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Temperance Advocate.
"Prove all things—hold fast that which it good."-/'ou/,
Vol. I
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, JANUARY, 1843
No. 1..
ness. He has published one of the most in- derunge the animal economy and to destroy
teresting and scientific essays on that subject life, like other poisons, but to work u still
The Temperance Advocate will be issued, whenever which it lias been my fortune to examine. more melancholy ruin in the moral constituthe progress of the cause shall demand its appearance. It is accompanied and illustrated by sonic tion of men.
numbers, 12 1-2 cts.
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Yet, for my share, for the very small and
splendidly executed drawings, similar to
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the
vari"
obscure
part I bear in this great moral effort,
those exhibited to-night, portraying
Copies may be obtained by calling at the Study of ous changes of the lining or coats of the hu- I have seen myself, within a few days, tauntSeamen's Chapel, and at the Printing Office.
man stomach, from a state of perfect health ed in a public print as a fanatic. A fanatic
cold-water
An Address upon the subject of Temperance, to the last stage of gangrenous inflammation, in the cause of temperance! A
before the Cong. Temp. Soc., in the City produced by intemperance—imparting to the fanatic strikes upon my ear as something
of Washington, D. C., U. S. of America . force of scientific reasoning the startling cer- strange and paradoxical. Be it so, however.
tainty of sensible representation. The style Be this or any other title applied to me, so
To the Reader,
of the essay, as of the lecture, is admirable cold water and temperance go along with it.
Socieindeed. The Doctor confines himself entire- The objects and the character of our Society
Congressional
Temperance
The
have neither kinship nor alliance with fanatty held a meeting in the Hall of Repre- ly to physical effects. He has demonstrated
no organ icism, political or religious.
Ours is the
substance
which
that
is
a
alcohol
sentatives, City of Washington, Friday
the human cause of morals, public and private, irreswith
nature
has
furnished
which
evening, February 25, 1842. The meetsystem, is of power sufficient to appropriate pective of rank, sect, or party; it.is the cause
ing was opened with prayer, by the Rev. as aliment to the body. It undergoes no of peace, of happiness, of virtue. Let me
Mr. Tuston, Chaplain of the Senate, and change from the action of the gastric juice, here, sir, put a case for the consideration ofl
an address by the President of the Socie- the great solvent provided by nature to con- our colleagues in Congress. Let me suppose
ty, Hon. George N. Briggs, of Massachu- vert our food into nourishment for our frames. for u moment that the condition of the world
setts'. Resolutions were offered and sup- It goes into the system alcohol; it circulutes were changed; that alcohol was but now
in- discovered; that it had not yet commenced
ported by the Rev. John Marsh, Corres- through the system alcohol, irritating,deliall
the
and
that career of ravage which has marked its
finally
gangrening
flaming
ponding Secretary Am. Temp. Union,
and progress. Let me further supin
contact,
surfaces
with
which
it
comes
course
cate
Dr. Thomas Sewall, Prof, in Medical from the coats of the stomach to the mem- pose that the Congress of the United States—
College, D. C, Hon. Thomas W. Gilmer, brane of the brain, till it is ejeted with the the representation of the people of this great
of Virginia, and Hon. B. Burnell, of Mas- breath, through the pores of the skin, and empire—the sober likeness of a sober nation
sachusetts. At an adjourned meeting of with all the secret ions—still aclohol, un- in the case imagined—were just now appristhe Society, Dr. Sewall continued and changed, and retaining its original proper- ed of the discovery; that somo grqnt teacher,
concluded his lecture, commenced at the ties. Its effect is always to injure—even in who had penetrated the qualities and effects
previous meeting. He accompanied his the smallest quantity, to that extent it is in- of this substance, and its future possible
use necessarily and bearing upon the fortunes of the human
remarks with drawings, delineating the jurious. Its excessive
the appearance and pros- race, should here this night present, for the
changes
inevitably
changes, and exhibiting the effects pro- trates the powers, not only of the stomach, first time, before the mental vision, in long
duced upon the human stomach, by the but ofevery part and organ of the human and appalling perspective, all the conseuse of alcoholic drinks,—in the various body. As opposed to food, it is a poison—a quences upon this people which have in fact
stages, from that of the temperate drink- poison not found in an original and separate followed its use; that he should fully satisfy
er, down to the lowest degree of debauch- state anywhere in nature. Diffused through- every man in this assembly that, poisonous
ery and ruin. The Honorable Mr. Mar- out the greater part of the vegetable king- as it is, and ruinous as its effects must be,
shall's address followed the lecture of Dr. dom, in another form and with other quali- (his hitherto unknown evil was approaching
ties, it has been extracted, and changed into our shores; that the only antidote was abSewall.
a poisonous agent, by chemical process stinence from the first contact; T»nd that, if
The above remarks I have thought ne- and
the ingenuity of man. Unlike food, we once ventured to taste, nothing could
cessary to explain the allusion in the in- it does not
satisfy but stimulates the ap- arrest its progress, until it had wrought that
troduction of the following address.
petite for itself, and leads, from this peculiar entire mass of wretchedness which he had,
I would remark that the Essay of Dr. property, necessarily to excess. Although in living colors, pictured to our view. And
Sewall, with the accompanying drawings the melancholy observation and experieuce then let us suppose that the proposition
kto which the Hon. Gentleman alludes, is of every day satisfy and confirm the experi- were made to Congress, not as a cure, but
a measure of prevention—as anticipating
'now upon the table in the Seamen's ments and inductions of pure science, still as
this poison is the subject of most extensive the commencement of an illimitable evil—as
Reading Room.
and every-day consumption among men, seeking to guard and preserve our countryMost respectfully yours,
working all the fearful ruin of the mind and men in that glorious and happy state in
Samuel C. Damon,
which has this night been so impres- which they would be were intoxicating drink
health
Stamen'i Chaplain. sively painted
to our view.
unknown—a sober nation—a republican emHonolulu, January 18,1843.
Our aim is to banish the use of it as a pire containing seventeen millions ofpeople,
The Hon. T. H. Marshall's address. drink from society altogether. We declare free, sober, healthy, and, so far as this proin our Society openly, that we will not take lific parent of miseries was concerned, hapThe world at large is under great and last- into our systems a substance which the God py !—all the disease, all the misery, all the
ing obligations to the gentleman who has of nature has rendered the human stomach long catalogue of crimes which bar* sprung
favored us with the able lecture to which unfit to receive, and incapable of digesting— from drunkenness, banished—no, not banwe have-just listened, for the inquiries he a substance which has all the properties of ished, but unborn, unknown, unheard of:—
has instituted into the pathology of drunken- a poison, the effect of which is not only to Suppose, I say, that with this object in view,
PLEASCIRCULATE.
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TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE.
an appeal should be made to these members Wise)—you incur no risk; you make no sac4$ Congress to come forward, each in his rifice; you brave no'painful notoriety: your
place, and, as an example to those who had lives are as yet unstained; your good name
commissioned them—to those whose image it unscathed. Nor a shade darkens the fair
was their duty to reflect—to whom they field of your unsullied escutcheon. There is
should be as a mirror, and whose virtue and no room for shame. Nothing but honor to
happiness it should be their pride to guard— yourselves and blessings to others can follow
a proposition were made to take a solemn your union with us. Ashamed of pure and
public pledge that they never would stain perfect temperance! Oh, no! true dignity
their lips with the polluting contact of a surrounds her; the diadem ofhonor sparkles
which must destroy their
on her brow; and the flowing robes of virtue
ask, sir, who would pause? Who would encircle and adorn her elastic and graceful
refuse? Who would reject a pledge, the im- form. Mine, sir, was a different case. Mr.
passable barrier against such an inundation President, we of the "Total Abstinence and
misery? I would not, lam sure I would Vigilance Society," in our meetings at the
:. So far from considering such a pledge other end of the city, arc so much in the
the "surrender of my freedom of action," habit of "telling experiences," that 1 have
liould exult in the deed na one by which I myself fallen somewhat into it, and am guilhad secured my own and preserved tho liber- ty occasionally of the egotism of making
ties of my country. The friends of the tem- some small confessions—as small as I can
perance cause, however, are unhappily not possibly make them. Mine, then, sir, was
in the condition, I have supposed. The de- a different case. I had earned a most unenmon has not only approached, but has been viable notoriety by excesses which, though
welcomed to our shores. He has already bad enough, did not half reach the reputawrought us an amount of mischicfnnd misery tion they won for me. I never was an haKvhich I am wholly incompetent to describe. bitual drunkard. I was one of your spreeIt is, our object to arrest and expel what we ing gentry. My sprees, however, began to
cannot now prevent. We seek to secure in crowd each other; and my best friends feared
aid of the most glorious moral and social that they would soon run together. Perhaps
foison
countrymen:
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revolution of which the world has any record, my long intervals ofentire abstinence—persave %nly that which una effected by the haps something peculiar in my from, constiintroduction of Christianity—to enlist in this tution, or complexion may have prevented
cause the countenance and support, and to the physical indications so usual, of that
throw around it all the dignity and inllucnce, terrible disease, which, till temperance sociwhich necessarily attach to the movements eties arose, was deemed incurable and resistof those eonnectcd with the Government.
less. Perhaps I had nourished the vanity to
We nie«sometimes (for our cause, like believe that nature had endowed me with a
every thing'else that is great and good, has versatility which enabled me to throw down
its difficultiesand its enemies) that the pledge and take up at pleasure any pursuit, and 1
proposed subjects necessarily the man who chose to sport with the gift. If so, I was
takes it to the implied admission that he is brought to the very verge of a fearful punhimselflaboring under the evil in question, ishment. Physicians tell us that intemperand flies to this as a means of escape from it. ance at last becomes, of itself, not a habit
This is a grossly unjust view of the mutter, voluntarily indulged, but a disease which its
and as injurious to our cause as it is untrue. victim cannot resist. I had not become fully
It* is to the sober we here appeal. We call tlie subject of that fiendish thirst, that horriupon them to rally to the standard of sobri- ble yearning after the distillation, "from the
ety; we invite the temperate to guard the alembic of hell," which is said to scorch in
cause oftemperance. Shall shame interpose the throat, and consume the vitals of the
here? Canine man who loathes the bottle, confirmed drunkard with fires kindled for
and shrinks appalled from all the degrada- eternity. I did become alarmed, and for the
tion to which the bottle leads, blush to pro- first time, no matter from what cause, lest
fess openly the honorable principles which the demon's fangs were fastening upon me,
he practises' You, who are temperate, how and I was approaching that line which sepcan you withhold your aid from us—the aid, arates the man who frolics, and can quit,
simply of your name and countenance? from the lost inebriate whose appetite is disTemperate men refusing to join a temper- ease, and whose will is dead. J joined the
ance society!—withholding their name and society on my own account, and felt that I
influence!—nay, throwing, by their refusal, must encounter the title of "reformed
the weight of both against us! It is unnatu- drunkard," annoying enough to me, I assure
ral, it is unintelligible, it is cruel, it is most you. I judged from the cruel publicity givcruel in those untainted by this destroying en through the press to my frolics, what 1
vice to cast the whole weight of their cause had to bear and brave.
, upon its wretched victims, writhing and But 1 did brave it-all; and I would have
struggling with the chain which darkly binds dared any thing to break the chain which 1
their strength, nor stretch out the arm, free at last discovered was riveting on my soul,
and unparalized by its weibht, to aid in rend- to unclasp the folds of that serpent-habit,
ing'its links asunder. YotT (Mr. M. here whose full embrace is death. Letters from
looked steadfastly and earnestly at Mr. people I never bad heard of, newspaperpar-
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agraphs from Boston to New Orleans, were
mailed and are still mailing to me, by which
I am very distinctly, and in the most friendly
and agreeable manner, apprised that I enjoyed all over the Republic the delectable
reputation of a sot with one foot in the
grave, and an understanding almost totally
overthrown. I doubt not, sir, that the societies who have invited me to address them
at different places in the Union, will expect
to find me with-an unhealed carbuncle on
my nose, and my body of (he graceful and
manly shape and proportions of a demijohn.
1 have dared all these annoyances, and all
this celebrity. I have not shrunk from being
a text for temperance preachers, and a case
for the outpouring of the sympathies of people
who have more philanthropy than politeness,
more temperance than taste. 1 signed the
pledge on my own account* sir, and my heart
leaped to find that I was free. The chain
has fallen from my frccborn limbs; not a link
or fragment remains to tell 1 ever wore the
budge of servitude.
Mr. President, the temperate members of
Congress are exposed, as I have said, to no
shame or annoyance from the act to which
we invite tlicin. It is to rescue others, that
we summon them. To rescue
ay,
sir, and to place themselves beyond the reach
of a danger from which none are exempt.
There are men of a stamp which secures
them absolutely from every thing which can
degrade, save only this one vice. There is
no danger that a man of lofty mind, a highspirited, well-educated gentleman, will stoop
to other vices which sink and degrade humanity. He will not lie; he cannot steal;
he is incapable of dishonor; death itself cannot drive him to the perpetration ofbaseness.
Poverty, want, starvation may assail him, he
is proof against them all. This alone can
drag his virtue down; and against it what
genius can guard, what magnanimity shield
us? Who has not seen the most towering,
the most majestic, sink vanquished beneath
its powers? Who has not seen genius prostrnte, courage disarmed, manhood withered,
before the march of this fell destrcyer or all
that is great, and bright and beautiful? It
seems, indeed, as if with the cunning malice
of tyranny, and the ambitious policy of a
conqueror, this grim king selects the loftiest
victims, and from those who otherwise are
formed to be the ornament and strength of
their hind and-racc. Certain it is, that po- J
litical ambition or elevation is of itself no"
safeguard I have been told that the last
ghastly spectacle exhibited to us to-night,
the ruined stomach of a dead inebriate, once
the living receptacle of God's good and
healthful gifts, and so by him intended to
remain, was part of the frame of a distinguished statesman and member ofthis House,
a man of genius and eloquence, whose mind
led once the counsels ofhis own State, and
whose voice has often resounded through this
hall, while listening thousands hung with
rapture upon its accents. Look on that pic.
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ture, and imagine, if you .can, the horrors humbler and the poorer who have been rewhich must have preceded a fate like that. formed by means of that society with which
But, sir, this poison stops not with physical I was connected; tluit 1 have listened with
destruction; it is over the intellectual and keenest interest.
It does appear to me, that if the loftiest
moral man that it achieves its greatest
triumphs. The erect form, the musculnr among the lofty spirits which move and act
limb, the taper waist, O how they change from day to day in this hall, the proudest, the
under the transforming touch ofthis monster most gifted, the most fastidious here, could
magician! But it is not the trembling limb, hear the tales I have heard, and see the men
the bloated body, the bleared and dimmed I have seen, restored by the influence of so
eye, the sluggish ear, the blotched and ul- simple a thing as this temperance pledge,
cerated skin, the poisoned breath, the de- from a state of the most abject, outcast
struction of strength, and cleanliness and wretchedness to industry, health, comfort;
beauty, which most effectually attest the and in their own emphatic language, to
terrible power, and mark the wreck with peace, he could not withhold his countenance
which the demon strews his path. It is and support from a cause fraught with such
the overthrow of the moral principle, the ex- actual blessings to mankind. 1 have heard
tinction of conscience, sensibility to what is unlettered men trace their own history on
right and wrong, charity, domestic affection, this subject through all its stages, describe
all, all that makes us men, the utter disper- the progress of their ruin, and its consequension of the moral elements which hold the ces, paint, without the least disguise, the
world together, and the entire implication of utmost extent of degradation and suffering,
the weak and the innocent, the mother, the and the power of anpetitc, by facts which
wife, the infant, in suffering for crimes of astonished me, an appetite which triumphed
which they are the most wretched, yet the over every human principle, affection and
gnitless victims. These are the proudest motive, yet yielded instantly and for ever
trophies, the most splendid fruits of the vic- before the simple charm of this tcinpcrnnce
tories of the wine-cup. Other vices, other pledge. It is a thing of interest to me to hear
crimes, leaves the physical, the intellectual, a froo, bold, strong-armed, hard-listed methe moral man capable of repentance, of chanic relate, in his own nervous and natural
amendment, and of action, but this destroys language, the histroy of his full and his rehim throughout, body, mind and conscience, covery. And I have heard him relate how
the young man was brought up to labor, and
yet leaves the wretch survivor of himself.
