Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06
MORE ANNEXATION.

The latest news from tho Pacific is, that the
Sandwich Islands are all but annexed to the
United States. The only formality wanting on
the part of the Sandwich Islanders to com blete
the treaty was the signature of the heir apparent
which he had promised. We suppose there will
be no dispute about the right of the lIawaiians
and the United States to make this treaty, not
withstanaing the alleged opposition of France and
Britain to it. Independent States have the ndu.
bitable right to manage their own affairs however
displeasing their course in such matters may be tc
outsiders and, if the great European maritime
powers undertake to grumble about this annexa-
ton business, nobody, believ,, in this country
will grudge them any comfort they may gain by
so doing.
But, with the fullest admission of the right o
the United States and Hawaii to make II contract
of annexation, there comes up the question of the
expedieucy Of the measure. 1t is one of those
schemes of territorial aggrandizement which have
for long time been nursed in the fervid council,
! of the slavery extensOnists. 1t is plan {
strengthen the South, by adding to the area o.
Slavery. There is no supposable inducement t,
incorporate those islands of the Pacific in thC
United States, except that Of counterbalancing the
influence and strength of freedom in the North
The only advantage to be derived by the whole
nation fre.n the Sandwich Islands, is, that of q
station for our merchant marine; and that we car
easily procure by special treaty. The tropical sit
uation and agricultural character of Hawaii. ndi
Gates the advantage the South can gain. and ex
poets to gain. by annexing it, 1t is doomed tC
slavery if it become par. of the Union; and, no
thing can save it from this doom except tho
determined cooperation and legislative inter
ference of the representatives Of the Northern
states.
! Surely northern mon can foresee and appreciate
the consequences Of this treaty. 1t will bring
! Hawaii in on the terms that Texas came
without any proyiso maintaining the lea loci, cl
law of freedom, as it now exists there but, with
the same oportunity given to it, to incorporate
slavery in its state constitution. With its dem
savage population as the basis of its representative
force in Congress, it will come into the nationa
legislature upon an equality of strength with the
most intelligent portion of New England. tt
Senatorial delegation will equal that of Massachu
sets in power: and its representatives will lie on
an equal footing with any in the House. The &c
ographical position Of the islands, and the charac
ter Of the savety propaganda, leave us in no dout
as to who those representatives will be, or ho7
they will vote on all questions affecting slavery.
! Ii is said that the prince of Hawaii had stron)
repugnance to this trenty. in consequence Of th
insults he received, while in the United Statcs OF
account of his color. Both he and his father
| King Kamehameha, may rest assured, that an elcc
ton to Congress by his qondam subjects, will no
obtain any augmentation of respect for them IL
Washington. They will frd themselves tabooed
by our republican lawmakers, on account of tn
color of their skins; and, when they return t
Honoulu, full of the disgust and chogrin produces
by the delicate prGiudces' of their white fello,
citizens, on the continent they will not only fin
their kingdom rcpublicahzed, according to til
meaning of the word in Mississippi; but they vii
also find that their last chance to represent thei
people, in any manner, except as objects Of Anglo
Saxon outrage, has gone past forever.
( The annexation of the Sandwich Islands, unles
with q most peremptory prohibition of Slavery
will bring misery to the IlawaiHns, strength t
the slavchclding interest Of this nation; weakness
to the cause of freedom, and a embiterec
spirit of discord among us. Those who are pre-
pared for these things; and also to. yield the en-
pire Of the United States to Slavery, may be con
tent with the treaty of annexation. The freeman
and the patriot is bound by every consideration O
duty and policy to oppose its consummation to the
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