The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-04-25
SEVEN SERMONS SUMMARIZED.

ten to a native Hawaiian, which has
been handed to us for publication,
briefly summarizes his opinion of the
Hawaiians which he had spread
throughout his seven sermons. The
recipient of the letter says II do not
endorse all Mr.. Adee's opinions, and
he has mixed up what information /
gave him with great deal obtained
evidently from not very accurate
sources. l do not like the idea of
us he has given the world, as q good
natured, pleasure loving, sensuous
people and nothing else. He means
well enough, l dare say, and that
was perhaps the impression he did
receive of us, and no wonder, if some
of the gentlemen he mentions were
his authorities; but /, as a Ha-
waiian, resent the imputation.
The following is the extract from
Mr.. Adee's letter:
81 willingly acquiesced in your
view of the value, or lack of worth,
of our conditions among the early
Islanders of the Pacific, accepting
your very intelligent ideas on the
subject without dissent. Your peo-
pie, no doubt, have been unfor-
tunately dealt with, unfairly influ-
enced by design or otherwise, prdc-
ticdlised out of existence, and en-
tirely too much materialized and
modernized for their happiness, con-
sidering their elastic temperaments.
Calvinism, not Christianity, (for no.
tice how different it is with Roman
ism), broke down their spirits, as
European garments broke down their
health. A cheerful, light-hearted,
easy-going, sociable race whose ply
sical surroundings had rendered them
tranquil of mind and Indifferent to
acquisition, the cupidity of civiliza-
tlon; numerous, prosperous, plea
sure-loving people, seeking the sun
shine and the sea-shore, subsisting
on the spontaneous products of the
earth; living in the sensuousness and
luXuriousness of their tropical eli
mate, country, and constitutions !;
gifted with the perception of the
picturesque to a rare degree, and
the relish of beauty in fruit, and
flower, and every fringe of foliage !;
an indolent, compliant, sanguine
race of beings, taking no thought
for the morrow these intelligent
inhabitants of chain of isolated,
self-sustaining islands suddenly find
themselves face to face, in intimate
relations, with an aggressive, avari-
cious, all-absorbing, self-assertive
civilization. and are swept away
before it's enforced encl oachments
as the chambered-nautilus is blown
and borne before the storm to sure
and swift destruction on the coral
reef. Is it not sop
Politically, have ever thought
that where a people are capable of
progress, enlightenment among them
selves, and are readily receptive of
the arts and sciences and the litera-
ture OF the ages, they should be
largely left to their own characteristic
development and not treated as
children by any compulsory system
of foreign culture. In view of the
islanders having been such superior
aborigines, | confess that in the
abstract the new national tenet
Hawaii for the Hawaiians-is quite
agreeable to me. But this should
be based on no narrow, prejudiced
policy, ungenerous to the denizen OF
naturalized subject; but upon the
broad, liberal rule of equal rights
for all, and uniform justice and fair
mindedness, also the Hawaiian will
not be pushed to the wall however,
SO long as he possesses a King of his