The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-29
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY, july %.

IlC ACHo D4NL6HN - SH~ 10 ~ LHS
9th of June last, being q week later than before
received. The question Of reconstruction and
the trial Of the conspirators seem 10 be about
the only topics Of interest To the reader Of
the Geographic news for the past four years, the
news that now comes over the wires seems fiat
and Improbable but to the careful reader it
will be seen that a work second only TO the sub
jugation Of the rebels remains to be done. The
work Of reconstruction is a most laboriOus one,
and requires all the choicest energies Of states
men like Seward, Chase, Fessenden, Sumner. and
a host of others who have stood firm through
trials and temptations that would stagger men
of smaller calibre. The work to be done is 10
influence all coming time, and as questions arise
they must be calmly met and carefully consid-
cred, lest mistakes should be made that shall
bequeath confusion and dissension to genera
tons unborn.
The question of right of suffrage for the ne
gro is one upon which the most diverse opinions
are given. 4 French paper published in New
York, the Courier des Etats Unis, which has
from the first sided with traitors like Seymour,
Fernando Wood and Vallandigham, has pub
lished an article on this question, from which
the New York Tribune has copied an extract
and answered. The politics of the Tribune are
too well known to need explanation and as
they without doubt express the opinions Of the
radical portion of the parties for and against
the negro, we copy them
" The Courier des EtItI Unis-true to its instructive and
unfailng hostility TO Human Liberty-says:
We are not OF those who are resolved to refuse, indefinitely
and Tiih preieterHination, the right OF suffrage to negroes
"bu. one does not usually intrust an instrument save to those
"capable OF handling it, and the first condition to the obtain
"ment Of a right s to know how 10 enjoyit. The negroes, eman-
@ 4sin as %. sT Si ) ia~ ~,.n Sg ,e eaIei' nai,i almost :. % Ja1o the
SONY moved by instincts. are they capable all al once Of max
~t to sh.@ Gss : ; We * mott 9TH IhinE so, II Her e' are Ese a. C or rather or
children, who DO no, even comprehend that it is necessary to
then instantly their share in the government of the state.
"Iuteiy needs tutelage-s race Of minors, who must be protected
AGAINST themseIves-aud you would call the pupils to govern
"theIr teachers Is that reasonable ?"
How 30 you know that the Freedmen " DO not even compre-
hend that i is necessary to iabo! in order TO have the right to
you do, aud We never yet met one who did not perfectly COM
pi spd ae 81 say With Nth 1 psr Sas3 e S2 Hei tina. there +. not one able
bodied freedman in Eve hundred who would not gladly work for
fair wages II he could only be sure OF obtaining them when
earned. and OF not beng reduced again to bondage. But there
thousands OF planters hate their late slaves, and swear that, il
compelled to pay wages, they ~Li not pay them to negroes.
Hence widespread anarchy and idieness-
But &" here Is a race which absolutely needs tItelqge.n Why
they have had five or six generations Of it already and you
say that " they are without education" very true) and al
tfrn Isn't 4, HIGH time TO try something eiss ; "
1t IL cruel-nay, it is viIllinous-that Oppression should put
out It's victims eyes, and then make their blindness AL excuse
for immarIng them indefinitely. Shame that the cause Of Des-
pousm should find its most dextrOus advocate in q countrymsn
o. Lafayette and OF Carnot
benisated as The Freedmen may be, they are not SO ignorant
or stupid as 70 vote power into The hands OF their persistent oP-
they will protect themselves, instead Of needing protection
against E ben 1--WE las II: as our I,. GpP ,;; nsn pre- p5sdi e. hey 6 shall
ocra;s shall have ceased to insist Oh their kinship with the ape,
aud on driving them from workshops and from nearly every re-
spectacle employment. There isn't = Democrat fool enough
however unprinciPei-to treat them as Democrats now do az
ter they shall have been armed with votes.
But xe stand ready to agree that Intelligence, Usefulness and
Moral Worth, shall Ice indispensable TO the exercise Of the Right
d suffrage Make the rule as rigid as you please, and We agree
to it, provided that you require II inhexibly OF all. say that
Amen ttut If Won r,,Ee In,eiipsnce a anajifcstjon far BISiEs,
only, and then Shut them out OF the Public Schools aud In e-
ely way discourage their ciucatioE-f you disfranchi=c them,
among them who have acquired more than ordinary intelligence
is not your prescription proved unjust and its IreteNt hyPo-
We enireat the carly, earnest, candid attention Of conserva-
th.' ~ nearly ,Gnerrns ht mery ! me in .tf1I OF me | mon,
aid, and with that aid have triuInphed. We secured it hy
promises which We are not ut liberty TO break. But We lOatlc
want all prescriptions and acknowledgements North or south,
speedily and utterly Obliterated. But Justice is the only basis
Is not grounded in absolute Right. We ariently desire and
hope that this Suffrage question may be settled in ami by the
states respectively. Bet II those states insist that men lately
In arms against the Union shall have power to disfranchise for-
We cannot I'm honor consent"
The right of suffrage is also o question which
is now claiming the attention Of the people of
England. The aristocracy claim that to give
the right to vote to the masses is to degrade it,
and that they are no more fit to be trusted
with a vote than 4 monkey is tit to be trusted
with a razor =" while many of the master minds
of that great country claim it as a right for the
men who, by their labor have enriched it, and
who, by their yalor have fought and won her
battles, on sea and land. 1t is merely Il contest
between the aristocracy and democracy, and can
be decided but one way, and to our mind the is
sue is near at hand. Carlyle, in speaking of
the late struggle in America, Is reported TO have
said, . : Let America succeed, and England goes
to democracy by express train" America has
succeeded-the rest of the prediction will soon
be fulfilled. As an evidence that the democratic
element is fast gaining popularity in England,
let the London Times itself speak. In an article
headed = Sympathy with America lit is need
less to say written since the so-called Confeder-
acy was numbered with the things of the past,)
i, says
Where now the solemn assertion that {" the bubble % Democ-
and that q widely extended suffrage - the inevitable ruin OF a
State Those Who tail the truth habitualy and those who tell
tis: Dernocracy has proved itself a grand thing in America
that in exalting 4 man Of humble rank TO the first position in
the state, II did a wise action, from which neble and benefcent
results have sprung. An Arstooracy fought against this De,
uOcracyi sd though all arstOcracies throughout the world
attempt, and Iet the Democracy stronger and purcr than it vas
before. This lesson will no, be lost in England; nor will the
Continent be slow IN taking 1t TO heart. II strikes the Empire
n France with a keener blow than that with which disease Is
said TO be striking Napoleon Ill In Germany It reyives hspes:
aspirations. and determinations thai the King % Prussia and
Won Bismarck Encred they had irampled out. II calls forth
fresh faith and courage in Italy which has still great work 70
TAe false rre,ence OF despots and obstructive classes il, that
q Government by and through the people - violent, hckle, and