The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-06-04

effect of this unsettled state of things, and this Will
be more and more the case; our domestic ana 'oIeis"
trade will both be seriously impaired ana cap''ai
will seek more secure places OF investment anu ta'
US by. Let me tell you, c. c. II. "fhe proper me sae'
the lawful. and the most advisable course Is TO SUCK
10 the Constitution and the laws. Because he does
no, fancy all the architectural details of our home
stead, is he going to pull It down about our ears
and dig up the Pounds lions too /? " Subject avoids
discussion of the real question at issue by saying
that legal authorities have decided II for US. | stand
in no such awe of the luminaries Of the Hawaiian
bar, as TO resign the exercise of my common sense
on a question which requires no legal knowledge
His historical illustrations are s~ingularly uniortu-
nate. The so-called revolution of 1858 was not an
alteration in the British Constitution. We commend
him to Mackintosh's "View of the Reign Of James
IL" James III. undertook to alter or annul the
ancient Constitution of England. The twelve points
in which he violated it, sustained in every step,
by the highest legd! authority, are enumerated
in the preamble to that immortal instrument. the
Bill of Rights. The people rose. mobiles and COM
mons, as one man, and expelled him and his posterl-
~ from England, and chose a King who tcouid
keep the Constitution. The Bill OF Rights merely
reaffirms and fortiheS the ancient principles OF the
English Constitution. 1t was n solemn compact be-
tween the King, for himself and heirs on the one
hand, and the English nation on the other. In his
OtneT lltuSITdtlOD, 100, Ut UODl l. Ou liz III
leg" We have always supposed that the Slave
holders Rebellion was the violation of the Constitu-
ton. They made war on the Constitutional govern
ment, and have had TO suffer the consequences of war.
Slavery, in the loyal border States, is still under
the guarantees of the Constitution. Amendments
to the Constitution, are now pending in Congress,
which will abolish it everywhere, but they will have
TO be ratified by three tourths of the States. "a Sub
iect'' affects TO ridicule the anxiety that is felt by
those who see the importance of the great principle
at stake. | will quote for him a few words from
Webster's speech. delivered in the U. S. Senate,
May 7th, 1884:
THE first object of a free people is the preservation of
their liberty, and liberty can only be preserved by maintaining
constitutional restraints and just divisions of political power.
r = \ < r The spirit of liberty is indeed a bold and fearless
spirit but ii is also a sharp-sighted spirit; 1t is a cautious,
sagacious, discriminating, far seeing intelligence il is jealous
of encroachment, jealous of power, jealous of man. 1t de-
mands checks it seeks for guards ii insists on securities 1t
entrenches itself behind strong defences, and fortihes itself with
all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion
1t does not trust the amiable weaknesses of human nature, and
therefore it will not permit power to overstep its prescribed
limits, though benevolence, good intent and patriotic purpose
come along with it." Il