Would, sir, that some of the thrilling con- expecting by patient toil to support himself
fessions and narratives disclosed in those and a rising family, had taken to his bosom
homely associations of ours in a distant part in his youth the woman whom he loved, l»ow
of the city could be heard by this audience, he was tempted to quit her side, and forsake
as I have heard them, the confessions and her society for the dram-shop, the frolic, the
narratives of men whom the indefatigable midnight brawl, how he had resolved, and
benevolence of the "Vigilant Society of broken his resolutions, till his business forTotal Abstinence" has rescued from the sook him, his friends deserted him, his furnivery kennel. They are not your stately, ture seized for debt, his clothing pawned for
refined, educated gentlemen, who quaff their drink, his wife broken-hearted, his children
rich and costly Madeira, old, and piild, and starving, his home a desert, and his heart a
sparkling, and redolent of the true flavor of hell. And then, in language true to nature,
the cork, nectar fit for the gods to sip, taken they will cxultingly recount the wonders
down, bottle after bottle, from day to day, wrought in tljeir condition by this same
till their complexions are purple as the grape pledge. *My friends have come back, I
whose juice they drain, till their trembling have good clothes on, I am at work again, I
hands can scarce conduct unspilled the fluid am giving food and providing comforts for
to their lips, till their feet are swollen and my children, I am free, I am a man. I am at
agonized with gout, while untold horrors peace here. My children no longer shrink
fill the region whose ruin has been to-night cowering and huddling together in croncrs,
laid open to our view, and yet they are no or under the bed, for protection from the
drunkards! O, no, no, no. Drunkards! Not face of their own father. When I return at
they! It is not from such men that we hear night, they bound into my arms and nestle
in our humble ward-meetings. No. They in my bosom. My wife no longer with a
are the once wretched, but now rescued vic- throbbing heart and agonized ear, counts my
tims of what in our western world is called steps before she sees me, to discover whether
'white-faced whisky," children of the lowest I am drunk or sober; I find her now singing
intemperance, who there appear. This ty- and at work.' What a simple but exquisite
rant alcohol, like him of whom it is no unapt illustration of woman's love, anxiety and
representative, can suit its' temptations to suffering! The fine instinct of a wife's oar
men of every grade of fortune, and to every detecting from the intervals of his footfall,
diversity of human condition. He holds out before he had yet reached the door, whether
an appropriate lure to every taste, and draws it was the drunken or the sober step, whether
within his fatal snare the high and the low, she was to--receive her husband or an inthe learned and the unlearned, the vulgar furiated monster in his likeness. I say, sir,
and the refined. It is to the story of the these things have an interest, a mighty in-
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terest for me;' and 1 deem them not entirely
beneath the regard of the proudest statesmen
here. On my conscience, sir, I speak the
truth when I say that, member of Congress
as 1 am (and no man h prouder of his commission), if, by taking this pledge, it were
even probable that it would bring back one
human being to happiness and virtue, no
matter what Lis rank or* condition; recall the
smile of hope, and trust, and love, to the
chuck of one wife, as she again pillowed it
in safety, peace and confidence upon the
ransomed bosom of her reclaimed and natural
protector; send one rosy child bounding to
the arms of a parent, from whence drunkenness had exiled it long, I would dure all the
ridicule of all the ridiculous people in the
world, and thank God that I had not lived in
vain. And, sir, I have had that pleasure.
Mr. President, it is really astonishing what
a prodigiously great man a member of Congress is in the estimation of some people.
Now, suppose all those members who ore
themselves temperate men, and they constitute, thank heaven, nn overwhelming majority
in both Houses, would, by common consent,
become members of this Congressional Temperance Society, what sort of influence do
you suppose it would have both within and
without these walls? They would make no
sacrifice in doing this, it costs them nothing,
and if they would only do it, I aver that, before the close of this present session, we
should not have a single drinking character
left in either branch of the National Legislature. They never could stand out against it,
1 know they could not. I was myself about
as bold, and as open, and as hardy a soul as
ever swallowed a julep. 1 did not care who
saw me drink; and though, as I have already
admitted, I joined the temperance society
because I <fas scared on my account, and
not for the sake of influencing others, or
under the influence of others, yet sure I am,
that if all my fellow-members who are temperate, had joined this association, (for they
constitute a majority for greater than is necessary to suspend the rules of the House or
to reverse a Presidential veto), I should have
found myself left in so very small and lean a
minority, as the drunkard's corps would have
amounted to when the line was once drawn
between the parties; that I never could have
stood the shame. Why, it would be the
weakest, meanest, poorest, most contemptible, powerless little faction that ever did appear in Congress. What a figure would half
a dozen drunkards cut against the whole
body of both Houses! Why, there would
not be enough to guard the obsequies, to
from a decent funeral procession for king alcohol, they would be ashamed to attend the
remains of their dead master from the Capitol.
No, sir; they would have to stop drinking in
more self-defence.
Sir, if there be within this hall an individual man who thinks that his vast dignity and
importance would be lowered, the laurels
which he has heretofore won be tainstbed,
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hii glowing and all-conquering popularity at
home be lessened, by ah act designed to redeem any protion of his colleagues of fellowmen from ruin and shame, all I can say is,
that he and I put a very different estimate
upon the matter. I should say, sir, that the
act was not only the most benevolent, but,
in the present state of opinion, the most politic, the most popular (looking down at .Mr.
Wise, who sat just under the clerk's stand,
Mr. M. added with a smile,) the very wisest
thing he ever did in his life. Think not, sir,
(said Mr. M., still regarding Mr. W., with
great earnestness,) that I feel myself in a
ridiculous situation, and, like the fox in the
fable, wish to divide it with others by converting deformity into fashion. Not so, by
my honor as a gentleman, not so. I was not
what I was represented to be. I had and I
have shown that I had full power over myself. But the pledge I have taken renders
me secure forever from a fate inevitably following habits like mine, a fate more terrible
than death. That pledge, though confined
to myself alone, and with reference to its
only effect upon me, my mind, my heart, my
body, I would not exchange for all earth
holds of brightest and of best. No, no sir;
let the banner of this temperance cause go
forward or go backward, let the world be rescued from its degrading and ruinous bondage
to alcohol, or not, I for one shall never repent what I have done. I have often said this
and I feel it every moment of my existence,
waking or sleeping. Sir, I would not exchange the physical sensations, the mere,
sense ofanimal being which belongs to a man
who totally refrains from all that can intoxicate his brain or derange his nervous structure, the elasticity with which he bounds
from his couch in the morning, the sweet
repose it yields him at night, the feeling with
which he drinks in through his clear eyes the
beauty and grandeur of surrounding nature;
I say, sir, I would not exchange my conscious
being, as a strictly temperate man, the sense
of renovated youth, the glad play with which
my pulses beat healthful music, the bounding
vivacity with which the lile blood courses its
exulting way through every fibre of my frame,
the communion high which my healthful
ear a,nd eye now hold with all the gorgeous
universe ofGod, the splendors ofthe morning,
the softness of the evening sky, the bloom,
the beauty, the verdure of the earth, the
music of the air and the waters, with all the
grand associations of external nature, reopened to the fine avenue of sense; no, sir,
though scorn pointed its slow finger at mc ns
I passed, though want and destitution, and
every element of earthly misery, save only
crime, met my waking eye from day to day;
not for the brightest and the noblest wreath
'that ever encircled a statesman's brow, not,
if sime angel commissioned by heaven, or
or some demon rather, sent fresh from hell,
to test the resisting strength of virtuous resolution should tempt me back, with all the
wealth and all the honors which a world can
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bestow; not for all that earth can give, would
I cast from me this precious pledge of a
liberated mind, this talisman against temptation, and plunge again into the dungers
and the terrors which once beset my path:
So help me heaven; sir, I would spurn beneath my very feet all the gifts the universe
could oiler, uud live and die as I am, poor
but sober.
The following sketch, taken from an
American paper, describes a scene which
occurred in the city of Baltimore.
You cannot think, said Mr. Vickers, how
soon a man's circumstances become changed when once he has signed the pledge. I
will tell you of a man whom I knew in Baltimore. He was not worth a cent a day,
and his, family was supported by his hard
working wife. He had heard of the Washington Society, and had determined to
join—But how should he get a quoitcr of a
dollar, which was required for initiation fee.
He went to his wife and told her he wanted
a quarter of a dollar. "What for?" "No
matter," said he, "I want it, and must have
it;" She gave it to him, knowing it would
bcofnouseto withhold it, and supposing
he meant to buy rum with it. He went to
the Washington Society on Monday night
and joined—The next day he went to work
at his trade, which was a good one, and he
could make money fust. He came home
sober every night, and <;n Saturday received liis wages, and bought a barrel of flour,
a ham, some groceries, and so on, got them
on a drny and sent them home. The drayman dro-vc up to the door, and told the wife
that the barrel of flour and the groceries
were for her. She told the drayman there
was some mistake about it—it did not belong
there, for she had never had a barrel since
they had been married—always had to buy
their flour by the sixpence worth, or shillings worth, and the flour certainly could not
be for her. While they were talking the husband came up, and said she, -'husband, here
is a mHn who says these groceries are for
us." "So they arc, and 1 have bought all
with the twenty-five cents you gave me last
Monday night.
1 joined the Washington
Temperance Society with* that twenty-five
cents. We shall have flour by the barrel
after this, instead of the sixpence worth, or
the eleven penny bit's worth."
POETRY.
Temperance! tell the listening world
What thine advocates hive done;
Hearken, now the tyrant's hurled
From his high, despotic throne.
Temperance—shall it bear the sway,
Shinoo'er earth in splendour bright?
Listen! for a brilliant day
Drives away the gloomy night.
Temperance! will thy beams alone
Gild the spot that gave thee birth?
Other climes thy sway shall ewn:
See, it bursts o'er all the earth.
Temperance! are thy sons to fight,
Like hosts of earth, to fix thy laws?
O no; for love and truth unite,
To achieve thy holy cause.
Temperance! then I*4l be thy child,
For I love thy sacred name:
Yes, thy voice and influence mild
Can the wildest passion tame.
Temperance! we shall shout thy praise;
We no more will leave thy band;
Joyful now our anthems raise,
In every clime, in every land.
L. li. Sigourney.
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Temperance Advocate,
AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Vol. I.
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, FEBRUARY, 1843.
To the Reader,
Nearly all the columns of the Advocate
for January, were occupied by the Address "of the Hon. T. 11. Marshall. In
urging the propriety of signing the pledge
and endeavoring to show that no Hon.
Member of Congress would lower his
"vast dignity," 'tarnish his laurels," or
"lessen his popularity," by the act, he
looked down at Mr. Wise, who sat just
under the clerk's stand, and remarked,
smiling, "I should say, sir, that the act
was not only the most benevolent, but in
the present state of public opinion, the
most politic, the most popular, the very
wisest thing he ever did in his life." After Mr. Marshall had taken his seat, the
Hon. Mr. Gilmer, (then occupying the
chair,) said he had a friend and colleague
in his eye, from whom it would greatly
gratify the Society to hear, if he was disposed to address them.
The Hon. Mr. Wise, of Virginia, rose
and addressed the assembly in the following speech.
Mr, President: I wish it to bo under-
stood by the assembly here present, that 1
am not, as yet, a member of the Total Abstinence Temperance Society; and lean appeal to you, sir, for my sincerity, when I
express my surprise at having been alluded
to, as 1 have been, by the eloquent gentleman from Kentucky, and at being called
upon to say a word on the present occasion.
It would be impossible, however, not to respond to the allusion made by the gentleman
who BSS preceded me. lie will pardon me
for saying that, in his own case, we are presented with one of the most glorious examples of the triumph of the temperance cause.
He is himself a proof of the position he has
taken, that the possession of genius, of the
utmost perfection of physical power—thut
none of the ties which ordinarily bind men to
society—arc any safeguard against the seductive power of this tremendous vice; and
that, when it has once seized upon a man,
the victim himself is usually the very last to
be aware of it. He will pardon me ifI say
that, when I first became acquainted with
him, while I was struck with the greatness
of his powers, both moral and intellectual,
I mourned under tiie conviction that their
possessor was in the greatest danger, and I
took the liberty to warn him of it. And
when I beheld him, impelled by motives
which heaven and earth must approve, coming
forward to attach his name to the temperance
pledge, I was as highly gratified as I had
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No. II
been before distressed. And now, when bo ought especially to RIM at; mid tint is, to
appeals to me to go one step further tliun I jbn-uk up the prevalence of a dcgiirding vice
have ever yet gone in this cause, I cannot jamong the politicians of our hind: I mean
withstand his appeal. [Loud bursts of ap- the vulgar, base, degrading habit oftreating
<il elections. To prove that lliero ia no neplause. ]
As Ibr back as IB'2B, when I first entered cessity for the continuance of such a practice,
on the career of active life, I joined what let me here state that 1 have been five times,
was then called a Temperance Society. It in succession, elected to Congress without
was founded on the philosophy of the time, it, and in open opposition (o it. 1 have servand especially on the views of that true phi- ed, now in Congress for ten years; and I
losopher in the cause of human happiness, the began my course, as a candidate, as soon as
distinguished Dr. Beccher. It was his es- I was constitutionally eligible; and I was as
says on the subject that first attracted my at- anxious to get here, and as proud of my scat,
tention—a work which I have never yet seen as my friend from Kentucky declares that he
surpassed. 1 have never beon a drunkard; I is. 1 told the people—yes, the people even
never was in the habitual use ofintoxicating ofold mint-julep \ irgiuia, that 1 never would
liquor; and 1 never whs drunk but twice in consent to treat any one ofthem—[applause]
my lite—once when I was nine years old. and I never have had need to do it. 1 have nevagain at the age of fourteen, but when 1 did er asked any thing from them—from the comget drunk at all, I was dilink for dead. li. mission of a captain of cavalry to that of a
both cases I had to be stripped, and sub- member of Congress—that they ever refused
jected to violent friction, in older to bring me me; and I never gave one of them a drink to
to life again. A very philosophic reason has procue his favor. [Renewed applause.] I
been given for this by a friend of mine, who have said to them, when alluding to the pracsaid to me, "You have no reason to boast tice, end the oilers of liquor at first pressed
over being sober, for you had spirit enough upon me—"Gentlemen, this is a war of the
born in you to stimulate any one man; you many against the few: worse than that, it is
have quite enough excitability by nature, a war of many against one. 1 cannot stand
without needing to heighten it by the use ol it. It I drink with one of you, 1 must drfuk
liquor." Anil it was true. I can bear my with all; and that will keep me pretty thotestimony that strong drink is net a necessa- roughly soaked throughout the whole
ry of human life: 1 never touch it. My own paign. You will destroy me; you will totalframe is, on this subject, my best thermome- ly unfit mc for the very task for which you
Jt is.
ter; and to me this poison is deleterious; and elect me as your Representative.
physically and intellectually impossible that
is so, even to the smallest quantity.
