The Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu (Oahu), Hawaii) 1840-1841, 1841-08-14

'hcr lAan w thOse doubtful expedlentS,
which, eliminating in public debt, serve
to embarrass the resources of the country
and to lessen its ability to meet any great
emergency that may arise All sinecures
should be abolished. The appropriations
should be direct and explicit, so as to
leave as limited Il share of discretion to
the disbursinS agents as may be found
compatible with the public service. A
strict responsibility OH the part of all the
agents of the Government should be
maintained, and peculation or defalcation
visited with immediate expulsion from Of
flee and the most condign punishment.
The public interest also demands that,
if any war has existed between the Gov
eminent and the currency, it shall cease.
Measures Of financial character, now
having the sanction of legal enactment,
shall be faithfully enforced until repealed
by the legislative authority. But l owe
to myself to declare that regard existing
enactments as unwisc and impolitic, and
in high degree oppressive. | shall
promptly give my sanction to any consti-
tutional measure which, originating in
Congress, shall have for its object the res
toraiion of a sound circulating medium,
so essentially necessary to give confidence
in all the transactions of life, to secure to
industry its just and adequate rewards,
and to re-cstabIish the public prosperity.
In deciding upon the adaptation of any
such measure to the end proposed, as we'll
as its conformity to the Constitution, l
shall resort to the Fathers of the great
Republican school for advice and instruc-
ton, to be drawn from their sage views
of our system of Government, and the
light of their ever glorious example.
The institutions under which we live,
my countrymen, secure each person in
the perfect enjoyment of all his rights
The spectacle is exhibited to the world,
of Government deriving its powers from
the consent of the governed, and having
impaired to it only so much power as is
necessary for its successful operation.--
Those who are charged with its admins
tration should carefully abstain from all
attempts to enlarge the range of powers
thus granted to the several departments
OF the Government, other than by an APP
peal to the People for additional grants,
lest by so doing they disturb that balance
which the patriots and statesmen who
framed the Constitution designed to cstab-
lish between the Federal government and
the States composing the Union. The
observance Of these rules is cnioined upon
us by that feeling of reverence and atfec-
ton which finds place in the heart of
every patriot for the preservation of union
and the blessings Of union-for the good
of our children and our children's chill
drcn, through countless generations An
opposite course could not fail to generate
factions, intent upon the qualification Of
their selfish ends to give birth to local
and sectional iealouscs, and to ultimate
either in breaking asunder the bonds of
union, or in building up central system,
which would inevitably end in bloody
sceptre and an iron crown.
In conclusion, beg you to be assured
that shall exert myself to carry the fore
going principles into practice during my
administration of the Government, and,
confding in the protecting care of an ev-
er-Watchfu l and Ovcr-rulinp prOvidence II