The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-24

EvES tie discovery Of this continent. Amer
IcaJ, aud IT, islands. and the organization II So
ci.tF and government upon them, grand and I'M
ITritHt l, these events have been. We're but con-
titI9E.l. preliminary and l~Ucillary 90 the more
sublime r--u.t NOW lu the course q contamination
the reunion 81 the two civilizations, which.
parting on the plains Of Asia four thousand years
ago and travelling ever a!terward IN opposite d.
re-tous around the world. now meet again on
the coasts and Islands 4 the Pacific Ocean
Certainly no mere human event Of equal dignity
and importance has ever occurred upon the earth,
II VIII be followed by tL- equalization of the
condition u society, and the restoration Of the
Unity Of the Human Family"
These impressive words were uttered by
William Il. Seward in the Senate of the
United State9 in 1852. Nearly thirty years
ago. And what would be the satifaction TO
his fOrecastiug soul. could he witness the
cosmopolitan reunion Of races on these is
lands Of the Pacific in ISL and that mast
be more grandly developed in the coming
years. He had bat glimpses then of a rip
ping human flow from Asia, eastward across
the Pacific. that is now setting in a flood
thar must not be damned, but led into safe
channels. There were politicians in Sew
ards day - now, who, responding to an un-
informed popular prejudice, contended that
the Chinese and Japanese, whose ports had
bEfh ADAtfA blth ny tllliiDllf =llOull not
leave their continent and seek a home in
America. And h would be the result of
this damming up Of the Asiatic tide? The
nursing of more bitter and destructive race
prejudices the ntensification of race an
tagOnism and when at last the damned
up flood overlooked in wrath, under some
leadership of evil genius, it would be in
armed hOrdes, and bristling armadas that
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er dark age. But this human flood led by
the spirit OF Seward will be harmonized and
assimilated in new free homes, and the
Eastern and Western civilizations, that have
been living apart for four thousand years,
in a state Of Ignorance, prejudice ~andantag-
Onism towards each other, will mutually
recognize the sweet Brotherhood of man, as
taught and exemplifed by the Child OF
Nazareth, born 1Ss2 years ago, and will il
~lustrate most happily on some blessed arena
Of the world the Unity of the Human fami.
Iy.
Where can this blessed Unity be better
illustrated than on these noble islands, up.
heaved by Almighty power for a preeminent
destiny /? We have no turbulent prejudic.
ed masses, that demand, with clamor anC
force, the recognition of their selfish SUI
premacy ofrace; we have no warning neigh,
bOrs to- interfere with a wise and generou;
administration Of public affairs we have {
civil order based on human rights we have
the favor OF great nations and we have {
Ruler alive to the nOblest achievements o
man 50 where else could be better realized
the grand hope and vision of Seward, thar
on the Hawaiian Islands.
The policy of this Kingdom should be, no
to "play fl race, by the power of arms
but to harmonic races by the power o
Gods Spirit.