The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-09

the following interesting letter from the Honora-
bic w. H.. Seward
z DEPARTMENT oF STATE,
- WAsHISGTOS, February =, 1864 (
Sir Il have had the honor to receive YOUR
Excellency's note of the 9Th December ultimo,
enclosing the autograph letter Of His Majesty
kamehameha ", (and an office COPY of the same)
announcing to the President the death of His Ma
Jesty Kamehameha W., and the accession Of the new
Sovereign.
President, the original Of which will be delivered TO
His Majesty in person by the Minister Resident of
the United States, | cannot forbear TO add the express
sion Of my own earnest sympathies in the bereave-
ment which has fallen on the Hawaiian nation.
Since the visit Of the deceased King and His
present Majesty to the United States many years
ago, our people have felt a personal interest in them
and IN their native land even greater than that
previously inspired by the peculiar relations Of the
Two countries. That interest has continued, and
Will prompt an unabating solicitude in behalf Of
His Majesty Kamehameha V.
In all our relations with the Hawaiian nation there
is none which the people Of the United States recall
with more satisfaction than their exertions to pro-
mote the cause of Christianity in those Islands, and
there Is not a Christian heart in the country which
will not be glad and grateful TO know that His
Majesty died the death of the righteous, and to
believe that We may in some degree have been in
strumental in the introduction of that religion,
which has promoted so largely the welfare Of the
Hawaiian people, and from which His Majesty de-
rived support in his last moments.
cannot refrain from expressing my congraiuIa-
tons that His Majesty, the new KING. commences
his reign with SO large an experience as he has
acquired in the affairs OF the Government, and
especially with the advantage which your Excel
lencg's z.al and ability, tested and approved as they
have been under two preceding SOvereigns, will
afford to his government. I trust that God will
ever defend, prosper and bless His Majesty Kameha-
meha ", and his people.
1t is gratifying to the President to know that our
representative, Mr.. Mcbride, has made his sympa-
thies acceptable to His Majesty and to the widow Of
the late King.
Assuring your Excellency of my warmest wishes
for your health and happiness, | remain
Your Excellency's friend and obedient servant,
WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD.
To His Excenency r. C. wYLLIE, His Hawaiian Maj
esty's Minister Of Foreign Affairs, &C., &c, &c.
The many friends of the Rev. DIR. Anderson,
lowing letter from him, which has been duly sub
misted to their Majesties the King and the Queen
Dowager.
MISSIONARY House, BosroS,
To His Ercellency r.. C. Hylie:
My DEAR RTE Honorable Edward Everett,
in accordance with your request, submitted to my
perusal your letter to him of Dec. 10, 1868, ANNOUNCE
ing the death of Kamebameha w., and the accession
to the Throne of Kamehameha v.
Ii you think proper, | beg you will tender to His
Majesty the respectful Christian salutations Of our
Board of Missions, and the assurance not only of our
best wishes, but of our prayers to the God of Nations,
for the prosperity of his reign.
To Her Majesty the Queen, in her sore bereave-
ment so early in life,-whose personal attentions are
most gratefully remembered by my wife and daugh-
ter, not less than by myself beg leave respectfully
to tender our joint sympathies and our prayer is,
that she may have the sustaining presence of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the sahctifying
and consOling influences of the Holy and Blessed
Spirit.
On occasion of the lamented death of the young
Prince, before there was any thought of my visiting
the Islands, our Executive COMMITTEES united jim q
respectful note of coincidence to their Majesties. L
perceive you acknowledge one from Mr.. Everett, and
| trust that ours safely reached the Royal Persons,
for whom it was designed.
Your assurance, that His Majesty will administer
his government with impartiality towards the several
religious denominations existing in his kingdom, IS
what we should both expect and desire.
The effect of my official visit to your islands. has
been to quicken the interest OF our Christian commn-
nifty in the religious welfare of the Hawaiian nation;
and | trust that when the results of the visit shall
have q more correct and ample publication, than has
been possible hitherto, the interest will rise to n
higher point. When this publication Is made, L shall
send you 4 copy.
think that you, Sir. will agree with me in the opin.
ion, that the religious organization Of the Protestant
community, which was eaected in June last, should
receive the cordial approval of all we'll wishers to
the Hawaiian people tending, as it does, greatly to
hasten the day, when by far the largest portion of
the people will be independent of foreign aid. Our
earnest desire is, that those beautiful islands, for
ages to come, may be the abode of a Christian nation,
free and peaceful as now, progressively enlightened
and civilized, and independent of all foreign nations.
My wife and daughter desire their best respects to
you, and L am, my dear MIR. Wyllie, with many
pleasing membranes,
Very respectfully and truly yours,
4. ANDERSON,
Foreign Secretary of the a. b. C.. F. NJ.