Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-10-26
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FOREIGN NEWS

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[SAN FRANcIsco, OCr. 2; ST. JOSEPH, SEPT. a.
By the arrival, on Saturday last, of the clipper
ship Charger, Capt. Hatch, in l6 days from
San Francisco, we received q few papers of the
latest date the mail being board of the clipper
ship Moonlight which left San Francisco the same
day.
The clipper bark Comet, hence, arrived at San
| Francisco Sept 29th, and was advertised to leave
on the 1lth inst.
The clipper brig TImdndra was also advertised
to leave for Honolulu on the 5th inst. en- route
Cor Japan.
The osy remarkable incident in San Francisco
was that the Rev. DIR. Scott, Pastor of Calvary
Chnrch, had been mobbed in coming out of his
church, and was rescued by the police. The Doc
tor has resigned his place ana gone to Europe.
The San Francisco Herald, in speaking of these
| transactions, says:
SIN Yesterdays issue we published the series of
resolutions which were adopted, without dissent
lent voice, on Monday night, by some three hun
dred members of Calvary Church, expressing their
unlimited confidence in DR.. Scott Christian
| anu GIo lndG ue was
dislOyal to the Government We have the testi-
mony of three hundred members of his church who
have been in the constant habit of attending divine
service that he never known to introduce poll
tics into the pulpit: truly phenomenon. We
reproduce the fifth resolution
50 In parting from such pastor and knowing as
we do, more intimately and thoroughly than others
can know, his purity of doctrine and practice as
Christian, his labOrs a minister, his fathfulness
as pastor, his unostentatiOus liberahty, his pa
triotic spirit as citizen his loyalty to the Federal
| Government his attachment to the Union, and his
readiness to discharge in good faith every duty In
cumbent on him as citizen OF the United States
| we do protest in the name OF civil and religious
liberty against the interference of any outside In
huence with the internal management of any loyal
and law sustaining congregation of citizens that
this congregation has been jealous OF their cOun-
try'S honor and their cOuntry's good, and better
able than any outside persons can be, to Judge
whether their pulpit is endangerlng the public well
fare that the union between pastor and his peo-
pie is and ought to be union based on scripture,
truth and Christian feeling, apart from any refer
ence to party feelings or political creed that IN
the action which has driven away their pastor,
without any show or couDteDance OF law, this con-
gregation have suffered an unauthorized violation
of their most sacred rights as American citizens,
and society has received injury.which may lay
religious freedom in the dust"
in the charge that Dr. Scott was Secessionist and
had been advocating the rebel cause but the pub
lie must rather rely upon the foregoing positive
testimony to the contrary, than upon the rrespOnsl
BILE assertions of mob, many of whom very likely
were never inside the church, and were utter stran-
gers to the Clergyman real sentiments
For Heavens sake let politics be kept out of the
pulpit. True religion is all charity, and the man
who represents the authority OF {" the meek and
lowly Jesus should separate himself as far as
possible from the animosities and quarrels OF men
| of the world There other reverend gentlemen
we wot Of who would do well to think more OF
Heaven and less of politics.
The Sunday law had been pronounced constitu-'
tionaI by the Supreme Court of California in full
| bench
Col. Wright arrived yesterday from Oregon and
will. we learn, to-day supersede Gen. Sumner in
command of the Department of the Pacific. Gen.
Sumner. it is said, will take command of the vol
unteer regiments. 1t is further intimated that
ders were received by the last Pony Express in
reference to the destination of the volunteers.
What that destination is we cannot ascertain. We
have reason, however, to suppose that the idea of
sending expedition through Mexico to Texas
| has been abandoned.
- Although California elected Republican
Governor, it seems that the Legislature for 1862
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opposition element
Speaking of the quasi recognition by Spain
of the Confederate States in admitting merchant
vessels under that flag to enter and clear from
| Spanish ports. the San Francisco Bulletin says:
| It is evident from the general tenor of late
Eastern dispatches, that some misunderstanding
| exists between the Governments of the United
States and of Spain relative to the attitude of the
latter towards our rebel States. Notwithstanding
| the doubts thrown upon the matter by the Wash
| ington correspondent of a somewhat reckless New
| York Journal there is much reason to believe that
Spain has really ventured upon the recognition Of
the Confederate flag, so far as its employment by
the merchant marine is concerned. The prompti-
tude with which Secretary Seward appears to have
made the sebiect one of diplomatic correspondence,
shows that he appreciates its Importance, and sug-
/ gests the inference that he has demonstrated in
energetic terms against the unfriendy act for If
he viewed the course of Spain in any other light,
there would be occasion for correspondence about
the matter The astute Secretgry's dispatch, we
! NAV be sure will be written with more reference
| to its effect in London and Paris than in Madrid
| and its publication, whenever he has occasion to
suspect England er France of purpose to follow
the example of Spain. can hardly fail to arouse a
popular storm abroad, such as will compel the
| rulers to pause. The little cloud which has
Gently arisen on that horizon, TO our view, grows
no larger.
And the Herald speaks in this wise:
Many persons suppose that the partial recogni-
| ton by Spain of the Confederate Government. is
| indicative of intention the part of the other
European Powers to do the same thing. We
doubt the conclusion. It is possible to suppose