The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-04-13

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no one pure but himself and four Others.
The old resident who wrote q letter to
Mr. Aheong 10 '.eouie and see his good
friend, wss entirely wrong: he had no
business to write any such letter, and he
might have known that the wise man who
/ furnishes the Herald with 50 much valua-
bic information would have seen through
him ike clairvoyant, and would have
known Immediately that he wished ''to
make other terms, which he did not care
TO commit to paper"
The case of DIR. Quick is hard one,
but we sincerely hope that the gloomy
representations of the writer, to the eff
feet that sShould his resignation be &C
cepted, the cause of missions in this part
of the world Will receive sad blow will
prove TO be unfounded. 1t Is sincerely to
be hoped that the Christian Church in
this country, or in the other Islands of
the Pacific, will not give way under it,
and 1t is great consolation to remember,
under these affecting circumstances, the
promise that it shall endure TO the end of
the world and " the gates of he'll shall
not prevail against it. In the meantime,
Just think Whist his feelings must be
to have a person thrust CID into a
Board of which he happened to be
member, by those people who had the
lawful authority to nominate, appoint, and
approve By the way, we did not know,
before, that Doctor Gulick was a Rever-
end Doctor, being under the impression
that he owed his title of Doctor to having
a diploma from some medical institution
in the United States, and was, in fact, the
Rev. l. Il Gulick, NJ D.
Our author endeavors to benefit his
country, as far as he can, by remarking
that g no very rapid advance in a material
way, can be expected in a country whose
native population is dying off as rapidly
as that of these Islands, and into which
natives of civilized lands can not come
with any certainty of bettering their con
dition." We have heard such statements
made and seen them printed, from similar
sources from which this emanates, but
never yet have learned what obstacle
there was to any man coming into this
country and fourishing by the same IN
dustry and arts which would enable him
to make head in any other, even to the
same degree as the author of the letter
upon which we offer these remarks.
The paragraph on the elections en-
bodies degree of richness which is rarely
equaled, and never surpassed. Based
upon the information contained in this
and similar communications, the editorial
heading of the letter gives the following
important information to the world: "The
Government party, backed up by the
planters, have vigorously fought against
the introduction of free labor" False
and the writer knows it to be false. The
introduction of labor of any kind must,
necessarily, be advantageous to the plant
er Any man who wishes to lease or
purchase piece of land can easily do SO. /
Every man who is willing TO work as he
would in any other part of the world,
with the same hopes and prospects, can
have good opportunity. On this point,
we may animadvert hereafter, but at
present must speak of the elections. The
cause of Mr. Judd's defeat, as indicated
in the letter, must be an astonishing rev
elation to him. 1t must be surprising to
him to learn that the political " heresies of
his family" damaged his prospects of an
election, and the fact that his g father,
brother and brother-in-law were known
to be supporters of the Government
policy, generally" would be a singular
cause for failure in this town May not
his failure more reasonably be attrib-
uted to his associates? and to a manly
unwillingness to promise, or cause to be |
promised, in his name, things which he
could not carry out and, further, to
manly resolution to stand by the ticket
with which he had associated himself? /
Ii is said that Thompson doubtless owed
his election to disafection among the
household troops" Disaffection" is a
big word it is TO be hoped that nobody |
will be alarmed or "dismayed;n but if /
Mr.. Thompson owed his election to this,
it does not seem to have occurred to the
letter writer that it would have operated
just as favorably to Mr.. Judd. But Mr..
Judd did not happen to be associated with
anyone who would promise the soldiers
that HE WOULD CAUSE THEIR PAY TO BE
INCREASED.