The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-09-30

the cross with the name of the President OF the
United States, and the Hawaiian flag raised. Mr..
S. C. Allen and Capt Hooper both deny that any
marks were found on the islands, indicating that
they had been previously visited. The whole
transaction has been laid before this government
bv the United States Commissioner
1t will be remembered that when noticing the
return of the KaLayna from CORVALLIS Island in
July last, we said that g it was probably the same
island that had been visited by the Palestine. .
This should have led the government to act with
a little caution in assuming authority over newly
discovered territory, and make further inquiries
before publicly confirming an act of trespass.
The bubble however has at length burst The
guano annexation scheme will become in history
as famous as the South Sea scheme. Kalama and
CORVALLIS Islands are vanished, at least so far as
our government is concerned, and must be IMAM
nexed forthwith. SIC transit gloria msndi
As the affair now stands, it places this govern
ment in the rather awkward position of trespass-
ing on American territory. What! The Ha-
waiian government turning flibusters! We have
heard indefinite whispers now and then of at
tempts having been made years ago to annex Ha-
waii to the United States; but this out-Herods
that, and throws it entirely into the shade. An
nexing United Stat, s territory to Hawaii. N ct
arms, is what the most visionary has never dared
to think of. But practically it is nothing more
nor less. And people will ask.-they are so SIM
ple-who claims the honor of being our arch-fli-
buster? Who aspires to be ranked alongside of
General Walker of Nicaraguan memory, or Col.
Crabbe of Sonora? We hear that the palm will
be contested on the part of our honorable Chief
Justice, and Ministers will not be allowed to have
all the glory this time.
A pretty position this for the Hawaiian govern
ment and the staid Secretary of War. Here we
have been treated year after year with long rig
maroles of our exposure to flibuster attacks from
California, and of the great Importance of having
a +" pike and "bayonet'' in every household.
And now, before the first rumor of attack comes,
our government actually fits out and commissions
a flibuster guano expedition, which, if the cook 8
affidavit is to be believed, 1--WE don't believe it,
however, ruthlessly violates the American flag
and other marks of American authority.
To say the least. the course of the Hawaiian
Government on this guaho hunting, is character
lied with the usual weakness of our ministers.
We have already more territory than we can oc-
cupy or defend. Even if this government had
been the original discoverer of the guano islands
alluded to, it has no power to afford tie slightest
protection to any of its subjects who might choose
to be at any outlay there in obtaining guano.
In case of such outlay, and loss nv acrs of ma
RAIDERS, this government cannot protect them.
To talk of protection is idle. Better employ the
thousands of dollars spent in looking up guano
islands, hundreds of leagues distant, in develop
ing the resources of our islands, which are, and
have long been. suffering from neglect; and let
those nations who have the power to guarantee
protection, undertake to extend their sovereignty
by the annexation of guano islands to their terri
tory.