The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-30
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FOREIGN E-NTANGLENENTs INsEPARABLE FRO
DIsUNIoN.
Let the American Union be dismembereC
and what Is TO prevent foreign powers fror
re-eutermg upon our national domain, fron
which ut such great cost and labor they hav
been ousred?
An old officer Of the French empire, writ
ing to the Courier des Etats-U nis, has pre
dIcted that in the first place France wouI,
retake Louisiana, according to ancient trea
ties, that Spain would recls im Florida, tina
England perhaps would ssek to appropriat,
Oregon, and that Mexico, under foreign pro
lection, would retake New Mexico, Texas
and California; or supposing that we should
consent to the establishment of the so called
Southern C~onfedency, which we know to be
a mere military desponsm, what possible
guarantee can we have for peace in the fu.
ture, when each state reserves the right 10
secede at pleasure and enter at will into for.
eign alliances, inaugurating universal chaos
and chronic dissolution Even now, while
the struggle IS being waged, the leading men
OF South Carolina, already sick Of their in
dependence before il is accomplished. repu-
diate republican institutions and sigh for a
British prince to lend the odor of royalty TO
the ar'stocacy which they boast-an a~ristoc-
racy based not upon historic deeds and noble
heroism, but simply upon the color of their
skins and their despotic dominion over help
less slavesIan aristocracy whose wealth is
invested IN human flesh, and whose revenues
are collected in the field by the lash, and on
the auction-block by the hammer!
Let our Union be divided with the view
OF accomplishing present peace, and not only
would the United States fall from her posi-
ton Of a first-class power to that of a minor
republic, with a contracted sea-bOard and a
defenceless border; but the act of separation
would marguerite an exposure TO hostilities,
FIRST from our new and unfriendly neigh
Dor, and then from every foreign power with
which one or all Of the Southern States
might choose to form an alliance. Either
contingency would necessarily change our
national policy, require the maintenance of
q standing army, and complicate endlessly
our commercial relations. Now, we stand
aloof from the q~uarrels of the rest of the
world, and can devote our energies to the
development Of our marvellous resources and
the extension Of civilization and freedom
over the American continent; then we should
be compelled to an attitude of perpetual self.
defence to save US from constant e~ntanele-
ment in the web Of European politics. AL
ready have we had a ~foretaste Of the sort of
which Europe will accord to the
severed fragments of the American Republic.
To maintain the respect of the world we
must maintain first the integrity of our ma
tional territory, and next the integrity of our
principles. As for the argument
hat IT the rebellion is crushed harmony can
never be restored, Canada furnishes the refr-
'aton- The bloody feuds of 1893 have
hardly left a trace to mar the tranquil pros
'erty which marks the progress of that great
There is reason to believe that the
Union men of the South await but the COM
pg of the Federal forces In sufficient strength,
o show themselves again the cordial supper
ers of the Federal Government. But even
{ this were not so, and there was reason to
ear a long period of distrust and disafection,
he fact remains that the interests of the
people i%mpentively demand that
he integrity of the Union shall be preserved
whether the slavery propagandists of the
like it or like it not.
WE MUST FIGHT.
This Is one Of those decisive epochs that
ccur in the history Of all great nations.
)ne came to our fathers in 1776. Submis-
ion to usurped authority, or national indie
Evidence, was the issue; and on the day we
they chose the latter; and the
'rce OF their example on the world is yet to
e determined. To-day the imperious de-
land comes from slavery, submit, or be
estroyed" Already has a blow been struck
y slavery at our Republic the force of which
sv~erberates through the world. Two hun
red millions of debts due from rebels to
'yal citizens are repudiated, the business of
lie country Is arrested, bankruptcy stares us
the face /; worse than all, our flag has been
'salted, our prestige impaired, and from
courts we have received treatment
lat our American pride can lily brook.
!onor, interest, self.respect, and the highest
Ity call upon US to crush, and crush speed {
y, the insolent traitors whose secret and
perfidy has temporarily crippled {
,; and while we recall the motives that
'mbine to compel us to resistance, let us not
the duty which this nation owes to the
pressed race who are the innocent cause of
] our troubles, and who have no friends to
Ok to but ourselves, to prevent the spread
g OF slavery over every foot of American 4
and the waving of the flag OF the 1
ave-fader over the fearful horrors of the u
iddle passage.
Gentlemen, as in our Revolutionary strug-
e our fathers had to contend with the timid
I'd the ayaricious, who feared the evils of {
ar, and continually cried peace peace
hen there was no peace SO may we expect !
be constantly hampered by declaimers in :,
vor Of compromise. | do not stop to con- =
Ter the illness of our lending an ear to such D
cry until the insult TO our flag has been =
'ned for, and until our supremacy is ac-
owiedged. for the great mass of the people :,
the country will be unanimous on this :
int; they will regard the bare suggestion
treating with the rebels whose hands are Y
lined with the blood of the sons of Massa- y
usetts, Of Ellsworth and of Winthrop, of
'ebel and Of Ward, as a personal insult,
d will reply to it as did Patrick Henry,
must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must T
The sword is now the only pen with
llch we can write "peace" in enduring