The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9.

WE insert the following communication from
"L. B." with pleasure, for several reasons first
because we are enjOined by holy writ to enter
tain strangers, for in doing so angels have some
times been entertained IDLY, because
it has always been our rule to admit and publish
all communications offered and lastly, because
the writer processes to have been long connected
with the press. and we never knew n newspaper
man who did not deserve to be listened to when
he had anything to say. Had IL. B." known
as much of our rules as he processes to know of
local matters pertaining to politics, he would not
have to be assured that the columns of this paper
have always been free to all, as well during the
existence of the Government organ as since.
The biographical sketch of DR.. Staley, given
by our correspondent, is a novelty, nothing
of the kind having ever been published mere be-
fore. Nevertheless, the erudition and CONT
mental fame of the learned Bishop as set forth
below, have never been questioned, and the pub
lie are under no obligation to our travelled cores
pondent for his testimony on that point, however
much bis fulsome compliments may please the
reverend gentleman alluded to, whose good will
81. B." so evidently aims to win. Bishop Sta
ley is no doubt very well qualified Tor the spir-
tAa hiSSi iS CdIuS " ull, Jul :iicu lie steps
beyond that, and aspires to political honors, his
qualifications, motives and fitness may well be
called in question.
OF the amount that Bishop Staley is a loser by
coming to this country, we, of course, have not
such facilities for judging as l.. B." seems to
have had but we doubt very much if it amounts
to a tithe,-as a claim upon the Sovereign of
these Islands for support,--of those of others
whose lives have been spent in serving the good
of this nation. 1t certainly sounds strangely to
those who have long heard the claims of the
older missionaries and c~lergymen, whether of
university fame or not, publicly ridiculed and
sneered at, on the ground that theirs was 4 spir-
itual mission, and that they had no right even to
think politics it sounds strangely, we say, to
hear the claims of the newly-arrived missionaries
trumpeted forth, when they as yet have had but
little opportunity to serve the nation or its rulers.
We oppose the appointment of Bishop Staley
to this or any other office, because it would be a
Catholics embracing together nine-tenths of this
Kingdom, which could only be done at the risk
of stirring up the bitterest p~artizan feelings, and
creating undesirable and unnecessary hostility to
the administration. Notwithstanding the asser-
ton Oh our correspondent, no appointment mas
yet been made, and we feel assured that our
King, in making one, will consult the interests
of the mass of his people and not of the few.
We do not pretend to know to whom al. B."
alludes as talking and acting as if :" they had a
to dictate to the Sovereign of the land,
and IS that he should obey them as "a servant
from the context, in which he refers to Eng
slish residents in the somewhat equivocal term of
Britishers,' We infer he refers only to them.
If our correspondent speaks reliably in this mat
(and We must say that in our own acqualn-
lnce of many years standing with his country
men, We have never heard anything of the kind.)
t will be well TO have a little more light on this
ubject, and find who they are who dictate to the
King, and seek to "make him their servant
md whether they are in Government service or
lot. The remarks sound very much as if refer
ing to those who are engaged in seeking the
.ppointment of the Anglican Bishop to the Pres
dency of the Board of Education. Can it be so?
Correspondence of the Pacific Conf Adyertiser)