The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-09-02
Correspondents Of the Commercial Advertiser,
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Those Earl ~ CIaresssn Lesser-asnis.
Hos-LuLu, August 80, 1858.
Mn. EprToB,@Sir:I see by your paper of the
10Th inst. that you have republished the two letters,
supposed to have been written by :" a person holding
q high official position in these islands" to some per-
soil in England. and which were first published in
the Liverpool Times. OF the republication of these
very extraordinary letters in your editorial columns
l do not complain, as l am constrained, in view OF
the circumstances which induced their republication,
to consider you justi6able in 30 doing.
If the national functionaries of this government
desire to surrender their national sovereignty by
treaty, and place themselves and the Hawaiian sub
jects under a French Catholic protectorate. let them
do so. On that subject, not being personally inter-
ested, l have nothing to say. But one OF those anon
ymous letters contains a sentence which l., as an
American citizen, cannot permit thus to appear a sec
ond time without comment. 1t is as follows: 'Shortly
afterwards the Americans were, with extreme diff
Guilty, prevented from annexing them lSandUich ISL
ands]; as if not materially prevented. were by the
moral and diplomatic force brought to bear upon the
subject Of this annexation or usurpation induced to
renounce the project great sacrifice, considering
the territorial cravings of the Americans, whenever
land allotments can be obtained and ground for slave
cultivation" Or this scurvy imputation do COM
plain. 1t is. in view of incontrovertible facts. not
only unjust, but a base calumny, which should be
resented by every independent Americana calumny
which l am unwilling to believe could have emanated
from any man occupying n high official position in
the Hawaiian government, as | am unwilling to be-
lieve that the King would, under any circumstances,
sanction the use of such vallainous language towards
the United States or the American people; or that he, in
hs ,isdo,n vauII rata;p ~ HE Gavarnmopt Co,,pesl
such a vile ca,umniator of a nation and people, to
whom his own nation and people are, in fact, under
greater obligations for business, agricultural and
commercial prosperity. and educational and religious
institutions. than all the world besides. But if he
does sanction the publication of such an unmitigated
libel against the United States, and retain the vile
perpetrator of it in his Cabinet or Priry Council,
then he may expect his government ultimately to
sink, and finally become the scorn and derision of the
world. for no government can be long sustained under
the supervision and management of such unjust, dis
honest men.
Now what are the facts in the case 1t is notori-
Gus, and must have been known, and distinctly un-
derstood, by the writer of those infamous letters that
the United States have not, since the close of the Rev.
olution, which resulted in an acknowledgment of their
independence by the Mother Country, acquired a sin
gle foot of territory, except that which has been OBJ
tanned by voluntary session, fair purchase, or honora-
BILE treaty. But how is it with Mother England,
where the base libel. first made its public appearance:
how much territory has she added to her national
domain since the days of William the Conqueror
which has not been obtained by unholy conquest, and
in which her national hands have not been imbrued
in hum an blood Let history answer.
1t is true that the institution of African slavery
still exists in. some of the American States but it is
not true that the federal government of the United
States ever established it in any of the States nor
has she ever had the power to establish, or abolish ii
anywhere as no such power has ever been conferred
upon her by the Sovereign people. Nor has she, by
any net of Sovereignty. ever sought to obtain "land
allotments and ground for slave cultivation This
is a fact clearly and conclusively proved by the his
tory of the American Government itself. At the COM
mencement of the war for independence, every organ
lied colony on the con tinent had more or less slaves
which were legally held by English enactments. A
the close of the war. in twelve ont of the thirteen
colonies slavery still legally existed. The black curse
had been, by law, established there long before the
commencement of the revolution, through the brutal
cupidity of Mother England herself, who had been
for centuries deeply and extensively engaged in the
slave trade and, if history can be relied upon. even
Queen Elizabeth herself was a partner, individually,
in the profits of that black commerce throughout her
entire reign. Since the organization of the national
government under the Constitution, a period of only
about seventy years. twenty-five new states have been
added to the original thirteen still there are now
hut fifteen States in which slavery exists. consequently
the original twelve have gained but three.
On the other hand. the original one free State has
gained eighteen and in four of the still existing
slave States. slavery has, by the great general laws of
Nature, not only become very Improbable in fact,
but must ultimately run out and it would have
been long since formally abolished, if the nefarious
leaders and English emissaries of the abolition
fanatics in the North had been promptly hung at the
commencement of their cnrsed political crusade
against the South. In all candor, l now ask the
author of that letter whether these facts furnish the
least evidence to justify him in his statement, or even
to induce in him the belief that the United States, or
the people, who are the legally constituted Sovereigns
of that country, are ' cravingly'' seeking to annex
these Islands, or any other territory on the globe, to
their vast national domain, for the purpose of extend
ing the institution of slavery Most certainly not
And vet, the writer of that villainous letter. whoever
he may be. must have been entirely conversant with
the indubitable historical facts referred to and he
must have also known that these Islands were, a few
years since, offered to the United States, and the offer
rejected. 1 am, therefore, constrained to regard him
as a deliberate. intentional calumniasor of my Govern
ment and fellow-countrymen.
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Letter from Syphax.
San FRANcIsco, Aug. 16, 1858.