The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-14

/ sugar mil, bat they SuppOsed M A. knew.
he French after holding the Island fer three days abau
doned and retired board Of their vssssk The King
yacht manned BY french and sent to VapsraSo
Oar COnsu and The British Consul have protested aEaiu
the action Of the French l0fces. Yours. LAsso.a
More About the Sandwich Islands.
Or Board THs STEAMER OEEoOH,l
October IOth 1919.
II may BE- ntereing to Feadefs-I confess was 20
TO me1O learn truth about the Government Of there
Islands have myself hsIstof1te. heard only reports Of
the success ofbe MssiORaTiss but daiy iuercOue with
men familiar with affairs upon the sa nds ha, opened 10
and all American citizens th. cosst guile as inter
esing Of civil history before heard Of
Missionary progress.
When the Missionaries succeeded in yorminR themfelVss
into the good ofthe Kug Sufficiently to get appoint
meats his ciUH we'll religious MiAists one Of their
not acts was 10 pass decree rendering ObRsta the
inhabitants TO call the King his Majesty, and his Ministers
EBcecnces They thea began to hanfass every American
bot belonging their order the IslaHds o. those who
manifested with 10 seitle therein. The firm Of Lsdd &
Go who commenced extensive sugar plantaOns and i'm.
PORTED machinery ior their wok' vera driven from these
lfnds The natives deprived by law from sIl right
in the sol and compelled 10 work nearly days oct Of
every three for the King the Chefs asd Mission aries
None but the mss onaIes and their children were permit
ted 10 land in fee simple They intsriic,ed all rei
gion hui The Protestant. This French forced them 10 res
mi, latter decree. and TX duty or more than per cent
on French e. DDS For period they 0beysd treaty. bat
emily they have. arbitrary manner co ed the ath
Ole sckoO d.med their acss pTone their churches
by sending Protestant students iBo them to mock tbs
equality Of rights duty of zoo peT cent s placed on
Fiench quou and haTpes. of The Government placed on
bOsd Of all vessels containing QHor the expense Of the
In addition to this the residences of French Mis-
sionaes were violated By The Oice the most fIivoous
meiexts. and when the magistrates were applied 10 for
redress, the offending parties Invariably acquitted and
sometimes rewarded for their lawles acts These proced
lhgs were generally directed by Judd, ts MnisteF of
Financa who is uRder accusation for robbpr the
lfeaiuIy. tmugglng and other nea'ions practices MANY
Of hoe who know Judd say they like him because he an
open and avowed punderer Of tbs Government while his
brethren dol more syly under the Earb of religion
Wyis, the Drh agent and Consul il in great esti-
mat with the Hawaiian Maisisr. and gain bis in
huence with lis Government they have yOlated their own
law5 and given him fee simple rich slice Of land for
which he eouuenances all their acts against our own and
the French Government. la the recent affair with the
French be did all he possibly cold prevent the sand
witch Island Government fiOm making rrparatlon 10 The
French. In Short he playing gene for his Government
which hopes viii win her the posgess &C the Islands
AID If the California miners do o.. hoist tie stars and
stripes here this winter should not b the ea surprised
the British before the advent of spring. had their flag av
ing Hone lu Indeed the latter confidently spoken
Of by every Engishman along ihs an event as
certain as tia; dsy succeeds night.
/ have heretofore thought that the supremacy of The
American Missionaries 10 the Sandwich Islands, would
always keep them 10 avo if change ever made ofts
republican foim Of government but have bsea fully con
vnced not only from the test mony Of Mr. Ten Eyck and
NJ. Dillon but all Americans coRveBan with the feelings
of the Missionary rulers Of TIE Hawaiian Monarchy that
they opposed TepublGaBsmhat there is 70 form of
government they dread than own liberal institu
tons. add there is population that they ore more DESTROYS
ofkeepiug out Of the Islands thkn the american
These CieTicO politicians have intsfdieted Mr. Abel and
Mr. Hooper two American COnsuls They have also inter
doed Mr.. Blown and Mr. Ten Eyck two of our Minister
PcnpUenay without Government taking ths slight.
official notice Of it, except bv muttepg our COnsulg
and Ambassadors that they had better ha submitted 10 be
kicked quietly By this nussant verify believe that
both political parties fesr-aye, that the wo1ear ne
ectfonCeTtag influence whiek TIC present Missionary
Roard sTe,eiscs tho Uaitsd States To keep clear Of
this uenos they permit any ouage be inflicted on our
| Representatives Hawaii
Living in Honolulu ia abOnt ohe-tenth expensive as in
California, and knowing this number OF the American
miners went there lest winter. Like in bawd house
they made Of evely ard not and ret the anthor
lies at defiance When the guns thrown from the for
by the French Admiral the Ministers expressed dread a
finding them in such helpless state, The present
Government, and hOst The and stripes If all BIZ
true regard TO it's GOvenment-aDd il so Iepp
sented BY Of truth and veraoiy-I Eosmny pray TO
that they will the dynasty and secure 70
" the moor heat en- that title Of his inheritance which hs
rulers have not yet covered by their defendants.
have stated in the Missionary Herald that the
puest virtues sgned in the Palace OF the Hawaiian Mon.
arch when the tims il well known that The
Queen Of the Islands the wife Of the great Kamehameha
living open adultery with her nephew Tires Of
the Prncese his cousins 5educed by the same young
man. while they together at Missionary school, and
each bore him children, his nephew has since died of the
natiuOme disease which dspOpulsng the Islands his two
boheE lingering the Of the grave with like
sfuIGn and with them and the present King will pass
away the last Of the kngy Of the great Kamshamehh
The Missionaries will then have the Islands all TO themselves
fhey do before then throw themselves into the
England These Islands belong the American coast,
and should if they take ether form, become but
our cunning politicians viii offend the Board until the
British flag waving over Honolulu, will say tits late.
Yours. LAssO.