Hut it was not a physical reason alone I should possess a well-balanced mind, after
which induced me to abstain: it was mainly passing through a canvass in which 1 must
a moral reason—l mean the fact, which lias drink at the rate of a thousand to one. And.
been so often alluded to, that, when once you [more than this, if my body could stand it,
touch the seducing cup, there is no security my parte cannot; and if you vie to be repagainst excess: the man has no power of re- resented by the mere powerof money and of
sistance. It has been truly said that, wrestle liquor, you must select some other agent to
who will with old John Barleycorn, John is serve you in Congress. 1 propose, it' chossure, in the end, to be the victor. 1 care en, to represent you merely by the personal
not how strong be may be, the man who gifts which nature bus bestowed upon me."
contends against strong drink is obliged to Such whs my reasoning with my constituents,
fall: he falls by a law of nature. What de- and I have never lost a vote by it. When
terred me was not the moral necessity only, they offered me the enn of grog, my answer
but the moral consequences of excess. It has been, "1 will drink with you in ono of
has been well snid, by my friend who lias tiie ingredients, and you shall drink with me
just addressed you, that the mnn who signs in the other: 1 will take the water, and leave
the temperance pledge signs it to secure his the brandy to you." [Applause.] A:id I
freedom; and, if an inebriate, signs it be- here say that, if there be a member of Concause he is resolved no longer to remain a gress —comes he from North, South, East,
slave—the meanest and the basest of slaves. or West, —who will agree pever again to
lie is determined to remain in the enjoy- countenance the use of this poisonous bevment of those gifts, mental and corporeal, erage in elections, that determination would
which the Almighty has bountifully conferred effect more good for him and hisconstituents
upon him; he has vowed to himself and to than the passage of any law I know of.
his Maker, that, in the beautiful language of And here 1 will further say that, when one
Scripture, his body is, and shall remain, a ofyour old seasoned, steeped, soaked drunktemple of the living God. »
ards, whose waya are zigzag" through the
There is one object which this society
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TEMYfcRAXCfc ADVOCATE.
through a Congressional district—especially
'
But the truth is, that men were considered as of the mighty influence which the public
if he has shaken hands, touch to touch, with temperate men at that time, who would, press exerts in this land; few imagine how
every man in it—(( apeak of those parts of without hesitation, be set down for drunkards deep a root the most false and notorious
the country where the stump system, and not now. A drunkard then meant a man who slanders can be made to take on the public
the caucus system, prevails)—by the time kept himself most of his time in a slate of mind at a distance from the spot wheie they
such an old stager has passed through his beastly intoxication, and those that society might at once be refuted. 1 mention this
district, for years, inarching before thou- abandoned to their fate. 1 he doctrine, as a circumstance to show that even the soberest
sands, and drinking with every one of them general principle, was true then, and is true men are liable to be held by their fellow
—(like that elderly gentleman whom-1 heard now, that when once a man has sunk so low citizens in distant places as open drunkards;
at your Inst meeting, declare that he has as to reel and stagger about the streets; when and that it is, therefore, high time that Condrank nineteen cups without falling, and nev- he has got past pinching his lips, and breath- gress should take steps to vindicateits characer was drunk in his life)—a candidate who ing in his pocket handkerchief, to conceal the ter. The legislators of the country ought not
never can meet, eat drink, or sleep together, deadly odor of his breath; when he has done only to be tree from so debasing a vice, but
with any of his constituents, without drink- with all that, and ceases to be ashamed of free from all suspicion of it. But I cannot
ing together—l say that, if he were endowed his condition, it is a thousand to one that he be free from it, so long as I come into my
with the wisdom of Solon; though he has will die as he is, or a great deal worse. But Congressional mess, and there obey the cusbeen an Atlas in the halls of Congress; the cause has now attained to the true phi- tom so happily exposed to the-censure it
though he has left his name in bright, burn- losophy of the case; it has reached at last merits by my friend from Kentucky a few
ing, and imperishable letters on the pages of the true ground—"touch not, taste not, evenings ago—the foolish and pernicious
his country's history—he has left, at home, handle not the unclean thing." This will practice of drinking healths at table. So
a still, small voice which will speak against not only preserve them temperate who are long us he touches or tastes the poison in
'him at the day of judgment. He has wrong- so, but it can reform the staggering drunk- any form, distilled or fermented, no man can
ed his wife—wronged his child—his father, ard himself. The ardent spirit pledge went be secure from suspicion. Never will Conhis mother, his dearest friends—and he has on the supposition that, as the poor laboring gress be thus free, so long as this temple of
fatally and irrevocably wronged himself and man could not afford to drink wine, if he ab- liberty, this grand, this august and beautiful
his constituents. There are instances of stained from ardent spirits he whs safe; but edifice, made, and properly made, like those
this sort in the history of Virginia. Men experience proved that this was not true
of ancient Greece and Rome—(for it is a
who have enlightened the forum by their ale, beer, cider, cheap wines, all were open healthful sign of freedom when the public
reaaoning powers—men to whom Marshall to him, and, as long as he tasted any of buildings so far surpass the splendor of all
has listened with respect, and even rever- these, his reformation was impossible, and private dwellings, so long as the people give
ence—men who have codified the laws of his security a dream. You might as well to liberty and the laws a palace as costly as
this District —men illustrious for intellect, "fetter the flame with a flaxen band," or the dwelling place of kings)—never, 1 say,
and in all other points for virtue, too—have, "stop the ocean with the sand," as attempt shall we be justly free from all suspicion unby the indulgence of this one fatal vice, to hold a half reformed inebriate from re- til this temple shall have been purified; till
wronged and injured mankind more, by their turning to his cups, unless his abstinence is we shall have driven out from its basement
example, then they have ever benefitted total and entire. His choice is between to- story the whole retinue ofcasks and bottles,
them by all their intellect, and by a long tal abstinence and being a bond slave to so as the money-changers were driven out
from a temple yet more sacred. Never can
life of great and illustrious public services. liquor.
But i did not rise here to make a speech. The honorable gentleman from Kentucky it be called pure so long as any of its preJMy purpose was simply to hear my testimo- has told us that he was considered as an cincts are infested with the revolting odors
ny to (he moral and physical value and ne- abandoned drunkard hj many whose faces of alcohol, and the stench of dead mint, by
cessity of this cause. The temperance so- he never sow; but worse than that has hap- the very side of that beautiful fountain of
ciety, as now organized, differs materially pened to me: I have been called a drunk- crystal waters at the west front ofyour Capfrom that to which I joined myself fourteen ard, after being a member of the temperance itol. March on the Speaker of this House;
years ago—of that kind was the old Con- society for fourteen years! 1 have been told march on the President of the Senate; and
gresssional Temperance Society. I was a that it was currently reported in the State purge the Capitol! And now lam ready to
member of what was, in Tennessee, called of Massachusetts that I was a very intem- sign your Congressional pledge.
the State Temperance Society, and since perate man; and a friend of mine had to [Mr. Wise here seized the pen, andaffixed
have assisted in forming several societies of contradict a formnjL statement to the same his signature to the pledge, while the hall
the kind in Virginia. 1 have been called effect, openly made at a temperance meet- continued to ring with renewed, and still
publicly to advocate the cause, and I hope 1 ing not a long time since. One of the itin- renewed, shouts of long-continued applause.]
did not profane even the pulpit itself by hav- erant lecturers in behalf of the temperance
ing, from that sacred place, addressed my cause, in a large public meeting, when ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
fellow men in favor of temperance. The old pointing to the examples of men in public life
When asked to drink a glass of wine in
society did much good. The reform produ- who were degraded by this vice, and whose polite society, or upon a public
occasion, is
on
soced by it's influence excited the admiration exainjik-a bad so pernicious an effect
of all tb,e lovers of virtue Yet it was found- ciety, mentioned me by name, and attrib- it a mark of ill-broeding to refuse?
This being a question, as yet undecided
ed on a defective principle. The principle uted all the evil things I am charged with to
it assumed was, that confirmed drunkards hard drinking as their fruitful source —(a among persons of high standing, particularly
could not be reformed; that they must be laugh)—yes, to my drunkenness! Not the in military and naval life, the following angiven up; and the means employed must be drunkenness of spirit, which was born in nic, ecdote of General Washington, may be read
preventive merely, not curative. The doc- but drunkenness by alcohol! My friend, with interest.
trine was, that, if we can keep all temperate who had scrvtal on the same committee with
Towards the clese of the revolutionary
who are temperate, the drunkards will die off, me in Congress for eight years, rose and deand then we shall have a sober community. murred to the statement, declaring he had war, an officer in the army had occasion to
Men looked at the vice only in its most en- tiever seen or known any evidence of it; transact some business wilh Gen. Washormous and revolting forms; and the sight of but the lecturer persisted in the assertion; ington, and repaired to Philadelphia for that
Before leaving, he received nn
these becoming so general, and increasing he was perfectly certain of it; for—"the purpose.
invitation
to
dine with the General, which
of
us
are
aware
said
so."
few
Alas,
with so fearful a rapidity, alarmed them. papers
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�TEMPERAXCE ADVOCATE.
7
1843.)
SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Ed of the design, that rising of ninety dollars
has been pledged. This sum has afforded
such encouragement, that the paper will be
issued regularly once each month, if consisThe Chaplain for Seamen would respecttent with other duties, and the printing can
fully give the following notice to seamen
be secured.
visiting the Port of Honolulu.
Ever since commencing the duties of this
Religious Services upon the Sabbath, at
chaplaincy, the necessity has been felt of 11 A. M., and 7P. M. On every Thursday
having some such medium of addressing sea- Evening, at the ringing of the bell, there will
men. DuriDg the year 1842, 450 English be a
religious meeting for prayer and conand 1,037 American seamen visited this ference in the Reading Room.
port. A number exceeding 1,487 touched
On the 3d Monday evening of each month
at Lahaina. Through this monthly sheet, the Seamen's
Monthly Concert will be held
it is hoped some minds may be favorably im- in the
Chapel at 7 o'clock.
pressed with moral and religious truth, with
All Seamen are invited to call nt the
whom the chaplain may never have the pleasStudy of the Chaplain. He has Bibles,
ure of a personal acquaintance.
various religious books and tracts for gratuiThe editor intends such shall be the tone tous distribution.
and spirit of this paper, that it may prove a
erable!
* #* M. b. Seamen attending religious serwelcome monthly visiter among the numerWashington saw at once the feelings of ous foreign residents scattered over these vices at the Chapel if detained until after 8
his guests, and promptly addressed them:—
o'clock in the evening, will not he arrested
is right. Islands.
"Gentlemen," said he, "Mr.
by the police officers, provided they go diI do not wish any of my guests to partake The question has frequently been asked, rect from the Chapel to the wharf and
of any thing against their inclination, and I why not increase the size of your sheet, and thence to their respective ships.
certainly do not wish them to violate any make it more general, and also open its colestablished principle, in their social inter- umns lor advertisements? The editor can The present law regulating the time that
course with me. I honor Mr.
for his simply reply, such a paper he would rejoice seamen may remain on shore reads as folfrankness, and for his consistency in thus to see weekly issued in this place, but the lows;
adhering to an established rule which can
"At half past seven o'clock in the evennever do him harm, and for the adoption of Seamen's Chaplain is not the man for its ing a gun shall be fired from the Fort, when
which I have no doubt he has good and suf- conductor. His other duties are too nu- all boats and Seamen shall return to their
ficient reasons."
merous.
ships; the whole must return, and at eight
Persons willing to aid in the circulation of o'clock another gun will be fired. When
the Temperance Advocate and Seamen's the second gun shall be heard then all seaor to-become subscribers, will please men (remaining on shore) will be seized,
Friend,
Honolulu, February 10, 1843.
their several Consuls, who
embrace the earliest opportunity for making and delivered to
to the police officers two dollars for
will
pay
ATvsotP
ineacl ledge.
it known. See terms.
each man thus seized."—Page 132 SandWe pledge ourselves that we will not
which Islands Laws.
iiny intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor
The opinion has frequently been expressprovide thfem as articles of entertainment
MARRIAGES.
for our friends, nor furnish them to persons
ed
by masters of vessels, their crews and
In Honolulu, Dec. 19, 1842, O. P. Rickin our employ, and that in all suitable ways
of the residents that 8 o'clock was too
many
we will discountenance their use in the com- er, Esq., of Salem, Mass., to Miss Sarah
an
hour for seamen to leave the wharf.
of
early
W.
Piper,
munity.
Newburyport, Mass., by Rev.
Samuel C. Damon.
There is good reason to believe that the
The subscriber, desires to raise the sum At Koloa, island of Kauai, January 20, time will be extended, ut the next meeting
of one hundred dollars, by subscription dur- Capt. Abraham B. Russell, of New Bedford, of the Chiefs.
ing the year 1843, for the.purpose of circu- Mass., master of Whaleship Bartholomew
The Am. S. F. Society held its last Anlating publications advocating the principle Gosnold, to Miss Susan Holden, of HillsN.
H.,
borough,
by
Forbes,
Rev.
Cochran
nual
Meeting in New York City, May 10,
of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks American
Missionary.
1842.
Receipts forSailor's Home, $7,762,as a beverage. By the aid of this sum and
and for other purposes $18,099,07. To-82,
the proceeds of a subscription list, he proDEATHS.
tal $20, 861,89, an amount nearly double
poses to issue a monthly paper, which shall
In Honolulu, Dec. 19, ofconsumption, Mr. Daniel that of the former year. The Home and
contain a Seam'n's department. Whatever t.lv,
aged 26 The deceased was a native
ofOirclesums shall be contributed for this object, he ville, Ohio, U. 8., but for some years had resided as a the ground upon which it stands, cost rising
merchant in Warrantor!, Miss.
pledges himself shall be faithfully expended, In Honolulu, J:in. 1, Sponcer Rhodes, (colored man) of $40,000. The Secretary's report states
and at the end of the year to render an ac- aged 40 He was a native of the IT. 8.
that the Home has beeo opened under most
In Honolulu, Sabbath morning, Jan. 29, favorable circumstances.
count thereof.
Samuel C. Damon,
„ ,, ,
Seamen's Chaplain. Mr. Joseph Hicks, aged 40. The deceased
During the years 1840 and 41, the Rev.
Honolulu,
February 9,1843.
was a native of New Bedford, Mass., a boat
E.
N. Sawtell, Seamen's Chaplain, Havre,
builder
and
by trade,
had been living upon
The above proposition has been presented the
France,
Islands
and
from
them
collected in the U. S. the sum of
the
sailing
during
to some gentlemen, who have so far
approv- last twelve years.
$10,000 to build a Chapel in that port for
was accepted, and upon entering the room,
he found himself in the company of a large
number of ladies and gentlemen. As they
were mostly strangers to him, and he was
naturally of a modest and unassuming disposition, he took a seat near the foot of the
table, and refrained from taking an active
part in the conversation. Just before the
dinner was concluded, General Washington
called him by name, and requested him to
drink a glass of wine with him.
"You will have the goodness to excuse
me, General," was the reply, "as I have
made it a rule not to take wine."
All eyes were instantly turned upon the
young officer, and a murmur of surprise and
horror ran around the room. That a person
should be so unsocial and so mean as never
to drink wine, was really too bad; but that
he should abstain from it on an occasion
like that, and even when offered to him by
Washington himself, it was perfectly intol-
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ADVOCATE & FRIEND.
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.
�With the full consent of the French
Government, the come/ stone of the Chapel
was laid in March, 1842. Rev. Mr. Sawtell is supported by the Am. S. F. Society.
seamen.
a
The Emperor of Russia has granted "lot"
of ground for the erection of a Seamen's
Chapel in the Port of Cronstadt, much visited by English and American seamen. The
" Chaplain, Rev. E. E. Adams, an American,
is supported, jointly by the British and Foreign Sailor's Society and the American Seamen's Friend Society.
"Bethel."—The question is often asked,
why apply the term Bethel, to a Mariner's
Chapel? A reference to Genesis 28: 17, 19,
will show that its original signification is
"House of God." The following extract
from the Sailor's Magazine, will furnish an
answer to the above question.
"It was some time in 1814 when it was
discovered that a few pious sailors, on board
the coal ships' at Rotherhithe, were in the
practice of-meeting together for prayer. A
few religious men, from the shore, began to
attend occasionally with them, and meetings
of this description became somewhat common. They began to call them "Bethel
meetings." The idea of converting a vessel, (a
place which had been proverbially
wicked,) into the very gate of heaven to
souls, led probably to the custom of calling
it a "Bethel." The use of a flag, with the
word "Bethel" on it, as a signal for divine
service on ship-board, was first introduced
by the ship-masters in the coasting trade,
from the north of England, about the year
1817."—Vol. 9, p. 73.
A Card.—The Seamen's Chaplain would
take this opportunity to acknowledge, the
present of three lamp 3 for the use of the
Chapel, ($18,00) from Messrs. Pierce St
Brewer. Also, a can of oil from Capt. Taber, and another from Capt. Dockum.
New York Journal of Commerce, Nov. 17, 1842.
UNION
KTtie
(Feb.
SEAMEN'S T?KIEKD.
8
OF THE ATLANTIC AND
PACIFIC OCEANS.
Company, chartered by the govern-
ent of New Grenada to construct a Ship
anal.connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, have completed their surveys, made
a road over the Isthmus, and are proceeding
to make the canal. An authentic account in
the Cincinnati Chronicle says,
The company having completed a provisional or temporary road from the bay of Cbarera on the Pacific, to the town of Chagres on
the Atlantic Ocean, is not only freed from
the necessity of roquiring additional time,
but the Republic of Grenada could not refuse it without violating its engagements,
since tho company have completed its con- the ocean less dangerous, and more expediexpiration of the time tious, will effect a great revolution in the
limited for the construction of any communi- commerce of the whole world, a revolution
cation whatever. Besides this it has caused of which America will experience the benethe whole country through which the pro- fits before all other nations. [Perhaps the
jected canal is to pass, as well as all the Sandwich Islands next!]
rivers and water courses which must contribute to it, to be thoroughly explored. These
explorations, conducted with great skill by PORT OF HONOLULU.
the Engineer, Morel, have demonstrated that
Foreign Arrivals, since Jan. 1, 1843.
the Isthmus of Panama, instead of being u
ledge of rocks, as many geographers have Jan. s,liar. Vancouver, Duncan, 304 tons.
described it, is on the contrary a valley, from Jan. 5, brig Sarah Abigail,Ooane, 210tons.
4 to 13 miles in width, and scattered over Jan. 10, ship Bartholomew Gosnold, Russell, 355 tons.
with conical heights of from 20 to 60 feet elevation, which upon the East and West rest Jan. 29, brig Joseph Peabody, Dominis,
224 tons.
upon low chains varying Irom 110 to 413 feet
in height. Among these small conical heights Feb. 2, brig Julia, Milne.
wind in all directions various streams and Feb. 6, ship Margaret Scott, 700 bids. oil.
rivers, which descend from the terminations Feb. 6, Adele, Luhrs, 1550 barrels right
whale oil, 50 sperm.
of the Andes, and unite in two principal
channels.
Departures, since January 1,1813.
