The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-05-02
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
forney's Farewell TO Old Buek.


Four years ago this LAY you entered the PresiIen-
tial chair, the Chief Magistrate II the happiest aud
freest people on the earth The conquest from which
ygg emerged a eOnqueTOr. although distinguished by
uuex4mpled animation and acrimOny, was followed
By expressions, on the part % friend AMI foe, Of COM
pIete confidence IN your personal integrity. Tho-e
who had opposed your election we're profuse IN an
nogncing their disposition % give your admInIstrs-
tion the fairest trial The principles which prevailed
in your triumph had been anticipated IN your speeches
before your nomination., IndJrset IN your letter ac-
cepting IL, affirmed ia your inaugural address, and
re-4fhrmed in Jour letter 20 Governor Walker, under
date Of July 18th, 1855, and we're % plain, 20 self
evident, and 30 cOnvincingly right, that the American
people were ready to hail in you the august successor
and representative Of those great men who laid the
foundation Of the government. In the choice Of your
Cabinet you were supposed 20 be singularly success
full. From the aged statesman at the head Of your
constitutional advisers. down 20 your AttOrney-Geue-
raj, there was no name that had NOT At one or another
time been associated with high and honorable posi-
ton These gentlemen. selected from both sections
Of the confederacy, each a type Of his own people,
were known cordially % sanction and heartily 20 CO.
operate with you IA the policy 10 which you had been
committed IN the previous campaign. Every Depart
nent Of the Federal Government was IN your hands.
Both branches Of Congress we're controlled by 4 mn
jOrity Of your supporters The Supreme Court Of the
United States was known 70 sympathize with you.
Our commerce With al the world was in the most
fourIshing condition; internal trade in It's manifold
ramiications WAS prosperous Beyond all example;
sectional strife had terminated IN n national victory,
thus giving new guarantees for the preservation Of u
Union which ut that time seemed held together BY
bonds alike sacred and indi=sOluble-
This inspiring pros 1ect must have elevated you
above all unworthy passions and uaholy ambition.
When you mounted the Presidential chair you we're
not, according % your own account, quite sixty-ave
years Of age. Too old TO undertake the destruction
Of your country. you were young enough 10 make il
more potent NJ home and more hOnOred abroad. Your
enemies for more than forty years have imputed to
You many questionable qualities Of head aud heart,
but your friends relied upon your administration 10
repel this imputation. The first accused you Of selfish
90 Tn1rufrfuHa unH arfgr.erurv- fEe 4agrvH rTsTru
ell for you the highest attributes # private character.
The first had frequently predicted that. If ever cloth
ed with the almost imperial power Of the Presidency,
yOu would devote yourself 20 the overthrow Of the
party to which near your fOrtisth year you attached
your political fortunes; the second cOntenIei that by
your moderation and consistency you would net only
immortalize yourself. but 30 consolidate the Demo
crasy rs nc the close II your Administrator % leave
IL without n respectable adversary. How you fulSll-
ell the prophecies Of the one, ard how you disappoint-
Ell the hopes Of the other. the impartial historian will
record on his i1perishable tablets.
Ia would be superauous 20 recapitulate the thrice
told tale Of the downfall q yourself. your party, and
your country. Even those who euvieI your friends.
while those friends were rejoicing over your election.
we're shocked at the manner in which you persecuted
and hOGndei the men who, during many years Of
minority, had carried your cause upon their shoulders,
until finally they placed you IN the Presidential chair.
VI such spectacle has ever been presented in any
country. You struck the most fatal blows at those
who hal rendered you the most devoted service.
There was a ranc0r and q cruelty IN your treatment
OF these men tnar no IMAGINATION could have AnttcI-
peted. and no Iogician defend Even those who at
tempted 10 maintain their usual kind relations TO
your person we're repealed with naughty aud freezing
Indifference. or subjected TO your will by being made
treaeheries- la proportion A. yCu conducted this IN
provoked warfare upon these citizens, you took into
your confidence men who hal never treated you save
a. an object Of hatred and OF scOrn.
