The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-04-07
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
bishop StnEcy i'm Boston.

During January last Bishop StaIey hUnored
the classic city Of Boston with q visit. and. from
the newspapers, We find his visit there provoked
some controversy and ommen The Boston
Daily idrsTtiser, the organ Of the monied men
and aristocracy, had a long leader, from which
We extract:
1t hss been announced within 4 few days past that
the English Bishop O: Honolulu Is in this city. ac-
lively prosecuting the enterprise 10 which he had
previously been engaged for some time in New York
and It's vicinity. This enterprise is avoweily TO
procure aid for the branch Of the English Church
which has been planted in the Sandwich Islands. BY
Obtaining men 10 constitute, and We suppose money
10 support, the establishment. To a good many Of
our readers, who have been accustomed to think Of
the Hawaiian Islands as under the spiritual guidance
Of the American Missionaries who first raised the
natives from their former barbarism and iiolatry,
the existence Of such a prelate as the Bishop Of Homo
lulu, CT Of such an ecclesiastical organization as that
which i officially styled the :" Reformed Catholic
IhuFcA'' Is very Akeiy to be something quite new.
we may, therefore, be permitted 10 review some Of
the circumstances attending the history Of this or
ganizition, which-apart from all questions Of doc
trlne or GeuominauOu, with which We Of course can
have nothing 10 do-teud, in our Judgment, 10 throw
some light upon its claims to the support of citizens
OF the United States.
Then follows a historical sketch of the intro
duction of the Reformed Catholic Mission, the
article closing with the following paragraph:
1T Is under such circumstances as these that the
English Bishop of Honolulu now comes TO this coun-
try, and asks the assistance of citizens of the United
States ID sustaining his episcopal dignity aud in for
warding an enterprise in which. we must be permit
ted to say, there is in our judgment much more Of
politics than of piety. We do not dwell upon Bishop
Staley's relations TO the American missionaries, who
object with some warmth to his entry into n spiritual
harvest which they had prepared; nor upon his refusal
to recognize men who had for forty years Iabored in
that field with singular disinteresteduess and ackuowl-
edged success. Such considerations would lead TO
those points Of denominations difference from which
We wish TO keep our discussion free. We regard the
matter solely in its general and national aspect, and
examining II in that light we can come to no other
conclusion than this, that the work of Bishop Staley
in the Hawaiian Islands is merely a part of a long
existing British intrigue for the control. if not the
eventual possession, Of that group, and in direct
opposition 10 every American interest,-an intrigue
Of which the English press scarcely scruple to avow
the present visit Of Queen Emma to Great Britain to
be another important branch. That for the advance
Inent Of such a scheme the reverend bishop should
think OF appealing to the United States, and above
all TO Massachusetts, for either men or money. might
Us, were it not that the singular negligence
OF our people heretofore as to their interests in that
quarter seems 10 relieve his application III some de-
gree Of what ut first sight might wear the look Of
extreme assurance"
To this editorial two correspondents reply,
whose communication we insert below, emitting
one or two paragraphs of a controversial charac-