The one which is the river Chagrcs, throws Jan. 2, ship William and Eliza, Rogers.
itselfinto the Carribbeun Sea; the other call- Jan. 9, brig Sarah Abigail, Doane.
ed the Rio Grande, flows towards the Paci- Jan. 17, sell. Shaw, Dv Pcrnet.
fic Ocean. The dividing country between Jan. 11, barque Vancouver, Duncan.
these rivers has an elevation of only 37 leet
Passengers.
above the highest known level of the sea, or
In the Joseph Peabody, Doct. Lyman, of
of 64 feet above low tide; the flood tides
some times attaining the height of 27 feet. Northampton-, Mass.
The excavation necessary to unite the AtlanIn the Julia, Messrs. I). F. McKay, Hentic and Pacific Oceans by means of the river ry Sea, from Sidney,
South Wales.
Vine, Tinto, Bernardine and Fazlau is only Capt. J. Hall, from Tahiti.
I2J miles; and the fall will be regulated by
Vessels in Port, Feb. 10.
4 double locks, 188 feet in'length. The whole
William Gray, Stickncy.
of the projected canal will be 49 miles in
Dockhuin.
length, 136 feet in breadth, at the surface of James Stewart,
Parker.
Ocean,
20
the water, and M feet at the bottom,
feet
Scott, Smyth.
in depth, and will be navigable for vessels of Margaret
Adele, Luhrs.
from 1000to 1,400 tons. All the rivers which
•■
Honolulu, Sulfcry.
arc to serve ns parts in the canal have, at
Bartholomew Gosnold, Russell.*
the lowest water, a depth varying from 8 to
Joseph Peabody, Dominis.
to 15' feet; they will be swept and excavated
Julia,
Milne.
to a depth of 20 feet, and kept at that depth
by means of two guard locks. The country
Bartholomew Gosneld, sailed
* VVhaleship
through which the canal will pass, presents a from
Honolulu, Jan. 13, for Kauai, to obtain
clayish and coaly soil, with no rock except stores. She came to anchor, on the mornnt the mouth of the Chagres, where the for- ing of the following duy in I fathom water,
I
mation is so slaty that it will present no ob- at Koloa. Gule commenced from the south,
stacle.
.Monday motning. Wednesday let go the
Although flic construction of the canal will second anchor. On Thursday lost one anrequite no purchase of land, and no outlay chor, and 25 fathem chain, and cut away
for stone, lime or cement, all which materials mizsen mast. She dragged within ship's
are to be found upon the spot, still the com- length of shore, where she nobly weathered
pany has not hesitated to estimate its cost at the gale. Twice did all hands leave the
the highest rates of constructing such works vessel, thinking that she would certainly beas those, for example of the Caledonian Ca- come an entire wreck upon the rock-bound
nal in Scotland, and the Louisville Canal, shore. She is now lying in Honolulu harthe rate of352,900 francs, or about (66,157 bor, undergoing repairs.
per mile; so that the 42 miles of canal, properly so called, will cost 14,821,800 francs, or
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
about $2,778,615. In these estimates ate
included the cost of four steam two boats, Friend, published monthly, by Samukl (TDamon,
Chaplain.
two folding bridges of cast iron, 140 feet in Seamen's
Terms. H."O per annum, in advance, single copy.
!p2,UO three copies.
length, and several smaller ones.
iJI.oO two topics.
i3,UO
#5,00 ten copies.
This juncture of the two oceans, by bring- five copies.
ing the islands of the Pacific, China, Japan,
Subscriptions received at Messrs. Ladd &
Australea, Sumatra, &c, some 4,000 leagues Co., Mr. E. 11.Eonrdman's, the Study ofthe Seamen's
nearer to us, by rendering the navigation of Chaplain, and at the Printing Office.
tract before even the
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Advocate,
Temperance
ISLANDS,
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH
No.
1843.
MARCH,
111.
9
Vol. I.
FRIEND.
SEAMEN'S
AND
To
The readers of the Advocate have been
favored
H. F.
Marshall, and Mr.
Wise, before the
that
One of the Gentlemen is
the
Chivalrous
the
Representative
a
the Great West, and the other
Speech
South.
The
following
delivered, before
was
the'
same
Society by the Hon. George N. Brings,
from
Representative
n
the North—the Old
These
Speeches, aside from the princi-
ples advocated,
fair
are
in
different
tions of the United States.
speaks
of
westerner, Mr. Wise with
a
sec-
Mr. Marshall
in the fearless and off-hand
facts.
tains
His
manner
the fervor
Speech
abstinence,
most
able
and
maintained
as
For this
temperance
commended
especially
reason
ing through
believed
who
self-control,
of
use
are
the
it is
subject.
The Hon. Mr.
Numerous
Society when he delivered this Speech,
the
the
at
President of
was
of
opening
the
Society's
meeting,
the
and
ture
of
of our association
objects
It declares that
ting liquors
as
a
those who have
the
in the
beverage,
opinion
it, produces
signed
and the aid of their
example,
do all in their power
To
those evils.
this
not to use
This
beverage.
and the
intoxicating liq-
single, manly
About
Congress
ten
years
at
once
that
in this
intemperance.
the
ago,
city,
to
of the
perance BM>vement
dent
spirits.
its members
and
excellent
Most
of
That
some
society
of the
public
of them have
action,
honored
and
graves.
a
use
of
ar-
numbered among
most
men
passed
many
tem-
upon the
Society
of ahstinence from the
principle
the
of
day, organized
Congressional Temperance
distinguished
of the
country.
now
Societies upon the
rest
cause."
and
It
pledged
of
cases
liquors.
this
kind
x
minds
us,
form
Italy
with
in
than
it
a
pure
found
is
and
drunkenness,
fills
bright
tears.
itable friend of this
cause,
and
the
with
told him
King
"the drunkenness
indom-
of France
is
on
in
that,
says
of France
king
conversation with the
subject,
more
a
Dclavan,the enlightened
Mr.
and
without
wounds,
modern France with the
covers
desolation of
their
ruin, by the
to
and
unadulterated
and
babbling,
and
wine which,
is
which,
holy writ, brings
banquets, "wo,
contentions,
eyes,
amidst the
on
a
this
emphasis,
r
wine.
in
principle
that conviction into
pledge
was
out
which
was
in all its
began
drank,
not
the
for
a
have lost their
them the old
the
by
of that very
stituted
for
name
for the
to
the wines in
friend
to
the
quantity
an
the
died
in-
have
a
bot-
denounced
as
cause
a
of
entirely
and look
ers
of
use,
which
ardent
Mr.
Greenough,
friend.
temper-
now
to
say
are
and
from one-quarter
so
yet
nothing
mixed
to
up
brandy.
New
haps,
as
being
as
its
other
want
of proper
form
their
some
thrift
Supreme Judge
that
a
lodging
our own
"
:
opulent
and
reason,
used
in
are
the
you
influence
Lord Acton,
the
the
a
continue
brought tow, and
with
society
numerous
and the
to
wine."
and
recital here.
fashionable,'
the past
crime of
of
use
injurious effects
too
require
pierced
females,
clothing,
classes of
it, hereafter many
will be
and
destroys
and
probable
nearly all,
or
country
warning of
After
When I add
of Rome, informed Mr. Del-
higher
to
eminent
poison."
and health."
The evidences of the
wine upon the
operation,
most
winter
severe
originated
city
Mr.
Italy
of ardent
in its
he says
idea of its
all
avan, "that
fellow
to
notoriously opposed
declare it
that every
this,
effects
Several ofthe
facts,
letter
country, and is per-
our
men are
and
use,
a
hundreds of the aged, infants,
on
think-
England
of wine in
use
gradual
more
of the medical
in
bad
of Ihe
insidious.
more
may
com-
wine,
distinguished
our
misused in
of of
in
cider-brandy
Florence,
most
one-half be
of alcohol that is found in
in
produces
for
The
with
up
and the
spirits
they
spirits
system;
like the
exactly
false.
drinkers of Massachusetts."
rum
to
matter,
temperate coun-
a
burnt
are
Connecticut,
intoxicating, poisonous melancholy
human
there
people
stating
society
enemy,
but still
The latter is
mon
this
to
have heard it affirmed that France
wine-drinking,
to
How could
they
a
try.
nut
reasonably
hand and
wine"
makes
common
contain
as
mocker
unhealthy drugs
them,
the
a
"
it
is
the
was
temperance
one
whilst
drink"
which
length
could
could
of a
in
at
of
Amongst
which it
the real facts in relation
ing
says;"We
Delavan, says:"The
under
in the other.'
which
destructive
observation of
own
Hewitt, of Connecticut,
good
of stimulants,
How
Alcohol is the
ingredient
Dr.
citizen,
and mnny
Society,
alcohol,
Who
For,
strong
And what
?
of
pledge
iccced ?
welcomed the
ance
Rev.
Most
sense
decay.
existence,
success
of champaigne
"raging
The
be
succeeded
a
efficiency,
sorts
prevent.
to
otherwise ?
s
to
intemperunce
which "held the
they
they
use
not
pledge.
mind
Congressional
hard
struggled
in the
established in
fallen into
tonic influence of all
called
If ardent
could
while
public
by
societies,
temperance
excesses
liquors
though
though
arousing
danger,
their
violations of the
of those societies,
and
checked
The votaries
fury.
jeer
to
intoxicating
as
from his
Cooper,
F.
its existence.
success
practice,
with the cry of reaction.
were
charged
hope
and the
introduced.
action of the old
vigorous
neighbors
faith,
individuals J.
firmness,
for the ultimate
master-vice,
of Bacchus
in
which
and
who visited France for the purpose of learnout
broke
again
from this theatre the
of them
of hope
Following
tle
members
encourage
who
men,
upon
safety
the total abstinence
been
res-
remedy against
direful of nil curses,
most
arrest
object, they
olution, if taken and adhered to, is
preventive
efforts,
prevent and
to
accomplish
pledge themselves
the
of
that it is their
united
but
cause
evils of of them have
intention by the influence of their
wish and
as a
hns been
of intoxica-
use
disastrous character;
most
unrs
the
na-
clearly
arc
forth in the constitution which
set
read.
to
Society:—The
the
of
burn-
conviction upon the
only ground
of other
Gentlemen
redness
was
other fermented
melancholy
deep
a
only ground
of the
spirits
1842.
Friday, February 25,
drinks
amongst
turned back
and
could stand with
the first
Briggs
and
had reestablished
they
were
wine
The
truth upon this
sorrow,
its
at
those who tarry
to
existence,
and
It is wine
of
graphic language
in the
bis
to
days
triumphs.
of his
splendor
that last debauch
end
an
of his
morning
soon
land.
the
Multitudesof intemperate
was
search of
in
the fire which
extinguish,
not
suddenly put
spir-
however,
was,
to
belong
freely indulged in, only smothered,
were
the candid pe-
lo
rusal of all whose minds
drunkards,
its, whilst all the lighter intoxicating
for
the
by
consistent friends of
reform.
of
into the heart of his best friend.
.The prevalence of this vice in that counof
of the friends of tempernnce, that
many
told ab.ilinence from all that could intoxicate try is confirmed by our own countryman.
con-
fair exhibition of the argument
a
total
It
character.
a
nation
a
discovered that the exclusion of ardent
produced
and frankness of a 1 southerner, while Mr.
Briggs presents
being
inflamed the passions
liquor produced
same
in the
which
mad son, and made him strike
dagger
The
should be rescued from
misfoitunes which
the
the
which
complete;
he
wine
was
Philip's
and
would
of the themselves
to abstain from ardent spirits, and
specimens
of oratory
popular style
such
did
Bay State, Massachusetts.
of
reproach
from and from
sideboard,
the
Hold, that the great
and the
people,
a
as
we,
from
-excluded
wera
It
if ardent of
believed,
then
was
moral reformation
Congressional Total Abstinence Society.
from
It
workshop,
the
formed in every State of
were
this Union.
Speeches of the Hon. spirit*
the
with
named
just
Reader,
the
use
a
it
sorrows.
too
If the
against
the
expostulations
as
noble
many,
ot
in
they have
genius
many
a
will
heart
�TE, JilPEil ANCT&
10
Facts like those
have
led
the
lo
which I have alluded of
to
of the
adoption
deeming principle
of total abstinence.
results which have followed its
been
the
One feature in this
last
distinguishes it
ment
re-
mines
of Reformed
Society
Drunkards (the first of the kind in the United
States, and probably
in the
organized
years ago.
three thousand.
has
society
tho
sent
That
fellow
beings, amongst
Two
these entered the State of New York
last
summer
leflMhe State
the circle
the
to
thousand
jire
of their
total
h.bors,
abstinence
habitual drunkards
This fact
is
rapid-and
but
astonishing
form within the
of
part
The
ments
gers.
To
their
vices,
it.
of this
progress
in
re-
phenomenon
Europe.
of the
and
of
places
the
the
the divine
out
u
belong
to
Look
females,
the
ignorant,
bowirlg,
the
circles of
same
are
crisis
See her five
and
humble
various branches of the
would
city
ple
its
to
a
their
give
such
called upon,
to
manity—
and
abstinence,
medal,
as
a.
history
spectacle
a
receiving
the emblem of
triumph.
of the world
support
an
such
to
of
net
would
rev-
breach of the
a
such
not
because it would
those
the
to
and their
exam-
could estimate
be
upon
commandments? would
imply
and
scandalous,
indulgence
an
an
in
engaired
distilling, no
tolerution, if productive only
all
to
"The noble lord has been
for its
reason
of evil."
pleased kindly
__
to
inform
that
us,
very
extensive;
bers,
and that
skill,
and
the
trade of
discouraged.
Once
wonder
different
theft
thut
It
repealed
that
It
numerous.
that
appears
formidable
a
number
of
body
law
a
against
because thieves
delayed
or
heart, and
the
argument in their fa-
no
hea,rd
never
the
pervert
be
I
to me,
appears
enfeeble the limbs, and
to
intellects,
was
so
be
to
which the distillers pro-
to
blood,
for
if
conse-
not
lords, allow
more,
spirits
distillirs should
the
my
the different conceptions of
at
allowed
are
vitiate the
num-
exquisite
at
is
distilling
understandings.
that since the
duce
great
therefore—note well
quence—the
to
employs
have arrived
they
is
distilling
trade of
that it
the
It would be
!
cause
tax
a
pay the tax?"
can
"The numbers
were
a
who
the law
executing
wicked
be
1.nsm y,
prohibited,
but vice
taxed,
ten
tax
a
therefore
and
punished.
Would you lay
will.
they
revolution, obscure the
that would follow such
in its nchievnienls.
to
me, my lords,
confederated
are
the virtue or the lives of their fellow-
against
by
of
adds
their
und
example
up and take
and the
to
to
a
position
their
will sanction the
act.
pinnacle summit,
lift her
her
banners,
the
face of the
to
which
not
advance
a
hut the
and kindle
relation is
For
of
example
grenter than
good
over
or
we
for evil,
in
are
our
censing
the
apt
to
conduct
is
like
the
beautifully
gcninl operation
expresses
the
imagexerts
in the
of
"Vice
to
a
good deed
in
a
in
people,
will
and
approval
naughty world."
the moral and intellectual
qualities
the
of great
lor
he
21st
the
on
sell
or
taxed, but
not to be
lords,
my
use
degree,
ever
may be
of those
in
is
their
to
but
punished."
not
properly
and
heavy
means
by
of that
excess
made
things
own
nature,
because
a tax
are
and
a tax
are
secure
crush
at
have
pit-falls
murderer,
a
If their
to
their
and
ruin,
fatal
lam very
that there
are
to
my
draught,
countrymen
my
year
murder
over
any
be to
be
to
the-
cannot
as
lords,
from
peculiar
—nor
the manufacture should
sacred now,ifit
t
slaughter,
spread
far,
this
tolerating
why
in
such baits
debauchery,
for
reasons
are
tempted
length,
at
us
great
liquors
arc
artists
these
reconciled
resisted.
conceive
let
because
obtained
them from their
once
and
of
palatable
the vials that contain them— l<
that
can
be
I
held
destroyed hereafter."
my
only
ADVOCATE
But
simply
in
every
my lords,
a
Honolulu,
strictly
upon theft
implies
prepare
practice
dest:ruction,
own
sickness
be
be
of
faculty
contribute my inter-
ever
long
to
have
to
no
&
properly
not
None,
be prohibited.
is
difficult.
which
of
heard in
any nation
adultery,
taxes
very
though
more
to
which
which
by
thinking,
Luxury,
attained.
its excess, may
taxed, that such
the
or
be
excess
pernicious by
be
only
can
the
or
is
suppressed;
suppression
lords,
taxed,
mankind,
delicious, that the people
who
Feb.
to
shall I
wonder-
said
arc
opinion,
in my
reprieve
the
has
by bursting
liin-
nor
is,
it
dexterity in bis trade.
so
respecting
manufacture
to
that
use
poison;
tri-
following
which the distillers
attained,
est
So little, my lords,
affected with the merit of the
ful skill
their
drinks,
sometimes the
hurtful
:
How far lh.it little candle throws bis beams !
