, 1854-12-30

South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, have
been brought into note-by American mon
ey, influence and enterprise, by hundreds
! of their whaleshps and traders visiting
them yearly for the last fifty or sixty years,
employing great numbers of their natives
as whaemen, getting supplies from the
many different islands and trading general
ly with them, they (the natiyes) became
acquainted with the manners and customs
of the white people In the year 1910,
England saw with her motheriy grasp that
the French were about to become near
neighbor to New South Wales, they hav-
ing, as before stated, commenced a settle
ment on the middle island of New Zealand.
The whole Of that group lies parallel with
the east coast of New South Wales, and
distance about thousand miles. England
Immediately took steps to route the French
and all others who had settled there, and
in short time she made herself lord and
master of the whole groupe Of New Zea-
land. How she did it-recordS tell it
was merely in the same old manner that
she has obtained much other territory,
namely, money and loss Of human blood
| However she has the whole Of those islands
and will keep them, and it appears that
none say she has done wrong, except those
| from whom she took them.
As before stated, France, during oil this
time has got possession Of large number
of those Pacific islands, they are very fer
tile and are most important in National
point Of view.
England and France have certainly their
strong holds in the Pacific, and have now
commenced to take some thick cuts out Of
Tie Old Bear of Europe, and will probably
slice up the Turkey and divide it between
them. All Of that is Of course none Of
Johnathan's business, he will come in for
his share of pickings, Bear grease, &c.
But in glaucing seriously over these mat,
ters the United States has, or should have
great deal to do with the Pacific islands,
as it is evident her people have done large
share to bring them to their present i'm
portance in the eyes of nations, and why
should she be so far behind in reaping a
fair share Of the harvest she has sown. II
the lands and islands in the Pacific are to
be looked on as SO many bakers loaves, to
be shared out amongst hungry crowd. l
would say let each have fair cut. 1t ap-
pears strange to me that the United States
should be SO blind TO her interests. Seeing
England and France going ahead and tax.
ing possession Of so much valuable and un.
deloped territory, and particularly those
Pacific islands that lie as it were, right un-
der our nose. There are many of these
independent islands not yet taken posses.
sion of by any foreign powers, besides the
Sandwich Islands, which have soil full
equal if not superior to any soil known, fol
the production of cotton, coffee, spices, in
digo, rice, tobacco besides its immense va
rieties of fruits and vegetables, its cocoa
nut oil and other valuable oils, and its min
erals which are in abundance but as yet lit
tie developed. China is near to those is
lands and any quantity of cheap labor car
be had at about the same rate as slave la
Dor in the southern States. Now the oh
: jects Of these remarks is this : The United
States hare nOtO about thousand miles o
coast front on the Pacific, and will probably
soon have more, that is the State Of Cali
: fornia and the territories Of Oregon ant
Washington and the time is near wher
we will want our West India Islands (as il
, were) in front Of our coast here, as much
: as our neighbors in the east do theirs, anC
why should England and France have al
those Pacific islands in our front, the samt
as they have the greater part Of the West
Indies. We have now on this coast mil
! lions Of cargoes Of timber, fish and miner
ais, &c, and in short time will have mil
lions of enterprising citizens 10 develop and
prepare them for export to the numerou,
great markets that are now growing up il
the pest
1t appears strange to me that the Uni
ted States should have been SO short sighted
as to allow herself to be hemmed in by those
great grasping powers, after the people o
the United States, had brought those is
lands into note. Now, the Sandwich Is
lands are by far the most important of all
others to the United States, particularly in
national point of view, Suppose those
islands should fall into the hands of those
two great powers, and by any accident a