Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-04-06

cans has been eefrrnsd by Congress largely demo-
cratic. To be sure, the President vetoed the bill
No matter Ii was only Mr. Polk after all, and he
always went against internal improvements, having
taken his last lesson from the Maysve Road of
Old Hickory.
Texas is annexed And thus the wings are left
with every old party issue fairly from under them
excepting only The principle of protection. run
ming ire Is kept up on the subtreasury, TO be sure
But with some notifications this must stand. Who
will advocate new United States Bank! Who ad-
vocate another string of pet banks! Nobody What
folOwsl The sub-treasury, with notifications, will
remain in operation. But the war! This new
issue. II came with Texas. 1t is part of ''the en-
tertanment TO which invited" at the time
of annexation. If we have peace, which now seems
probable. there need be no more battles either in
Mexico or In this country this subject. If not, we
in the war and must get out. We have before ndi-
Gated our humble opinion to the manner of doing so,
aud need not repeat this opinion.
And now may begin 10 the force Of the
question, "Why it is that but IAN old fashioned
whig,' nothing but whig,' 'out-and-oui whig'
Henry Clay whig why is it that none but such
shall be considered entitled to the vote of the
Philade pha convention and the support of the great
body OF wings throughout the coUntry?" Must We
apply to The candidate of that convention the whole
batch of party tests which have risen and sunk again
during the last fifteen years! Why shall we burrow
liable has been sifted, when we have had new mines
opened all around us, which demand our labors!
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS Wretchedness, Vice and
Misery.-By late arrival in New York we have
most distressing accounts of the condition of the in
habitants. 1t would that the efforts of the mis-
sionares there have not been Of so favorable char
acter many have represented, and it is even as
serted in portion Of the Sandwich Island newspa-
pers, that "the mass of the natives are in worse
which Christianity found tlem.' We make some
extracts from the Sandwich Island News, in evidence
of this and other similar statements in derogation of
the efforts of the missionaries and the awful deprayi,y
of the natives:
The News charges Rev. MIR. Armstrong, mis-
sonary with having quoted certain texts of scripture
with unbecoming levity when speaking of alleged
immortal practices unfortunately not confined to Sava-
geS. The editor lays all the degeneracy, disease and
crime prevalent among the native population the
door of the missionaries and the King, and talks
strongly of the bad effects which have ensued by at
tempting enforce moral reformatons by law in
stead of raising the standard of intelligence in labor
and the arts, and allowing foreign capital to intro
duce labor-sayng machines and engage in raising
sugar, cotton, &c.
The News gives dark picture of the social condi-
ton of the Natives of this Paradise Of the Pacific
Assuming that the missionaries have been careless
of the education of the natives in industrial pursuits
il says sail their efforts have not in any degree
ameliorated the physical, domestic, social condI-
ton of the great mass of the native population. But
assert il, without the least fear of contradiction
from any candid man, that the mass Of the natives
are in a physical, social and domestic condi-
ton than that in which Christianity found them
Their huts are fewer and smaller and consequently
more crowded with numbers; their sleeping mats are
older, poorer and are more thiny spread the
ground on which they lie their calabasbes for poi
are less capacious and more sparingly filled their
clothing, though mostly of foreign manufacture, is
less comfortable and more filthy their grounds for
the cultivation Of their food less extensive less
cultivated and less productive, and held by
more feeble tenure: their persons squalid
and cadayerOus less athletic and elastic, and for the
most part, they enervated by lcentious indu-
gence and disease that their powers of prOcreatiOn
are annihilated the civil power them is
exacting, more oppressive, more humiliating, and
more caprlclous their wants, except for the hnery
which makes their wives and daughters merchantable
not in any degree civilized, and for the supply Of
the wants alluded to- their only certain, natural in
alienable and Undeprvable resource is in infamy.
They have no scope, proper facilities, and no mo-
tive for attempting to turn their capabilities Of pro-
ductive labor to a profitable account
"1he mass of the population who reside In remote
districts or on other islands than where ports are,
cannot by possibility be benefited by the results of
their predictions. They are, consequently, for the
most part obliged TO send off the largest part Of the
female population to the towns where foreign ships
resort, III OIOeF ODtdlu lneduS Oh
taxes which are exacted of them equally of those
who raise potatoes and squashes, and also to obtain
the means of gratifying their love of fashion. After
few weeks of bestial vice, they carried back TO
their husbands and lovers their minds and hearts all
stepped in debauch, and their persons all filled with
disease. On their return TO their homes-what
PROCLAMATION of the word home to apply il to their
polluted kennels they crowded into the single
apartment which is made to contain the representa-
tives of three generations of both Sexes to infect and
foment the fell diseases which are sweeping the
ton TO the grave
lt is in vain that they seek remedies for their dis
eases, and vast portion of those afflicted, we have
reason to believe, never attempt to seek remedies
] Many of them members of church, and all are
subjects of uncomfortable system Of fines, mprlson
ments and forced labor and the exposure consequent
upon application for any available source,
would be almost 10 be attended with consequent
ces appalling than the agonies of death. They,
therefore, vanish away like the dew of the morning.
ITO beings situated, the Hawaiians would be
even without taxation, poor and INDECENT and herded
together in their dwellings with no separation of ages
sexes and all from the necessity growing out of
the of scope and motive for industry, 1t would
seen perfect folly TO egislate against sexual licen-
tiousness. Take the most refined community on
earth and place them in the same circumstances and
mode Of living, and under the same necessity of con-
tinuIng so to live, and imagnal laws could pre-
serve its moral purity for a week.
, CTBarnett, the demagogue who prated so Hippant-
ly in the New Albany Bulletin, last summer, about
/, Mr. Honlev,s vote AGAINST the WllmOt prOviso aud