The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-02-01
NeaC York, January 8, 1855.
LETTER FROM TuI


LETTER FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The following letter from Rev. Titus Coan
one of the oldest and most esteemed missiona
ries of the American Board of Commissioner
for Foreign Missions, win be read with great
interest. Like his highly-respected missionary
brother, Rev. j. Perkins, of Persia, he deeply
laments his "country's SIM" and does all he
can to remove this formidable obstacle to the
conversion of the world. May the example OF
these distinguished missionaries be felt by all
American missionaries, Of every name and
denomination!
HnO, HAWAII, Oct. &c, 1854.
Mr. DEAR BRoTHER: Your welcome letter OF
August 4th, with "Report" of your Society,
&C., has Just come to hand Please accept my
cordial thanks for all.
After had sent MY letter of May lst your
valuable "Report" came to hand so that / now
have duplicate copy. This / will give out, so
that it shall preach to others. Had five hun
dred copies of your Reports, and of all other
publications of your Society, could make good
use of them among the hundreds of ships
national, merchant, and whaling-which annu-
ally visit our ports.
And, besides, it is not improbable that we
may yet have the battles of freedom to fight on
this soil. Annexation to the United States is
confidently believed by many to be near Should
we be annexed as territory. we may feel the
force of the famous Douglas doctrine and a
harder conflict may yet await us, than the one
which conquered the idolatry and despotism of
other days. Probably no country on earth now
enjoys greater freedom-social, civil, and reli-
gious--than the Sandwich Islands; and it is a
painful thought that we may yet be called to a
severer conflict to preserre the precious boon of
freedom. than was endured to scin it.
The passage of the "Kansas-N ebraska Bill >"
produced a shock which thrilled the world 1t
threw sackcloth over the sun, and darkened the
MONDAY skies The deed rose like ".smoke
from the bottomless pit" and spread like the
pail of night over the American armament. 1t
was portentous deed in our moral and politi-
cal horizon, charged with muttering thunder
and threatening tempest of wrath. But the
Lord is in it. He will direct it. He will scatter
it. He WILL he does, make the wrath of man to
praise him. Our comfort is-the Lord reigns;
and assured of this, we can say Blessed be
the God of the rock of our salvation" We may
dismiss our fears take heart-gird ourselves
for the Observation-Disclosures pa
tient-.teadfast- Notwithstanding in the
work of the Lord-rejoicing in the assurance
that these clouds, now so threatening, are full
of blessings for the faithful.
| take the National Era, and read it with
ever-deepening interest. 1t is, &C. The reader
will excuse us if we reserve for ourselves what
he says about us.-Ed. Era. Many clear
heads, warm hearts, and strong hands, are now
combating the hydra of American Slavery.
How different from what we were twenty-five
years ago! Against all the indifference, the
incredulity, the selfinterest-commercial social,
and poitical-the pride and the lust of power, the
c,v>la nc bNy do L.
strong progress; and patience, faith, love, and
untiring application will, under God, work out
full and final triumph. 1t cannot be that the
world-now moving with such wonderful mo-
mentum in every line of mprovement-will
ever again ignore one of the first elements of
moral and immortal being-One of the essential
principles of the social compact-namely, human
freedom, No! no! this will never-cdn neper
be. Slavery must perish. The Almighty has
decreed it. Its dark waves of depravity must
roll back before the accommodating waters Of
life. Its noxious vapors will be scattered before
the breath of Heaven. It's sable clouds will be
dispelled by the beams of the "Sun of Righte-
business"
Your work is great, god-like one; your
warfare is holy and glorious; and your cause is
sure as the throne Of God. The pillars of the
temple of Liberty are reared on everlasting mar
Die, anu inc AlHu vault Oh heaven rests on their
entablature. Truth and righteousness are in
scribed on these imperishable columns, and
they are adorned with wisdom and lore.
While our cause is good, and sure to preraa
we have only to see that our weapons are select
ed from the armory of heaven; that they are
FURNISHED and piled skifnlly, boldly, and pa
tenty-" looking to Jesus" through whom we
"can do all things"
You will rest assured of our strong sympathy
in your work, and of our fervent prayers for its
speedy triumph. We also hope to continue to
throw in our mite occasionally, to aid in the
enterprise.
DR.. Perkins's sermon, of which YOU speak
did not come with your Report. shall be
happy to see it, as he is "a good man and
true"
From our ocean watch-tower, we observe with
deep interest the signs of the times in our
dear fatherland, and we hail with delight every
beam of Freedom which rises in our eastern
horizon.
remain ever yours, in the cause of truth,
I. Coax.
l.. Tdppan, Esq, Secretary
Am. and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society,".
MEETING IN PHILAnEIpurA