Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1858-03-06
Che lDolpueslan;
Published weekly at Honolulu. Oahu. HI.
lRLES GORDON HOPKINS, EDITOR


Ihle the missionary packet the Morning Star has
aned within the Pacific horizon and the ken of
Honolulu public, there was but opinion express
to the fitness of the vessel for which she was sent
here, and the competency of her commander for
s often delicate, always arduous and sometimes try
duties which the command of such vessel on such
wage inevitably exacts from him. Capt. Moore.
having brought the Morliny Star from Boston to
oalu, made his first trip TO the Marquesan Mission,
summer; returned TO Honolulu and made his next
to the Micronesion Mission, last fall returned to
olulu and ready to sail the second time to the
guesas, when positive and peremptory orders
s. re- by the last mail, from the Prudential Commit
q B. c. T. NJ. in Boston for him " to resign and
eed immediately to Boston, and for the vessel to be
med until a new commander shall be sent out, the
is of the Board here not being allowed any discre-
Ary power in the premises" On the receipt of this
spirited than spiritual ukase from the missionary
edrm, the first, the natural, the universal excla-
lon of all who heard it, was: " in the name of God,
n; what is the matter; what has the Captain been
that he should be turned out Of the vessel sum-
E by and then ordered home, like whipped school
E to face the music Of this imprudent prudential
uttee''? What have the agents Of the committee
onOlulu (the Hawaiian Missionary SOciety'O done
their we'll founded opinion of the piety, probity
nautical competency of Capt. Moore should be dis
rled, and not only their interest, but the COM
interest Of all Christendom in the progress, vel
4 inf fbo
\ iii be thus cavalierly sighted, perhaps jeopar-
sl: Upon inquiry we learn that the only reason
hsafed by the committee for this positive and per-
tory order is the general incOmpoteacy Of Capt.
& re- Now we would speak tenderly of 50 august
as the :" prudential committee but that reason
manifest falsehood to all who have had any deal
with the Captain aforesaid, either ashore or at
and il has not the poor excuse of being well
{ ei We can only solve the quandary in one of two
either the prudential committee has been most
anefully imposed upon by wiful and malicious mis-
esentations of the character and competency of the
tain, or else "too much learning has made it mad
to be expected, and we bow with Difference to the
aon of Rev. Doctor of Divinity upon the conju-
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but we are justified in presuming his inability to
shin or correct the declinaton of the sun. When
fore the committee, who up to the day of the Cap
departure from Boston had discovered none of his
neral Incompetence and since then have heard
ng to that effect from those whose interests he was
out here to subserve and who, from personal &C.
8 atance and fellow-voyaging, have had far better
tunities of informing themselVes-presumet to pass
gnent upon the him without condescendng to
Ire first from the agents with whom he has been IN
nued contact the affair is divested of its missionary
+ and stands forth in the naked ughness OF high
led act of arbitrary injustice to the Captain, and an
& ed impeachment of the Judgment and Veracity Of'
accusation of eollusion in, the agents That the
Faian Missionary Society feels it SO is evident
the notice which we read in the Friend OF the 0d
that the Directors will charter vessel to proceed
Marouesas Islands and give Capt Moore the COM
thereof For this act of justice to an injured
aer, and of self.assertion on their own part, our
rs are at their service.
are not aware that the Marquesan Mission is IN
Particularly critical emergency; but with so h0k'e