals
and improvement which these repeated outrag-
es must lnfict upon those Islanders, we have
said nothing. Our view has been confined 10
the violation Of civil rights, and the sovereign
ty Of a government which ought to be as much
respected in its operations upon the welfare
and concerns OF the inhabitants over whom il
is established, as tina, Of England herself. We
are lovers Of Jaw. Ct order and Of human i'm.
provement, and II IS our duty ana TIC a.,y ~f
every man 10 exclaim against all such attempts
10 PROSTATE the rights Of our fellow creatures,
"whether they be bond or free. barbarian or
ssgtician." Nat. .Adv.