Ho shines
"Vice,
light unlawful,
Shakspearc
thought
out
174.3, in the British House of Lords.
social
They,
good example
nod heat in the natural world.
that
Republic,
the
of
lofty
throw
watch-fires,
and
100 years since,
men
toxicating
em-
Republic
the conduct of others.
The power of
of
voice
this
on
is,
«*.
opinions
not
in their turn, act upon us in the same way.
Tin* mutual and reciprocal effect is generally
unseam.
her
country,
quarter
the
her,
it
Capitol
standard,
the
us
itself is deeply concerned.
influence
I
lotds,
great moral operation in
only individuals,
Let
Lord Chesterfield delivered
where official char-
individual importance, is it
lensonable that their influence should be
ployed
whose
people,
of
possession
of hu-
by
stop the destruction.
to
tem-
their in-
cause
Raised
patriotism.
Let
am
come
every
humanity
because
benevolence,
rejoice
perance
from
r
:iid and
support this
constituents
cntr.d
who
support,
1
Next
what
Government in this
names
consequences
In the midst of these universal movements, send back
(lie members of our National
Legislature arc umph.
"
seen
the land.
functionaries belonging
public
priest, laking Capitol,
and the seal of their
fidelity,
presented
and the peasant—
man, in the presence of
one
as
of total
pledge
moral,
of that
re-
refined
moral
be
to
let the difficulties in
me
through
is
lords,
of those
more
mighty
marching
the present
at
taught, liy
generally
more
in the front ranks of that
remedy— Mai glorious
young, the learned and
When, before, has the
n
not
that
carrying
to be
be taxed but
not to
and
politician
from his hand the
ine.
passages
It is
and
higher
is
society
all the
which alarmed
Ireland !
at
old and
the
obscure
hitherto
The
which he
ought
universally,and
evil,
an
no
the
One
is
to
Orangemen ; men act of the noblest patriotism, because their citizens, it is time to
to the
havoc,
put an end
bogs and men from her cities, males country would reap its benefits ; it would be and to interpose, while it is yet in our power
and
acter
striking
taxed,
pay it."
to
my lords, is
in all circumstances
of the
possess.
personal example
the
to
fill
directing
practically
principles
that the
gretted
the
who
customs
going about, doing good."
who
men
passions,
and
they
him
represents
in the
Her multitudes
dangers
same
they fly
fluence,
public
in the life of the Suvior of the world
which
By
willing
"Evils ofdrunkenness universal."
my
always
of that which is
use
"Drunkenness,
will be
the mind and
those
and tlie
of
villa-
honor, will have
beautiful and
most
olution which is
ele-
and
whose confidence
mass
of
moulding
habits,
the
to
The
customs
authority
the
fashions,
tone
people.
every
moral
give
influence in
mean
the
vices
for the
deter-
impress
principle,
same
in society,
men
of the
habits,
the
bis
extent
granted
(March,
all who shall be
The lead-
and his virtues their virtues.
upon
morals
If,
is exhibited
great
a
example
father
family.
village stamps
country will
a
of the
upon the character of
operation
acting
/
of the
measures
The
vor;
from her
their
were
illustration of the
commotion of the
abstinence.
the
names
entered
they
last few months,
millions—Catholics
nil
within
who
pledge,
over
at
and
us,
their
and
all
startled
had,
they
country.
our
same
agitation
men
put
when
single
a
qualities
of of the
during
When
autumn.
or
with it
visit and
to
millions of their countrymen.
the
spread
happiness.
missionaries
out
was
about
now
land, carrying
and
peace,
their lost
encourage
world)
Their influence has
every part of the
reformation,
the
Its number is
two
over
in
his
the
chhii.ii
of the
man
society
influence.
course
ing
of Baltimore less than of
city
the
in
position
his
of
than the
more
move-
his
man,
extent
have
astonishing.
temperance
a
the
.The
from all others.
Washington
The
adoption
and
animating
most
great
ADTOCATfc.
license
The
events
memorable
March
day
in
Hawaiian
has been marked
unlooked for transaction.
wae
1843
of the past month will
chapter
Almost every
11,
issued under the
reign
form
a
history.
by
some
Our lust number
of
Kamehameha
�the
111.,
present
with
quainted
from
If
pursued
which
events,
informed, the
correctly
the
by
the British
French
in
now
The
the So-
at
waves
proclamations
the Rear Admiral Abel dv Dv Petit
the
George Paulet,
orable Lord
the
of such
are
in
the
a
nature
of
public advertisement,
delivered
speech
the
His
memorable 25th of February,
and
to
of His
of
to
how
Considering
Others
however
what he
is
about
gling
take
undoubtedly
was
considered its
language
to
and
his
orig-
view
best, the
with
Thus sit-
in
more
lawful
appropri-
and
subjects.
from
commons
am
you,
Chiefs,
people
people
ancestor, and
my
and
foreign lands!
"Hear
I
are
in
ye!
perplexity by
indulge
habits of
them
melancholy
into which I
cause;
life of
have
been
therefore, I
up
traveling
you, my
will
continue,
for
I
But
ye!
life of the land will be
conduct is
given away
have
and
our
intercourse,
the
rule
tny
hope
that
landsmen,
among
ter
inspire
of the
rarnous
the
globe
hope,
are
that
to
some, the
to
some
anxious
effects of intoxicating
noble, yet
should be made
true
see
should
as
to
the
come
belief,
in this
quar-
escape
liquors.
self-denying
not be
of the
How
cause.
should parents and
are
fatally
ruined
of this
among
by
subject
published.
to
much
exist
the
The
resolu-
number, however,
men,
who
have
is
resolved
ate men.
as
you,
a
sailor
the
brought
following is
the
a
has
a
to
do not
cost
pardon
the
ex-
intruding
on
obligation
to
J
safe
re-
for thus ad-
me
time,
your
your obedi-
B
,
board H. M.
on
Ship Carysfort.
limits
will
her
M.
allow
only
1842.
10,
To H. B. M. S
&.C.,. in
in
gratification
Majesty's
in
subjects
in China.
ibjects
Plenipotentiary,
extreme
concluded and
that
China,
High Commissioners,deputed
lowing
are
the
Lasting
1.
two
a
to ne-
of which the fol-
Treaty,
most
he
with the
signed,
Chinese
with him,
Chi-
announcing
day
gotiate
nn
from the
following Circular,
has this
the
important provisions.
peace
and
friendship
between
Empires.
lest
2. China to pay $21,000,000 in the course
them of the
present and three succeeding yi ars.
around
produce
class,
small
The
much
they
spend
to
have
share
the
be
his
of Feb.
14th,
and
British
appointed
just
well
inland
as
lished and
merchants,
to
chow
thrown
consular officers
at
them,
import
Transit,)
perpetuity
to
and
duties
to
and regu-
export (as
be
estab-
of
Hong kong
to
be ceded
H. B. M. her heirs and
suc-
cessors.
subjects
tives of Europe
be
of H. B. M.
or
study, of which fined in any part
verbatim copy.
reside
be
to
published.
4. The Island
in
Amoy, Foo
Shanghot
Tariffs of
lar and
re-
temper-
to
open
to
sea-
The Ports of Canton,
3.
foo, Ningpoo,
to
The
among
sober and
morning
a note
an
Our
CIRCULAR.,
Her B.
5. All
on
copy of the
a
obliged.
"Friend of China," Sept.
their
upon
Before the Editor had finishedthe
last sentence,
and
health,
to
feeling.
acknowledge
would
of this, and
insertion of the
to
that
example.
will
As
mainder of their lives
moral
the
the hu-
guardians be,
their
not
of this bane
use
correct
dollar, I will be
one
that
afflicting
Late China papers have been received by
in
be known
contributed their full
past,
years
present
humble servant,
of tem-
be
young
subject
seamen.
and
to
succeeding day's
opinion,
my
years,
drink.
Interesting News from China.
tem-
the open and consistent friends and advo-
cates
is the
race,
dressing
even
the
ashamed
at
Smiiu'ii,
upon these
sentiment should
public
a
confirms
I
punishments
attributed
lie
with all
of eighteen
period
a
more
Nineteen
strength
1834, each
curse,
If you
before theirminds.
to
Facts
light.
ene-
your
love them
to
and
may
the Boston.
about their
subject
love
If
could procure me
you
Sandwich Island Laws, ifthe
ent
grog,
Saviour had
our
no-
The number of
numerous
greatest
ceed
those
to
them-
or
perpetuate the evils of intemperance.
seamen
instances have
under observation, which lead
and
It is
certain
thing
eternity.
quite
distinctly brought
the young will
in
FRIEND.
numerous
is
any
the their children and the
restored when my
late,
say
who should have the
discussion
of
to
for
giving
to
navy,
may you will confer
naturally
intoxication,
sailors,
soul
during
experience
na
good
In
not
con-
subject
education
road which leads
people
perance
Such
justified."
SEAMEN'S
good
to
If
command,
of twenty of all the
out
ceiving
becomo
of
men
beastly
prospects
They
than
seen
the
value
be observed in this way, who
to
Since the yeat
until
speedy reformation.
a
witness
to
a
poral ruin,
people, and your privileges guard
over
have
cases
this great
of circumstances
greater
a
else.
the
by
their heart,
man
to
attach
thing
any
intended
have
in
(particularly
men
sea-faring
navy)
to
successful
combination
A strong
than
a
cause.
has made
in the
as
of the enyour aoceptanoe
dollar, and myfervent wish is you
eminently
good
frought happiness
been led
that
without
brought
have
land, hear
our
you
to
lend
the world-
and
discussion of this
to
and
intoxicating drinks
intemperance
the
tracted,
in
may
individuals,
to
unhappily
most
freely
too
their
of difficulties
reason
and
one
be
may
of total in
in
work
a
community,
If persons have
its
I make known to
the
to
walking
now
company,
blessings
families,
Islands,
"Where
their
join
to
believe
we
strengthened
with incalculable
young
closed
mies,
Others, who hesitate,
promoting
obedient
and de-
pleasant path
their influence in
sad
rejoice
discussion of the
Those
and
be
purposes.
selves
possession
galling
why
from the
will result
arouse
the
from
who is strug-
man,
reasons,
Temperance question.
of ble minds and
King
impressed
injustice.
speak
domin-
conoive
whatever
think
they
make
to
the
arc
will
becom-
res-
intemperance?
green
mat-
to
and
plot
to en-
of Total
drinks
intoxicating
I beg
beverage,
zealous
Many
good
him
in
man
from the
bonds of
grading
good
brother
a
free
get
to
every
him
save
rea-
Abstinence from all
sub-
a
circulating pub-
principle
the
lications, advocating
Temper-
raise
to
the purpose of
scription for
made
be
that would
reason,
the full of
not
restore
Is that
grave?
in the safe,
could have
speech
concise, apt,
may
uated how could he
from
society—to
abstinence,
the pecu-
we cannot
power,
It
proceeding
ate
Majesty,
appropriate
penned.
inal.
the
foreign
a
more
a
been
most
Provisional Cession of his
public
forward—to
courage him
the
a
shall
effort
possible
short
on
published,
was
think
may
the transaction.
ions
a
parties concerned,
the
to
they
as
liar situation of His
a
a
That is
Lordship.
shall leave
dispose
ing
that
broad
delivered without the sanction and be induced
even
authority
ter we
By
Majesty,
Pacific,
forth,
globe.
learn
we
by
.
documents,
them
of the
of sound
one
or
in the
your wish
Advocate,
ance
but
t P. M.
Ship Caryafort, Monday,
Sir, —Reading yesterday
instances
was
afloat upon the bosom
seamen
over
found
will elicit discussion
as
four quarters
will
calling
circumstances
Hon-
be
several
there
11. M.
not,"
of islands,
upon this group
among all the
pectable
handle
not,
in
Suppose
such instance
of drunkard's
Thours,
Bight
These
sheet.
extra
an
upon
and
and of the
Society Islands,
over
taste
drinks, has
taken.
sonable and
that
points
many
flag
this group of Islands.
at
lion "to touch not,
been
ac-
documents.
Islands resembles
ciety
become
important
most
have been
we
have
probably
the
published
method
by
will
sheet,
under the
press
Most of the readers of alcoholic
liritsh Commission.
this
to
goes
11
ADVOCATE.
TE,ail?fcttAXCfc
1843.)
India)
of the
unconditionally
who
(whether
nay be
Chinese
released.
nacon-
Empire,
to
�12
6.
SEAMEN'S
An Act of full and entire Amnesty
the
published by
Sign Manual
rial
subjects,
vice,
Seal,
and
intercourse, with
the British Government
7.
Correspondence
resided
be
ser-
8. On the
this
to
from
the
Emperor.'s
on
and
military posts
drawn,
but
langsoo
Ports be
In
now
tude
arrangements for
Her
and
Feb.
The
also with-
the
distinguished
highest
combined Forces,
led
these
to
which
doubtless
the
during
momentous
have
various
been
thus
thorities.
In the
M. Pleni-
China
on
and
equally
ests
the occasion of
believes
in
on
the
due
time be
day
HENRY
(Signed,)
Her
first of
ed,
as
plays
was
three
or
March,
A full
near
Orion;
the
suns
having its
Four
rays.
the
The
the
shining
visible,
ter
the
7th
a
at
the
bright,)
of
pale
7,
red
it, owing
near
in
K
J.
its
(the
was
stars
were
to
moon
a
diame-
could be
nearness
to
the
at the hour of 7, p.
m., it seembe between the constellations Cett and
Pegasi,
the
towards
tance
extending
Major.
of the Comet,-from
stars to
tant,
train
Canis
the
was
the middle
61° Q¥.
eastward,
as
more
The
some
star
Nd
than 40°
angular
dis-
of the
fixed
measured
from Aldebaran 59°
90*,
of
B.
S.
240.
Officers,
by
a
and
sex-
the
at
latest
is
a
from
news
Feb.
China,
sailed
1841.
John
Pi-
Docklium,
occurred
while
the
Navigator Islands
for
the
on
going
the
at
*'
the
it,
their
been
It
boys
they,
not
are
well
as
grog, receive six
it, which
edgements
as
do
is
as
althe
cents
generally
you
see
the
new
presented by Capt.
was
the
Chaplain,
U. S.
Ship
Boston.
in behalf of all
sea-
this Port, tenders his acknowl-
to
Capt. Long,
well
for their skilful
as
use
to
the
for this
on
accepta-
Quarter Masters
of the needle.
A Card.—A donation of
from Lieutenants
$15,
board the U. S.
(Anilam) was thankfully received
importance Temperance Cause.
to
H.
the
M.
sul.
On
to
aid
from three
Ship Boston,
forward the
ship
be
after, Dockum,
but
sentenced,
taken by
now
the
the
an
A short
went
on
Capt.
deliver up the
from three
in
He is
Simpson
along
board.
ship, Mr. Jackson,
the
£100.
must
being refused,
Master.
was
imprisonment
of
He,
Acting Con-
Pilot,
to
to
opinion
Mr.
was
refusing
8th
As
soon,
deliver up
to
min still
on
the
not to come
of the
appointed
Commission,
also
condi-
obtained.
which
the
ordered
mate
crew
and
Capt. Cummin.
side,
been
old
to'sea.
go
March,
Ship,
time
The former
re-
forward
Capt. Cummin
"James Stewart"
was
meas-
crew, in
expected
was
that
of
armed force, from
has
could
Master,
of the
Register
the
1st
the
of
re-
who
all,
not
the decision of H. M.
upon the
new
certain other
might
however, decided
by
for
The Master
pro-
deferred that
was
the
insisted on, in behalfof the
were
Lordship
abide
a
of the
15
but
with
Ship Carysfort
affair
His
out
brought
men
part,
a
of
completed,
board.
comply
the
given
owners
Acting Consul,
unless
on
had
left
was
or
hove
shipping
before the vessel
men,
the end of each month.
Flag?"
take
to
tions which
Mate.
The
but
the valueof
visiting
*
for
Master,
refused
Sailmakor.
M. Shaw,
stop
as
gift,
having
they
any
master
was
certain
received
posed
Clerk.
Pox, Acting
Whitton, Gunner.
The Seamen's
ble
ship
taken
ship
to
were
Master,
They
trusting
of the
presence of H. M.
Boatswain.
Long, Commanding
men
&.c.
persons
These
ures were
by
Card.—"Seamen,
Bethel
all
The
ship.
fused
of
state
the
Public notice
on account
called
A
the 20th.
pairs.
"
HUACKF.NBUSH,
draw
to
in number)
(23
crew
•'
to
the
learning
their wages,
forbidding
Master.
the reef,
that in consequence of the mutinous
on
crew
port,
Before
The British Consul
certificate
a
gave
this
struck
ship
'*
Harris,
draw their
grog.
paid
the
for
18, 1842.
"
The full number on board is 203; of which
who
steered
Dec.
board, and
on
stating,
ship
McCauley, Midshipman.
