The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-11

one of them ever seems to regard that his position
should ever be subordinate to his principles Would
the same judges who occupied our Supreme Bench in
1854. If they had been upon the English Bench, have
sanctioned such proceedings rs they then did! l
have = higher opinion of them than that; but in the
nature Of things they did not deem it worth while to
lose their positions for a principle, where the interests
Of only 6O,O0O people were involved, and no fame
would await them IS would have been the case had
the Interests Of a mighty nation been involved in the
resistance to usurpstion. Yet, TO each individual Of
the sixty thousand, his rights were as dear IS though
he were = unit Of sixty millions l do not assert that
cur Ministers and Judges are men OF lower morals and
principles than those Of other nations, but, IN the ma
ture Of men, we can hardly expect Of them what We
might were they in more conspicuous positions; there
fore il seems to me that we cannot expect TO establish
here, or build up, those constitutional safeguards and
tribunals Of appeal which shall be above the local infu-
ences that exist here, so long rs we remain an indie
pendent nation. Hence, since the revolution Of 1861,
l have been growing into the conviction now so
strongly hod, that "a GnReIafiO. ai0Re can We look
for any escape from the evils Of a government which
is based upon selfish motives, and that ignores all
true principles. A nation may live through a revO-
luton which shall bear il onward in the path Of pro
gress, and be better for the ordeal, but a revolution
NulCu SlElAr- anu w NN A--N pm
ising o~utgrowth Of national life; a revolution which
degrades and demoralizes, rather than uplifts; which
prostitutes high offices; which drags the Courts into
connivance at the destruction of what they were in
stituted to uphold; is based on moral perjury, and
can only result ir a Generalization which tine nation
will hardly recover from. This nation has entered
upon the path Of Mexico and the South American
countries.
l have no faith in the operations Of any possible
parties here. In other countries parties are influential
because they are known TO have conference and power
enough 10 reyolutionize when their just claims are
UNDECIDED, and are felt TO have the will also. Here
this cannot be: the natives have 10 taste for political
turmoil, and the foreigners, who are So constantly
informed that they have no rights which the Gov
eminent are bound TO respect, are all more intent
upon present gain than the building up Of al indie
pendent government upon n broad basis Of justice
and truth. - long Us they are let alone, but few of
them have any regard for the peoples rights, and
the great majority Of them are 30 much interested
in the pecuniary gain which will result from annex
alton, that they do not care 10 contribute TO the sta
bility Of this Government. This is not saying they
are worse or better than most men; they follow nat
ural laws. The government does nothing to challenge
their respect, and their interests lead them to hope
for q change.
Any citizen whose views cannot agree with
the Ministers, is styled a i" fre-brand,' ga trail
tor no matter how conservative and loyal his
opposition. The Ministry show and feel no respect
for any who may differ with them in any degree;
they descend to any artihce TO annoy and disgust all
who oppose them. They continually inform the for
eign community that hey are regardless of their
opinions. They degrade themselves and the ma
ton in the measures they take to carry out their
ends. They place before the honest Hawaiians WHO
may differ from them, no alternative but a cowarJlly
reticence, a hope for annexation 10 some other power,
or revolution.
OF what success n party " could hope for, we
may form some ilea when we remember what the
Ministers did at the last election, where the govern
ment patronage, in the hands Of = lunatic, with Min
is;crial cooperation, succeeded in sitting an expires
sion of opinion.
again submit, that in advocating honorable an
nexation TO the United Srs.as-r- Hii~-'-e 49,
v-.y V~Is now open TO any who are not , repaired
TO live under Ministerial usurpation, and in constant
peril Of their rights and properties. The material
argument in regard TO increased value 70 PROPERTY.
and more equitable taxation, / leave for the present,
merely suggesting that the course adopted bv the
Ministry OF visiting their personal spite upon a
friendly power, even at the expense Of thwarting a
measure Of great national Importance, shows conclu-
sively how little the true interests Of the nation are
regarded by them, and | commend the cbalice TO the
lips Of those interested in Reciprocity, who did not
care, in 1864, whether the government was right
ly- administered or not, with the hint that per
haps they are something more than mere passen-
gers in this country, and have some interest in its
political government.
1t is well known that the views exnreSsed bv