The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-25
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W never presumed fr a moment to mock the genuine
sorrow of true Union men, the fearful ordeal, the great calamity
Of 4 whole land, by aptng on a small scale the heart-rending
We never by " word or line, or = on the street gave the
dismember the Union by revolt or disfranchise a portion of 1t
Thus spake the official organ in March, 1862.
Six months later, and in its last issue, it whistles
to another-tune
&" Ne are grateful for our neighbours permission to crow over
And yet history tells US that for more than Go years, those
children Of moral and social darkness The slaVehodersI ruled
the land and made it a rose in "A desert, a star of hope to the
oppressed of every CLINE, a flaming sword in the horizon Of
We do not contemplate nor do we wish for a restoration Of
Inc mon me nnder the man name y Of .Rs =" .n,tea NS'an fin;6 states Z lam n
knew in the days of old, and which is the Twins force OF every
nationality, must be sacrificed"
In March last, we charged the editor of the
Government organ with being a secessionist.
He denied it will he do so again? His last
issue is filed with a bitter TRADE against the
American Government and with loving sympa-
thy for the South and yet he says he is no
secessionist. If there is any meaning in Ian
guage, then the last Poiyaesian is openly and
unequiyocally fer the rebellion. And yet he
says, IS we never by word or line gave the least
sympathy" &c. Perhaps he has not got the
hang of the English language yet, or does not
understand the meaning of the words he uses
and if so, he had better take hold and learn it
again. We will furnish him with an Elemental
ry Grammar, if wanted, to correct the grammati-
cal errors observable in every other paragraph.
But seriously, who is this that seeks to fan
the embers of treason, though in a foreign
land? What journal is it that seeks to laud the
gallantry and privations Of rebels against
their government? 1t is a Press supported by q
government that affects to be friendly to the
nation within whose borders the rebellion I'M
happily exists. 1t is a Press to which $500 per
annum are voted from the public funds, that
aids in disappearing the most liberal govern
ment on earth. Talk about what u tdisinter-
ested, impartial Journal should do, when such
baseness is exhibited in one owned by a govern
ment avowing friendship to the nation thus
insulted.
Imagine the case changed, and Ireland in re-
bellion against England. Would Mr.. Wyllie
or the Government permit the Polynesian to
malign England in behalf of the long-enslaved
Irish, even should the editors sympathies run
way as strongly as they do for the slave
Or, to bring the case a little nearer
home-suppose a rebellion existed on Maui or
The editors sympathies might be with
the rebels. as they always are with traitors and
treason, but would he be permitted to prostitute
the paper under his charge to aid and comfort
No, never. We speak of the Southern
as we would speak of an Irish rebel
ion, or of a rebellion in Hawaii mel, even if
headed or defended by the Polynesian corps.
or treason anywhere and everywhere,
should meet with the unqualified rebuke of all.
To eucnuraua III is TO bec0ma n participant in If
md if this government, through its official
organ, encourages the Southern rebellion, it is
guilty of an open breach of international cour-
and friendship, and affords another evidence
IF the impolicy of owning a newspaper.
I The American Government is not now fighting
or the North, nor for the South, but for the
Union, for the integrity of the American Repub-
i, and if it cannot be restored aoih slavery, it
will be restored aoithout it, the accursed bone of
contention removed, and, if necessary, every
ebel hung, not us Shareholders, but as rebels.
,he subjugation of the South and the abolition
f slavery will be results of the war, not the
bjects of it. The North has not begun to feel
he weight of the contest, and reverses alone
ill bring it to that point. Should such reyerses
ONE then, they can only hasten the uprising
f the people to that point that is needed to sup
ress the rebellion. Many have feared lest the
rms of the government might be too successful,
nd the war be terminated before the public
lind has become unanimous on the great slavery
estion-unanimous for the removal of the cause
f the trouble. But there is a PROVIDENCE that
verrules the issue of this war, and if it is his
sign to terminate slavery with it, the tenn
orary victories of the rebels may prolong the
but will make the issue more decisive.
Ie trust that this war may not cease, even if it
SITS for ten years, till the last vestige of slavery
destroyed, and the accursed bone of contention
moved from what has been and will yet be a
and united Republic.
For the PoLyneSlan, a paper owned by the Ha-
allan Government, to be thus lending its aid
ID comfort to the rebels, is, to say the least, base,
manly and cowardly, and betrays in it's ]
gan malice prepense. Although it can have
It little weight beyond the circle of its l474
b~scribers, yet we must condemn it, for the
exhibited. 1t is just as if, in any rebel
N that might arise in this kingdom, California !
1rnals should misrepresent the existing govern
ent and infame discontinued persons to en-
rk in expeditions against it, shouting with all
cir voice. that the rebels though fighting 3,
their knees, have kept the government at ]
that they 90 have amply indicated the p,
rthright of freemen, and their title to be called 4
lwaiians." We can easily conceive Of the bit '
luminosity of the editor of the P0lvaesian
wards the free American Union, but we cannot