The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-03-28

ticle before us-that they are perfectly content to
let the Hawaiian nation remain unfit for he res
possibilities consequent upon The maintenance Of a
free government. As we have previously dis
tinctly laid down, the way to fit people for res
possibility, and especially such "a people as this,
is to put it upon them, and then, kindly, care
fully, and intellectually, to assist them to bear
it, and instruct or educate them in the way of
bearing it.
This is the very duty the present ministry are
wholly incompetent TO undertake. The relations
of the native TO the foreign portion of our pOpu-
lation are such that men are demanded in public
stations who make it a study 10 fit the lower
classes for that freedom which is the glory of the
present age. The common people must be pre-
pared for that, or must go under in the progress
of civilization. 1t is because the Hawaiians have
already been so far prepared for it, that they stand
where they do now, and not where the natives of
New Zealand and Tahiti stand.
Do the present Ministry attempt anything of
the sort? Do they not rather attempt to stife
and restrain all efforts, all vigorous thought and
action? Are there not some men in this town
altogether too independent In thought and action
to suit their views? Are the recorded opinions
Ct the present Ministry, as expressed in the Con-
vention of 1864, such as will cause those that
care for freedom of the press, or freedom of suf-
frage, to feel that any sympathy is to be had in
that direction? And when we ask, in the maine
of the People, that steps shall be taken to restore
TIE popular voice, by dividing the Legislative As
sembly into Two Separate Houses, is there any
support to be expected from the present Ministry?
None ut all.
We do from the People to reason
up" We say that the Throne of this Kingdom
derives Its power and permanently from that affec-
tionate regard for their chiefs which is planted
deep in the hearts of the Hawaiian People. This
is the basis of the theory of government of this
Nation. Destroy the affection of the People for
their Sovereign, and you destroy the throne itself.
The great problem is how TO combine with it the
principles of constitutional freedom which alone
can receive the heartfelt support of the best por-
ton of the foreign population.-But we say ut
the same time, that the present Ministry are doing
more to undermine The po,cer of the Throne than
any other equal number of men that have lived on
these Hawaiian Islands from the days of Captain
Cook to this present time. The people do not
put confidence in them and hence they may soon
lose confidence in the Throne itself, to which they
are now bound by ties of national affection inner
tied from their ancestors. Far be it from us to
hasten that state of ~infdelity which may produce
more serious consequences than we are perhaps
aware of.
1t is for this reason that we are opposed to the
present Administration, as not in harmony with
the interests of the chiefs or People. 1t is in
order that the voice of the People may be heard
that we have expressed the wish which is a very
general one, that there be n reorganization of the
Legislative Assembly, and because we believe
that this people are loyal from instinct and e6tc-
tion, and not merely from selfish motives. 1t is
because it is true that important interests are
neglected, and sound political principles ignored
that we ask men to unite their efforts and sustain
a political movement and a party which, while it
may at times be ut fault in some minor matters,
is yet correct in its main objects and principles,
and which time will show to have been in the
right. 1t is because we believe that the Christ
iInity which the article referred to takes pride in
acknowledging to have been established here, is
of such a type as will prove itself the ally and
instructor of the people in their enjoyment of
constitutional freedom, that we claim that the
people may be entrusted with an enlarged share
in their own government.
And we support these principles because we
believe that the change in the political status
which we have marked out, whenever it may
take place, will enlist in favor of the government
the sympathies of a large class of men who now
stand aloof, and of a class who are perhaps as
likely TO be annexationists rs anything else, be-
cause principles which they know are true are
ignored, and are likely to continue To be so by
this government. /
80 then, while We admit that we have here
just enough of party distinctions to make distur-
bance, and not accomplish much practically, we
90 ON to say that it would be better to turn these
differences, through more united ac-
ton, to the bringing abou; of actual and desira-
BILE results.