The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-15
nos,on phi,anthropy-Afec ting Scene

boston fUildlllilOpy
On the 18th instant quite Q scen' WOO
no,,o, -, i, Bos,on over the departure OF
,ho dictionary ship Morning STAR" built
WV ' "',,.;n,ions of Sunday school chill
Srcn The ship is commanded by Rev. Dr.
~ p,xarKu, Jr. Her destination was ti'e
candwich islands; but what She Is TO 90
when she gets there does not appear. we
.r,ncct the Rev. DR.. BINGHAM Will take
turn nj a trade to pay expenses. no" '''c
" Morning Star" willcarry out her mission
arv purposes. unless il be the distribution OF
hooks and the gathering up Of something
more valuable for the return voyage, We
cannot imagine. This sort Of missionary
business has been long conducted by the
Bostonians. But to the matter Of the iu-
gubrious and fearful leave taking between
the citizens and the dear BINGHAM family:
There were present on vessel and on
wharf 1000 persons. A hymn and prayer
and chapter from the Scriptures were
succeeded bv n short address. Then fol-
lowed other addresses, when Mr.. BINGHAM,
ST., took leave publicly of his son and
daughter and his sons wife (who were
going to the Sandwich islands) in the fol-
lowing language: "Childrcn, ! commit
"you to the care Of Him who holds the
"winds in His hands, and who has said, To-,
al am with you to the end of the world.
"My children, bid you all long and
"Gnal goodbye"
The scene was dramatic and highly SEN
sational. The reporter says "thcrc was
scarcely a dry eye viSiblc.' A closing
hymn and prayer, the lines were cast off,
and the "Morning Star" sailed on her
voyage.
Now here is people making a great
powwow over the sailing of missionary
vessel to the sandwich Islands to carry
christianity to a race Of beings whom they
have helped to make wretched, and whose
condition they are not likely TO improve il
| they preach to them and trade with them
| till doom's dav. Tears are shed in such
copiouS showers as to shame the clouds for
the coStivc manner in which they let down
their rains, and two thousand people were
moved to very misery in their deep SYM
pathy FOR the sorry inhabitants OF the
Sandwich Islands. On that tar-oit sympa-
thy, how much money is spent in II how
many snccurcS does il create for lazy pco-
pie who cannot support themselves III any
honest way t-how many books ana tracts
il does require, and how much money IS
needed to print en- For this and for
these do the preachers and collectors be-
sccch the good people, especially the rich,
of Boston. Give Us, say they, OF Your gold
and your grccnhack>-oh give. that we may
cyanrrlizc the savage. The long faces and
the cattine waycrmakcrS give, and the
missionaries, 70 ollt-away ont from BoS-
top-to minister to the bcnightcd. And
As they depart, there are tears and means,
and oroalr, fertile hcathenish condition of al
most all men but themselves. And yet
these very men have been for nearly two
years conyuI>ng the land with their cru
~9dc AGAINST the suhiugatcd southern pco-
PIE. and are ready to plunge them at any
moment into depth OF misery and despair,
from Which there shall DC neither reSurrcc-
ton nor reconstruction. Cannot the sand
witch Islanders, or the Oicbbeways, or some
other gentle savage race send few mis-
siouarics to Boston 10 teach the people