The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-11-22

We have received the following circular issued
by several Of the sLiImlSters named by tn,
Mys>r>. Quick. with the request TO publish it
and although it j. severe, We cannot in justice
refuse 1t admission in our columns.
HoxoIuLu. H. l., November 10Th, 1860.
r .N,s,rs. Lutier IL ant THeoIorf ". Quick
We, the Undersigned, shipmasters, have now for
the second time, in the last two years, been placed in
receipt Uf intelligence that you have been endeavor-
ing by a series of libellous printed circulars, to bring
our names and those of cur families into disrepute,
both At the ports Of resort for our ships in the Pacific,
and among their owners, and our connections and
acquaintances at home. The last circular, received
by Us, within the past two days, carries withit 50 much
venom, that, against our wishes, we are driven to the
columns of the public press to shield Us from the in
juries these repeated attacks, growing more deadly
by repetition, through our further silence, may in
fict upon US.
You arrogate to yourselves the championship Of
the cause of morality in the Pacific, and subscribe
yourselves friends of humanity. Were we to use the
same foundation for charges against Mr.. L. H. Gulick,
as that quoted by him, in your last printed circular
viz IN. B.-The above facts were gathered from the
foreign residents and missionaries on my recent visit
at Ascension Island in the Morning STAR" signed L.
H.. NullCh-NSm lEul ere ssCCuSt MIN u combination
with a native woman of Ascension Island during the
absence of his wife at the Sandwich Islands. But
your personal friends and 1.-The friends of virtue
may not be willing to receive the accusation as true,
based on the current reports of natives of Ascension
Island, and one white resident in particular, known
by the soubriquet of Missionary Tom, and who acts as
interpreter, and think in this case, that the opinion
of $50 honored a personal friend rs the Rev. Mr.. Da-
mon," expressed so far back rs in November, 1858,
when refusing the columns of his friendly little sheet
for the publication of your libellous circular, viz
- that perhaps the less said on this subject the bet
ter was the true course.
In your last circular, you use the names of A. yes
sells, Commanded by A. masters, and about $50 officers
AMI petty officers, the majority of whom, ut least, are
as well born, nurtured, and educated as yourselves,
or if you surpass them in education. it is TO the con-
tributions in part of the parents, brothers and sisters,
aye, Of themselves, that you owe the adyentitious cir
of this superiority. Placed by your own
self-constitutel act upon the island from which
your circular is dated, rs missionaries in the cause Of
Christ, you endeavor to draw attention to your self
absence from the charms Of cultivated
society, Gy grossly libelijng men, from whom, rs Mr..
L. II. Gulick states in this very circular, that when
in contact with them, % have experienced
nothing but kindness personally" How have these
been returned? Let the circular answer.
By admitting that : on such points as these. we have
nothing but thanks to RENDER but qualifying this
= damning with faint praise by publishing without
proofs, except the IN. b" authority to which We have
before alluded, that . since September, 1852, ninety
yessels have entered the harbors of this tribe, most of
them American whalers, and only thirteen of these
not been public brothels, which gives a fair in
LEGATION of the morality Of their feet at large, wherever
ike opportunity offers"
And yet, Messrs. Gulick, you acknowledge you are
,ut the servants of a Society, supported by the dimes
# the relatives and friends, and whose only vessel
las been commanded by one, and was built by the
children, of the class of men so openly stigrnatized by
,ou. Ghe eagle pierced by an arrow feathered from
lis own wing. is but 4 poor smile to express the
ceilings which must agitate the bosoms of these men.
md yet By such platitudes as the following, you
,harisaically express that you are not as these men
re, and endeavor to explain away your ingratitude,
more strong than traitors arms :"
e We regret 'hai these things cannot be told without its seem
= to iaose We expose an act Of personal ~ allen snnity, Let suei. be
gladly rcciprocate, and that We love their souls while
; for eudeavoring to please God, rather than man"
Let US then, in behalf of ourselves, and those
Iluded to by You, but now absent, reply that, how
yer much our own consciences may approve you
u endeayoring to please God, " nevertheless, in jus
ce to ourselves and our families, we must pronounce
he course as pursued by you in the publication, and
amer of circulation Of your calumnies 10y address
g copies of your circulars in some instances to the
ives Of shipmasters, as most unchristianlike, and
nworthy the cause you spouse ; such a scurrilOus
nd defamatory act giving the lie to any other feel
- but that of the most premeditated, malicious and
illful intent to advance your own regulations as
men, by injuring those of others-men,
your own confession, your benefactors. And not
intent, selfenlisted soldiers Of the Cross, who have
lckled on your armor to fight the good cause, with
aking the sweeping accusation you have against the
ajority of the American whaling feet of the Pacific
being public brothels,'' but you must strike
ur envenomed fings into the domestic circle-the
liest Of all relations. In one instance, that of Capt.
of the South Boston, one of the signers Of
is letter, whom as late as February, 1860, you have
anded as the keeper of one of these floating - public
othels," you must have known that he had his wife
board, and also the wife of the Rev. E 2. Roberts,
lom you style in your circular your worthy brother, {
d TO whom you entrusted the care of this very
ssion, when you left it for the KingsmilI Islands.
r. and Mrs. Roberts, during the stay of the South
,ston at their island. accepted the hospitaites ex-
lded to them by Capt. Randolph, and when Teceiv-
: these inequalities must have been perfectly aware !
At nothing of the kind existed, or was ever per l
tied 10 exist on board that ship.
There are others whom you have denounced by .
and vessel in your circular, who have not even
your group, and from them you will probably .
lr through a different channel. The charge brought
boldly by you, that open prostitution was allowed
board our vessels, we meet with an unqualified i
:
that the subject and manner Of your
lOxious letter, To use your own phraseology, should Z
sc drawn Us into this public expression Of reproba- {
n of the VIGOROUSLY vile, scaudalous and malicious 81
pursued by two or three members Of . profes-
n, which We have ever been taught TO respect and il
lerate, We remain
Your obedient servants,