John
day
none, he
anchor,
Opolo,
British Consul resided;
refusing duty.
crew
forfeited
Commander.
"
Warden,
G.T. Lozieh,
men
to
a
be settled
Master visited
the
arrived
conduct of the
Gregory,
IIknrkjuas, Captain's
E.
per
everything might
law,
to
she
affairs,
list of the Officers
J. II.
lowed
That
finding
coming
War, Boston, arrived
Dodd, Surgeon.
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in the belt of Orion
observations
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horizon, but
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ship B. Gosnold,
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constellation of
following
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26,
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bright
tons,
February 7,1843.
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very
Hi,
Feb.
where he had heard
which will be
Majesty's Plenipotentiary.
horizon
Feb.
Raymond, Carpenter.
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7,
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1842.
previous
barque Jules, Simonet,
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Frigate "Queen"
evenings
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through
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Advocate and Friend. (Extra.)
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, MARCH, 1843
13
suits shall be drawn out and registered upon
the stamped register for this purpose.
Oth. There shall he two true copies of the
minutes signed by all the members of the
Council in the four and twenty hours which
succeed the sitting, placed in the chancery
of the Consulate of France one to be sent
to the Minister of the Marine, the other to
form part of the archives of the Consulate,
and to he communicated if necessary to those
having the right or to the Foreign Consuls.
10th. In case of appeal from a judgment
to the Council of Government,the Council
shall join to themselves as Assesors the Consuls of the parties concerned, or if the affair
is mixed (that is to say) between a white
and a native, the Consul of the party
concerned on the one part and the Governor of the district on the other, in this case
lbs judgment shall only be given by the majority of voices.
1 Ith. There shall be no appeal from the
judgment of the Coucil of the Government,
to the Government of the King, but in criminal matters. The Council of Government
can in no case pronounce the sentence of
death, allairs of this importance shall be sent
for the decision of the Government of the
Society Islands.
PROCLAMATION.
of Her Majesty Queen
Pomarc,
in the name
Her Majesty the Queen Pomarc on the one
part, and the Rear Admiral Abel Dv Petit
Thouars, Commander of the Legion of
Honor, and Commanding in Chief the Naval Station of France in the Pacific Ocean,
on the other part.
the formation of which they will contribute,
in naming the candidates of their nation,
among which, the jurors must be taken in
proportional numbers to that of the nations
represented at Tahiti. From the judgments
of the tribunals they can again appeal to the
judgment of the Council of Government, to
whom they shall have the right to be joined
as assessors. In fact they can appeal from
the judgment of the tribunal directly to the
King.
4. All judgments shall be given after the
laws of the country, already promulgated.
5. The natives and the whites- shall be
equal in the eyes of the law.
6. Liberty of worship is proclaimed. The
Government will afford thorn an equal protection. None can be sought out for his religious opinion, nor constrained in the exercise of his worship.
7. Individual liberty is guaranteed, none
can be stopped but by a written and explained order of the Council, after deliberation,
and upon an unanimous decision.
8. All property, of whatever description,
is guaranteed—disputes that may arise on
this subject, conformably to the reserves
i,Hide by the Queen, shall be exclusively the
resort of the native tribunals. None can be
constrained to sell or exchange his property.
9. All whites resident at Tahiti, must have
a certificate of nationality, or known by the
Consul of his nation, or again taken under
the protection of one accredited; in default
of this guarantee, he will be considered as a
vagabond, and as such obliged to quit the
country. In all cases, the judgment cannot
be given, but after deliberation of the
Council of Government, and by unanimity
of voices.
10. All persons who wish to follow commercial pursuits, must take out a license;
they shall be given gratis (until the decision
of the government) by the consent of the
Council, and enrolled in a public register
kept for this purpose. The licenses must
be signed by the three members of the Gov-
Taking into consideration the stipulations
upon which is founded the protection of His
Majesty Louis Phillippe, provisionally granted, under the reserve of the sanction of the
King, and moreover taking into account the
impossibility of taking immediately the orders of His Majesty the King of the French,
and considering also the total ahsencc of
laws and regulations which may serve as a
basis of society, find themselves under the
necessity of founding at Tahiti a Provisional
Government to direct the affair! in that which
concerns the whites, foreign relations, and to
guarantee personal security, rights and public order, The Queen Pomarc', and the Hear
Admiral A. Dv Petit Thouars, resolve,
King.
Ist. That a Council of Government shall
I Jtli. All appeals from a judgment given
be established at Papeete, the Capital of in native allairs, shall he registered by the
Tahiti.
Council of Government, unless it is referred
2nd. The Council is invested conformably in virtue of a demand in writing of Queen
to the condiion of the Protectorate, with the Pomare, who in all eases, and according to
administrative and executive .power, and of the condition of the Protectorate, is reservthe foreign political relations of the Govern- ed the entire administration and jurisdicment of the Queen I'omare.
tion over the natives.
3d. The Council of the Government is Civil justice shall be c\crciscd at Tahiti,
composed of three members, namely,
The Consul of France, Commissioner Ist. l'y tribunals entirely composed of naof the King to the Government of Her Maj- tives, named by the Queen tot the affairs
among the natives, according to the estabesty the Queen Pomarc.
lished custom.
The Military Governer of Papeete.
2. Hy the same tribunals, to which shall
The Captain of the Port of Papeete.
4th. The decisions of the Council of the be joined on eqnal number of white jurors
Government shall only be taken after delib- (to the native jurors of the mixed tribunals)
eration in council, and shall only he execu- named by the Council of Government, who
shall choose them from the triple list of cantive when pronounced by unanimity.
sth. Out of the Council, each member shall didates, presented in equal numbers by each ernment.
Foreign Consuls, for the affairs beonly preserve the power with which he is es- of the the
11. The interdiction of the sale of spirittween
whites and the natives. In fact
pecially charged.
the whites may refer their affairs to the tri- uous liquors, pronounced by the laws of the
Gth. The Council shall only be assembled bunals of the Consuls;
hut in this case, all Queen Pomarc, is maintained.
when convened by the Consul of Franr.e> the jurors shall be named by the Council of
12. The sale of wines, beers, and other
commissioner of the King, or by the Mili- the
Government, as has been said above for drinkables not alcoholized, cannot be assimGovernor
of
Papeete.
tary
the jurors of the mixed tribunals.
ilated with that of spirituous liquors, and
7th. Every decision which is not agreed
The Foreign Consuls shall preserve, shall continue provisionally tube authorized.
S.
to unanimously shall be null in its effects and
until the French and their Governments are
13. Every one's dwelling house is invioshall be sent for the decision of the Governinformed, their jurisdiction over their ua- lable. They cannot be entered except they
ment of the King.
tions, they can proceed themselves to con- keep public houses; such as hotels, eating
Bth. The minutes of all the deliberations ciliate them, whether it be by persuasion or houses, taverns,
and billiard rooms, but these
of the Council, whatever shall he their re- arbitration, or in appealingto the tribunal, to public
houses cannot be entered, save by an
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TEMPERANCE
order of the Council; or order of the Military Governor.
14. Gaming houses are interdicted—all
infractions of this shall be severely punished,
and in case of relapse, the person rendering
himself guHty, shall be obliged to quit the
country.
15. All whites who intermeddle with the
affairs between the Government of the Queen
Pomare, and that of the King, provisionally
established, or who by their clamors, their
intrigues, their calumnies, or their actions
shall seek to trouble public order and good
harmony, which is about to be established,
can upon a resolution taken in Council by a
unanimity of voices, be lorced to quit the
country.
16. The Captains of vessels who may enter the Port of Papeete, shall be obliged to
make declaration of the motive of their coming, at the Office of the Captain of the Port
—and to nitmau him of the day of their departure, and in paying the dues of pilotage
and anchorage fixed by Queen Pomare.
These dues shall remain the same, until the
decision of the King is known under the acceptance of the Protectorate.
17. Whenever the public force is neces"sary to put in execution the orders of the
Council of Government, the native Governor
of Papeete, named by Queen Pomare, shall
al the written order of the Council of Government, lend public assistance if it is re-
quited.
The Hear Admiral Com(Signed,)
manding in Chief the Naval Station of France in the- Pacific.
A. DU PETIT THOUARS.
The Queen of Tahiti,
(Signed,) POMARE.
Consulate of the U. S. A., Society Islands.
Translation from the Original, S. li.
Blacki.er, Consul.
Sandwich Islands.
PROVISIONAL CESSION.
In consequence of the difficulties in
which we find ourselves involved, and our
opinion of the impossibility of complying
with the demands in the manner in which
they arc made by her Britannic Majesty's
Representative upon us, in reference to
the claims of British subjects; We do
hereby cede the Group of Islands known
as the Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands,
unto the Right Honorable Lord George
Paulet, Captain of her Britannic Majesty's
Ship of War Carysfort, representing her
Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, from this date, and for the
time being: the said Cession being made
with the reservation that it is subject to
any arrangement that may have been en-
Att\o C A T F..
tered into by the Representatives aopointed by us to treat with the Government of Ilcr Britannic Majesty ; and in the
event that no agreement has been executed previous to the date hereof; subject to
the decision of Her Britannic Majesty's
Government on conference with the said
Representatives appointed by us; or in
the event of our Representatives not being accessible, or not having been acknowledged, subject to the decision which
Her Britannic Majesty: may pronounce on
the receipt of full infomiation from us, and
from the Rt. Hon. Lord George Paulct.
In confirmation of the above we hereby
affix our names and seals, this twentyfifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-three, at Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
Signed jn presence of
I*. Jinin, Recorder and }
Translator for the Goo- >
(i.
•
t fitment.
j
KAMEHAMEHA 111.
KKKAULUOHI.
A Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands having
been made this day by KamehaMEH \ 111.,King, and Khk auluoiit,
Premier thereof, unto me, The
Right Hon. Lord George Paulet
commanding; Her Britannic Majesty's Ship Carysfort on the part
of Her Britannic Majesty, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland; subject to arrangements
which may have been or shall be
made in Great Britain, with the
Government of H. B. Majesty.
(March,
with other powers, (save and except the
ncgociations with theBritish Government)
and the arrangements among Foreigners,
(others than natives of the Archipelago)
resident on these Islands.
Third, That the laws at present existing or which may be made at the ensuing
Council of the King and Chiefs (after being communicated to the Commission,)
shall be in full force so far as natives are
concerned ; and shall form the basis of
the administration of justice by the Commission, in matters between Foreigners
resident on these Islands.
Fourth, In all that relates to the Collection of the Revenue, the present Officers shall be continued at the pleasure of
the native King and Chiefs, their Salaries
for the current year being also determined
by them, and the Archives of Government
remaining in their hands; the accounts
are, however, subject to inspection by the
Commission hnrebefore named. The Government vessels shall be in like manner:
subject, however, to their employment if
required for Her Britannic Majesty's service.
Fikth, That no sales, leases, or translets of land shall take place by the action
of the ('on,mission appointed as aforesaid,
nor from nativcs-lo Foreigners, during the
period intervening between the 24th of
this month, anil the receipt of notification
from Great Britain of the arrangements
made there: they shall not be valid, nor
shall they receive the signatures of the
King and Premier.
Sixth, All the existing bona fide engagements of the native King and Premier shall be executed and performed as
if this Cession had never been made.
Given under my hand this twenty-fifth
day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
' First, That the British Flag shall be
forty-three, at Honolulu,VVoahoo, Sandwich Islands.
hoisted on all the Islands of the Group: and
the natives thereof shall enjoy the protecGEOIGE PAUI.ET,
Captain of 11. It. M. S. Carysfort.
tion and privileges of British subjects.
Signed in presence of
Second, That the Government thereof <i. I'. .1 p-nu, Her. anil Inl. to the Govt.
I do hereby proclaim,
Alex. Simpson, Jl. 11. Al. ailing Contul.
shall be executed, until the rccciptof communications from Great Britain, in the following manner:—namely,—By the native
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
King and Chiefs and the Officers employed by them, so far as regards the native Prieixl, published monthly, by Samuel C. Damon,
population: and by a Commission, con- Seamen's Chaplain.
Team. V'.'K' l*r annum, in advance, single copy.
sisting of King Kamehamelia 111., or a 51,50
two copies.
£2,00 three copies.
#8,00
Deputy appointed by him, The Right livo copies.
£5,00 ten copies.
Honorable Lord George Paulet: Duncan Subscriptions received at Messrs. Ladd &
Forbes Mackay, Esquire, and Lieutenant Co., Mr. E. H. Itoardman's, the Study of the Seamen's
Frerc, r. n., in all that concerns relations Chaplain, and at the Printing Office.
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Temperance Advocate,
AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
-HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, APRIL, 1843.
Vol. I.
No. IV.
15
such others as may be Chosen for the pur- debt of about £400 then resting upon the soshall constitute an executive commit- ciety. The Governor occupied the chair,
pose,
For (he Temperance Advocate.
tee to carry into effect all the designs of the and opened the meeting by offering some
L.ilmina, Murcli 1,1843
Society.
quite appropriate remarks. Inconsequence
Dear brother Damon, —It was a vote of
Art. 111, The annual meeting of the so- of the society's debt, they in future would
our Temperance Society, some lime since,
that the constitution and names of the mem- ciety shall be on the 2d Monday of October, not be able to continue the publication of
i!d Monbers should be printed; I forward it, with a and a semi-annual meeting on the
the "Temperance Advocate." But remarks
few remarks, for the Temperance Advocate. day in April ofeach year.
the Governor,
The
the
shall
society
IV,
Art.
officers
of
This society was formed the llith of Nov.
a special meeting,
be
a
committee
to
cull
int.. Only thirteen individuals joined it at
The stoppage of the paper, although he
its formation. It is called the .Maui Tem- whenever, in their view, the interests of the was sorry for it, he did not so much regret,
require it.
as it had been taken up by a sister society to
perance Society for foreign residents and cause may
Akt. V, Any foreign resident or visitor advocate the same cause, and taking the few
foreign visitors. It is intended not only for
suball foreign residents, hut for as many of the may become a member of this society by
numbers be had seen as a specimen, he hoped
the following pUdge.
it would be conducted with renewed energy,
seafaring population as shall find it in their scribing
We, the undersigned, do agree, that we and he thought with every prospect of suchearts to unite with us. As, however, it was
not
intoxicating liquors as a bever- cess. (The te-totalers, who mustered pretty
formed near the close of our last shipping will nor use
traffick in them; that we will not strongly, were in ecstacies and applauded
season, but few of that class have yet had an age,
them as an article of entertainment, most rapturously). He supposed from the apopportunity to testify their approbation of provide
or for persons in our employment; and that,
plause which had greeted his last sentence
this cause. Thus far this society has prosall suitable ways, we will discountenance that there were many te-totalern present (repered beyond the expectations of any of us. in
We hope it will not be very long before it their use throughout the community.
ticwed ;i|i|ilni,s<jt He had before stated that
J. Stetson. D. Baldwin. S. J. Tcnn- ho would not allow that there could be nnv
will embrace all our foreign residents and a
ent. Lorria Andrews Win. John Green. jealousy between the Temperance and Total
goodly number of the sons of the ocean.
John
R. L. Smith. Robert Barker. John Abstinence Society, there were no grounds
The officers of the society are as follows,
Capt. J. Stetson, President; Rev. L, An- Clark. Joseph Lovell. J. S. Green. An- for jealousy; the only rivalry should be, as
his mark. William Blos- they were both embarked for the same obdrews, Vice President; Rev. D. Baldwin, tonio Vincent,-jsom. Lorrin Andrews, Jr. F.W.Gordon. ject, to see which could do the most good.
Secretary.
J. S. Emerson. Benjamiin Craffts. Edwin He was not a te-totaler, but ono of those"
Capt. Wm. J. Green, of London, and Miner.
Thomas Cooper. E. W. C'ark. called, sometimes reproachfully, moderate
Capt. John R. L. Smith, of New Bedford, James M. Steele. Edward Bailey. Win. drinkers, but he thought
the te-totalwith
Messrs.
Robert Barker, and 11.Rice. Thomas Huntley. Win. Saxton, ers ought to be satisfied ifthat
together
he
acknowledgJoseph Lovcll were chosen to act with the -)- his mark. John Shaw. William Freeofficers as an executive committee of the man. Alexander M. Birch. John Crow- ed that their merits were greater than his.
He had been much gratified at reading upon
society.
der. Skek Mohammed,-)- his mark. Win. a late festive occasion, an account of an enThe following is a copy of the preamble A Jones. Win. A. Mc Lane. William tertainment
given by the te-totalers; hundand constitution, with the names attached. Crowningbcrg.
