Ka Nonanona, Volume III, Number 2, 4 July 1843 — Page 7
1843.) KA NONANONA. 7
Eia no hoi kekahi olelo haole, aole i unuhiia ma ka Olelo Hawaii, no ka paakiki, a na ka maopopo ole paha i na kanaka Hawaii ke hoohalikeia. Na John Adams (ka inoa o Kuakini) i palapala i keia olelo malalo iho a hoike aku imua o ka ahaolelo a ka poe i kohoia no Amerikahuipuia; ua ku like ko laua manao me ko ke lii nui, o Tyler, no keia pae aina. O na keiki akamai ma Lahainaluna, ka poe imi a loaa ke ano o keia olelo
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States of December 30, 1842, concerning the present condition of the relations commercial and political, of the United States with the Sandwich Islands and with the Chinese Empire, and recommending to the consideration of Congress the expediency of adopting measures for cultivating and improving those relations, respectfully report:
That, concurring in the views of the President, as expressed in the message, with regard to the intercourse with those remote regions, suited to the best interests of the United States, and adapted to the promotion of benevolence and good-will between brethren of the human family, separated heretofore not only by geographical distances to the utmost ends of the earth, but by institutions, in both extremes, of barbarism and of civilization, alienating from one another the various tribes of man, children of one common parent, and born for mutual assistance in the purpose of promoting the happiness of all—they report for the consideration of the House two bills, to enable the President to carry into effect the purposes set forth in the message.
Peace—friendly, social, and commercial intercourse—and the reciprocation of good offices with all nations, was proclaimed as the fundamental policy of this Union, from the day and in the instrument with which the North American people, till then English colonists, "assumed among the powers of the earth that separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God, entitles them."
At that time more than one-half of the surface of the habitable globe was hermetically sealed up against them, and inaccessible to them. A series of events, all emanating from one beneficent Providence, but wonderfully various, and seemingly antagonistical in their original character have unlocke or burst open the gates of countries ranging from the equator to the pole, in both continents of America, in the central darkness of Africa, and in the continental islands of Australasia. At that time the Sandwich Islands were yet undiscovered by the race of civilized man, and China, from ocean to ocean, had surrounded herself, from ages immemorial, by a wall, within which her population, counting by hundreds of millions, were pent up in sullen separation and seclusion from all the rest of mankind. Within one year from the day when the United States were first acknowledged as a nation, the discoverer of the Sandwich Islands (the most illustrious navigator of the eighteenth century) perished on their shore by the hands of their savage barbarian inhabitants.
It is a subject of cheering contemplation to the friends of human improvement and virtue, that, by the mild and gentle influence of Christian charity, dispensed by humble missionaries of the gospel, unarmed with secular power, within the last quarter of a century, the people of this group of islands have been converted from the lowest debasement of idolatry to the blessings of the Christian gospel; united under one balanced Government; allied to the fold of civilization by a written language and constitution, providing security for the rights of persons, property and mind, and invested with all the elements of right and power which can entitle them to be acknowledged by their brethren of the human race as a separate and independent community. To the consumption of their acknowledgment, the people of the North American Union are urged by an interest of their own, deeper than that of any other portion of the inhabitants of the earth—by a virtual right of conquest, not over the freedom of their brother man by the brutal arm of physical power, but over the mind and heart by the celestial panoply of the gospel of peace and love.
KA HOOPIOPIO.
O ka pepehi kanaka ka mea nui iloko o ka hoopiopio; ua akaka ia; o ka mea hoopiopio, imi oia i mea e make ai kekahi, a nolaila haunaele na kanaka i kana hana ana; nolaila hoi he mea pono no ke hoopai aku ia ia no kona hoohaunaele ana i na kanaka. Aka, ea, aole loa e hiki i ka mea hoopio-