The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-10-08
A BaIac1ava Charge.

The day before the Prospectus of the CONNER
cial Herald (now our own) appeared, the project
was alluded to in the pages of Bennsu'S DUN of
9th ult., in the following style. We perhaps
owe an apology to our readers for presenting the
extracts, but we look upon them as too good to be
confined to the pages in which they appeared.
Besides as Mr.. VIM. Shaw informed the publicin
the same number that Bennett's OtDn might be-
come extinct, and that it having been his, the
new editors g practice to discuss all political SUBJ
jects in a broad and comprehensive spirit - there
is a well grounded apprehension that these
extracts may be the last of their kind. As literary
curiosities alone therefore they should be pre-
served.
The coolie ring are about starting a new paper,
to be called-, and devoted expressly to the fos-
tering of inhumanity and the slave trade"
sLovers of a free press and free speech, now is
your time to rally. The enemies of God and man,
and of everything having the least vestige of freedom,
have c~onspired together, binding themselves not to
buy from any advocate of freedom, or in their own
words, any one who is opposed to the Importation of
coolie slaves into these Islands binding themselves,
not to buy themselves, or to buy from any one that
does buy from II. NJ. Whitney, or any of his coadju-
tors. They are about starting a pro-slavery paper,
and all of the pro-slavery ring have bound themselves
to withdraw all their support from other papers, and
advertise in that paper. Those who advertise in that
paper of course will be sworn enemies to freedom of
speech and a free press. Now, we believe, that nine
tenths of the population on these Islands believe in
free speech and a free press. viii they continue to
trade with those who are conspiring to rob them of
their fibertiesf
"We sincerely hope the laboring classes will COM
bine together also, and not trade with any one who
advertises in the autocrat Journal when it makes its
appearance, and not deal with any one who are sup
piled from the wholesale houses which advertise in
that sheet. Let there be unity throughout the Islands
IN rb;o Doipt ond O wh0 will Wfn-fha avaOarifu
or the friends of freedom. They have taken up the
war club, and we hope they will get war to the hilt.
Hawaiians where is your spirit that you should
suffer foreign importers of coolies to rob you of the
last vestige of freedom what they could not do with
the pen, they attempt to do through combination.
Our counsel is to meet them on their own ground,
and not buy a single farthing worth from any patron
of that paper, and let them see that two sides can
play at that little game. Let the consumers cease to
buy their goods. and they can shut up shop, and
leave the country to Cinnamon"
We can call to mind nothing which exceeds in
sublirnity-this bold and impetuous attack under
desperate it be the cele-
brated cavalry charge of the six hundred at
Balaclava. In the present instance however, the
Lord Cardigan of the occasion after leading bis
gallant little troop with the banner of Bennet's
Obcn gaily futtering in the breeze, up to the
muzzles of the guns of the Russians-disappears
in the smoke-and leaves Mr.. VIM. Shaw to
retreat with the shattered remains of the band
as best he may.
1t was not to be supposed that in so intelligent
a community as this, the claptrap cry of sslayery"
used against the advocates for the introduction of
Chinese laborers, would, for lack of reason and
argument, be sufficient to sustain a newspaper
opposed to this class of immigrants. By adopting
this cry and attempting to c~onfound the move
ment with the events of the grand drama recently
enacted in the United States, it was no doubt