The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-24

and TO the destruction of the incentives TO appli-
: cation and fidelity. Our last experiment in the
Finance Department, appointed alone because
he had served the American Government, was
most unfortunate, resulting in nothing To the
nation, except ineficiency expense and disgrace.
But Mons. de Earigny has not even the poor
recommendation Of having been sent out by the
French Government, for he was employed here
by Mons. Perrin after three Chandeliers, with
whom he was unable to agree, had been sent out
by his government and if the French Govern
ment and people are not now ignorant of Mons.
de Varigny's existence, they will most probably
be SO in six weeks after having been notified that
he has left the office of their Consulate at these
islands.
With Mons. de Varigny's personal character
no one can complain. He may be the shrewdest
of fnanciers; he may be most ingenious in
deyising ways of raising money, and be possessed
of unbounded credit at the great money GEN.
tiers, but it is certain that his sh,ewdness and
ingenuity have not been tried and his money
credit has not transpired. lie has not the
least affinity for this people, or knowledge of, or
care for, their wants, and moreover has little,
and as far as we know, no affinity with the
great body of foreign residents doing business
here. His appointment is not calculated to add
one dollars worth to the credit ard position of
the government. If the government had Occa.
sion to borrow, Mons. de V~arigny's name taken
by itself alone, would not. give one cent of
credit here, or elsewhere. There Is not in the
country one French citizen in , prominent
position as a business man, and rs far as we
can learn not more than six or eight French
men of any kind except those connected with
the Catholic Mission. Our commercial relations
with France are nothing. What then could
have induced the appointment Of Mons. de
Varigny? What advantage can the nation de-
rive from it?
Not only is Mons. de Varigny quit. untitled for
the Office as a fnancier, but he is also ignorant
of the language of the people for whom he is
called to labor, and thus disqualified for the
duties of Minister. There was a law passed
almost unanimously by the Representatives and
Mobiles, at their last session, that no person
should be employed by this government who was
not conrersant wiM the cernacuAar. Although
that act failed to receive the royal signature and
thus become a law, yet it expresses the sense of
the Legislature, and through them Of he people,
that no man should be placed in office who has
not become identified a0th the race by de acqui-
sition of its language and the knowledge and
sympathy which are supposed to accompany it
in other words that Hawaiians and Hawaiianized
foreigners should be preferred to Stra,grs for
public Offices. IF intelligent foreigners who
have labored long and patiently for the King
and government, are to be set aside, and their
claims betrayed, that every stranger landing on
our beach, ignorant of our laws, institutions,
people and language may be preferred, where is
the encouragement to serve the King with
lsnot such policy a premium To traitors
and treason?
Inc very TACT that the nominee tor the
Finance Department declines to enter Ipon the
duties of that office until some three months
litter his appointment, indicates that lie either
has a distrust of his abilities as a inalcier. or
is not prepared to yield up personal interests
for the sake of the King and people. Whether
the cause of the h~esitancy be that he S not a
Hawaiian subject yet, or fears some arrangement
IN the public finances, or has to obain the
of the French Emperor before he can
assume office under Il Hawaiian sovereign, is
quite immaterial. The fact is patent tat he is
tnprepared (and by corollary ~unfitted) to enter ,
lpon the office assigned to him. ,
But why is it that the interests of Hawaii nei ;
must thus be sacrificed? Is it solely tegratify
he whims Of the Minister of Foreign Afairs? r
f rumor is to be relied on, it is to hin alone
hat the public are indebted for the nomination
f NJ. de Varigny, and the consequent fomation :,
f Il Cabinet which must weaken insead of :,
trengthen the Hawaiian government, ant which 3
spoken OF by all the community with aston n
'hment and regret. Why has Mr.. Wyllie b
cen thus permitted to throw a frebrad into IL
community, that must result in manning d
ne minds of the people and alternating them CT
that support which a wise government p
ovets and needs? Why shall the press re thus I,
ncouraged. aye spurred on, to a contest With an NJ
lien ministry, when peace and harmonymight ii
ave been secured? Is it that the indignation VI
the public may be aroused and heaed on
is head, and he bear the curses of an INJURED
eople and race? If so, it will not take much 4
20 fix on him the odium of a minitrv of -
hieh every Englishman is ashamed. by which
mericans have been %snubbed, and Hhici is an
suit to every Hawaiian in the king6m-a G.
inistry that must go down to posterit and
known as the first "Copperhead Ministry
Hawaii nei.