The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-08-25
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
AUGUST %.

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The LAWS passed during the last session of the
Assembly. and our review Of them, have occu-
pied the greater portion of our columns for two
weeks past, u the exclusion of other important
matter. \ leading article in the Gq=ene. Of the
18th inst. first claims our attention. The article
in question was evidently written by the best
friend of the individual who holds the position
of Minister Of Finance, Attorney General, and
manager OF owner, 40 in a large degree Of the
KaneOhe Plantation. and attempts the defence
of his acts as a Crown Minister. legal adviser,
and last. but not least, as a sugar planter.
1t is not our object to inquire into the vast
diversity Of the races Of the earth. Our only
object is to show that in at least one variety of
the genus homo, vice and turpitude predominant,
to the exclusion of most every noble ana manly
virtue.
There Is TO the %northward of the setting sun,
beyond the broad Pacific, in Eastern Asia, a vast
country, with an immense population, which has
remained stationary in its deui-civilization from
remote centuries. With a rigid national exclu-
siveness that has barred the door to progress,
they had. ages ago, reached a point which they
have never passed. 1t was q stagnant level, from
which neither science nor genius could take
wing, and where vice and crime have festered in
all their loathsome hideousness.
Woman-God's best gift to mans there
treated as 4 brute. Neglected, degraded and
lost. without education, without caste in society,
with no Indictment to virtue and no stimulus to
knowledge, we cannot anticipate any result from
them but darkened moral intellect and blacklist
STAINS or crime.
1t is a country where the light of the Cos
pei of Peace has been barred out, or smother
ed by the demon Of superstition, and where
pueriIe idols, senseless rites, burnt paper and the
.'josh" have usurped the place of the living
God.
1t is 4 country of materialism. where sensual
ity reigns supreme, where life is disregarded.
mercy treated with contempt, and successful
crime can purchase the favor of a despOt; where
the infants of an almost universal prostitution,
with the sanction of the unholy laws of the land,
are consigned by their mothers to charnel houses
filed with quicklime, for the obliteration of
those blots of their corruption.
\ country with an absolute Mongol despot at
its head, 4 Tartar Tarquin, whose &" r~avishing
strides " have ever been impaired to his lowest
subjects where power is in the hands Of a few
while the great mass of the people are more de-
graded than the lowest slaves in Brazil or Cuba
where piracy is a trade, and the Thug is more
expert than his brethren between the Brahma-
poOtra and the Indus.
What civilized, or even barbarous country,
would be benefited by an access of cooIie popu-
lation from such a land?
Can it be possible that our .mportations of the
past year have go soon become an orderly,
good-natured. we'll disposed set of men" possess
ed of most. if not all, the finer qualities of heart
and mind, as set forth by the writer in the Ga
-efte?
Every person, who is not wholly ignorant of
our Courts, knows to the contrary. As wit
nesses, the coolies are totally regardless of the
truth. They know not the moral obligation of
an oath. They will swear to q lie with more
ease and facility than they swear to the truth.
When 4 dozen witnesses are examined on any
criminal prosecution, justice Is left to grore its
way in the dark amid 4 chaos of falsehood.
Contradictory in themselves, contradictory to
each other, totally ignorant and regardless OF the
dignity Of the Courts, they either excite our pity
for their moral darkness or horror for their
moral turpitude. Justice is not enlightened by
their testimony, and a trial with such witnesses
- 4 mOtEeEE- Inc NlECull NouEt % Naudl- IL
the last term. had its share of coolies on its cal
ender. In the Circuit Court of Maui, which has
lust terminated, one - coolie was convicted of
the NEST horrible crime known to the land. and
another for = murderous and unprovoked assault.
The murderer of the lamented Jules Dudoit is
not alone in the pathway of crime.
The leader in question pours out tears of SYM
pathY for the prosecuted "cOOlie," while it
makes a limping apology for his acts.
The - terribly c~owardly quakings are with
tie advocates of the coolies. Their fear origin
ates from an anticipation that their planting
interests may be affected. If the Acting Attor-
nev General had not owned, in a large de-
the plantation of Kaneohe, we doubt very
much If ever that leader had been written.
We profess to be advocates of equality, as far
as human right is Concerned. and would not
DEPRIVE the mos, degraded coolie of the protec-
ton Of the law. We would treat them as we
the burglars. thieves and murderers of the
nost favored nations, but We doubt the policy of
placing them on the same moral leEel as the
higher and more enlightened races of the earth.
Relating 10 Mr.. Hitchcock's case, we fail 20
the force Of the apology of the Attorney Gen.
raj. We admire any officer who faithfully and
performs his duty, and when any Gov
.rnrnent official does il, we shall certainly give
hem credit for it. We do object 10 the vim
prosecution of e7y man, when all the