The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-05-05
nonOrs to senator Sargent.

Among the most prominent advocates Of the
Hawaiian Treaty, was Senator Aaron A. Sar-
gent of California, and his name should be cou-
pied with those of the Senators from Oregon,
Senator Jones from Nevada, to whom we last
week referred, Senator Cameron of Penn, and
Hamlin of Maine. On the return of Mr. Sar-
gent to California, he was received with grand
ovation by the citizens of San Francisco, on the
evening of the 9TH of April-iust one day before
the popular ovation given in this city to the re-
turning Hawaiian Commissioner, Hon h A. P
Carter The California Senator was received
and escorted by the military as well as by the
citizens, who turned out in vast numbers.
From the veranda of the Cosmopolitan Hotel,
he addressed them, and gave brief outline of
the work of Congress. In his address he re-
ferred to the Hawaiian Treaty in the following
language:
" AT the recent session there was measure
enacted which trust will rebound to the pros
perity and wealth peculiarly ofthis city. Eng
land and Germany and France have made
mere mill-pond, an European mill-pond of the
Atlantic, and they were gathering about the
Pacific, had taken the FIJI Islands, had the
the possessions north of us, had New South
Wales, everywhere were increasing their inter-
est, their strength and their power The Sand
witch Islands had become feeble power, scarce
ly $4,000 of them left, diminishing rapidly year
by year, with hardly numbers enough to re-
tain form of government, ready to fall into
the hands of the first strong power which might
take them. For the third time in their and our
history they have appealed to the American
people to receive them under their protection.
to grant them reciprocity and to take in ex-
exchange therefor, what amounts to a rever-
sion of their possessions and of their resources.
Such statesmen as Marcy and Seward recon-
mended, years ago, that this course be adopt
ed by the United States. But we were not vet
strong in the Pacific We had no great San
Francisco, the New York of the Pacific, |
ancient cities of the world. We were not |
reaching ont in these days for the commerce |
Of the Pacific. We were not yet receiving the
vast trade of China and Japan in the proper
lion to which it has since developed. Now
for the third time and the last time in the his
.ory of this people as a nation, they came to
is and asked that we might receive them and
hey receive us. 1t was a question whether
here should be British fortress at the mouth
IF the Golden Gate-whether her commerce
,rossing the ocean to China and returning
hence laden, should be assaulted by the enc
MES cruisers, or whether they should have a
iafe harbor at the Sandwich Islands. 1t was
question whether we should retain this COM
nerce. 1t is a neutral port of the Pacific and
furthermore there were vast commercial con-
alterations affecting the direct interest of this
State, as, for instance, wherever else we buy
he products, such as these Islands afford, we
,ay in gold-as, for example, Manila; but the
sandwich Islands we pay in the product
# our farms and workshops, thereby benefit
ng the artisan and the farmer; and for these
easons desired that the Treaty might be re-
eived: that we might have that security
which would be the result of having this out
'ost of the Pacific in American hands, or at
east in the interest of America, and not in the {
lands of power which might use it against
IAN Francisco and against this State in the
vent of war. l am happy to inform you, {
which you have known long since, that the
realty was ratified, and there is no doubt it {
1ill be followed by appropriate legislation, {
nd that its benefit will be marked upon the +
lture of this city in the return of benefits in {
very direction" [Cries of Good" and ap- |
lause.l t