Polynesian., 1855-06-09


foreigner may have come. If our government and
our laws do not suit hun, let him Withdraw himself
from their ''pernicious" influence. Free 10 come,
The IS equally free to go away; but to attempt to
change our government or our laws to please him
self or promote his own interests, he is not free.
Let all foreigners who wish TO settle in this king
dom, remember the following significant words, in
the inaugural speech of the present King IL there
fore say 10 the foreigner that he is welcome long
as he comes with the landable motive of promoting
his own interests and at the same time respecting
those of his neighbor. But if he comes here with
no more exalted motive than that cf building up
his own interests at the expense of the native,
to seek our confidence only to betray it, with no
higher ambition than that Of overhrowing our gov
ernment, and introducing anarchy, confusion and
lbloodshed, then he is most unwelcOnle."
Vattel declares that the law of nations is the law
of sovereigns, and that every nation that governs
Itself, underwhat form soever, without any depen-
ldence upon foreign power, Is sovereign state. It's
rights naturally the same as those of any other
state Such are the moral persons who live together
in mutual society, under the law of nations. To
give naton right to figure in this grand society,
it is sufficient ft be really sovereign and indepen-
dent, that is it must govern itself by its own author
iiy and laws. Sir George Cornwall Lewis says,
Nov whenever the essential marks of a sovereign
government lvz., a habit Of Ropobedence on its
own part to any, political superior, and habit of
obedience to Itself on the part of the peope,l can
be discerncd, an independent political community
exists, however bad the government may be-" BY
all these rules there is state more sovereign than
this Kingdom; there is no foreign political suPeri-
rior 10 which it yields obedience, the native King
enjoys all His constitutional prerogatives; He is
Icheerfujy and universally obeYed, throughout the
whole of His domains, the greatest nations of
the world respect His neutrality during war, and
we must not permit that while at peace with all the
world, a few, or any number of foreigners should
come among US to arrOgale to themselves rights OF
intervention which their own governments dsclaim,
to resist or obstruct the execution OF the laws and
perhaps even to subvert the government.
Looking to the preservation, the civilization, and
all the best interests Of the natives it the opn
ion of the late King and of all his Ministers on the
10Th June, lS45 that the maintainance Of a mon-
archical government over the Hawaiian people was
Indispensable You will sIe this clearly in the Po-
litcal Creed, drawn up by me- on that date, appro-
we'd by His late Majesty, and subscribed by Mr..
Judd and Mr. Ricord, Of which append copy mark
ed No. 94. The experience of ten years from that
date nearly completed, has only confirmed me IN
that opinion; and if monarchy be necessity to the
preservation of the Hawaiian race, then follows the
necessity that our constitution should be essential
ly monarchicaI in form and nsprit. This does not
necessarily involve any impairment OF our rghts;
these can be secured to as great an extent as an
der republic, and with more stability ne voice
and the will of the people can reach the MonarcnS
Throne as easily as they can the Presidents chair
| Even in Republic the minority i've IN political
subugation to the majority, and under constltn'
tonal monarchy like ours, there Is no greater SUD-
lection TO republican institutions In the abstract,
II am by no means hostile but to suppose that every
country and every people are fit for them, hold to
be the greatest of all political absurdiues Yet
know there are among us, men of cultivated minds
who advocate rFpublicanism on these Islands Do
such men reason as to what would be best for them
selves or what would be best for the natives! In
what sense are the natives prepared for republican
ism, or who is the native who desires IL: Nhat
did repubicanism lead to in England, what IN
France, and what in Mexico, and in the provinces
of Rio de la Plata, in which two latter countries
they attempted to adopt republicanism, IN the fed
eraiiye form in which 1t exists the United States:
In the latter it is true the progress OF the nation un
der republicansm has been such as the world has
never seen; but did the world ever see nation
start into existence under the same circumstances,
as the thirteen United Provinces, or with the same
advantages of unlimited territory and OF annual ac-
cessons to its population from all the over PHPua-
ted countries of Europe!
It's fallacy to attribute all the wonderful pro-
yress of the United States to its republican nstitu-
tons and ascribe none of it to those slnguary Ia
yorabe circumstances that have been coincident
with it and which would rapidly make any nation
great and powerful, whatever its form Of govern
ment might be.
These remarks and mary others that have made
may appear to MANY of you TO be irrelevant, Gu
NAV ask what has an Hawaiian Minister ct Foreign
Relations to do with other states, why does not
he confne himself to the state OF winch ne IS an
officer? As the shortest and best way OF informing
YOU of the duties assigned by international law and
usage, to Minister Of Foreign Relations, annex
marked No g5, a translation, made by Dr. Frlck,
of what the Baron Charles de Martens, IN his Dl-
plomatic Guide saws upon the subject, illustrated
by the notes added by Monsieur Hoffman
In regard to the first requirement, that OF an ex
act knowledge of the geography OF his own coun-
ltrv. nv knowledge is only theoretical Tor have
never had leisure to make personal inspecuou o'
the Kings Islands. ......,-. ,.,.
In relation to the second requirement that ot the
knowledge of the interests, OF the commercial re-
lations and of the hysical and moral resources OF
the country, my notes published IN the FIlend oi
1914 nv lI6 statistical questions to all miSslonl-
ries and others practically acquainted WIN the
country. dated 9th May, 1916, OF which annex
copy marked No. 80, (the answers to which you
viii find in the appendix to my report OF lolSl my
letter of the 18th June 1854 with certain queries,
Ito Monsieur Professor Jules Remy, and to the
Rev. Julius Brjnchley, of which append copy,
marked No. 97,--and my circular TO merchants OF
all nations, residing in Honolulu, dated 20th June,
1854, of which add copy marked No. 9o, VII,
hope vindicate me from the charge ot having oeen
Indifferent to the means of acquiring that useful
knowledge.
In respect to the third requirement, the exact
knowledge on the rights and pretensons OF the
sovereign, founded upon treaties aud conventions,
aliy one who will take the trouble OF reading my
reports and their several spPendxes Will see th't
have never failed to assert those rights to the ut
most extent allowed BY international law and so to
found them on solemn treaties with foreign states,
tanning ever to obtain all Of the same tenure and
efect as to secure those rights op basis too broad
to be shaken, and interest many foreign nations
and states as possible in the support OF the perfect