The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-30

PosITION OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
Seward, the Secretary of State, spoke the sentiment
of the American people when he said the Emperor
CT the French, through the minister, Mr. Dayton :
"Studying contne this unhappy struggle within
own borders, W. have not only invoked foreign
aid sympathy, but we have warned foreign nations
frankly aud have besought them not to interfere
haze practised justice towards them In every way,
and Cancellation in unusual degree. But are
the less determined for all that be sovereign
and 70 be free. We indulge in no menaces and
dedaHces. We abide patiently and with cOmpOsure
the Of events and the action OF the nations,
whose 70 bearance have invoked scarcely less
their sakes than for our We have not been
mslsd by any of the semblances of paTtality of
neutrality which unfriendly proceedings towards
in perItOus strife have put When any govern
shall incline and unfriendIy
attitude, shall then revise with existing
relations towards that Power. and shall act i'll the
emergency becomes people who have yet
fatered in their duty themselves while they were
eDdeIvOring 10 improve the condition of the human
race
TnE AMERICAN UNION 1t is becoming more and
more evident every day. that only hope of saliva
tion-that only hope of peace-lies in the
preservation of the Union. IF We abandon that, all
is lost. If we consent to the dsmemberment of
great COufeIeracy, We consent To an ignOmnious
death. The whole world admits this. Even RUSSELL,
of the London Times, confessed that Union
power-rneant national existence-meant all that
goes to make people respect themselves and be
respected by others. The most unfriendly, of our
critics, when the truth IL wrenched of them.
compelled 10 admit that disunion dismember-
ment, the breaking up OF our country into petty
States, perpetual civil wars, national degradation
ant national death
Hence the Union Is worth struggling for. worth
fghtiug tor, worth dying for Hence its salvation
be purchased dear a rate-its perpetuity
cannot BE- secured At great "A cost. The struggle
may be desperate the mag last years a million
lives may be lost 4 mountain Of debt may be
eutaed upon but this will be cheap, provided
secure the end Of our hopes. The worth Of q
restored Union vii be priceless generation beg
glrei aud ruined IN its cause, would be but small
price for the value received by the world Ii would
be for Us bear the cross. bat il would be for
children 90 wear the crown. Our might /
in dlrkness, but il would rise upon a ransomed
future We might taste only the bitterness Of sorrow,
but would transmit a heritage TO descendants
that would make memories blessed forever more
Il Is glorious, herDiclliy suffer glorious TO /
bear pain and anguish that these who come after
may escape calamity and shame
RslrsuK tBLEAxD AFFECTING ISCIDEST.-The Stock .
ton I1dfpgasHf relates the following OF recOv-
eTy from insanity. IL shows the Importance of an
intelligent observation, Judgment aud sympathy on /
the part of the K, siient Physician
Nearly two years ago, German was sent TO the
Asylum from Of the interior counties, who was
aaictel with melAuChOliI 20 such extent TO be
teeHei incurable. He did not speak for many
Months, aEi had to be taken occasionally by the
Keepers Of the institution To breathe the fresh out
door breeze. He appeared to be almost dead 20 all
sense Of observation. and 1t seenei that every spark
Of mental life had het forever. Lost to the world.
Ieuls anu hlrT-rl, ne presented the
Ag spectacle Of living human form without ray
mental Eght-the mind = dungeon, dark, solitary,
asL Eventually some one who had been acquainted
sta the poor fellow in the mines, a letter to
w. Tden making inquiries regarding him, which
tiisr the doctor promptly answered, and nothing
4Ther trauspred until the doctor received letter
F1m the mans wife in the East accompanying which
sls her daguerTeOtype and also the daguerreOtypts
y aer children. She wrote TO her husband IN the
Gsrman language, and the letter which the doctor
eceive'l a transcript of what she had written to
ee father Of her children. The doctor took the
4Euerreotypes aud presented them to the man. or
.''her held them steadily be ore him. He appeared
gaze calmly at the pictures, and in a short time
- organs Of vision appeared more fixed, and his
.o'As more intensified until at length he burst into
ears oni exclaimed, - Ny wife, my children - The
eier was given &c him, aud ne wept like n child 4
latent spring, long dormant, had been touched and
ne mind awakened from long sleep. Disseminated
Not emancipated from the dark abode OF uncon- !
eousness. the soul regain the light it had
4,sts aud succeeded The Is cured-is well: and |
s lie giving Dulsation that renstaed reason her
N'Fone was the vision Of his wife and his children.