The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-23

- AN~fNSNAOlt SOGAtClSlSuSu. DuL we lSdIU
from this proclamation one lesson that will
be perhaps worth all that it shall cost US
we learn the treatment we may expect if we
fail to maintain our national integrity and
the honor OF our flag.
IT a mere supposition that the rebels at
Montgomery are likely to be successful, can
IN a moment dash from the memory of the
English Government all recollection of past
friendship, and Induce her in our moment of
trial to condescend TO a course so different
from that we had pursued towards her: what
treatment may we not expect from her, and
from every other European Cabinet, if we
ourselves by our conduct admit that we are
powerless at home 2 How will we be treated
abroad If we yield to the threats of a frac-
ton OF our own population What will be
our standing among nations If, conserving 10
separation, We lose half of our Atlantic sea-
board, and descend to the position of a third
rate power? Or what respect will be paid
US If to maintain our territory, we compro-
mise with rebell!on-if we yield at the cam
mons mouth what the people have deliberate
ly refused at the polls-if we teach the world
by such an example that we may be bulIied
with success, and that when we resist on prin-
ciple unreasonable demands, it is only neces-
sary to humble our flag and to threaten
Washington to induce US ANONYMOUSLY to
submit2
Let US discard all reliance upon other help
than OF God, a right cause and a strong arm,
and let US recognize the stubborn fact that
" the government or nation that fails to pro-
tect itself against foes, whether foreign or
domestic, deserves to perish ingloriously."
THE RIGHT sYMPATHIEs OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
Before leaving the question of England's
neutrality, | think we should distinguish be-
fyxyonn tho hnSt. 49,, Il 1T IT.
net and the deliberate conviction of tine Brit.
ish people.
That the heart of that great nation is sound
and that as soon as they understand the mo-
tiyes and manner of this rebellion as you
understand them, they will appreciate our
position, approve our resolution, and wish US
God-speed In our great work of restoring the
Federal Union TO Its integrity and its great
original principles of freedom, | cannot, | will
not doubt.
Already their Cabinet has partially atoned
for the first proclamation by an order that
will prevent the privateers of Davis from en-
terlng British ports, and both the Govern
ment and the people must soon recognize the
TACT that we have the ability and the will to
crush this rebellion and maintain our integ-
rlty, however long the struggle, however great
the cost and that we no more recognize the
. VI SO iOl VI EuiODe u uICIdIS 10
US In this matter, than England would have
recognized our right to Interfere between
her and Mana Sahib. The material inter.
ests based on cotton must yield to the nation
al and moral duties that to-day devole upon
the American people, Ill determining, per-
haps for untold ages, the destiny of the
American continent.
The English people will see that our re-
solve to crush the conspiracy for the eStab-
ment OF a slave empire, is not based on any
burst of enthusiasm, but on the
sober calculations of honor, duty, safety,
and economy and that it is the true inter-
est OF England, her pecuniary, her political,
Ind her moral interest, that the war should
De as brief as possible, that the rebels NAV no
onger be deluded into the belief that any
rue Engllshman who understands the history
and the object of their rebellion can regard it
With other feelings than those naturally arous-
I'd by a policy of fraud, treachery, and op-
PRESTON.
That the restoration of that integrity of our
Jnion is to be accomplished without a vast [
Expenditure of treasure, and perhaps of blood,
10 one anticipates. We all know something
the cost OF European wars, but we know /
Ilso our own resources and the immense stake =
or which we will be fighting. Our fathers
for seven years for our national free
ON, and the spirit abroad throughout our
md indicates that their sons, if necessary, eli
nil fight seven years more to save it from CT
and disgrace. Whether the debt fla
1curred fo- its preservation shall be hum NJ
reds or thousands of millions, it will be a ia
lcred legacy to future generations. A debt
f five hundred millions, as remarked by an
journalist, would leave this nation
sss severely taxed than any nation of Europe.
OUR COUNTRY ONE. -
If any man supposes that this republic can
2 a~dvantageously sundered into two, let u
i'm cast his eye upon the map, and endeavor
find a natural line to separate the two con- -
The geographical formation of a.
IT country indicates that it is one: nature col :,
Is provided no boundary line between the pa
orth and the South no river like the Mis- So
no mountain chain like the Alleuha-
es or the Rocky Mountains, running from n
e West to the Atlantic, and forming the y.
lpine boundary to divide the sections. On K
e contrary, the Father of Waters stretches sho
t his great arms to the East and to the
est, bearing on his bosom TO the Gulf the
nerous products of the valleys which they
-tllize, and carrying back in their place the 1--WE
ton, rice, and sugar of our Southern bor- dep
rs, and imports from foreign climes. MAJ I
The Mississippi, source and channel of arr
to North and South alike in every t =
lie of its progress on the West to Mime
a, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisi- TIE
a; on the East TO Wisconsin, Illinois,
entucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, pro-
inns 10 the citizens of the immense region
lch 1t waters through thousands of miles ,
extent, from North to South, and East to /
that our country is one and indivisible. -
Dur duty to the South forbids our acqui- Re
ence in this rebellion, for it would reverse s
American policy for the last half century, NJ
l reconsign to foreign invasion TO anarchy vi