The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-23

failed to carry, were d meagre minority 81
theorists, IN whose added brains a false
philanthropy had got the better of their pat.
riotism while in the South the factionists
were the leading politicians, who had
become intoxicated with power, and who
could not abide the possibility that their
sectional policy might not forever remain
dominant. Hence the election of a chief
magistrate obnoxious to their preiudices,
though constitutionally chosen, was made
the occasion for armed resistance to a gov
eminent in which they had always enjoyed
the lions share of honors and emoluments.
By a constitutional necessity, nay more,
by the prime law of national existence,
which bound every loyal citizen, and pressed
with peculiar power upon those who had
superadded to this the solemn obligations of
an official oath, but one course could be pur-
sued, that of maintaining the authority of
the government at all hazard and against
whatever faction might oppose it.
1t is needless now TO discuss the ques-
ton whether compromises might not have
averted the collision. 1t is sufficient that the
factlonists asked no compromise, and thar
they would accept no conditions but the
violent breaking up of the nation and the
forced diSmemberment of the republic.
MINIS, forts, arsenals, and every species Of
public property from a cuStom-house 10 n
postage stamp, were seized as the property
of a faction. All debts due TO loyal citizens
of the United States were, TO the amount
of millions, repudiated. Secret conclaves
of politicians usurped authority, voted whole
states out of the Union, and imposed consti-
tutions which they dared not to submit TO
n popular vote. All these unconstitutional
acts, eliminating in the capture of Fort
Sumter, left no alternative but the triumph
of the spirit Of loyaity or the spirit of faction.
But, with the most refreshing political
verdancy, we are asked, Was not peaceful
secession possible ? No, when the faction
lists had once determined upon armed seces-
sion, and had already initiated Il violent rup-
ture, it was not possible. Ask any %intelIi-
gent Englishman, our nearest kinSman by
virtue of the good Saxon blood which flows
in his veins and ours, every drop OF which
is pledged to liberty and loyalty,-ask any
intelligent Englishman whether the peacea-
bic or even the violent dismemberment Of
Great Britain is possible, and do you doubt
what he would Say, if he were not too in
dignant to speak? Propose to him to bisect
England and Scotland by a DETECTED meri-
dian drawn from Portsmouth to John
OGroats, so as to leave Birmingham, Liver
pool and Glasgow on the one side, and
London, Leeds and Edinburgh on the other:
or if he please, we will chop off all that
part of the Island north of the railway from
Carlisle to NewcastIe-upon-Tyne so maxi
ing a thouSand-fold more feasible boundary
than that between the loyal and seeding
states, and what then will every true Briton
say of the right or the possibility of e peace
full separation Noble, lion-hearted Old
England She loses not her hold upon
one foot of her territory if any expense of
treasure or of blood can prevent it.
What if the beni9nant government under
which we live SHOULD suddenly be confronted
with a grand eruption of ~disloyalty on the
Island of Hawaii or what if the Island of
Maui should claim the right to secede from
the rest of the group who doubts whether
". would dispute that right,
if occasion required, would, in main
the integrity of his kingdom, rival
the valor Of its illustrious founder ! Who
doubts whether, in such an improbable event,
who has been so highly honored during
his peaceful reign by the friendship of for
eign powers, and by none more highly than
the American Government, would find
himself sustained not less by their sympathy
and support in war Need | ask who doubts
the American residents, than whom
he has no more loyal friends, and who so
o]ut-number all other foreign residents,
would be among the first to frown upon any
attempt to dismember this prosperous and
kingdom? This is one of the MANY
which the world has been learning
during these two years of conflict and of
progress. in which history has been written
so rapidly ;-Ereedom fosters patriotism,
md Liberty is nat Incompatible wiM LoyaLy.
What people. on the face of the earth
would have rallied to sustain the honor of
heir flag and the integrity of their domain
with a more cheerful alacrity than was man
Tested in that great uprising which followed
the fall of Sumter? Who now d~espairs
Of the republic, when, after two years of
terrible conflict with the bravest and most
determined faction that has ever risen to
destroy a good government, the loyal states
nave gained in self respect, IN a consciousness
If po,cer, in independence Of spirit. in an
because well-tried, patriotiSm, in a
credit which is "conquering inter-
ssted ~avarice at home, and defying interested
,onspiracies abroad ;" gained too in moral
Is we'll as material resources, as they could
lot have gained during twenty years of
luxurious ease.
And what more need | say than to express
he conviction that this conflict must result
n cementing the bonds of national union
nd International friendship. in breaking
Town all sectional antipathies in suppresSing
or a century to come the spirit of faction,
nd in making US, more than ever, a united,
l strong, a patriotic people. When the
nists of passion and prejudice shall clear
way, when these battle clouds shall be
fitted, when again the cheerful light of free
natal day shall shine upon a peaceful