Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-03
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A CORRESPONDENT FROM HONOLULU
WARMLY
Denounces the Attacks upon the People
OF The Sandwich Islands-The
"Emigrant Pen."


Honolulu (H. ~, November q, 1851.
Some of our good people were very much
exsaperated by the unparalleled sensation
published in San Francisco upon Hawaiian
plantation affairs, but people generally are
highly amused over it, knowing that it will
be smiled at by Americans who are in
formed upon the subject, and there are
many such in all parts of the United States
Those monstrous Ebelers overreach them
selves. Apart from bringing our nation
more prominently before the world, they
will have no effect at all. This of itself
will be vastly beneficial to us, and is
exactly what Is desired, it being in har-
mony with the object and results of the
Kings tour. Attention being directed
toward the kingdom, its many excellencies
will be learned, the chief of which are its
climatic, and agricultural advantages. In
the latter we beat the world by producing
more sugar to the acre than any other
known quarter of the globe. Though situ-
ated within the tropics, our climate is so
equitable that life out OF doors is the rule.
It is never cold, and seldom more than
comfortably warm. Should one get wet
to the skin in shower, the sun soon
comes out and you dry in a short time
without subsequent suffering from cough,
cold or sore throat" The doors and
windows of our houses never require to be
closed, for we have no
STORMS, HURRICANES, -TYPHooNS, wHIRL.
WINDS,
Or other violent atmospheric phenomena,
while, of course, the hardships of northern
countries are undreamed Of nor are there
any providing burglars about, everybody
being able to earn the little required for an
honest living-a nation, in short, of ample
resources, and owing no man anything to
speak of. believe we owe Claus Spreckles
SIC. 600, which may be considered the bulk
of our national debt. If the object of this
agitation be to break or terminate our
treaty of reciprocity with the United
States, the plot will not only prove futile,
but will tend in the opposite direction.
Like all matters of international policy this
one has two sides, and those desiring abo-
lition of the treaty may find good and SUBJ
stantial arguments upon that side if they
possess intelligence enough; but charging
our planters, our Government, and an en-
lightened Christian community of New
England extraction, with practicing and
encouraging slavery, or anything approach
ing thereto, is a wrong, absurd, blind and
puerile method of proceeding. 1t is well
known that the islands have the best OF
this international bargain, but as they are
virtually the property OF the United States.
why should that great nation seek to drive
close bargain with it's little, almost help
less neighbor, thereby alternating, perhaps
abandoning it to become the protege OF
some more generous, and events may prove,
far-sighted nation. Is this what Monroe
would have advocated /? May it be that
the statesmen of his mind are dead?
OUR "EMIGRANT PEN"
Much capital has been made out of our
emigrant PEN" Subjoined is a diagram
of that quarantine establishment. It is in.
closed by an open picket fence ten feet
high, and painted white