The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-14

Springfield, Maine. He has also been presented
with q farm out West, and may now settle down and
enjoy himself. with "reminiscences Of his desperate
encounter with Payne to enliven his winter even
ings.
Hon. James johnson, the Provisional Governor Of
Georgia. addressed the people of Savannah recently,
on the duty and destiny of the South. His speech
was able and eloquent. exhibiting a clear under
standing of the present condition Of the country,
and urging the people Of Georgia TO proceed at once
with the restoration of their former - practical rela-
tons with the Union. The Washington Chronicle.
referring TO the speech Of Governor johnson and the
duties now resting upon the Southern people, very
truly remarks that it is not to be expected that all
who participated. either voluntarily or involuntarliy.
in the rebellion will see these things as clearly and as
speedily IS this practical statesman, but they Will
come TO them in season. Where the interests. imme-
date and remote, of a great community are involved
in the simple attributes Of obedience TO law and hdel-
ity to oath, the right result will soon be at'ained.
There is not before the Southern people o single
temptation to do wrong. Sick Of war, sick OF poverty,
sick OF debt, sick Of death, are they willing TO COM
mence a new carnival of blood (? We trow not.
They will note that there is seated in the White
House a kind friend. and yet 8 resolute and deter
mined patriot, who will enforce his obligations at
every hazard, and insist upon the ful6lment of theirs.
They will see that a Congress. largely anti-slavery
and anti rebellion in both branches, will meet in De
cember next, instinct with the sternest resolve against
treason and slavery. Behind these representative
engines are a mighty people. conscious that they have
achieved o great victory over q threatening reDeinou,
and religiously sworn to make treason. through all
ages, an unspeakable crime. As the Southern people
realize these facts, they End their own true interests,
pardon and safety, in unconditional submission TO
the demands of the President Of the United States,
and to the cultivation Of those other relations without
which they never can be the equals and must be the
subordinstes and interiors OF their former fellow
countrymen. Ii did not need the strong and manly
words of Governor johnson to illustrate the truth
that the Federal Government in growing stronger
with every hour. and te lead US to predict that what
looks now like an inclination to bow before its IRE
..,t.h1a ,t1ar u,n n a n nnmnQtlffln-
| extending to every revolving class in the South, and
Affecting nationalities who look upon the spectacle Of
our INDICATED Republic as an invitation to them to
come and enjoy the blessings Of civil and religious
freedom.
THE MALDAS MuRpERER.-The following article
appears in the Lowell Courier on the subject of
Governor Andrews position in the matter of car
rying out the death sentence on Green, the Maiden
murderer
We have heard stated what we presume il the
precise position of Gov. Andrew in relation TO the
case OF Green. the Maiden murderer.
Governor Andrew IL an opponent OF capital
punishment. He does not believe III its necessity
or its justice but yet, as a law-abiding citizen, he
does not seek to justify his neglect To sign the
warrant for the execution of Green on the ground
of any conscious convictions OF this character.
His position is, that if Green had been legally con
viCted of murder i'll the first degree, by The reTdict
of a jury, it would have become his duty TO sign
the warrant for his execution but that not having
been thus convicted, no ease is p~resentcd before
him on which he Is required to act.
The Revised Statutes give the definition OF muir
der in the first and second degrees rs follows 4:
Murder in the first degree must be " committed
with deliberately premeditated malice nfore-
thought, or i'll the commission of. or attempt to
commit, any crime punishable with death or i'm
prisonment for life, or committed with extreme
atrocity or cruelty Murder in the second de-
gree is simply an act of murder not in the first de-
gree. The statute also provides that 80 he degree
Of murder shall be found by the jury
Green was indicted for murder, and, on being
arraigned, pleaded guilty, was adjudged guilty Of
murder in the first degree by the Court, and sem
fenced to be hung. Now, Governor Andrew main
tains that the degree of murder having been as
certained by the culprit's .o,on confession, and not
by the rerdict Of a jury, the conviction is illegal,
and that no warrant can be legally issued for his
execution.
BRIGHAM You've ON PoLYGAMY.-Tn one of his
letters in the Tribune from Great Salt Lake City,
A. d. Richardson gives the following sketch Of a
conversation with Brigham Young. in his Office, on
the subject of polygamy. Speaker Colfax was the
principal party to manage the controversy with the
Mormon President:
AT last the discourse turned upon polygamy
and u lively, frank discussion ensued, in which all
present, on both sides, took a part. Brigham in
sisted that experience and history, both sacred and
p%rofane, justify it, and posed the s%criptural mem
bers of our party by asking them to cite from the
Bible a single direct prohibition. But when be
admitted that even in Utah, as elsewhere, the births
of males and females are about equal, he seemed q
little staggered Dy MI. C0l1aXS asklng now ne &c
counted for that fact if the Almighty designed
more than one wife for each man.
Our Party-Is Polygamy a vital and inseparabls
part of your SYSTEM
Brigham-It is not in our Book of Covenant,
and Discipline. We did not adopt it Of ourselves
but in consonance with n revelation from God
was ordered to enter into Plurality. (The Nor
mons invariably use this word instead of Polyga
my-C0rreSpondent.) So were several of the Other
brethren. But for the Church at large it is a privi
lege rather than an obligation. Abuse Of it some
times occurs which it is difficult to prevent. Blu
we can point to the highest morality. We have no
q house of prostitution. l don't believe you cal
find four ill~egitimate children in the Territory
You all think Plurality cannot last. Now tell III
frankly how you expect it to be done away.
Colfax-Wel, we expect you to have n new
revelation prohibiting it. Uaughter)
Brigham-We should not be sorry for that. ]
God ever so directs we shall be glad to dispens
with it.
Colfax-Or there may be another solution. Yo,
may do away with it by your own voluntary &C
ton, legally, peacefully, just as Missouri and Mary
land abolished slavery.
beginning. You could then demand that we Civ
up the Book of Mormon, and next our Churc
organization.
Our Party-No. no! You would be tolerated i
your faith Just as Methodists. Presbyterians and al
other sects are. We have no right TO interfere wit
your religion-only your practice when it violate
civil law.
4 Mormon Eder-That infamous law agains
'Polygamy' strikes at our religious liberty. and
unconstitutional.
Colfax-It certainly violates no section of tn
Constitution, and accords with the practice of al
civilized nations.
Eder-What right had Congress to enact it?
Our Party-The same it would have to interfer
with a sect which, like South Sea Islanders. shout
consider human sacrifices a religious duty. or. lik
our New England ancestors, should interpret tn
scriptural injunction, Thou shalt notsufcr q vito
to live as requiring them to drown old women o
the charge of witchcraft.
II IN -. I'LL