The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-23
fContinued from our las;.I
E~NGLANp's NEUTRALITY.

powers OF Europe, and especially by thai
country with which, as colonies, we were 50
long connected, and which. despite the two
wars that have been waged between US, we
are accustomed to remember as our mother
land Mingled with our Dutch and Hugue-
not ancestry, a very large proportion of the
older families OF America trace their descen:
from England, and many who do not are yet
connected with her by no common ties. For
myself, l may say that 1 have always enter
tanned for her people a hereditary feeling Of
attachment, from the fact that my Huguenot
ancestors, when they fled from Rochelle after
the revocation by Louis XIV. of the Edict of
Naniz. found upon her soil a welcome and a
home; and that one OF them volunteering for
King William against James H., shed his
blood Tor English freedom at the battle of the
Boyne, that great era in English history,
ending as we hope forever her civil wars,
from which dates the establishment on a firm
basis OF the unity, the strength. and the
Worldwide dominion Of the British Empire.
Such memories. and doubtless, my country
men, you have many such, descend from
father to son undimmed by national revolu-
tons. They inspire sentiments Of affection
and kinship, that like family heirIooms gather
new value from the lapse of time, and instead
OF fcding as years and centuries roll by, seem
the more sacred and imperishable from the
h"S Oy NnOli LuC
have been cherished and who have each in
turn added a link to the chain of association.
The recent visit of the Prince of Wales,
coming to US as the representative of the
British nation, characterized, as it was, by
the most graceful courtesy and cordiality on
his pert, ard by the heartiest welcome upon
ours, with she single exception of the rude
treatment he met at RIchmond-now the
head quarters of the rebels-had accomplish
ed what no diplomacy could have effected.
Ii seemed to have blotted out the last linger-
ing rtmnant OF ill-feeling, and left on this
side the Atlantic, at least, the belief that
hehceforfh there was q firm alliance between
England and America, not based on treaty.
stiPutations, but upon that heartfelt condiaI-
lty which springs from mutual regard, and
from a common devotion to the great princi-
Piles of right which belong to the institutions
Of both countries and which their example is
recommending to the world nor should we
overlook the belief cherished by many thought
full men that if in the distant future England
should be set upon by the despotisms of
Europe, and should require the aid of her
American daughter TO save her from annihi-
%lation, that aid would be promptly, effectively,
and cordially given.
II Is with profound regret that we have
seen that friendly feeling suddenly converted
into one of intense and bitter disa appointment
by the conduct and tone of the English Gov
crnment and the ill.judged m of the
English press.
The election of Mr.. Lincoln for the first
time entitled to the control of the Federal
Government a party with whose political
principles the English people were supposed
to sympathize. BY a scheme of treachery
unparalleled in baseness. a few of the defeat
ed faction holding office IN the Cabinet, in
Congress, in the army and in the navy, con-
sPired together to betray the forts, arsenats, =.
and other property of the Government into ,
the hands of their confederates, with the view !.
OF destroying the Union, and erecting upon =,
its ruins a Southern Confederacy, OF which :
slavery Is to be the grand, permanent, and {
characteristic. They accom-
plish the seizure of the public property with |
out difficulty. for they themselves were in =
trusted with ITS guardianship, and they pro- :
coed to develop the great conspiracy and i
organize the rebel government, while the :.
citizens Of the United States are help y
lessly compelled to wait the Inauguration of =
the new President. The 4fh Of March arrives =
ut last, Mr.. Lincoln takes the oath to main :
the Constitution and the laws, and when =
IN obedience to that oath he orders the rebels =
10 disperse, and calls upon the country for "
the loyal states, as one man, pre- =
oare 10 crush the conspiracy and restore the :
integrity and the honor OF the nation. Neither
rom England nor from any foreign power IL
lave We asked or would we accept assistance ~
n regulating our own household, but from =
England, of all the states of the world, we =
bought we had a right to expect a ready =
and that moral support which is -
,iven o. the countenance OF a great nation. -
The Southern rebels also counted upon "
support OF England on the simple ground -
nat her interest IN cotton would incline her :
o their side, but we, although well aware of
he demoralizing effect of interest upon ma
ional principle, still believed it impossible N
hat the British Government could consent, vol
pecuniary motives, to look with. COM IN
lacency on the progress of a rebellion whose a
My strength was gained by treachery, and IN
shich was avowedly prosecuted for the main ho
.nance OF a system which England herself no
ad taught the world to regard with abhor- sc
ence- In thus believing, we were confirmed II,
y the tone OF the English press when the ,r,
hrst began, one of the ablest re- fnl
resentatiyes of which Indignantly declared m.
substance that Manchester and Birming- toI
am would be the first to reject as an insult lv
lie idea that they were to be moved from to
leH position BY pecuniary appeals. and that Ca
any British Cabinet should sacrifice the me
nti-s!avery principles of the nation to the do
nestion Of cotton. England would lose, and cir
lose, her place at the councii-table ref
Europe. 1- e;
The exclamation of Lord John Russell in 81,
ply to a question as to the POSITION of for
ngiand, "ror Gods sake let us keep out Mt
II" was followed by what is termed a pro- in
amztion OF neutrality, in which British ind
Ibjecs are forbidden TO render assistance to OTIS
ther the United States on the one hand, or &C.
e states calling themselves the Confederate
rateS on the other both of which m, rites ara