S. D. Barrows.
W. J. reds dined together, and the greatest degree
Deploring the deep and fatal evils result- Nowlien. Joseph Lewis.. P. Peabody.
of humour and hilarity prevailed, although
ing from the use of intoxicating liquors, and The* above names attached to the consti- there were no spirtuous or fermented liquors
feeling, that such evils can never be done tution are thirty-six in number, which embra- to stimulate those present. Such a meeting
nway while the common use of such drinks ces probably about half the
foreign residents- was creditable to those who were its mancontinues, believing that the use of intoxi- of Maui. A few other names
we expect will agers, to the community in which it took
cating drinks to persons in health is not ne- shortly be added to the list. Thirty-seven place, and to this city, so often maligned as
cessary, but hurtful, and that there is noth- in all huve subscribed the
Two have drunken and dissolute. Although he thus
ing more powerful than example to banish broken it. Their names pledge.
were erased. One acknowledged the merits of the te-totalers,
the evils of intemperance and to promote the
of them has put his name on
and, we he thought the meeting would agree with
universal reign of temperance, believing, hope, will stand firm in future.again,
Ofthe other him, that the time had not arrived when such
moreover, that it is our duty and privilege to we have no
good ground as yet to hope that an entertainment could be given at Govunite our example with that of the wise and
he will finally be reformed. He has served ernment House; and this was the*reason
good, in other parts of the world, who are
king alcohol thoroughly, as he says, forty why he still continued to take a glass of wine,
laboring with such success in the cause of years;
and this, he declares, is long enough! he trusted in moderation There were many
temperance, we, whose names are subscriinstances of drunkards becoming reformed;
Yours truly, D. Baldwin, Secy.
bed, do hereby form ourselves into a temperand these prove the triumphs of the Te-total
ance society, with the following constitution,
Society. The Temperance Society could
Art. I, This society shall be called the The temperance cause in Sidney, New show no triumphs of this kind; its object was
Maui Temperance Society for foreign resiSouth Wales.
rather to work upon the mass than upon indents and foreign visitors.
We have been highly gratified in reading dividuals—to prepare the way for total abArt. 11, The officers of the Society shall
stinence—to be as it were, its precursor; and
be aPresident, Vice President, andSecretary an account of the seventh annual meeting great as had been the success of th» teof the Temp. Society in totalers, he did not believe they would have
who shall perform the duties customary to (April 7,
such officers, and shall continue in office till Sidney. The report informs us that the so- done what they had done, 'had it not been
others are chosen. They, moreover, with ciety had become somewhat involved a for the previous exertion of the Temperance
TEMPERANCE.
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TEMPE.HANCE, ADVOCATE.
(April,
Society; and iftheTe'mperance Society were had been traced, without one exception, to immortal bard—"Off with his head!" And
abandon the field, or to be declared the same cause. But it wns worthy of re- though the monster proved himself a very
bankrupt, and all ils effects sold, he did not reiirk, that in the whole four hundred and hvdia, one head cut off, being followed by
think tlie te-totalers would derive any be- fifty returns there was nut one of an inquest another—new heads sprouting up as though
nefit from it. Temperance associations have having been held upon a te-totaler vtho had heads were to come iv endless succession;
produced great effects all over the world: in come by his death from apoplexy, or suicide yet the te-totalers, nothing daunted, conAmerica, which had the honour of first es- —(Great applause) which showed that those tinued to raise their young, and vigorous,
tablishing them—in Great Britain and Ire- who abstained from drunkenness, were not and muscular arms, and wilh their bright,
and sharp, and two edged (wards, to strike
land, where their effects have been almost liable to be cut off by these means.
blow after blow, every one of which told with
miraculous—in the northern parts of Europe, The following remarks were made by
some effect—heads flying off after beads,
in Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and parts of
was one topic
and it might be hoped thai ere lung, neither
Germany—in this southern hemisphere—and "Captain Innes. There
which
had
not
been
alluded
to
in the Report, head, nor trunk, nor skeleton, nor vestige,
in this colony in which we reside.
and he must blame of this hellish monster, would he
left to poln this colony they have ameliorated the con- which ought to have been,
dition of the people, lie had not statistical the secretaries for it: while Ireland boasted lute the earth.
and India her Jefferies, it
facts to prove this; but he would mention one her Matthew,
should not be forgotten that New South
or two circumstances which were favourable:
License to retail spirituous liquors.
the quantity of spirits which passed through Wales could boast her John Saunders. The
wished to notice—an idea,
other
matter
he
Is by the payment of one hundred
the Custom House lust year, was much less
than in either of the two previous years; this which for two or three years he had tried to and fifty dollars, to be paid quarterly, and in
hud gone abroad that, by decreasing advance, licensed to kee|i an Eating-llouse,
it might be said was no proof, and deficien- refute,
the
number
of licensed public houses, the and to retail spirituous liquors in this Mouse,
cy in the Custom House returns might lie
made good by smugglers; the next fact he sly grog houseswould be increased. He bad for llio year ending the first of April, I!i t
agreeably with all the regulations and laws
had to mention was, that within the last few denied this two years ago, and public houses
numof the Sandwich Islands, now existing, but
months large quantities of spirits had been in Sydney had been decreased filly in
one to the Commissioners are
empowered to wiihsent away from these shores, and a consid- ber, nnd he now challenged any
erable quantity, somewhere about one hun- prove that since that time sly grog selling draw this license, at the expiration of any
dorcd and twenty puncheons, were then lyirg had increased. If he were now addressing quarter, should it be proved to the British
magistrate:- for Commissioners for the Government of the
with several fathoms of salt water over them the public and his brother
earth,
on
his
words should Sandwich Islands, that this is a disorderly
the
last
time
this
in the Lady RafHies; he was sure the meet"be cuulinv.s lime you increase Ike number House.
ing would join linn in wishing the quantity be,public
houses in Siilncy.
This House to be closed from 10 o'clock
of
had been much larger.
The Rev. Mr. .Mansfield, having been every night, until da) light the next morning,
Our best and most hearty wish for the called upon, near the close of the meet- and from 10 o'clock on Saturday night until
Governor is, that he may become a te-totaldaylight on Monday morning, dining which
ing, made a very happy effort.
ler, and unite with that society, which he so It was fortunate for him that he was cal- period, no liquor, whatever is to be sold on
highly applauds.
led on to speak at so late an hour, lor the the premises.
That a beard, with the name of the LandThe remarks of the Attorney General of subject had been exhausted, first by His Exlord painted distinctly in letters at least one
the
Attnrnoyof
the
Governor
and
the Colony, are especially worthy
atten- cellency
inch long and staling that he is licensed to
tion. He. speaks of the evils of intemper- Generul, and then Dr. Ross had exhausted sell wines and spirits, by re-tail, be placed
obbut
few
therefore,
it
over
for
again;
him,
ance from his own observation, having been
servnlions were left. The Report had said ovtr the principal cntiancc of this House.
called on numerous occasions, to plead the that intemperance still lives, and that it was
"
criminal's cause at the bar. The following extremely desirable it should die; but the old
are his words,
fellow must be wonderfully long-winrfed ami
The records in his possession could furnish tenacious of life, if he could long withstand
Honolulu, April 7, 1813
much to produce disgust with regard to the the combined onslaughts to which he was
habit of drinking, and exhibited ils pernicious subject right and left, before nnd behind, by
Veteran te-totaler.
effects as vividly as did the practice of the the Temperance Societies, nnd the still mure
Lacedemonians, who, to teach their children merciless te-totalers. The old corps off In the July number of the North Amerito abstain from intoxication, were in the Temperance musketeers had been engaged can Review is a review of Capt. Richard
practice of making their slaves drunk and in the contest for ninny years, belabouring J. Cleveland's Narrative of Voyages und
exhibiting them before them. It had been him lustily without full effect, until the newalready mentioned, that practice ofintoxica- formed regiment of te-total influence came Commercial Enterprises. It has never been
tion was on the decrease amongst us, and up, and attacked the old monster with a zeal our privilege to see the original work, but
on looking at the number of the records of so ardent, and a valour so indomitable that judging from the copious extracts in this
inquests in his office, for some years past, he showed they were determined never to quit number of the North American, we have
arrived at the game conclusion: for although the field until they hud gained a decisive vic- been led to entertain a high opinion of (he
still very numerous they did not exhibit any tory, and raised a cry throughout the land, Narrative, as presenting u faithful picture of
increase proportionate to the great increase "Intemperance is dead !" These two dienterprising voyager, in all quarters of
of late years in the number of our popula- visions of the army of Temperance were bent an
the
globe. The author remarks in his prefdestruction
of
a
common
was
on
one
object,—the
enough in them to
tion; but still there
shew how much intemperance was the means enemy, although they differed in their modes ace, that "more than forty-five years have
of shortening human life, for out of four ofattack. The Temperance cry was, "Seize elapsed since the first of the voyages here
hundred and fifty, which was about the re- him, pinion him, fetter him, place him in Ihe narrated was undertaken; and more than
turn of the last twelve months, one hundred stocks, thrust him into the cells, lock him twenty since the completion of the last."
and thirty of these deaths had been solely up!" The tactics of the tc-totalcis were
author surely cannot be charged, with
caused by drinking to excess, to which not expressed in more laconic terms, for their The
the
been hasty in offering his narrative,
having
.less than, thirty violent deaths and suicides war-cry was the memorable words of
now to
—
tiartieulai'ly
,
ADVOCATE &
FRIEND?
�T E 3SI PETVA N C E
AD\OC A T E.
17
1843.)
to the reading world. In another part ofthe the watchward of the friends of the cause. spirituous liquors. AVho must foot the bill?
preface, he employs the following language The latest news, in regard to (he subject from mechanics and sailors.—Come then let us
in regard to himself. "Those who may England, United States. India and New Hol- reason together and count the cost for the
honor me with a perusal of my narrative will land, strengthens the belief that the advo- coining year.
perceive, that I have navigated to all parts cates of temperance are resolved upon victo- Paid for licenses,
$1,350
of the world, from the sixtieth degree of S. ry. It is most cheering to witness the zeal Salary to principal keeper, of each ) „ r ..„
house, $ 2,D0 per day,
)
latitude, to the sixtieth degree of N.; and and activity of the various classes enlisted in
'
of assistants, $1,00 per day, 3,'290
Salary
sometimes in vessels whose diminutive size this work. "Both young men and maidens,
and small number of men caused exposure to old men and children" are pledged to the
11,490
wet and cold, greatly surpassing what is usu- cause. Aged veterans nnd fresh recruitss
Dtit the sum of $11,230 will, by do means
ally experienced in ships of ordinary capaci- stnnd shoulder to shoulder in the van of theB cover all the expenses which must and will
ty; that 1 have been exposed to the influence advancing army. They employ numerouss attend the sale ofspirituous liquors, provided
of the most unhcultbly places; at Batavia kinds of peaceable weapons. Reason nnd these houses are well supported. The Docwhere I have seen whole crews prostrate ridicule, arguments and facts full in showers-3 tor's fees and numerous fines must be paid,
with the fever, and death making huvoc among uponthe fainting troops oi'the enemy. "Facts" together with a long list of others expenses,
them, at San Bias where the natives can stay thrown by the Reformed Inebriates, and1 unavoidably connected with spirit-drinking.
only a portion of the year; at the Havana, some ofFather Matthew's body guard sol- Mechanics and
sailors, if you pay all these
within whose walls I have resided five years diers, have done terrible execution. "Facts" bills,
you must work hard, give up most of
consecutively; that I have suffered captivity, arc a species of missile when skilfully wield- your hard-earned
wages and have but little
robbery, imprisonment, ruin, and the rack- ed, that make the most deadly havoc. No
| at (he end of the year. If this result is not
ing anxiety consequent thereon. And yet land or naval force can long withstand them. correct, point out the error. You, one und
through the whole nnd to the present sixty- One first class frigate in the American Navy all had better follow the advice of Good Fneighth year ofmy age, I have never taken a has been taken. Other vessels have shown (her Matthew of Ireland, and keep away
drop of spirituous liquor of am/ kind: never a weak timbers. One of 11. M. artillery regi- -1 from the public house.
glass of wine, ofporter, ale, or beer, or any ments in India, has been compelled to behold■ "Keep
away from the Public House.—You
beverage stronger than tea and coffee; and innny of its guns spiked by the temperance will derive no advantage
from its company.
i
moreover I have never used tobacco in any reformers, What seems unaccountable and| There the drunkard holds his revels, —there
way whatever: and this not only without inju- unexampled in the progress ofany other ref- (he gambler entices to the waste of property,
ry, but on the contrary to the preservation of ormation, the advocates for spirit-drinking do —there (lie blasphemer utlers his horrible
my health. Headache is known to me only not find a single respectable print, in any imprecations,—there those who arc ripe for
destruction tempt others to imitate their
by name; and excepting those fevers, which quarter of the globe to utter one char and crimes,
and lead the unwary to their ruin.
1
are produced by great anxiety and excite- distinct note of remonstrancje to the highKeep away from the Public flstlir—You
ment, my life has been free from sickness." handed movements of the temperance party. will entail distress upon your families and
,' yourselves by its expense. The money which
Be encouraged, all ye young te-totalers. Kr.ADER, dees not this
fuel indicate a weak and ■is thoughtlessly spent upon its gratifications
In a good old age may your experience cor- sinking cimsci
is drawn away from the comforts of'home.
respond to that ofCapt. Cleveland, who may
Keep
awuyfiom the Public House.—Let any
fairly be reckoned the oldest te-totalur in The Reader will find in another column of" man accustom
himself to the excesses of the
Christendom!
our paper, the proceedings of the British public house, and want will be his home,
Capt. Cleveland commanded the "Lelia Commissioners, regulating the retail of
will be his clothing, and destruction will
spir- nigs
be his end.
Byrd," which brought the first horses to the ituous
liquors. If there was a Temperance Keep away
Sandwich islands, from the Coast of Califorfrom the Public House. —Look
Society in Honolulu, and the Editor was a around you and
nia, in 80-' or 3. They were sent by "the member, he would propose that a vote ofblic house have mark how many in the pustupefied their faculties, iingood old Padre ofSan Borgia, Mariano A pothanks be tendered to the British Commis- bruted their reason, and have entailed upon
lunario," ns a present to the "famous King
themselves cruel diseases which arc hurryTamehanicha." (Rev. pp. 18.3, 18G.) Mr. sioners for the action which they have taken ing them with fenrful haste, and in a state of
Tolnian, one of the oldest, foreign residents touching the subject oflicenses. Consider- awful unpreparedness, to (he bed of death,
in Honolulu recollects to have seen these ing the present state of public opinion, they and the bar of God.
have taken a stand, which it is most sincereKeep away from the Public House.—That
horses. He arrived in 1803.
man
is not your friend, but your enemy, who
every
officer
of
and
ly
hoped
government
In the article containing a review of Capt.
member of this community will efficiently aid entices you to spend your money, to waste
Cleveland's Narrative, there.are also some
your time, and to degrade yourselves by
judicious remarks, upon the comparative in- in sustaining.
an association with the profligate and the
fluence of commerce and Christianity upon
profane.
l
1
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•'
I
I
1
SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
savage nations.
Keep away from Hie Public House.—How
many fathers, by habits contracted at the
public house, have had to bewail the profThe temperance
is advancing.
Mechanics and Sailors.
ligacy of their sons; how many children, the
"Revolutions go not backward." This The editor would address a few words to degradation of their parents; how many
remark of a sage political writer finds abun- the mechanics
in Honolulu and sailors visit- wives, the unkindness, the crimes, and brudant evidence to confirm its truth in the tem- ing this Port. It is reported that nine hous- tality of husbands, and how many families
have been filled with mourning, lamentation,
perance reform. "OnWard," has ever been es in this town
have been licensed to retail and wo.
reform
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SEAMEN'S ERIEXB.
Keep away from the Public House. —What
is the public house as a place of common
resort, hut the wicked man's pleasure, the
drunkard's home, the profligate's delight?
where many who were previously estimable
and respectable, have been rendered curses
to themselves, and the pence of their miserable families; until they have finally disappeared, nnd passed through the gloomy grave
into endless perdition and despair?
As you value your honor and happiness,
in living,—as you prize the peace and prosperity of your families, —as you desire to
avoid the wickedness which has disgraced,
and the crimes which have destroyed so many
ofyour fellow-creatures,—as you wish for
comfort on the bed of death, and hope for
happiness in the world to come,—Keep away
from the Public House."
Census of American residents on the Sandwich Islands, March I, 1843.
Moles, married to American wives,
61
57
31ales, married to native wives,
Males, unmarried,
Fetnaies, married,
Females, unmarried,
Native wives,
White children,
Half-caste children,
74
Gl
4
57
143
119
576
Deduct nat. wives and half-caste child., 176
400
Connected now, or formerly with the
Am. Miss., adults, 84, children, 114, 198
Am. For. Residents (so called) adults,
179, children, 23,
202
Notice.—Certain seats in the Chapel are
exclusively appropriated for Seamen. A label is attached to them marked Seamen.
Card.—The Seamen's Chaplain would
acknowledge the receipt of $20,00 from the
Right Honorable Lord George Paulet, to be
appropriated to the maintenance of the Seamen's Chapel.
