The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-10
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THURSDAY, 10.
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corresponience Of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Ma. EDrroR In the last Polynesian, under the
eover of an obituary notice of His Majesty kameha-
nsba w. some writer has had the bad taste TO
fling out siurs and insinuations against the Ameri-
can Missionaries as a body, and at Mr.. aud Mrs
Cooke individually. as the instructors of his late
Majesty. What motive could have led to this
couardly and wanton fling, know not, but as one
Of the privileged-t to guess, L may say II was one oil
revenge. for if rumor is to be believed, the supposed
writer Of the article WAS once forbidden the honor
Of visiting the Royal School by Mr.. Cooke. from fear
that Evil communications tcouid corrupt good
manners"
The following is the allusion referred to;
unlike the greater proportion Of boys who anersaTds prove
themselves entitled to the name Of leaders, the late King was
unmistakabls bright and rsaSy " while N seho"i, !, 20 h ~ ih n
He had, TO use a term that would be applied in other parts Of
Greek and French and German were beyond the skill Of his
Instructors, and the hundred and one ace2mPnsnnsHts Of these
book. But his teachers were conscientious, and his moral train
he came 70 Know so much as he did, and it was as often answer
snea him M doubted for : moment that he was destined to make
mark and be a power in his country, and such he did and
was In or about the beginning Of 1919, the late King and his
brother, our present Sovereign, left school tor the simple reason
. mn .SJg AMI Kind intentions Of The principal. mir and Mrs.
should be who do theft best"
But 1 might have allowed the foregoing quoted
remarks to pass unheeded had not words of the
same purport been given from the desk at the Re-
formed Catholic Temporary Cathedral on last
Sabbath, by Bishop Staley, from whom. as his late
Majesty's chaplain, something was expected. which
might have been as oil to the troubled waters. not,
as is the case, exciting a controversy in which none
but unkind feelings can have sway.
The Bishop and his associates have seen fit, from
their advent among Us, to speak in disBaraging
terms Of the American Missionaries and their labors,
whenever opportunity offered, and have been
somewhat surprised that their unchristianlke con-
duct has not met with some retort from that body,
although none can doubt but that their silence under
every species of insult and abuse, is ~ much to their
credit.
After due deliberation, / am, however, led to say
q word in their behalf, from the belief that their sin
is not that they are missionaries but that they are
Americans. | arrive at this conclusion after care
fully considering n number Of circumstances which
have occurred of late, and I'm somewhat ashamed of
the fact that there should be among the Bishops
congregation Americans, who aid him, by their coun-
tenanoe and counsel, in his unwarrantable course.
The best answer to these unkind and uncalled for
filings at Mr.. and Mrs. Cooke that 1 can make, is to
copy a report on the Royal School, made by the Hon.
r. c. Wyllie among many notes published by him
some eighteen years since, and which have been
copied by n London Magazine, and which 1 consider
excellent authority.
Extract Cram Mr.. WyLie's Notes.
"a SCHOOLS ASD SEAISARIES-In the very impOrtant UoiDt
OF Proyuiing instruction for all classes, rs in every other duty
connected with their sacred calling, the missionaries stand
pre-eminent- With them, 1 believe, resides the merit Of having
excited the chiefs to desire a school Tor the systematic education
OF their children 81 both sexes With the concurrence Of the
king n chiefs, in 1889, the American mission selected for that
purpose Mr. & Ms Cooke, who were assistant missionaries.
Having lately at the request Of DIR. Judd, visited the school
daily, to watch the progress Of a disease, bearing more resem-
blanee TO the "fyPhHs D1i0T" Of" Cullen" than any other
noS type of fever. i have been n eyewitness q the anxious
AMI parental-iike are Of Mr. & Mrs Cooke, both OF the sick
and healthy children OF the chiefs and I am prepared to state
iron "o-erVatrou- that 4 more proper selection could not have
been made.