The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-05
Commercial Advertiser.
Sandwich islands Correspondence.
MAkAwAo, MAUI. Hawaiian Islands,

EDITORS Pacific Since / last wrote you the
Hawaiian nation and foreign residents the Islands
have sustained rreparbe loss in the death of the
Hon. VIM L. Lee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
and Chancellor Of the Hawaiian kingdom His age
thirty-six about years of which he spent in
the service of the Hawaiian government A bio
graphical sketch of Mr. Lee, correctly and tastefuy
written, though anonymously, and published in the
Commerci1L -4Irerfiser of June l1tf, you may have
eeu s.Iy correctly written IL is so touching his
rth. education, and Iabors at the Islands, the gen.
al excellence of his character, and the and
owe which he secured from all classes He might
haye said more of his excellent influence advo-
rte of strict temperance principles, and as man of
ure and elevated morals. In Judge Lee, all who
new him, chiefs, people and foreign residents, had
IN example worthy of their constant imitation
Horts feeble to express the loss sustained by
II classes in the removal Of so bright example OF
II that pure and lovely, and Of good report.
hink OF the vacancy thus made in the society at
Honolulu, with emotions Of unfegned grief More
might have been said OF his kindness the poor of
Hawaii. This Was exhaustless. Others have been
kindly eonsiderate; Mr.. Lee excelled them all. His
advice and pecuniary aid saved Qultitudes of them
from the meshes of the law He loathed injustice
and oppression in all their forms. He sympatbized
deeply with the enslave of the United States. Had
he remained there ne would have been worthy
OF his revcred father whose house often be-
a refuge for the fugitive from Southern oppres-
sion; Mr Lee informed me-
\ You will be glad TO hear fact that you will not
learn from the biographical sketch in the Com
n1ercGI that Mr.. Lee short time before his lament
ed death, confessed Christ befosA baptized
in the name OF the FatheEyz he Son, and of the
Holy Ghost, and with few Cefistan friends, COM
memorated she dying love of his Redeemer. In this
public of this model man-ths friend of his spe-
cesI greatly rejoice as By it he renOunced all claim
to acceptance with God the ground of native good
ness, and cast himself the Lord Jesus Christ for
pardon and eternal life. rejoice also that our friend
confessed Christ before men. thus renouucing the
world, and casting in his lot with the people of God
Wicked despisers OF Christ and his salvation,
now, they might have done, point TO 49,
moral life of Judge Lee, and claim him as oneisSe
their number, as they have all along done In 60
the friends of Christ may well rejoice
Hon. Elisha H. Allen late Minister Of Finance to
his Mtjesty, succeeds Judge Lee Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court He is older than
Mr. Lee, and has had experience in public lIe- May
ne be enabled 10 pursue upright course and give
good satisfaction did his predecessor in Office
ID About the time of Judge Lees death. the Cdi5or
niG Chronicle contained a very unjust and abusive
articie aimed at g. NJ Robertson, Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court, reaecrDg also with some Sc
verify ON Judge Lee 1t seems that Mr.. Robertson
had once been a whaler, a crime objectionable in the
eyes OF some i lawyer by the name of Camp
bell from your city, but atterly of Honolulu, had, in
the opinion Of the Judges CT the Supreme Court been
guilty of misdemeanor lawyer, and his
name stricken from the roll of practitioners Of
the Court OF the merits of the case know nothing,
but Judge Lee declined 20 receive Campbells COM
muneation IN the shape Of an appeal have no doubt
of the justice Of the action in the Hence the
low abusive attack through the Chronicle on Mr..
