The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-06

view, some day or Other 70 me possible aanexAtion
OF the vhoie o. Italy TO San hArfno, when Yankee
consolidated In that spot. These rumo have been
contTadiotel, and therefore, We must content our.
selves with believing that American rspacity 10 at
present exclusively devoted to he acquisition pr es
Islands, In the North Pacific Ocean. The condition
Of these latter islancs can never be viewed with
indlmreIce ~ The people Of this country. On the
PIincitsi one OF ne grouP-Hawsit..our great cir
cumnavieator, Captain Cook, met his death, in an
aaiay with the natives. In more recent times, Eag.
lkh and American missionaries have su seeded In
coz vertng tte heatAen inhabitants 70 . knowledge
INTRODUCES d; settled form OF Government has been
estsDlshed, and trade and commoros have sprung
up 70 an extent which hardly could have been ex
!ecieo IN % remote part Of the world. In fact,
the ports OF this group have been found to consti
tute excellent stations for the largo number OF ves.
eels employed by the Americans In the whaling
trade; and American merchants and American mis-
sionaiies have laskry exercised 90 much in
every tre must consider the acquisisior Of the
San dwich lslanda by the United States : most
natural and convenient arrangement for both parties
tho king being pr ntioned on and the groun beinr
admitted into the American Union q : scyereiess
though tIsrsMariDe State L0uisiana, at the com
meI cement Of this century, was sold by France
TO the United States; the Sandwich Islands are no
neIt; and We must Congratulate tho Americans
upon their honesty in paying pecuniary ccnsdera-
ton, when they might easily have followed the pre-
cefent which wss set By another nation In reference
to Tahiti, and have obtained them by the same
means. 1t may be asked, II the United States have
long exercise paramount influence In the Sand Wich
IslsL d. why Ah0uld the ceremony of an annexation
be goLe through, and new State be added to the
Union? This question can only be answered by q
reference to the geographical position Of these IS
lords, mid ssy between California and China and
Jspsn-cOuntries which have recently attracted
go much u the spirit and enter arise Of the peo-
MIA NJ In tod Gfokn I'm io-
coveries made in the Eastern and Pacific Oceans by
Quiros, Mendara, Tasman, and other foreign navi.
gators, we've completed BY Captain Cook; and most
of the countries and groups in both those oceans
British Crown. At the present time we have under
our rule Auftralia and New Zealand, and the bene-
violence and piety Of the people have sent mission
aries to almost every island, but we have made NO
syste attempts either to retain In our own
hands the rich commerce Of that portion Of the
world, or Indefinitely to extend our political infu-
ence there: France poeseaes New Caledonia and
Tahiti, and DOW. tho United States will have ths
Sandwich lelands, which they can easily make q
most Important military and naval station. Three
years ago tie British trade In the South Seas and
Pacific amounted TO three millions; but the Ameri-
can trade is much more considerable, and tho North
Pacific Is now traversed by an immense feet Of
American whaling vessels, giving employment to
about twenty Thousand men. If the Americans are
desiIous Of acquiring monopoly of the trade Of
China ard Japan, they have only to start steam
communication bety cen California and those coun-
tries making the Sand wch Islands their great cen.
trail station Tie multitudes OF groups OF islands,
rich in native products, which arc scattered over
the Pacific and Eastern oceans, afford most extra.
ordinary facilities fer the extension Of steam com.
munication. This extension can be made more
readily and more conveniently by America than
even by England; and II the acquisition Of the Sand.
witch Islands by the United States should lead to
that result, we should regard it as q circum-
stance auspicicus TO the commerce Of the world,
by affordiDg means for the developement Of
islands, but Of the empire Of Japan, the ports Of
which have recently for tie first time been opened
to the intercourse Of the stranger through tho en-.
terprise and public split Of the American govern.
ment.