The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-10-15

THEY ARE NOT FIT TO COMPREHEND AND
ENJOY A FEkE CONSTITUTION.
In nv letter to the Bulletin under date of the
18th June Lat, the p0stulate was set forth that
the politi0i institutions of the Hawaiians were
far in advance of their social condition. Such q
state of things might appear ut first sight as sim
ply anomalous and nothing more, but it is a posi-
tive evil, and destroying the race. The subject
has been well ventilated in the Convention by the
different advocates pro and con in the discussion
Of the elective franchise, which it was proposed
to limit by a property qualification, and the de-
bates, il fully reported, would throw a deal of
light upon the actual condition of the country.
Every resident here who is not judicially blind
and purposely unconvinced, knows and acknowl-
edges that a totally false impression prevails in
the United States and elsewhere as TO the condi-
ton Of the people of these Islands. 1t has been
published 30 often from apparently reliable sources
and " kept before the people," that this is in
every sense q Cbristianized and enlightened ma
ton, that il would appear to be a hopeless task
TO controvert what is SD generally believed. Only
thcee who have lived among the people know the
actual state of things existing among then; and
tar from all these arc willing to acknowledge
what they know. The free Constitution q grant
ed'' (J by Ksmehameha Ill.,; the numerous
churches, with their long lists of members, the
public schools IN every district the fact that
almost universally the people can read and write;
these evidences are pointed at triumphantly by
such observers az the Rev. DR.. Anderson as proofs
tn8t the f1aW8IlanS are all Ln8t IS Claimed TOT
them. But the truth, though often bitter TO the
taste, = yet . wholesome medicine, and sooner or
later is must be known that g matters among the
Hawaiians' are not as they are represented to be
abroad.
Unvarnished truth will tell you that Hawaiians
are totally untitled by education and training,
for the poseesion of the privileges of the ballot,
she trial BY jury or to cit as law makers, although
they have possessed these rights for the last II
years that the long list of church members is,
alas q long list of hypocrites and missionary
deceivers that the free schools, so layishingly
supported by government, are too often the
schools OF vice instead Of virtue that the ability
20 read and write we'll is an invariable accomplish
ment of the lazy yagabonds, who, educated at
the seminary established by the mission, swarm
ike locusts devouring the substance Of the indus
trious. Truth will further tell you that a horri-
bic disease Is eating out the vitals of the race,
unchecked and unheeded, and that it is impossi-
lie 70 make rules by which its spread can be pre-
vented and the sick compulsorily treated, because
We have q free Constitution, and the liberty of
the people must not be infringed, It NAV be
SAID of tho Hawaiians, 8. too much liberty hath
made them sick :" and to ask q native legislature
to pass law for the benefit of the people,, is as if
. pbyncian were to go into an hospital and in
vite the patients TO presaribe for their own all
Wents. IL sounds strangely to hear sensible peo-
pie Ignoring the true condition of affairs here,
and arguing earnestly for the continuance of this
system OF allowing iyros to govern themselves
into the grave
THE REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH OF HAWAII
Is the rather high-sounding title of the branch
of the English Church established here under his
lordship Thomas Honolulu. The decease of the
hts Sovereign, Ksmehameha w.. under whose
patronage the Bishop came out from England,
was a sad blow to the hopes of this "high''
church. The present King. as / once before in
timated, 10 inclined to be rather Indifferent to
ferns Of public worship, and it is extremely
doubtful II the Bishop will ever succeed in get
ting him to pull! in the ecclesiastical traces. 1t
is amusing and at the same time instructive to
observe the FIX in which a number of the Govern
mcnt officers have got themselves on account of
shis church. Immediately on the late King
his public profession Of faith and joining,
with much state and ceremony, the " Reformed
Catholic Church Of Hawaii - it suddenly became
very fashionable to attend there, and among
others who were confirmed and admitted to the
Church were his Excelleucy Mr.. Wyllie, always
to have been q Scotch Presbyterian in
his predictions; the Hon. G. M. Robertson, al
ways knoicn 20 be ditto, and Until then q menu
Der in full communion of a Congregational
church in Honolulu; his Excellency Gov. Kekua-
naoa, for forty years a Congregationalist (but he
was the Kings father, and no doubt liked to
please the King y and last. not least. the honor
the Attorney General, c.. G.. Harris, whom
nobody ever accused OF possessing any religion in
particular. Nov that the popularity Of Is the
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noticed that the new faith Tin its outward OBJ
sits awkwardly on some of those who
made haste to give in their adhesion. The Bishop,
though a very clever man no doubt, and 81 first
wrangler" in his college, as l have heard, came
here with very erroneous ideas Of the condition
OF these sacage islanders. He and his attendant
were not a little surprised to find the ma
tive population about fairly divided between St. |
Peter and Sc. Calvin, and the large, intelligent, |
and somewhat literary foreign population either
Cougregationalists or Indifferent, and, like the
natives, after satisfying their curiosity as to the
new comers, not caring to hear
"rhe snowy banded,
DNeesante,
Dsisrasehanded priest intone."
A STORY OF TEE BISHOP.
Bot 90 long as his late majesty lived, the pros
pecte were good for the mission schools were
and, save some unfortunate slips,
appeared to prosper. The Bishop was as good as
promised--so it is said-the office of President of
he Board of Education, and went so far as to