Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-26
SOUND VIEWS IN THE RIGHT QUARTER.


From the influence which, we are glad to believe
is exerted on our public councils by leading Demo-
cratic papers Of the South we always regard with
interest the views which they express touching
questions affecting our foreign relations or the
schemes of foreign aggression and acquisition which
the restless, reckless, bustiering spirit of portion
of our population is constantly pressing on the
government and country. 1t is therefore with
pleasure that we find the journals named below
taking ground against the newest and maddest of
the "manifest destnaran" projects namely, the
annexation of the Sandwich Islands.
The Richmond Enquirer contains the annexed
sensible though courteous reference to the scheme
The SANDWICH IsLANps.--We very much fear that
our people running rather fast ahead in their con-
fdent aspirations after the annexation of these distant
islands II will be well for them to pause before they
plunge into this new scheme of extending the Of
liberty. We have not yet facts enough to justify an
opinion in favor of the instant of the work
but the subject is daily acquiring increased inte
rest it is duty chroniclers of events to furnish
the facts which have come to our knowledge" SC.
The Charleston Mercury takes much more de-
cidcd position on the subject and scouts the scheme
as worthy of ridicule and contempt 1t dispatches
it in the following felcitous paragraphs:
The SANDWICH IsLASDs-We have had various ru-
lately from these little Pacific taverns for whaling
ships indicating that they about get new set
of customers in the politicians of the United States
First there respectable Down East gentleman,
named and denomnatcd Dr. JUDD who had fostered him
SELF like sturdy barnacle the rudder Of Sandwich
Island royalty and seemed destined to remain there while
there life shell to him. But he has been torn from
his moorngs, and in his place settled of
active parasites also from Down East. 1t reminds
of the parable of the out of whom single demon
cast, and in his place entered seven others The
substitution possibly in both has been digned
with the Of change of Cabinet. The phrase is
not material; but the fact be that it the
result of struggle between two sets of adventurous
of whom wished to rule the islands in the name of
phantom King, and the other under the substantial pro-
lection of the United States The latter triumphed and
told that arrangements in progress for the
annexation of the concern to the Union.
ave have more than expressed opinion about
this project, when it only gmmered in the distant no
rizon We sorry to have to notice it thing
at hand 1t certainly gains attraction by propnquty
1t is ugly and dirty affair. What possible motive
have the United States to NEEDLE with it? nest Of
ragged little islands, three thousand miles from coast
requented only by the whaling and ragamuns of
all nations, inhabited by sckly and withcred tribe Of
Polynesians and cut up by sharp ridges and gues
that all the science of Chrstendom could make nothing
bigger than kitchen gardens it's soil. What be
made of the Sandwich Islands? They serve now the
Tavern Of the Pacific Ocean Can they become any
thing better than that? We possibility of it.
What sort of material then do they afford for State
The very idea is half disgusting half absurd But the
United States caunot acquire them permanent colony
without departing from the very spirit Of COnfederacy
and from all the political maxims of sages. And
colony these islands could be of possible but
military post-an advanced post three thousand miles
from any thing worth defending Is not that military
idea In reality there is but argument in favor of
the acquisition, viz that it is necessary for every Adi-
nsaon 10 something, and that the Sandwich Islands
in the order of Providence have fallen to the lot of Pre-
sident PIERCE We heartily wish him profitable
adventure"