The Hawaiian gazette., 1876-03-15
HANAIIANGAzETTE
AN INDEPENDENT JoURNAL,
DENOTED TO HAWAIIAN PROGRESS.
CIRCULAR.


To the Hon. Godfrey Rhodes, tie Hon
4 S. t7sglora, Waite 3rssrag Gib
son, Esq, and to the other geRtlemen
=soho signed tie address oHis MAJ.
esty, dated February 22d, 1876;
GENTLEMEN His Majesty's Min
listers have already replied to the Address t,
His Majesty, which you presented to him OF
the goth ultino, and which reply. they con
sidered due to you, and have there met, al
they believe, the main points referring to tn,
subject of repopulatiOn, there are still othel
important aspects of your Address which the
I situation demands should be clearly under
stood both by you, Gentlemen, and the public
and L hope that what have row to say with
reference to IT, may not be considered by you
either uncalled for, or altogether Improbable.
1t must he now evident to all of you, al
though no clear and unmistakabe language to
this effect may be found in it, that the general
tenor Of your Address as it reads, not, Gentle
men, as perhaps You all intended, is to i'm
press upon His Majesty, that there-are very
important national ends and objects which His
Ministers were expected to accomplish, and
in which they have failed, and that great dan
ger to the prosperity and independence of this
country, has arisen in consequence of this
failure, and that therefore His Majesty would
do well to call to his aid those who might
be more successful in future. This, Gen
tIemen, is legitimate object, and one which
your duty to your Sovereign and TO your coun-
try may often call upon you to endeavor to ac-
complish. Neither would it be always neces-
sary in order to give effect to your wishes, al
though perhaps desirable, to be either precise
or correct in your reasons for recommending
such change, for it might well be the case,
that your object was not to inaugurate inter
minable discussions about measures and poll
ces, but to have placed at the head of affairs,
men who would be more successful in eifecting
what you require, than in explaining why they
have not done so. This is virtually what
your Address conveys, and whatever views
many of you really had on this point, public
document Of this character and gravity mus
be held to mean Just whatever may be fairly
gathered from its contents.
1 address you in my own name now, because,
as you are well aware, one of my colleagues
has only just arrived in the country, another
has only recently joined us, whilst the third
was not called to Office till a comparatively
Lotto do, ond fba,, caypot ;nStl,, ba hold rasnop
sible for thefailureto accomplish objects which
if accomplished at all, must have been mainly |
brought about through agencies, instituted be- |
fore they joined the Cabinet
Your Address, Gentlemen, calls His Majesty's |
attention to two great points, namely: the i'm
portance of staying the decline of the native |
race, and the Importance of acquiring new peo-
pie from abroad. AS the measures which have |
TO be adopted for each of these ends are clearly /
distinct, it is well to keep them so in our
minds For, when considering what measures
we shall adopt, it merely tends to confuse the |
question and to mislead US, to assume that the /
importation of Asiatic races will assist in re-
the Hawaiian race; or,..to speak
more correctly, will produce a mixed race
which shall have more vitality than the Ha-
Haiian, an affirmation, which as you will per-
ceive on reflection, is open to the gravest ques-
ion. There are then really two separate and
distinct ends and objects, one to save the Ha-
waiian race, another, to import a foreign one.
[ am well aware, Gentlemen, that although
these two questions are by no means very
,learly separated in many parts of your Adj
lress, and the solemn invocation of former
sovereign for one of these objects is made use
If as applying to both, You did not intend
o suggest to His Majesty to change His Min
stors because they had failed in staying the
decrease of the Hawaiian race, whicllhas been
toadiIy proceeding for nearly, perhaps fully,
CENTURY, nor because they had neglected any
hing that the laws Of this country and the APP
of money for sanitary purposes, rem
ered possible, nor indeed that they had neglee-
ed anything which you, as body, or the ma
ority of you had recommended, or were prepar
d to recommend them to attempt with thatob-
ect. No, Gentlemen, the failure of the Ministry
flrich you put forward in sufficiently clear
erms, is, that they have not induced as many
Isiatics and others to migrate to this country,
s you consider they might have induced. {
THAT you claim as the inactiou Of his Majes- !
US Ministers in not importing people is the
ne great ground of your complaint, the head j
nd front of their offending. NV |
You also state, Gentlemen, or at least you
pave it to be inferred, as have already said, {
nat there can be no doubt that we may recu- {
crate the Hawaiian race by introducing S
mother having affinity to it, and which race /
that affinity exists in Asia, and fur Q
ler that although there may be difficulties IN
blaming such people, those difficulties Can Q
e overcome by proper management. Here
re three separate and distinct affirmations. Q
With respect to the two last l have little to f
ID to what His Majesty's Government has e
ready stated, but it is only just and proper t
rat it should be clearly placed before you, t
and before His Majesty, and before t.
lie people of this country, with regard to the Il
st affirmation, what most Of you win on 3,
tile reflection admit, that the Introduction
to this country of any considerable numbered 81
en- and women of any of the Asiatic races or IL
any race whatever, having more vitality g
an The Hawaiians or than the Polynesians, ii
nd all this is assumed in the nrenises or Il | -