The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-05-21

MIR. EDITOR The lapse of another week renews
the opportunity of communicating with our fellow
citizens through your columns-an opportunity of
which l gladly avail myself. that [ may clear away,
if possible. misapprehensions that may have arisen
in some minds, and point out some changes in the
Constitutional Law which may be made with advan-
tage to the people, whose good is sought.
But first permit me to refer to the prear BILE to the
resolutions, published in your last Saturdays paper,
as having been passed by a meeting at Kaumakapill.
The preamble reads as follows
Worcestershire Royal Proclamation, published last Saturday,
the It'll inst, converting 'the Delegates OF the people, Tor the
purpose OF consulting on the revision OF te uau u pm . o o
provide ways and means to carry on our Government, aims a
unlawful measures to alter oil abrogate the Constitution under
which we live, depriving us of its protection and those rights
and privileges which it now grants and are so sacred and dear
WniEREAs-Ut is alleged and believed that a revision of the
the way to the establishment of an undesired Church, as a n ap,,
pendage of the State. to be supported by tthes or taxes imposed
upon the people at large, &c.
have read the Proclamation over many times and
earnestly invite my fellow citizens to read 1t again
and again and see if they can find a single word
which even hints at or can be tortured in to an init
nation of any ideas attributed by this preamble to
the Proclamation, which l have stated in my former
letter to mean just what it says and no more. Sure
it is that it never entered into the heads of any of His
Majesty's Ministers to carry on their shoulders the
Christian Church CT any branch thereof-nor can it
DC Hale apparent " u h'AtSS hN
people to meet in a Convention, aims to deprive the
people so invited " of rights and privileges which are
sacred and dear to them"-or that a revision IN the
way pointed out, i. e., by q Convention Of the estates
of the Kingdom, "can pave the way TO the establish
ment of an undesired church as an appendage TO the
State etc. 1t seems to me that the State has as
much as it can do 10 look after itself, without troub-
ling itself with the polemical disputations which en-
gage the attention of the able and Jealous champions
Of the various divisions of the Christian world.
That the way pointed out for revising the Consti-
tution is g iusti6able'' and not unlawful and
tends in no way to deprive any one of its protection,
must have become apparent to every one and
if it is not so apparent, l beg ofthem to suspend
their Judgment until they have had time to ponder
over the general principles of free governments, and
to read and reflect upon the very short history OF this
country, and its present political Constitution. And
in the meantime it is to be hoped that no one will
attribute to Judge Allen any dissension from his col
leagues, for he most a~ssuredly- fully cOncurred in the
propriety and lawfulness of the method, which has
been suggested to the people.
Surely to talk over the matter can do no harm,
and Indignation at being invited to talk it over would
certainly appear to a disinterested person to be singu-
larry misapplied.
If one shall say, "we have got along very peace
A ably, and therefore there is no need of change the
same remark would have afforded equally as power
full a reason-for it cannot be called an argument
against the adopting of our present Constitution in
1859. and would be an overwhelming argument, if it
rose to the dignity Of argument, against any one seek
ing to improve or even to speak of improving any
condition Of life.