POstenty takes little note Of the treatment extend
Ell BY n public man 10 life long supporters Ii IS not
so tolerant, however. when such ~turpitude IS accom-
panied and succeeded by persistent attempts to dis
tract and demoraliZe a happy and united people.
Had you bnt served the Republic; had you maintain
Ell your p.ighted faith 10 your principles; had you
displayed n wise. comprehensive and practical states-
manship; had you insisted upon economy and integ-
rity in your sdministratiOn-the judgment Of the
American people would have rewarded you, and your
recreancy To your friends would have been forgotten
in the stern impartiality and justice Of your policy.
The ruler Of a civilized and Christian people may, in
n moment Of rash impulse, infict incalculable injury
upon bis country. But you have no impulses. That
which ut first seemed 10 be the madness of the no.
ment soon assumed the shape Of settled malignity.
When you consented to trample upon q holy and an
undying truth, it is now evident that you had made
up your mind to persevere to the end. No entreaties
could move You tn change your course. Even those
whom you had wounded without provocation, re-
peatedly and humbly exhorted you TO pause in your
career. In vain. You seemed to have become the
incarnation of sbsolutism. The bloody fields of Kan
sss, the ~perishing industry Of Pennsylvania, the ar
guments of the good. the thunder tones Of the ballot
box. produced no more impression upon you than
upon the walls Of the building in which you sat, cold
and heartless "a those walls themselves.
Not content with doing wrong yourself, you insisted
that all others over whose interests you exercised the
slightest control should likewise do wrong. Hesita-
tiou or refusal on their part to yield TO your COM
mands was punished with instant exclusion from
place, or remorseless social ostracism. No one was
too high to be reached by the shafts Of your anger;
no one too low to be ground under the heel of your
prescription. You raked the official kennels for VIC
tins. Wherever an honest man objected to your con-
Iucr who held pO-IriOu under Won in A fOrpipD land
or in your own State, or near the Presidential man
sion, he was recalled or removed without an OppOr-
tunity Of defense And n proportion rs you perse-
cuted the good you compensated the bad. Thus your
own example became n grand premium 10 all who
we're ready to accept place at the loss Of character.
When the money of the people was used to debauch
the people; when the Chief Magistrate consented to
degrade himself for the purpose Of gratifying his re-
venge-the reckless men around your person accept
ell your own conduct as "a license TO them. Bent
alike upon plundering the Treasury and breaking up
tue Union, they organized n system Of POPULATION and
fraud unequalled in any civilized government, and,
with your aid. enlisted in the work Of destroying the
Democratic party. You pretend at this day that you
were ignorant OF their practice in the first, but you
cannot deny tina; you stimulated and encouraged them
in the second. The disruption Of the Democratic
party at Charleston and Baltimore was plotted in the
White House. and when il was accomplished, although
admOnished that il must surely lead to the dissolu-
ton Of the Union itself, you refused to throw yourself
into the breach, and TO accept the regular nomination
Of the party. Once more you employed the patron
age Of your Administration in order 20 crafty your
worst passions You never fOrgave Stephen \. Doug
las because he Indignantly refused to endorse your
detection IN 1857; and when you cOntrastei the pOpu-
lar verdict which gratefully approved his course with
the popular expression which condemned your own.
you resolved that he should be defeated, even at the
hazard Of the aunihilatiOn Of the Union. You saw
the Democratic party staggering under the double
burden Of being held responsible for the enOTmity Of
your Administration and of being identified with the
cause Of disuniOn. Again you were admOnished that
perseverance, IN these proceedings must lead to the
most direfui Consequences, and again you refused 10
listen % the voice Of reason. Indeed, through your
organs and your friends, you circulated the doctrine
that il was far better that the general opponents Of
the Democracy should triumph than the regular can