Polynesian., 1845-04-12
POLY ESIA N.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE ia JAIIAN
GOVERNMENT.
HONOLULU, SATURDAY, APRIL ~, ls45.

LII the lctter OF coincidence addressed by
the American residents to His Majesty, and
signed by forty-one individuals, we find the
following significant paragraph" The
differences which at present unhappily exist
between some Of your Majesty's naturalized
officers and a large class of the foreign
community" Even admitting the "diheren-
ces" to exist, which are very much confined
to one side, facts derived from figures will
greatly qualify the statsment and reduce the
large Glass; to u very small class indeed;
and if we should proceed further in the ex-
animation, certain disclosures might be
made which would prove those differences
to have in a great degree originated in the
disappointment of interested expectations,
altogether incompatible with the protection
and justice due from a government alike to
all classes.
Of the forty-one signers, four were then
Hawaiian subjects; one has since become
so. reducing the names to thirty-six, which,
as "The Friend informs US, "comprise
the names, we believe, of every American
established here as u resident, not absent,
&C." Here then we have the utmost limit
Of the "large class" according to their W
showing-36 individuals. Now we know
that of those SO, not one half have any in
terest or sympathy in the ''differences'' to
which allusion is made, and among the re-
mainder, a very considerable difference of
opinion is entertained as to their extent, and
the existence of any real causes on the part
of government sufficient to account for
them.
The unusual efforts made by a few indi-
viduals to create sympathy, and by a va
riety of dubious ways to enlist national
feeling in behalf of issues of altogether
a private nature, have proved at the best
to have met with but temporary success.
We are pleased to perceive that the second
sober thought and good sense of the COM
munity are triumphing, and that the "large
Glass; are far from being cognisant of the
differences so prominently alluded to in
the letter. TO the IL in number who
may possibly be found fully to believe in
them, we can oppose the "a neutral and 63
naturalized Americans, all of whom have
taken the oath Of allegiance in this town
alone within 10 months, and the greater
number very recently. Now does any
candid person believe that if any very serious
" differences" had been created by "some
of his Majesty's naturalized officers" so
many of their native countrymen could have
been found to place themselves within that
much feared pale Of allegiance, and to yield
them their cordial support To assert the
converse would be absurd. This class be-
sides greatly exceeding the other in number,
is in no respect inferior either in natural in
telligence, birth or education; and in wealth,
If the relative amount of property is estima-
ted, will be found to be nearly if not quite
equal.
The heaviest merchant that has ever
done business here, and now possessed of
the largest property, is an Hawaiian subject,
and has shown his generous confidence in
the government by committing all he is worth
into the charge of their courts, for the final
settlement of his estate. We could state
many other facts to show the increasing
respect and confidence of all classes in the
government, and which the government is
ever willing to reciprocate by respect and
confidence in them.