The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-04-15

society founded in Philadelphia. and which declared
all the laws which conceded the right Of holding
slaves null and without any effect; 1t is, faally, the
idea of Justice.
Abraham Lincoln in power. signifies the continual
ton Of the war and the abolition Of slavery, or, what
is the same thing, the triumph Of liberty and the
triumph Of right.
The Wat waSed by the Federal Government, upon
the seeding Confederation is considered by some rs
unjust Under the point OF view OF the e%ons,itu-
tionai right they say, this war cannot be Law
full; slavery must not be abolished without previously
consulting the States which sustain it Further
more, these Ststes must not. except by their own will
form IA part OF the federation" Those who affirm
this. not only sacrifice justice 10 the constitutional
right, but they completely ignore the causes Of the
North American war. Slavery in the United States
not only violates the principle Of natural equality.
but it also has violated. with its influence, the prn-
ciple OF political equality. Why is il, as Helper
asks. that in twelve elections for President. the slave
holders OF the South have triumphed. and in SIX only
have the men of the North. who did not own any,
triumpheds Why is it that the Presidency of the
Senate has been occupied since 1909 by Southern
men Why is i, that sixteen free States, with a
population Of more than thirteen millions, have had
thirty-tvo Senators, and that fifteen shaveholding
States, with six millions Of inhabitants. have had
thirty Can this odious privilege and still more
odious inequality be admitted by a truly free peo-
Pile
And do you know why this inequality existed! It
existed because q right had been conceded 20 the
possessor Of slaves which was denied TO the possessor
Of any other kind OF property il existed. because
five negroes, for example, gave TO q State the same
political representation as three white men, and thus
the States that supported slavery named thirty rep
resentstives more than the free States. The Ameri-
can Union, therefore, contained within itself, from
the beginning, the contradictory elements which
were bound. logically and fatally. TO lead to its pres
ept situation.
In order to rescue the United States from an almost
inevitable ruin. it is necessary to continue. in all its
consequences. the policy initiated by Abraham Lin
coin: hence, in our opinion, the necessity and i'm
portance of his re- election. Lincoln, up TO this time,
has decreed the abolition Of slavery in the seeding
States, and he has conceded TO the emsncipsted slave
certain rights, which are still sufficiently far from
those which the real citizen enjoys. Logic requires
that the abolition Of slavery be total, not partial, and
that the rights which are conceded TO the slave be
the same as those Of any free man. Otherwise. JUS
tice is not done, and the consequences Of not doing
justice are apt to be disastrous. Therefore. we be-
lieve that the author Of the proclamation Of January
/, 1868. will not recede before the consequence
which it involves. Yes, We repeat it, let Lincoln
concede to the poor negro slave the right of citizen
ship, and the Union is saved. AS TO the rest, TO
those who delight in picturing the war in the United
States as an example Of the weakness Of our doctrines,
We need only say that the problem which neither the
middle age. with its religious orders, nor our bossted
modern civilization could decide, is being discussed
upon those bloody battle felds-the problem Of the
equality Traces and Of the equality Of oil meu.