The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-05-30
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
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from Washington. COMPARED with which i.c-
matters are uuinyiring. NJ American ci
read the news without being moved wit
those feeling Of patriotism which IL dee!
rooted in every breast. In no part Of III
world, can IN equal number oi Americans Do
found whose devotion . their country j. warm
er. OF who's. patriotism l. purer, tia'n ;hos
scattered throughout these islands. ]; i nat
urIl. then. when they sec their mother coua
IT, struggling with mighty etr;s 20 riis.
herself from the low g-Ovel!ng position II
which unfortunately she has become placed, anc
seeking o assert her power, u ri~e from the
disgrace into which she was falling. % Igrg.
her defI-I honor and restore her les.i-ed 49,
thoritv-it Is natural for her SONS. when they
So her thus writing, u feel for her the
war1les- sympathy. Il j. this sympathy-rh-
feeling Of national pride snitreu and ~dlsgracel
al Fort >lmrt-r. that i now agitlting the
North. and stirring up the blood II her sons,
u rush u the rescue # their country. and
maintain her honor and dignity un-ulliei
against the hands Of violence and treason.
The forced capture If Fort Sumptsr, and the
blood that has been spilled within her walls.
may vet cos; South Carolina her capital, rae
Charleston with the dust. and crimson her
rice fields with the blood Of Ler planters. We
said that zLe had q right To- seerde. Il done
peaceIJly- But the question Of the right T.
secede j. not the one at issue. II is, whether
she las the right fOrcibIy to capture United
States property. Her mistake mas heen in re-
sorting 10 uniustifable attacks and open war
fare. Had she c1ntented herself - follow
peaceful measures, all she sought FOR might
have been gained. while row she must bide
the results Of her indiscretion and rashuess.
It Is L fortunate thing that there i q man
at the head Df affairs il Washington, who ap-
pears TO BE- equal to the task imposed On him.
Deliberate. calm and cautious, lie i proving
himself endowed with the fruIness and will Of
i JAcksOS-" the right man in the right
place How fortunate for the country Is it
now that Breckenridge, the Southern nominee,
was not elected President, when such 4 choice
would unquestionabIy have placed the North
and Northern interests completely in subiec-
ton u the South. VI least such i the only
inference that can be drawn from the course
which Breckenridge is now pursuing, in op-
posing the course and measures Of the general
government. Whatever influence may have
caused the election of Lincoln, he Is prov
ing himself the representative of the people,
not Of a party and this probably is the great
secret why all parties, without distinction. are
now c~rowding around his standard, and see
onding his bold measures u place the war de-
partment in L position 10 render hazardous the
repetition of such attacks a. that on Sumpter.
The popular pulse beats high. and in perfect
sympathy with the decisive war measures OF
the administration. The very secrecy. says the
PHILADELPHIA Press, with which they are
shrouded, invests them with . mysterious in
fuence, and the people, who are supposed to
be afraid of strong measures, are unquestlon-
ably in favor of them now. Business men
who have been compelled to read the stern
logic of disaster, who have been taught the
bitter lesson Of suffering from causes not of
their creation, now perceive that the authors
OF all their disasters are to be found in the
men who have disnembered the Republic, and
more than this, those men, while asking con-
cessions at the hands Of the Administration,
refused 70 assent 70 such an equivalent u
would prove that they are sincerely DESTROYS
Of a restoration of peace. If we are to have
prosperity again if our commerce, manufac-
lures, and agriculture, and all the great pro-
ducing interests Of the country are ever to be
reinvicorated. it cannot be by yielding TO the
LUtL IatNt It-tEbN'A IHtIl. AH
Government IS the sheet anchor If all pirate
and public credit, Of all pirate ord pubEc inter
If it goes down we shall be as divided
and as discordant as Mexico but If it i
maintained, (s maintained it will BEL it may
take years TO bring about the happy condition
Of things that existed in 1856"
The general government has made no gg-
gresare movement on any Of the rights Of the
south A. Yet, nor do we understand the call
for 10000 troops to be for that purpose. It
i solely % assert the power and strength Of
the government in maintaining rs Guth0TIIy
keeping possession IF rs otrH property. be
it located in South Carolina, Florida. Louisi-
ana or Washington. That il the point probably
aimed at, and that is what iriH b. done. If every
port Of entry in the South i bombarded and
destroyed in eIecting it. Whatever may be
the consequences, the South alone Is responsible.
and she alone can stop tine war, by quietly yield
ing up To the general government what right
fully belongs to it.
In the Alta of the 18th inst, we find the
following remarks on President Lincoln, which
public sentiment in California. and pro-
baby throughout the North
The CoSDUCT OF LISCoLS.-It Is a matter Of
deep qualification 70 see how pruienrly the new
President carries himself III MS present difncult pD-
sition. At our latest dates from Washington. he
had been in Office nearly two months, during which
time he and the administration have been surround
ed by dangers so serious and troubles 50 trying,
that they might well drive an ordinary man, re-
quiref 20 bear such responsibilities. 10 desperation.
But Lincoln seems TO bear everything firmly. lie
appears thus far TO be equal To the emergency. He
has shown no signs Of fear or despair. He does not
10 run from Washington. He does not propose
10 abandon any point or any principle. When the
occasion demands it, he shows all the bOldness that
could be desired. He called for troops promptly
after the attack on Sumter. When the Baltmoreans
said Federal troops should not pass through their
city, he replied that the citizens would resist at their
peril. When afterwards some impertineut Mary
lander, speaking without authority, said that Mary
land would resist with $4,000 men the passage Of
more Federal troops through her territory, he
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