Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-07
No. 10.


seized FORTS dockyards, arsenals and customhouses
all of which was as reasonable as the attack on
Major Anderson's command and John Bright, or
at least John Brght's organ cannot see what there
was in the Fort Sumter affair to cause all this mad
rush into such furious demonstration of Northern
anger and Government energy. The conclusion
arrived at is this That the attack Sumter mere
ly changed the popular feeling in the North, and
not the policy of government, but that Mr.. Lincoln
was forced to 60 with the stream.
To-day's Morning Chronicle is tolersbly heavy
upon Mr. Lincoln, but on Mr.. Crows speech it is
downright savage. Starting with the remark that
much of what the Speaker of Congress uttered was
90 disgusting rubbish" the Chronicle goes on to
quote Mr.. Crows declaration, that 80 no alien flag
shall float on the Mississippi till its waters are
crimsoned with human gore" and that " not one
foot of soil shall be wrenched from the Union until
it is baptised in fire and blood" Such language,
the Chronicle says, shows Mr.. Grow to be So filter
for the shambles than the Senate Not very
choice specimens of rhetorical Illustration, it must
be allowed.
The Aha CaEfornia's august 2l) correspond
ent from Paris (July lS) says
With one or two exceptions, the press of Paris
has strong leaning in favor of our government,
but at least one member of the Ministry, the Min
lister of Commerce and Agriculture, has, 1t Is sald
been gained over to the Southern side. Thomas
| Butler King has written him a letter, copies OF
which have been circulated privately, in which he
attempts to show the great advantage which would
result to France by the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy The appointment of Gen. Fremont
to high rank in the army, has been generally fa-
vorably remarked upon, and the PresSe, OF last
evening, in speaking of it. says: Z" General Ere
mont, who has French blood in his veins, and who
was the conoueror of California, is a man full OF
energy and ambition. IF any one can save the
American Republic, it is he; if any one can COM
plete its loss it is he He will be either its Hoche
or its Bonaparte."
Spirit Of the American Press.
ABoLITIoNIsM UNDIsGUIsED the almost utter
ruin of the industrial and financial interests of the
country and the of bloodshed In the present
war; and the dshonor to our country abroad, caused
| by Abolition fanaticism, cannot open the eyes OF
the people to the baneful effects of the slavery
agitation, we trust the following extracts will.
They are taken from recent article in HENRY
WARD BEECHER' paper, the New York Independent:
| The grand result-the only solution OF the ques-
| tion-is fast coming up-the emancipation of the
slaves by the nation. What other escape Is thers
from our difficulties Why should not our people
| and our statesmen look it fair in the face.
The South is far stronger and better supplied
| than we suppose. She is in earnest. She believes
herself bitterly wronged. She is not likely to think
herself less so after blockade and campaign.
She is,encouraged by the base sympathy OF England
She never could feel any surety for slavery IN
another Union with us. She hates US.
Evidently, there is but one path to safety and
yictory-one to a permanent settlement-one to
the quiet or subjugaton of the South. Do not fear
it, Look it boldly in the face, namely, the eman-
cipation of the slaves.
Let our armies as a military necessity" and
strategical act, declare 4" freedom to all, and in
a moment we have an army of 100000 human
beings on our side-allies in every house and on
every plantation. The enemy is demoralized.
Panic sweeps through the Southern land Here is
a foe more dreadful than Northern armies.
Fighting so near our own forces, we may hope
the revengeful feelings of these poor oppressed
creatures would be restrained. Still, would ineyita
bic desolaton and destruction sweep like tempest
over the Southern land. And it would be just
These men have borne the wrongs of centuries, and
why should not their uprising be bloody! Let
them have their freedom, if they can win it, even
though it be over the eorpses of their masters and
the ashes of the ruined homesteads. After this
tempest of fire and havoc would arise better era
for the South. Free labOrers would pour in; vast
ed fields would be cultivated by new hands; ruined
cities would be built up by Northern capital and
ingenuity, and the problem and the task for the
civilization of the coming age, would be the edu-
cation and preparation of 100000 of blacks
perhaps through some system Of apprenticeship
for the rights and the privileges of free aborers.
For such glorious result, even if it come through
tears and blood, do we devoutly pray.
These sentiments are atrocious. This IS abo-
tionism undisgused. These are the results which
would necessarily follow from the carrying out of
these doctrines The paper which puts them forth
uubIushingly processes to be Christian, claims to
be inspired with the forgiving charity and love
which characterize the doctrines of the Christian
religion. What moekery Fiends in human
shape-devils incarnate may gloat with horrid sat
isfcton over the picture which their imaginatiOns
have painted as the result of this horrid contest,
and for the realization of which they may 'deUOuty
| g. and sc
the human race, will shudder at the bare contem-
paton of the scenes which fanatical abolitionisn.
had it the power, would spread out before our
view Imagine one half our country given up to
all the barbarities which characterized the Sepoy
rebellion. And this is Christians prayer. From
such Christianity, I" Good Lord deliver u.s." He
saws of the South " She hates u.s." Why does
she hate usi Because of the preaching of just
such diabolical doctrines as are here set forth.
Without that the conspirators eonld never have
brought her people up to the point of revolution.
1t is the continuance in putting forth such senti-
ments, which are republished at the South, that
keeps the fires Of rebellion burning so fercely.
We regret to know that such sentiments are
not confined to the Abolition party proper Radical
Republicans are here and there preaching similar
doctrines. The Washington correspondent OF the
New Nork Tribune, whose sentiments are evidently
approved by that paper, has the following:
IF this war were for anything short OF realizing
perfect equality of rights for every human being,
it would be the most foolish crusade or the direst
butchery that the world was ever stained withal.
On the triumph of freedom over slavery rests the
honor and the fate OF this nation. We achieved
national liberty through the Revolution, TO make
us people the worthy standard bearer Of that holy
cause which we claim to have espoused for all the
world.
While such things are written here and repub-
Iished in the Southern prints, how can it be ex-
pected that the Southern people can be made to
believe that this is not war for their annihiation
WHAT THE War HAS DoNE.-A meeting of FIVE
| thousand peonle thrown out of emplOyment in