Columbia gazette., 1854-11-04
BRITISH INSOLENCE AND IN
TEMPERANCE.

TEMPERANCE.
Below, we make few extracts from
an able article in the Times 8, Trans.
script Of Saturday, in reference to the
interference of Gen. Miller, British
Consul at the Sandwich Islands, in re.
gard to the voluntary annexation of the
Islands to the United States.
The Interference and meddlesome
spirit of England with regard to every
thing concerning the foreign and do
nestle policy of the United States, is a
notorious fact, and it is high time that
our government should take decided
stand in the matter, and teach the Lion
that he cannot paw the Eagles nest
with -impunity:
If any feature in the history of these
proceedings would determine the people
Of the United States to secure an early
annexation Of the Hawaiian group to the
United States, it would be just such in
science and talsehood emanating from a
British official. We pity the disposition
of Jealousy which inferior intellec and
the servile fear Of his employers has en-
gendered in Gen. Miller.
To answer categorically to mistakes
misapprehensions, (and as we candidly
believe) malicious and wilful falsehoods
Of this subaltern's letter is hardly wor.
thy the time and labor necessary to that
purpose, but it must be admitted that
if the British Consul and the British
subjects here, should be held account
able as approving the insolent speech
before mentioned, there might exist
some fear that even our salutary laws
could hardly protect the traducers of
our country from merited chastisement.
The day has past and gone when
British insolence either official or I'M
Official, can be regarded in any other
light than as demanding a just and pat
riotic resentment from the people of this
nation, whether it be upon paper or up
on the field of active operations. We
do not believe that with the experience
and sagacity possessed by Great Britain
in matters of diplomacy, the ungraceful
conduct of this inferior official can be
regarded in London with any degree of
approval. With al! our Unborn enmity
to the ancient enemy Of our national ex-
istence, We still believe that there is dig
nifty enough left in British ministry
to decline the endorsement of such
false and unprincipled, such bare-faced
ard impudent attempt to impose uopn
the prcjudides and fears Of the King
and Court of Hawaii.
The annexation of the Sandwich Is
lands to the United States is subject
Of too much serious and substantial i'm
portarce, for us to regard with any de-
gree of patience, the pretcnsions Of any
foreign power to an interference in that
quarter.
Any statesman will in a moment per-
ceive the importance of this acquisition.
Though We believe with all charity that
the ignorance Of Gen. Miller has placed
him in the false position Of rendering
his government ridiculous by an ineffec-
tual attempt to control the commerce of
the Pacific, at day when British do
minion begins palpably to wane before
the manifest destiny which gives to A.
merican character and American pro-
gress the promise of the supremacy of
the seas. The republic of America is
now in the ascendant, and any pretend
ed diplomacy either by the coalition or
combination of monarchies will prove of
no avail against the irresistible DEGREES
of modern political civilization, when
reasonable necessity seems to point out
to the conquering republic her path of
duty.
We feel perfectly secure in our be-
lief that the annexation of the Hawaiian
group now eorsunated, will be sustain
ed by the irresistible power of the pop
ular American will, which we under
stand to be the leading criterion not on
~ Of modern progress in political and
intellectual civilization, but also the
present criterion of the growth of ma
tional power. We therefore regard the
pretended boasts Of the inferior British
official at the court of Kamehameha III.
Is mere effort on his part, though we
consider it futile one, to compromise
the dignity Of his Government in an at
tempt to resist an inevitable result-the
natural and necessary security of our
commerce and supremacy in the Pa
cifc.
COLUMBIA GuLCH ELuxE.-The