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commission issued by the King, and a mass
of evidence collected from responsible indi-
viduals, which has laid bare the source and
cause of the attack upon Mr.. Judd. The
result has been to entirely vindicate him
from every aspersion, and to prove him a
most meritorious and disintcrested officer.
His Majesty has III consequence, in consider
alton of his services and of the multiplicity
of labor which devolyed upon him as Secre-
tary of State, to the serious detriment of his
health, been pleased to elevate him to an
even more responsible but less sedentary
post, that of Head of the Cabinet, and Prin-
cipal Minister of State for the Home and
Interior Departments, as announced in our
last paper but one.
In this situation Mr.. Judd will enjoy
the advantages Of a more active life. and
his numerous and warmly attached friends
look forward confidently to the re-establish-
.ment of his health. That Mr.. Judd's servi-
ces may be the better understood, we shall
recur briefly to his previous history. He
arrived here in 1928, as a physician, a mis-
sionary Of the American Board. For Is
years he retained his situation, and in that
time by his professional services, his warmth
of philanthropy, his disintcrested and unit
ring devotion to the cause in which he had
embarked, he secured Il high character for
active usefulness. A happy peculiarly of
manner and temperament eminently qualified
himto secure the hearty attachment of chiefs
and people; and from almost the date of his
arrival down to the present time, Mr.. Judd
has stood second to none in the earnest
objections of the king and nation. The per-
sonal attachment of the chiefs TO him has
ever been OF the warmcst description. So
deeply has he entwined himself with them.
that they have long looked upon him as one
Of themselves, a genuine Hawaiian in heart
and feeling. There was no labor however
a%rduous, and no deed however humble, but
that he cheerfully undertook, if it had in
prospect the welfare of the people. Very
many can bear witness that towards those
foreigners who at any time required his
assistance, he was never deficient, but was
ever performing numberlcss kindnesses. the
doubly welcome because accompanied with
a cheertulness and anxiety to oblige, that
won its way to every heart possessed of the
most common feelings of gratitude. Occupy
ing so prominent a situation as a missionary.
ne did not fail to secure an ample share of
that species of yituperation with which, but
a few years since, it was common for the
most selfish of men to endeavor to blacken
the characters of the purest. But Mr.. Judd,
as a missionary, lived to sec even that con-
tumely recoil on itself, and the defamcrs of
missionary efforts secure to themselves that
lniamy which they attempted to attach to
others. In giving this description Of Mr..
judas career previous to his appointment
to any office, we cannot be accused Of any
undue Partially arising from official rela-
tons. Our opinion was formed at an early
date, and when, after a long and intimate
friendship, we had separated to meet appa-
rently no more. In a work entitled Scenes
and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands. which
we published in Boston, l843, we there
without naming the individual, gave a slight
sketch of his character, as illustrative of
missionary excellence. At that date we
could little ~foresee that we should be in less
than two years occupying congcnial posts
under His Majesty. But after the attempts
that have been so industriously but fruit