The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-29

you will always have my sincere regard, and my
You will always have the Consciousness Of faith
ful performance of public and private duties, and
the public recognition from all who have known
you here of those qualities which deserve and bring
"honor, love, obedience and troops of friends"
His Excelleucy Gen. Comfy addressed the King
as follows:
have the honor to present my credentials TO
States to the Hawaiian Islands. In following a
predecessor who has SO long and faithfully repre-
sented the United States Government at this Court,
1t is only a tit recognition of his character for me
to say, that l hope for the good fortune to succeed
to a share Of the regard VOL by him from your
Majesty's Government and people. II is with cor
dial and sincere pleasure, also, in compliance with
my instructions, that 1 assure your Majesty of the
earnest desire of the Government | have the honor
to represent, to continue and augment the har-
mony and good feeling which have characterized
the relations between the two countries from the
earliest times down to the present. Among the
illustrations Of this good feeling, pardon me for
recalling the generous contributions of the Ha-
waiian people to the fund of the Sanitary Commits
sion, during the late unhappy war in my own coun-
try To this fund the people of the Hawaiian Is
some of the States ut home. l cannot forget this
substantial evidence of the regard of this people,
for l had the honor tn be one OF the soldiers III that
war. The Treaty of Reciprocity was a bit sequel to
such evidences of friendly feeling as this.
RESPECTFUL regard tc to a King who governs Wise
ly for the benefit of his people. l hope and pray
for the health aud happiness of your Majesty, and
for prosperity to the beautiful land the Lord has
set you TO reign over.
To which His Majesty replied:
General Comfy
| am happy to receive your assurance of the de-
sire of your Government TO continue and strengthen
the kindly and harmonious relations which have al
ways existed between our respective countries.
Your cordial reference to your predecessors high
position in Our esteem is a well deserved tribute to
him, and causes me to believe that you will be
equally fortunate in your official aud personal ex-
perience here.
1 am particularly gratiied with your allusion to
the contributions made in this Kingdom for your
sanitary funds curing the late civil war in your
country, and to learn it was your high honor to
serve your country in the field during that terrible
struggle for its integrity and its tree institutions.
| desire you 20 express to your Government my
sincere wish that the cordial good will which has
thus far mutually existed between US may be per
manent.
l trust that your residence here may be in all res
poets agreeable to yourself and that you Wilt always
be pleased with your official intercourse with the
officers OF My Government.
Mr.. Pierce then presented to the King DR.. Hyde,
President of Oahu Theological College; Mr.. ID. S.
Dodge, of New York and DR.. Fitch Cheney, OF
Chico, California.
After a short time spent in conversation His Ex-
celleucy General Comfy and the other gentlemen
retired with the usual ceremonial.