The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-23

the Amerlcene valuable nolo 1or acquiring Ok.
psrisncs, which may be used with benefit in the
trade and mining business Of Australia. They will
understand better than the English tho peculiar kind
Of articles suited to the wants Of mining popula-
ton. and they win, also, understand the business
Of mining itself.
Australia is also nearer to the Americans than
to the English. With coaling station at the
Society Islands, it win be easy to run line
of steamers from Panama to Australia, which
are already connected with New York by steam
ship lines. It is said that the English will
also have line of steamers established to connect
Australia with Panama, and England with Chngres
or Aspinwall. This will DO the means of causing
the transit Of passengers and Australian gold dust
almost by our very DOORS and still further augment
the American interest in Australian gold develop
ments
The greatest advantage to be derived by the
Americans from the rapid settlement Of California
and Oregon, will be the control it will give
them over the commercial intercourse and trade
the Pacific, the results of which no man ut the
present day can clearly foresee or appreciate.
The SANDWICH ISLANDS AND THE AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT The Importance of the acquisition
Of these islands hardly be overrated, especially
now that the eage Of the United States has spread
his wings to the Pacific Ocean, and our dominion
has extended not only from sea to sea, but aspires
to 90 forward still in the same direction till it
grasps the treasures of India, China, and Japan,
and girdles the earth till the west meets the east
and American arts and arms and civilization and
christianity, overspread the habitable globe.
The present administration, however, have given
the Sandwich Islands question the go.by, and they
have allowed splendid opportunity to slip through
their fingers, of making themselves and their party
highly popular with the country. 1t is proc
that they do not understand the feelings, purposes
and interests of the American people The French
threatened war upon the islands, because they
refused to pay an Ubiquitous tax French brandy,
just as the old colony of Massachusetts, refused to
pay duty on British tea The King offered to
transfer the sovereignty of the whole islands to the
United States, to which it rightfully belongs by
vicinity to the American continent. This was too
much for the pusillanimity and feebleness of our
government They feared foreign war, and the
visions Of French bayonets scared them from their
propriety
This was a very unnecessary alarm, for Louis Napo
leon has enough to do with his armies at home with
out sending them out here to be served with the
sauce as the British were served with in two wars.
The Sandwich Islands have assuredly right to be
independent Of European control or Intervention,
and they have right to annex themselves to the
United States in order to obtain protection from
the exactions of foreigners It is their interest to
get rid Of the French, and it is interest to
them to our own territory
In expanding our commerce in the Pacific, andin-
creang the wealth and power Of the United States,
the acquisition Of the Sandwich islands is Of the
highest Importance. The religious community, also,
regard them a glorious prize in missionary
point Of view, and their accession as grand means
ofconyeIiDg the heather, not only in these delight
ful islands, but in all the islands of the Pacific.
Hitherto the missionaries have been murdered in
the other islands, when they made prose'ytising
excursions from the Sandwich Islands; but under
the protection Of the United States they would
be perfectly safe, and the gospel would soon -four
ish Sin those dark places of the earth, and among
'tne habitations Of cruelty The cabinet of the
King consists Of American missionaries; and Scotch
men who are American in their feelings, and de
sire above all things to make these islands part and
parcel Of the United States But the admnistra-
ton knew not its chance and the prize it has lost,
as it does not know the instincts of the American
people, who animated with the same feeling that
extended the empire of the old Roman republic
over the world. The language Of Shakespeare and
the Bble-the mother tongue of the Yankee race
is destined to subdue all things unto itself
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