The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25

ia >umatra but j; j. satisfactory for fIa-
waiiaus 10 consider that their great and
jealous ueighbor OF the continent of Amer
lea has not Yet stained her annals with an
act Of selfish, unjustifiable aggression upon
e weaker state. She made war il i true to
secure Texas, which country had become
thoroughly Americauized, and desired the
Intervention Of the American Government,
and in this case America was justified in her
action. However, in the case of San Do
miHgO, she was nearly led into a position
Of uujustliable action towards a petty State.
Her executive influenced 10y the representa-
tives Of foreign Interests in San Domingo,
"A SImana Bay Company aud other foreign
parties, had agreed to negotiate for the po-
lItical transfer of San Domingo without any
ASSURANCES Of the concurrence of the people
Of san Domingo; bat an influential Senator,
and representative of the best sentiment of
the American people, Mr.. Charles umner,
and his associates, defeated the scheme and
saved the United States from an act of un-
called Tor interference with the political
rights of Il petty State. And we trust that
in the case Of this Kingdom, that the Gov
cr.Iment of the United States will be saved
from the stain of an unjust political action,
which the greed of foreign interests may
sometimes persuade some of her officials to
contemplate.
Inc native Hawaiian people, To "A man,
and II large majority of the foreigners i'm
this kingdom are devoted to the preserva-
ton of Hawaiian National Independence.
Not one of these supporters of this petty
nationality, are tempted with the glory of
being part of Il great political organization
of fifty millions, or of even one hundred
millions of people. They cherish local
liberty beyond ny privileges of an IN perial
ASSOCIATION.
The Hawaiiuns, as we nave said before,
have for many years observed the Amer
lean national holiday as though it were q
cherished Hawaiian national holiday. They
have readily recognized the great Republic
as not only their nearest, but their greatest
friend-and they have been ready to honor
by official position in Hawaii American
citizens, even out of proportion to the popu-
lation they represent; and the American
feeling has prevailed and strengthened in
the islands. But when an American Secre-
tary aTrogates that certain measures of do
nestle policy shall not be carried out, and
" will not permit certain things to be done
in Hawaii, even with the consent of the
hawaiian Recommendations the Ha-
waiian stands tenacious Y by his King and
state and virtually says,-it will be an easy
matter for you to come and take us, but it
Will be at the eXl ense of your national
honor, and in so doing you will strike a
deadly blow at the cause of universal hu-
man freedom, you have heretofore so nobly
eehampiOned. And let the fifty millions of
America in any action, to affect the fifty
thousand of Hawaii, bear this in mind, that
here in this Archipelago is a keen, sem
sitive, national life that here is a well
diffused intelligence, and that here are cir
culated among our mere brigade of people
over ten thousand copies of weekly news
papers conveying the leading political facts
and discussion of the whole world into every
Hawaiian hut. Hawaii would indeed make
IA loud protest against any foreign political
action adverse to her independence.
The Netherlands Indian Government may
continue To decimate Achin with impunity
almost, as regards general political public
opinion, because Achin has not "A writer, or
Il print to make a protest. And a country
like san Domingo could have its political
life stifled without much clamOr or scandal;
as its ignorant population could make no APP
peal to the Intelligence of the world. But
if Hawaii's national life was attacked, she
could make an cutlery that would resound
throughout all Christendom.
And why should we talk thus,-with our
islands in peace, and all appearing we'll?
1t is this: When an American Secretary,
with no voice of love, of the political foster
parent, but in a tone of domineering ar
rogance of power, says thus far shall you en-
JOY your national existence, and no further
and when it is affirmed, that but for the shot
of the assassin Guiteau, the liberties of this
little kingdom might have been threatened
by the presence in our waters of an in
timidating force, then the Hawaiian heart
is embittered and hardened, and the
American influence is weakened in the is
lands, because Hawaiians are made uneasy
about their national independent existence.
This should not be. 1t would be a glory to
the great Republic-a recognition of the pre-
eminent value of her political organization
and institutions, if Mexico or Canada, her
neighbors, should solicit her political asso-
But for the great representative
State of human freedom to force these
into unwilling association, on
account Of some question of continental
policy, would be the abnegation of all the
principles emblazoned upon her
and illustrated in her history.
And if she should widen the scope of his
continental policy, so as to embrace
these unwilling isles OF the mid Pacific,
would her Monroe Doctrine be synOn-
nous, not with national self-respect;'' but
with the merest and meanest lust of ter
.ritoriaI acquisition.
This Archipelago has been Americana
ing in the years past-it is inclined to be
Americanized, but the assumptions of a
and his sympathizers would check
the tendency as a growth of kindly and
mutually respectful relations; and make it
lnIy the result of fraud or violence.
IT WAS with some surprise that we read
, statement i'm the Gazette that the govern
nent physician in charge of the dispensary
: 30 one who denounces the previous sys-
Of isolation of the leper'' and who
. -rI-titut.s his pvru suacuIatiOuS for all