The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-16
BEER SELLER.

Mr.. EDITOR I'm a religious Journal, The Pacific.
edited in San Francisco, under date Of Sept. 4, ap-
pears a letter from the regular correspondent Of said
Journal on these islands. The letter is dated Maka.
wac, Maui, July Is, 1856, and signed J. s. GREEN, .
reverend gentleman Of the ultra-missionary stripe
and better known in his own neighborhood on Maui
than he can possibly be either here or in San Fran,
cisco. Among many other subjects to which Mr.. G
alludes and which, with his usual glrrulity, credu-
lily, and bigotry, he prepares for foreign consump-
ton, is the following:
"The Sandwich Islands Monthly Magazine, Of which six
numbers had seen the light, L hear has ceased to be. The first
number, as L remarked ii, in my last, was a decent one but of no
Committee a cut on your doings at San Francisco. 1t had be-
come inspid and vile advocating the use of wine, of tobacco,
the licensing of houses for the sale of ardent spirits. l think the
loss of this Magazine will be easily borne. Indeed, I have seen
but one note of lament on account of its decease, and this was
from The Pokynesian."
So speaks Sir Oracle. Not content to revile 1. Mag
azine that united on its pages some of the best writer's
on the islands, and under whose well inflicted lash in
several articles the reverend gentleman of NIakawao
WINGED not a little, yet with commendable manhood
kept his peace until the Magazine was stopped,
when this missionary chanticleer steps over to u for
elgn ~barnyard to crow his ill-flvored notes not con-
tent with such post norton exultation, this would-be
Daniel in criticism condemns the Magazine upon his
own unsupported assumption of facts. l ought to be
sufficiently acquainted with the character of the Mag
azine to knOW that, if it had given any body connected
with the Vigilance Committee 9 cut on their doings
in San Francisco it would not have been the res
pectable, long enduring and much imposed upon cit
liens whom circumstances of a social and political
complexion, too sad aud serious to be referred to, un-
less to be ~deplored, had forced into an anomalous
position, but those ever intermeddling, ambitious,
gossiping busy bodies in a livery of black, too often a
reflex of the spirit within, who doat upon excitement
OF any kind as bringing grist to their mill, and who
are not content to justify social and political acts upon
social and political grounds, but must drag the &C holy
of holies" down into the hot and bitter strife Of con-
tending passions, that so they may rise on the wings
Of the storm to richer livings or wider notoriety.
The Magazine is d declared Sc insipid and vile,'' be-
cause 1t cOmbated that qualification Of the intellect
by which men of Mr.. Green's stamp drown every other
pure and vlrtuOus affection in the cold bath of teeto-
tal'sm, and make the grace of God depend upon q
sinners obeisance before this religious ogre Of modern
creation. Though the subject of total abstinence is
by this time stale and threudbare in this community,
yet Mr.. Green and his compeers forcibly remind me
of the dOgs-in the story of tom Connor's Cat
for, having eaten the enchanted cat, 8 the divil a
thing they would ever hunt afterwards but mice"
MIR. Green's jW6tIate over the loss of the Magazine
will never swell into Il national chorus end, as the
late Conductor and Publisher of said Monthly, I deem
1T a duty to myself and its contributors to assure Mr..
Green that it may be g insipid" to such as he, for
there is no accounting for taste, but can never be
-'vile," except to those minds that have unfortunate
ly lost all perception of truth in their own aelfglorif-
cation.
1 should not have condescended to notice this left
handed attack, this ventilation Of religious wrath. did
not Mr. Green belong to Il class of bigoted writer's
stripped of their feathers and fallen sdly in pub
&c estimation, 1T IS true-but yet sufficiently power
civilization in this country.
Yours, ABRAHAM FoRyANnra