Robertson and others. Judge Lee himself, like Hugh
Miller learned the trade Of stonecutter, and
never ashamed % be known a working man. tie
had always good word for the working classes The
but the writer Of Il Judge Robertson, am happy
say is Industrious, upright mana man of
principle, and a blessing to the Hawaiian nation
You may have noticed in a late COameTcIGi Id
rertiser the recent death Of the Hon. John Young,
Eae Minister of the Interior, and bosom friend of
the late King kamehameha Ill The Commercial
remarks that his death - sudden, but not unex
6ectel. HIS health had long been debilitated from
the too free Of spiruous drinks, which had rem
derei him incapactatei for business duties, though
his death was probably hastene1 by the nfuenza--
Hsf i in was vh ci Il too
amony his conpeers, and which must inevitably re-
suit IN the extinction Of the ancient line of chiefs un
less checked \ writer for the same paper had
sometime before deg rel that the Minister Of the In
terror, Mr. Young Hho then filed the office,
wholly incapaeza1Ed for business by his drinking
habits He d fred that the example and influence
Of certain mei no stood about the King Kameha-'
meha III. in iliculng total abstinence principles
hli eause,i hs death, and we're causing the ruin Of
others. Whether any reply ever made to these
paragraph more truthful than pOetical-l do not
know, thf fgh think likely.
On r. ng the remarks touching Mr. Young's
death cnase Of it. and the danger that the lne OF
tae che would be extDguished, expected that the
Polgsesfl7, the government paper, woald fare up,
end come down upon the Commercial in a way ofre-
m0nstrince, something this Sc: 'We are sorry TO
s1t that what YOU say of Mr. Young's habits are too
tue But il kind in you to publish those ofen-
sve Paragraphs concerning one so ot9d and respect
eis You, all know, the organ of Young
America, who IS the lookout for occasion to peit
government and measures Had one OF your
OFn clique gone his long home by the same agency
equally satisfactory Of dying. Please recollect
that government men not the only ones who fll
dFlnkard's grave, the only ones who in spite of
ne warning Of the wise man, LOOK upon the wine
Eaen il j. red when il givetl his color in the cups,
When it move;h itself sright;' the only ones who
and that, at the last it bteth ike serpent and
stngeth Ike adder Physician heal thyself'
those who dwell IN glass houses should be little
careful OF elssing stones-' - Something ike the
above think the Pofynesian might have suggested
. the Commercial; and had it done 50, / should
a asnIre Of Ir. Young |
many excellent qualities Besides, do not think it
oea0ming any newspaper proprietor (the Commercial
ns 10 eiitor) who adyertises the drunkard's drink
@say word Of the drunkard's DEATH Had Mr.
Damon Of the Scamen-s Friend, alluded to the cause
q Mr. foung's death truly and plainly did the
C0anerciai, it would have savored of proprety in a
much higher degree say the least the editor of
'aa' paper has faithfully warned all classes, chiefs
@d people, foreigners aud Hawaiians, of the danger
o. tasting the intoxicating bowl, and consistent
'cate of temperance, he has refused to polute his
meet with advertisements 10 guides to places
NaeFe liquid damnaton'' is sold, wholesale re-
a. to suit custobEers- Till this otherwise fair sheet,
ne Commercial, shall advertise rum, wine,
randy, WHISKY, and theaters, IN vain viii il
snes OF the danger Of induging their appetite for
sFong drink in vain will it point to the tombs
lrenaSurey opened Of the beloved Kamehameha I'LL,
SS his bosom friend and compeer, the amiabe John
io1ng, ESQ
Since writing the above see the editor Of the
rofynesGR accuses the Commercial of uttering
tAsehood IN what it said OF Mr.. YouDg's drinking
ISs' and consequent DEATH And he coolly accuses
US e'ntrere Of maignancyi This is a real staggerer,
-ai EIl am confident. off the editor from all
ymPathy with those who knew Mr.. Young. But as \ =
@ poor man Is determined to continue his advocacy
- -1snonable drinking, he must ignore the intemper-
= e habits Of Mr. Young, and his consequent ruin,
~ I9agh at the expense Of truth and decency- An
Sho ignores what every one knows to be facts, +
Eahot long inaict injury any community. ssLying
l5 are an abomination to the Lord"
ley renecting person must be affected with the :
tons =, re ~ onsioty Of men who occupy elevated sta
I s IN Church State The Apostle Paul felt this
:. 10y when he declared, "a IL meat make my brother
:" Ouends Il viii no flesh while world