The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-30

one Of the two will become the progeuitOrs r: the
future population Of the islands. As yet, th re are,
however, not more than $500 Cinnamon; but as this
Industrious race has once found its way hither it will
no doubt increase, and it remains a question only to
be decided by the future, whether Chinese Immigrants
will not acquire in time the ascendency on the Ha-
waiian Islands.
1.-The islands a, present form q Sovereign Kingdom,
acknowledged by the three maritime powers, Eng
land, France and North America-confrmed by
solemn declarations and Treaties Of Reciprocity.
Belgium has officially pronounced the independence
Of the islands Prussia has formed commercial rela-
tons with them and has shown herself favorable to
the Sovereignty by presents and friendly mis-
sives TO the King. Also Denmark has solemnly
acknowledged the kingdom of Hawaii by the later
ratification of the Treaty of Commerce and Friend
ship, negotiated through myself This country thus
actually counts amongst the Sovereign States; it is
obvious however by the foregoing. that DO not pre-
dict its existence as such a long duration. For a
time the mutual jealousy Of the Great Powers may
still protect it, as one sword keeps the other in the
sheath; soon, however, the native population, in
a political view, will fall asunder, and at the same
time the Steam Navigation between California and
China or Sydney, become as general as it is at pres
ent on the Atlantic Ocean; when this takes place, l
say, the Importance of the Sandwich Islands will ap-
pear in its full light. From the Whalemen's Hotel,
which they now are, in the midst of the Great Ocean,
they will become an intermediate Station of the first
rank for the whole navigation of the Pacific, and thus
it will become absolutely necessary that the soil be
cultivated, Commerce facilitated, Import and Export
of all produce be made as free and unrestrained as
possible. Immigrants will appear by the thousands,
and good-wilingly or ny force, demand protection
and immunities. If the latter should take place they
will likely ~supplant the native popuiatiOn-their
King and Chieftains not excepted-and drive them
in the background, should these at the time not have
learned to work with head and hand, and thus by
real ability know how to defend their rights against
the foreigners. And therefore l would advise the King
Kamehameha and his Ministers-be they native or
foreign-forewarned by the constant decrease of popu-
latiOn-to submit in time to the unalterable will Of
destiny, and take the course clearly indicated to
them by public events, particularly by the sudden
developments in California. Might they-'n the
place of occupying themselves with Court ceremo-
mails, ribbons, stars, titles of excel!ency and other
absurdities-instead Of agrayating their own life and
work by prolix and tedious correspondence, and dis
putes with foreign authorities and private individuals
instead OF disuniting the people by narrow minded
puritanical perceptions and chimeras of total abst.n-
ence, and imposing the same with heary ;nOni,Vry
fines for imaginary sins-instead of leg Ia ny pro-
hibitory custom regulations on wines am 3 ;E"s, acd
thereby only creating smugglers and SCI" 2sp:'s-
ards-might they instead of thus So mining only
against the current, or the contrary throw open their
lands and harbors to immigrants and to commerce,
declare The islands o5s great aEE foRT and protect.
and facilitate Comme.ce aud -~NavigGuGg ~ oil posi-
bic means and the Sandwich ISLANDS would likely
very soon become r - high political in por;ance; the
Great Powers you'd sonteIl Nth each other to pro-
tect them, and no i~-e;gn power wclld ewes ',are to
commit such overheard; acts as Lord Ptulet, and
more recently the French Admiral LegoaTant de
Tromelin arrogated to Themselves.
son the other hand, me aborigines VII pro- ably
become extinct or a~m-igamatel with tine foreigners,
and the privileges and imaginary greatness of the
chieftains disappear. \ new, though mixed, Ha-
waiian nation, in which, however, the aboriginal with
own cultivation would form no unimportant ele-
ment, would come forth powerful in their number
rs well rs in their wealth and resources; the soil
would be cultivated, mountains and forests would
bring to light their treasures, and the islands would
become of as great Importance as Genoa and Venice
Of old, and like Singapore in recent commercial
history