Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-11-23


Annexation OF the Sandwiches.
The Washington correspondence Of the Tti-
bune, has the following item in relation to the
Sandwich Islands:
"The late change in the Administration at the
Sandwich Islands by the retirement of Mr.. Judd,
and the elevation of Hon. Elisha III. Allen, late
United States Consul at Honolulu, to the place OF
Prime Minister, wears a favorable aspect for the
scheme of the annexation of these islands. Mr..
Allen is a Whig of the progressive school, a man
fully imbued with the spirit of modern enterprise,
marked by bland and prepossessing manners, and
possessed of patriotic impulses which are warm and
true toward the land of his birth. We are sure
that nothing would crafty Mr.. Allen more than
to signalize his career by accomplishing an hon.
ofable annexation of these islands.
How strange it is, to hear such mild talk as
this, about annexation from Wing! The rem
nants Of that party seem just disposed to come
over to us in this most important question of the
day, Who says the Wing party is not dead!
The following additional news, of the political
affairs of these Islands, we clip from late Calior-
mia papers:
The Argus, of the 7th ult., says:
-.tThough not yet officially announced, yet we
are warranted in saying that during the last week
the entire Cabinet has rendered their resignation,
ana GHaL II pteaBeQ Ills majesty W uCCePI VI InoI
Of His Excellency, G. P, Judd, Minister of FL
nance, and to appoint in his place Hon. E. II. Al
len ESQ. late consul of the United States to this
port. It has further pleased His Majesty to ap-
point 1T. R. Ell. Prince Lot Kamehameha as Con-
stitution Premier, Uice His Excellency J. Young,
resigned-the latter gentleman still retaining the
Office of Minister of the Interior. 1t has also
pleased His Majesty to appoint His Royal High
ness, Prince Liholiho, membes of the Board OF
Royal Commissioners of the Public Health, in
place of G. p. Judd, resigned.
PRorEsr OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH Con-
suLs.--We quote from the Polynesian, of Sep
tember Q, the following protest. delivered in per-
sioner Perrin, at an audience with His Majesty,
and the Privy Council on September !:
* . 52R2's HONOLULU, Sept. J., 1853.
ss.May it please your Majesty: We, the Repre-
sentatives of Great Britain and France, beg leave
respectfully to intimate to your Majesty that we
are fully informed of the extraordinary course
adopted by some American merchants, landed pro-
prietors, and other citizens of the United States,
connected with the Protestant Missionaries resi-
ding on Oahu, with view to induce your Majesty
to. ALLEVIATE your Sovereignty, and the independ-
erce of said Islands, by an immediate negotiation
for annexation to the United States; and that we
are aware, also, of the countenauce and support
that memorial which those gentlemen have ad-
daessed to you, to the aforesaid effect, has receiv-
ed from high official functionaries at Honolulu, all
of which proceedings have given rise to consider
able excitement among French and British resi-
dents. 49, -ess:z - .st
Under these circumstances, we consider it our
duty to remind you that Great Britain and France
have entered into solemn Treaties with the Sand
witch Islands, by which Treaties, your Majesty,
your Heirs and Successors are bound to extend at
all times to French and British subjects the same
advantages and privileges, as may be granted to
subjects or citizens of the most favored nation;
Al - Al - L. lnnd md
France, of the 28th November, l543, was founded
upon the clear understanding that your Majesty
was to preserve your kingdom an independent
State.
Therefore, we declare, in the name of our gov
ernments, that any attemptto annex the Sandwich
Islands to any foreign power whatever would be
in contravention of existing Treaties, and could
not be looked upon with indifference by either the
British or French Government.
We beg further to observe that, in accordance
with the Hawaiian Constitution, your Majesty
could only ALLEVIATE your Sovereignty and Islands
under certain circumstances, which circumstances
have not occurred; and that no monarch whatev-
er, according to Vattel and other writer's on Inter-
national Law, has right to ALLEVIATE his kingdom,
or to enter into negotiation with that view, with
out the concurrence of his people. .-~...r-.
We therefore consider thht the time has arrived
for rs to demonstrate, and we do hereby remon-
strate against your Majesty becoming party to
the SCENE recently got up, or to any other project
which existing treaties and the Hawanjian Con-
stitution do not sanction.
'a.e''1s#a5 1850 - WILLIAM MILLER.
EN-. PERRIN.
The brig Boston arrived in twenty-five days
from Honolulu, bringing regular files of papers up
to Sept TO-. 3fag-a..5 os-.<~.s re a4.- ..... Ids
Hon. LUTHER SEVERANCE, the American Com
missioner replies to the protest of the English and
French Consuls The following paragraph oc-
ours in his remarks: a4
"You are aware that the government of the
United States has never made any propositions to
His Majesty's government to annex the Islands,
though the matter has undoubtedly engaged the
attention both of citizens of the U. s., and of the
subjects of the King. To me it is not surprising
that the merchants and landed proprietors wheth-
or Americans or others, should perceive great
commercial advantages in such connection, con-
sdering that the principal part of the commerce
of the Islands is with the United States, and that
the Islands must look almost exclusively to the
Pacific coast of the United States for market for
their products, and the means of paying for their
heavy imports. perceive, therefore, nothing very
extraordinary in the project demonstrated against.
And if now, at any future time it shall be found
to be decidedly for the interest of both countries
to unite their sovereigntes, am unable to per-
ceiye any treaty or moral obligations on the part
of either to forbid the desired union, or any good
reason for foreign interference to prevent it.
He proceeds to assert the rightto cede or acquire
territory as Inherent in all sovereign powers and
quotes from history in proof of its frequent exer-
cise He reminds the other party that the United
States has not entered into any engagement not
to take possession of the Sandwich Islands And
while he does not presume to say whether we will
take them or not, but that if offered we will un-
doubtedly respectfully entertain and consider the