The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-07-26

world ,t1t lhc newly discovered Howaiiaus were
-1vaEes and cannIbals.
such was not the case at first. aud has never
been the case. Their first experience with q Chris
tian people was a bitter one, and the cup for
them has been bitter from that time 70 this. Tie
facts attending Capt. Cooks death, and the treat
ueut Of his remains the Doctor received from the
mouth Of IN honest old native named keha, on
the Island of Maui, % elcar-minded man, and uUe
# the hereditary historians OF the King OF Chiefs.
The natives always regretted Cooks death, and
tie old man SAID II was done in the DAYS Of their
darkness But the facts - they now become
subjects ut history. entirely Justify the natives in
their conduct, and while in their childlikc sim
UlIcity they may regret what now appears u them
like barharity in their pagan ceremonies, poster
ity viii not regard the Hawaiians in the light
which they were viewed by the civilized nations
for the Erst forty years after Cooks visit. and has
death at their hands. Time Is the great admins
traitor of Justice to the bad Is well as the good;
and Capt. James Cook. among the former. how
ever distinguished his services as 4 navigator,
must take his place in the history of the Hawaiians
where his ungeneTOus, ungrateful and unjust de-
pertinent 70 that simple and hOspitablc people
leaves him.
The doctor found the natives uniformly kind
and honest in all their dealings with him.. lie had
confidence in them and they in him. lie could
not speak unkindly of chiefs or people. The chiefs
and common people were so differently constituted
physically and mentally a to appear almost
unlike in type; and still they were unquestion-
ably Of the same race in origin. But the highest
chiefs by hereditary tradition and religious inIunc-
tions from the gods and their earliest prorenitors.
had bred in and in, intermarrying incestuously
with the females, even their sisters and mothers,
Of the highest princely blood. The highest blood
and rank was in the female. \ female was ALWAYS
associated in the government. and she was of the
highest blood. The chiefs were very large, rs n
general fact, and at maturity weighing sometimes
- l.. - n
the high chiefs are about all extinct. Paki, whom
he knew well. was 60 feet high, and large and
commanding in proportion. Auhea, the female
premier, and the youngest wife of the old and
renowned kamehameha LIST, the wife of Keaina.
when the doctor went to the Islands 1871, was of
enormous size and so disnified in her authority
that when foreign ladies were presented and they
reached their hands out to shake hers, she would
present the tip end of her little finger. This oc-
CURED in the doctors presence ut one Of her re-
captions.
The missionaries arrived at the Islands in 1920.
ldOlatry had been voluntarily abolished before
their arrival. The natives had no religion. They
had lost respect for their idols in virtue of tran
sient intercourse with English and American
traders who had ridiculed such practices. But
they were an immoral class of visitors, and had
inculcated vices rather than morals. The mission
aries sent by the American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions were an excellent class of
BtACOAos LOc NANAhBAhAy HAiA III
duties and efforts to convert the natives to the
Trinitarian creed. They made no efforts to ciVilize
them. Their souls were of more importance than
their social and political comforts and improve
ment. However mistaken in their social, educa-
tlonal, and religious policy, their motives or their
personal conduct could not be impugned. They
were supported penuriously by the American
Board. They were slandered by the whalers who
visited the ports at the various islands for refresh
ments. The crew of one whaler in Il fortnight
would cOunteract the moral and religious efforts
OF a missionary, or twenty of them, for an entire
year. On the whole, their success as a civilizing
and ChrlstianiZing power, the doctor did not
think had been so great as the contributors of
funds to the American Board had been led to believe.
The natives were never a bad people. But they
were too dull to understand the c~o-Origin, co
equality, cO-eternity, and co-government without
quarreling, of three distinct, individual gods; and
how these three personal gods made one personal
god, was Il puzzle to them. But they had bound
less respect and affection for their teachers, gem
orally speaking. The missionaries we're strictly
temperate, and taught temperance. Some of them
were invited by the chiefs and kings to counsel
them and assist them in framing laws based upon
Christian institutions. Among others, prohibitory
laws against the sale of all intoxicating drinks
were instituted and f0rcibly practiced. The
doctor saw but one native intoxicated during n
four years residence at the Islands, and this was
the king himself, and only at one time. lie was
dDONe INV. Ills OBSERVATIONS NJ tine lSldnQS. ana
the quoting and beneficial effect of such a law.
and of its enforcement upon the natives and the
thousands of seamen who visited the ports Of the
Hawaiian Islands, had made the doctor favorable
to prohibition of the severest character in all
communities. lie gave the authorities here his
entire cduntenance in their effort to suppress the
sale of Intoxicating liquors. The action of the
missionaries in moral respects was especially con-
spicuOus in the training of their large families of
children. So many excellent and honorable
young men and women he had never known pre-
scented by the same number of parents to society,
educated, promising and useful in the various
paths Of active life, as had been brought up by
the Protestant Missionaries, sent first TO last to
the Sandwich Islands.
DIR. Ninslows remarks upon the geology and
productions of the Islands were brief on account
Of the time consumed upon the history and social
and missionary matters connected with them.
Hon. J. X. L%uttrelI. Congressman elect from the
Third California District, writes TO Commissioner
Smith OF the Indian Bureau IN account of his recent
visit 10 the scene Of the MOdOc war. and says he
has been able to arrive at only one conclusion in
reference TO it-nameiy that it was caused by
wrongful acts OF California white men. He IS
informed on what seemed to him reliable authority,
that the M0docS We're compelled 10 slaughter their
horses for food on the klamath Reservation. and
having exhausted This means Of subsistence were
then compelled by hunger 10 seek fishing and
hunting grounds on their old reservation on Lost
River. lie regrets 10 say that never was there 4
time, since the organization of the government,
when there was so much corruption and swindling.
not only upon The government and people but
upon the Indians. - is to-day being practiced on
reservation on the Pacific coast.
The anti-Chinese movement in California seems
to be gaining strength and bitterness. The me-
chanics and laborers Of the Caucasian type. it
appears, are no longer alone in their luminosity.
Employers are getting to be more and more dis
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the reason, as before stated, that that presump
tiOus individual, having faithfully served out the
period for which he contracted, now wishes to
turn his skill to account by engaging in the man
.liacture of goods for his own benefit. With this
no fault could be found, if the opposition
rs John Chinaman's notion of the - legitimate "
IS not quito clear. he hegins by so nreaflH nnder-