Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-10-27

point OF view, they occupy the same relative
position to our possessions on the Pacific, that
Cuba does to those on the Atlantic They are
al TINS TIME, the Cuba o. the Pacific Any
thing that grows in Cuba can be- raised on the
sandwich Islands. The climate of the Islands
Is more healthful and salubrioas than that of
cuba. No epidemic or periodical diseases pre-
vail on the Islands, and they are never subiec,
70 the efrghtful hurricanes which are so frequent
IN ouoa' and which causes such destruction Of
crops and other property. Contemplate these
sands in the future. when Japan shall have
been opened to our commerce, and when a rail
road communication shall have been provided.
from San Francisco. .acr0sA our continent a the
quito border, and when. in n.eanenounn6. .,he
a2czIsaa ssefa Ml1l1 1
Islands, shalt natniSIIy sl
PASS over such road. and through our own ter
ritory, and they are vastly more important to
us. as a possession, than Cuba is, or even can
be. ..
In speaking Of these Islands. their position,
climate aud product, and their value and i'm.
portance to us,I speak of what know having,
as you are aware, resided at their principal
port. Honolulu. over three years. and during
that time, having visited nearly every island
of the groupe. have also visited and resided
in California, shortly after the discovery of gold
there in ls4S. | know the energy, the indus
try, the perseverance. the resisless force and
decision Of character which mark the progress
sive spirit of that wonderfully progressive and
sagacious people, and tell you that they see
and feel the importance of this acquisition ,and
that not one man in California would dare to
raise his voice in defence of the course pursued
by this whig administration, in rejecting the
cesson Of those Islands; and with this know
ledge Of that people, and with my knowledge
of those they have left behind them on this side
Of the Continent. may safely predict. what
some of you may live to see, a commerce EN-.
ployed on the Pacific Ocean. greater than that
now upon the Atlantic; a railroad from San
Francisco across the continent for the travel of
mankind and doing the carrying trade between
the 205, ,O00,O00 of Atlantic people, and the
6l5, 900 900 of the Pacific; while California will
have become one of the most populous and
wealthy States of the Unon--tbe Empire State
of the Pnciiic--and San Francisco. next to New
York, the largest city on the American CONT.
NEXT. The Sandwich Islands will then have
become in fact, well as in name, the garden
spot of the Pacific, and will TEEN with hundreds
of thousands Of industrious, wealthy, euterpri.
sing, intelligent and moral anglo. Saxon popu.
lation, while Honolulu will be in reality the
| Havana of that Ocean.
In expanding our CO mmerce in the Pacific
aud increasing the wealth and power Of the U
States who dare estimate the importance of the
acquisition of those Islands to s,as a half way
house-a depot--of commerce IN time Of peace
and as a military or Naval station in time OF
war;
The religious community, who have expcn
ded through the American Board Of Missions
mewhere near 81 500, 900 in their operations
on the Groupe. and have settled some fifty fam
lies, numbering some $40 chidren) possess.
ing valuable homesteads, must take much in
terest in their acquisition, as being the only
true method of sustaining and perpetuaiinl
the religious, moral and political principle,
country to productive enterprises, and prepar
ing the way for establishment of society and
government on the principles dear to American
hearts, and revered by all hvly and civilized
men.
No man in his senses, who has resided a
those Islands, or who knows anything of thei
civil and political history up to the present
time, can believe that that people can mucl
longer maintain their National Independence
They must from their week aud feeble con
dition, ,as well as the necessities growing out o
their position, seek the protection Of some for
cign power. Essentially, not only from ma
tonal position, but from teaching and inter
course, to escape French and English domina
lion. the people have sought annexation to tn,
U. S." The fact i, certain that the native pop
rlation. like our Indians is destined to be sup
planted, in numbers and power by a foreig,
race. They desire US to be their Successor
and Protectors.
They have offered, as a free gft, as it wer
on our own terms. the entire Sandwich Island
groupe, to the citizens Of this republic Al
they ask in return is simply to receive tn
rights and protection accorded to our own cit
izens. and pay their King small stipend dur
ing his life
WAS there ever more magnificent ofer?--
- in it's rejection, or in the delay in accept
; ing the offer, was there ever greater politica
blunder committed? Yes these Islands hav
been placed in our very lap. we have hat
them in our own hands--or rather the presen
Whig admiuistra,ion--and that administration
has spurned, rejected "spit" upon them
A similar offer may not again be made, ant
fore we are aware Of it they may have foun'
some other power, more wise and polite thar
our Whig government, ready and offer to TAX
them under their flag aud protection.
We might have had them in our posscssio,
at this moment, with the consent and earnes
wish of all interested, had we had a democrat
ic instead Of a pusilanimous whig admiuiotra
tien. No outlay Of money would have becI
required-.the revenue of the Islands being
more adequate for the expense of their govern
ment-time, opportunity, the interests of tn
inhabitants and ourselves all pointed. invitet
and urged such result. The Islanders me
us more than halfway. They invited, an'
completed, treaty negotiations with our Com
missioner, ceding the Groupe to US, before tn
administration a! Washington dreamed of thei
position in the Pacific. That treaty was ser
forward to Washington by special agent
uhc present United States Consul at Homo
lulu,) who reached Washington and deposited
the documents in the hands OF the President