The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-01-21
Correspondence Pacific Commercial Advertiser,

Many Shipmdsters,'' whose communication ap-
peared in your paper a few weeks since, are " bricks,
no doubt, and o brick, even an unburnt one, would
be a hard substance in a feather-bed, or would come
down with excruciating reality ON a favorite corn
but the hardest kind Of n brick would make no i'm
preston on solid rock. Fit was a very soft brick, it
would probably make some dust, if brought in con-
tact with q rock but the dust would be evidence OF
its own destruction, and would soon blow away.
Truth is u rock on which g Many Shipmasters "
have come down before the wind, right head on.
When I first saw n notice Of DR.. Gulick's letter, /
thought that he had "sanded his bread and but
ter "-his zeal had gone in advance Of his Judgment.
1 was inclined to think the editor gave him what he
deserved, and 1 felt disposed to let the matter rest.
although I never for n moment doubted the truth Of
Gulick's statements. But the truth is not to be told
always. A statement may be uncharitably and dis
tortedly made, and be true in the main nevertheless.
An exact likeness can be drawn, with some additions,
which render it annoying.
Hogarth once painted n homely 8obleman's like
ness 30 very exact that the nobleman, who expected
to be fattered, refused to take it. The painter told
him the price was twenty guineas. The nobleman
went home without the picture. After q few days he
received a note from Hogarth, stating that as he could
not afford to lose his work on the likeness, he should
put it up at auction on the following day, at noon,
with the addition of q tail and clovcn foot, unless it
should be redeemed for fifty guineas, previous to the
time set for the sale. The fifty guineas were paid
and the picture disappeared.
DR.. Gulick drew his likeness very true, but he put
on the tail and cloven foot the first time, and hung it
up to public gaze, it seems, without either the consent
or knowledge of the originals. This was a little too
bad he should have known better. II he chose to
painf sul;acfc whor, bo 90 ob IN Tho J:r< h. abonlI
have shown them the picture first. A sight Of them
selves. drawn by an artist, might have been an in
ducement to walk in cleaner paths in future.
But the picture has gone forth ; it is hung up be-
fore the world. The question at issue is, is it true .
II it is not, then DIR. Gulick's head should be left un-
protected by the fostering hand of the Board of Mis-
sions, and stand exposed to the just indignation of an
injured community. "Lying lips are an abomina-
ton to the Lord and :" Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour is as much of a COM
mand as 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, If it
is true, DR.. G. can only be blamed for lack of charity,
that most beautiful of all the Christian graces. All
who have been there, know it is too true in every
thing except where he says that the sailors are ssgipen
to every crime" That is the /. tail and cloven FOOT
in the picture. There are hosts Of Witnesses who
know the truth Of G's statements.
When I was there, we coopered our oil and Law
~thirty-six days During that time there were eight
ships in port, and every one would anawer, for the
time they were in port, to Gulick's moral pest
houses" and were peopled with those who only
gather there for sin.' When . ship sails into port
at Ascension, of come . number Of canoes carrying
natives, male and female. They lay around the ship
until the sails are fdrled and they get permission
from the master to come on board. II they are
refused admittance, which Is what l never saw. but