MARRIAGES.
Oct. IS, 18 42, in Otsego Co., n. v., Mr.
Samuel N. Castle, to Miss Mary A. Tennoy, by Rev. A. P. Allen.
Oct. 21, 1842, in Hallowell, Me., Milo
Calkin, Esq., to Miss Eveline Johnson, by
the Rev. Mr. Thurston.
March 23, 184.1, in Honolulu, Robert G.
Davis, Esq., to Miss Harriet S. Hammatt,
by Rev. Samuel C. Damon.
DEATHS.
In Honolulu, March 20, of consumption,
Susan Colcord, aged 18 years. -The
eased had spent five years in the y. s.,
among her father's friends, and for the most
part of the time had attended school in Gorham, Me. Hoping that a voyage would fa-
»is
vorably affect her consumptive constitution,
she embarked a few weeks since on board
the Bartholomew Gosnold, for the u. s , but
becoming no better, she returned to die
at her father's house. The funeral was attended by a large company. Services conducted in English by the Seamen's Chaplain,
and in Hawaiian by the Rev. R Armstrong.
In Honolulu, March 39, Maria, aged 7
years, daughter of Mr. Richmond. Mr. R.,
is a native of Taunton, Mass.
In Honolulu, April 3, at u.s. Hospital,
David Pine, colored man, native of N. v.
city, aged 19. He was discharged a few
weeks since from the American Whaleship
Margaret Scott.
Letters for the following persons may be
had by calling at the Study of the Seamen's Chaplain.
Joseph F. Barrett. William C. Folgcr.
Win. Babcock. Joseph T. Chase. Andrew
B. Brooks. Joseph Congdon. Charles F.
Bunker. Ebene.zer Smith. Obed Shearman. Wm S. Hussey. Joseph C. Chase.
.las. Charlton. Obed Swan, 2d. Charles
I). Harding. James Marguire. Fred. B.
Chase. Luther J. Briggs. Benj. B. Raymond. Alex. Swain, 2d Henry Daggett.
John B Rodgcrs. Christopher Cook. Lorenzo Smith.
Nathan
R. C. Phinney.
Manter. Charles K. Tobey. Thomas B.
Greene. Benj. C. Sayer. John J. Gardner. Jeremiah Austin. Henry Colesworthev. Charles G. Luce. James L. Clark.
A. W. Barnard.
W. Uphain. A. Kay.
Lewis I). Boggs
B. A. Coliman. P.
Brown. C. H.Tracy. L Cobwn. L. C.
Wimpenny. A. P. Jermagan. J. Morgan.
A. Carte-right. Geo. A. Potter. W. M.
Monroe. L. Carmichail. C Mnvhew.
W. Hunter. B. Butler. Jns. Codd'. K.
Burd-tt.
C. F. Gifford. R. G Coffin.
W. Baldwin. J. H. Bunker C. S. Mooter. D. Barnard. J Horn. W. Brown.
C. F. Alley. A. G. Coffin. W. H. Tice.
Chas. Mayhew. H. Adams. T. S Folgcr. Lewis Morril. C. Monroe. T. Lee.
W. D. Washburn. W. Ashley. W. Hawson. A. O. Swain. W. J. Sarft. S. S.
Peters.
S. Pinkhsm.
T. Russell. E.
Luce. L. Rogers. E. Cob;*worthey. J.
Fisher. H. A. Richards. E. R. Harris.
<;. W. Biddell. R. F. Jenkins. J. Fisher.
W. C. (iifford. J. Reynolds. W. Upharn.
R. F. Fosdick. Charncey T. Fitch. John
Smith.
N. B. Seamen wishing to send letters to
their friends, can do so, by leaving them in
the care of the Chaplain, who will forward
them, by the earliest opportunity.
(April,
15, barque Don Quizote, Paty, Honolulu.
16, ship Reunion, Smith, Havre, France.
19 months, 11(0 sperm, 750 whale.
17, barque Bhering, Snow, Boston.
33, Columbia, Humphreys, London.
33, ship Adtle, Luhrs, Havre, France, 17
months, 50 sperm, 1,550 whale.
25, ship York, Pease, Kdgartown, 18 mo.
700 sperm, 1,700 whale.
25, ship Helvilia, Rice, New London, 8
months, 250 sperm, 400 whale.
37, ship Peruvian, Arthur, Nantucket, 31
months, 1,350 sperm.
30," Ajux,* Dc Cellier, Havre, France, 10
months,
500
April,
Whale,
1, ship Bartholomew Gosnold, Russel, 38
months, 1,600 sperm
4, ship Erie, Luce, Fairhavcn, 27 months,
1,150sperm.
March,
Departures, since .March 10.
11, brig Julia; schooner Albert.
17, U. S S. Boston; ship Chariot; schooner Victoria.
18, ship James Stewart; ship M. Scott.
36, ship Helvilia; barque Columbiu.
April,
3, ship Bartholomew Gosnold.
4, ship Erie.
Vessels ill Port, April 5.
Her B. M. ship Carysibrt. 3 brigs. 3
barques. 7 ships.
Passengers arrived in Bhering, Mr and
Mrs. Castle, and daughter; Mr. and Mrs.
Calkin; Mrs. Doininis,andson; Messrs. F.
Johnson, and S. A. Reynolds Miss S. A.
Goodaln. In the Bolivar, J. C Jones, Esq.
In the Don Quixote, Messrs. Win. 11. Davis, and T. Cummins; Miss C. Kinlnck.
Left in the U. S. S. Boston, Dr. Lymnn,
and Capt. Dockuin.
In the Albeit, Alex,
Simpson, Esq., and Mr. J. F. B. Marshall.
•Ship Ajnx run down whnlcship Ann Marin, New London, Capt. Middleton, in a
gale. The vessels met in E. Long. 72° 40',
S. Eat. 37° 4V, on the morning of Aug.
29,
1842, at 2 o'clock. All hands left the wreck
at 10 a. M., same day, and were safely landed, 88 in number, at King George's Sound,
New Midland. The Ann Maria was 88
months out, 250 sperm, 1,650 whale. Cargo all lost.
Tort of Labium, Maui, March 19 to April 2.
March 19, Amethyst, N. Bedford, 5 mo.,
no oil. 21 Envoy, Providence, 21 mo., 300
sperm, 2,300 whale. 22 Junes Munroe,
Fairhaven, 27 mo , 1,600 sperm, 500 whale.
22 Nye, New Bedford, 39 mo., 300 sperm,
shipped most of cargo. 23 York, Edgarton,
17 mo., 700 sperm, 1,700 whale. 24 Samuel Robertson. New Bedford, 17 mo., 600
25 Wm. Thompson, New Bedford
PORT OF HONOLULU. 5sperm.
mo., 100 sperm. 25 Peruvian, NantuckAn it als -ime March 10.
et, 31 mo., 1,350sperm. 27 John, N.BedMarch,
13, ship Chariot, Littlefield, Warren, 14 ford, 30 mo., 700 sperm. 29 Rajah, New
months, 400 sperm, 2,000 whale.
Bedford, 20 mo., 700 sperm. 29 Pioneer
New Bedford, 6 mo., 80 sperm. 30 Milton|
13, brig Lama, Jones, Honolulu.
New Bedford, 10 mo., 150 sperm April 2*
14, brig Bolivar, Nye, California.
Gratitude, N. Bedford, 25 mo., 1,000 sperm!
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Temperance Advocate,
23
AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, MAY 20, 1843.
V..1. I.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE ROUND THE WORLD.
Societies advocating the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating
as a beveuark are now actively exerting their healthful influence, in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, New Holland, and the Islands of the sea. It is a most
cheering fact that similar associations have been formed among sea-faring men, who
arc the connecting links of the chain, which binds the nations of the earth in one
brotherhood. The friends of Temperance will read with interest the following declaration and pledge of the officers and crew of the Whaleship Samuel Robertson.
Their motto is original, unique, and appropriate. Total Abstinence Round the
World. We recommend the same for seamen and landsmen.
drink
AIBSWUKIBEKDa
IB(DWir
(DETAIL
No. Y.
13 on board the Samuel Robertson, are
members of this fraternity. It is a rule of
the society, when they speak a vessel at
sea, to go on board, leave a copy of their
pledge and solicit brother seamen to become pledged to the cause. In numerous
instances their effbtts have been successful. "Haul away, cheerily my Boys, you
have hold of the right end of the rope."
A similar association exists, on board
the whaleships Gideon Howland and C.
Phelps. On board the former, 29 in a
crew of 89 are pledged to total abstinence,
and on board the latter 27 in a crew of
30. Hut what is most cheering of all the
news which those vessels report, each ship
has been blessed with a revival of religion
since leaving the United States. Religion
and temperance ulways flourish together.
The temperance reform has man£ warm
friends and advocates, on board other
whaleships in this ocean. Who has a
heart so black that he will not bid them
God speed?
nostra Merc. Jniimnl, Sept. 15,1842.
V-at-JI
W©IBILIDd
W*HIIIA<rJ7|RAIAIV
TOTAL ARSTItfInstituted June 17, 1813.
We tlie undersigned officers and crew of the ship Samuel Robertson of New Bedford, Mass. U. S. of America, being desirous of forming a total abstinence society,
having considered that alcohol in any form is a poison, injurious to the physical, intellectual, moral and religious nature of man, and consequently that those who use
it for a drink, transgress the lawi which bind man to the discharge of the duties he
owes to himself, his sea-faring brethren and the God who gave him being,
/// consequence of which ice hereby Pledge
T\\ai vtt \sl\\ not use Intoxicating ArlnVs as a\ie\erage, nor
traffic In t\\cn\, tnat we wIU not uro\u\c tYvcm as an article of
SOUTH PACIFIC
BIVCJB SOCIETY.
entertainment tor ourselves, or sea-Yarlwg liret\\reu, ano. t\\at m
a\\ suitable
will discountenance tl\elr use In wl\ate\er
oY
tlve
world
we
mttj Visit.
\>art
President, John M. Ki.-Jcaid.
Vice I'resictent, William Sheals.
Secretary, Thomas Burns.
Moderator, William Wright.
Treasurer, Manuel Sarate.
Cotnniiitce, Daniel McKensie, and C. H. Richmond.
TEMPERANCE ON SHIP-BOARD.
Among the many gratifying evidences
which we have lately met with of the progress of the temperance cause, is the interest which is manifested in behalf of temperance, by the hardy tars, on board our national
vessels and our merchant ships. This is one
of the glorious results of the VVashingtonian
movement. —Let the masters of our merchant ships, and the officers of our national
vessels, co-opernte with the friends and advocates on the land, in promoting this great
work, and in a short time the stigma of intemperance would be removed from the character of our seamen, and they would take
that elevated station in society to which they
would be entitled by their integrity, courage
and sobriety.
The ship Hercules, Capt. Gregerson, arrived at this port a short time since, and on
the Sunday preceding her arrival, he summoned all hands to the quarter-deck, and addressed them on the subject of intemperance,
referring to some unpleasant incidents during
the voyage, growing out of an indulgence in
intoxicating drinks, and urging them to conquer a habit, at once and forever, which
tended directly to make them miserable, and
degrade them in the scale of being. He
�AP\ PC ATE,.
24
(May,
into manhood." At that time the Sandwich
Islands were not known to the civilized woild.
Not a Nantucket or New Bedford whaleman
Honolulu, May 30, 1843.
offiCaptain,
undersigned,
"We, the
had doubled Cape Horn, pursuing his "gicoast of
LAHAINA.
cers, and seamen of the ship Hercules,
?antic game," along the western
sad
dethe
the
Number
the
of
of
or
April
upon
Since the publication
having become convinced
North and South America,
world
by
this
the
Editor
has
Friend,
is
and
making
in
that
struction
of the Advocato
"Japan ground."
the use of intoxicating drink—having our- embraced the opportunity of visiting Lahaina. Although the number of seamen, in port,
selves been slaves to the same, and know- It had been reported that an unusually large it that time, was uncommonly lurge, yet during it to be the great enemy of man. we number of whaleships were expected, during ing the season, very few have been the indo now solemnly, in the presence of Al- the spring season. Thinking an opportunity stances of disorderly and riotious conduct on
mighty God, our insulted heavenly father, so favorable for becoming acquainted with the part of those belonging to the shipping.
denounce, and pledge ourselves by our seamen, in this ocean, sufficient reason for The following among other reasons may be
names to this instrument, that we will not '; leaving the Chapel in Honolulu but partially assigned for this gratifying circumstance.
taste or drink, or cause to be drank by |supplied for two sabbaths. That visit has
1. Masters of vessels have generally aimourselves, any ardent spirits of whatever
of this number. ed to sustain flic estuMished laws of the Port.
the
appearance
delayed
name, nature or kind, unless as a mediof vessels at Lahaina. The first
2. The laws, the police, and public opinion
cine, or in case of sickness, God helping Number
arrived, Feb. 16, from that dale have imposed salutary restrictions upon the
season
this
resolution,
which
and sustaining us in this
of
sale of spirituous liquors.
day make in the cabin of the until April JO, 80 arrivals whaleships.
to
States.
United
3. Efforts pfthe Friends of Temperance
belonging
IS
80
12.
Bth,
August
ship,
named
above
(1
Havre F.
to
to
promote the advancement of the cause and
blessing
May Almighty God add his
H
o
St. Johns N. B.
make drunkenness disreputable.
(I
the same and assist us in our undertakLoudon Enz.
I
4 Increased number of moral and religi<(
ing."
Bremin, Bel.
1 1
the whaling fleet.
He signed this pledge himself, and his Their crews average from 025 to 58 sonmen ous men in
crew
visiting that port durofficers signed it, and the whole of his
hence not less than '2,500 have visited that Masters of vessels
they
hesitation—for
deserve great credit
it
without
The
last
few
years
also signed
ing the
port during the time above specified.
were, one and all, convinced that this was largo number of American ships, most tri- for their contributions to erect a Seamen's
the only step which would save them from
the statements and Chapel? Regular services upon the Sabbath
ruin. And these men are now seen ashore, umphantly establishes
in will be held in it, during the current y. ar,
well dressed, sober, in good health and spir- prophetic language of Edmund Burke,
performed by the Rev. Lorrin Andrews.
its, and with money in their pockets—-which the British House of Commons 1774.
will
get
drinks
world
is
equal
Foreign Residents, have shown a liberwhat
the
The
poisonous
in
no'trafficker in
"And pray, sir",
hold of, by either flattery or fraud.
to it? Pass'by the other parts, and look at al disposition to sustain the necessary exthe manner in which New England people penses attendant thereon.
INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
carry on the whale fishery. While we folAs an encouraging fact, only one vessel
low them anions; the tumbling mountains of
as
memorable,
1842
is
2Cth
of
April
upon the Sabbath. The. two
The
ice, and behold them penetrating into the has left the port
spent at Lahaina are associated
the day, when King Kamehamcha 111 , and deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Hay anil
the Chiefs of these Islands, signed the Total Davis' Straits, while we arc looking for them ith many pleasing recollections. It was
the* ■freshing to meet at the Chapel and in the
Abstinence Pledge. On the morning ofthe beneath the arctic circle, we hear that
of polar
region
into
the
any
opposite
without
have
previous
pierced
1813,
street ninny warm hearted Christians among
April
heat
* Nor is the equinoctial
*
*
the sons of the ocean. Recently on hoard sevgement, the King and Chiefs celebrat- cold.
more discouraging to them than the accumuthe
folships God has been increasing the nume anniversary of that event in
winter of both the piles. We learn eral
lated
the
signed
When
the
or
King
manner.
ber. May the Lord carry forward the gb.rithat whilcsome of them d:aw the line
Africa,
etc
of
wine,
on
coast
ous work of converting seamen to a knowbrandy,
rum,
of
the
j strike the harpoon
;e, a quantity
ledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. Every
ined in his cellar. After lying there others run the longitude andofpursue their
the coast Brazil.. No day's observation added additional evidence
game
along
gigantic
the
suggestion
untouched—at
month
12
is vexed by their fisheries; no
[Yiend several casks and numerous bot- sen but what
to the statement, that no effort put forth lor
(innate that is not witness to their toil. Neiand
poisonthe the moral and religious improvement of sea;onlainitig these intoxicating
ther the perseverance of Holland, nor and
forth.
The
the
dexterous
men is finally lost The cause of tempernor
brought
France,
mixtures, were
activity of
ever
carenterprizo
wants no stronger proof of its essential
English
ance,
with
them:
sagacity
shall
be
done
of
arose
what
firm
tion
indushardy
mode
of
perilous
this
most
.roodness
than has been furnished at Lahaina
suggestion was made to use the con- riedto the extent to which it has been pursulast few weeks. More or less of
try
the
during
sul of the spirits of turpentine for ed
this recent pcoph a people \»lt<> are the crew ofevery ship is a practical illustraby
meet
lg pnint! That however did not
ulill in the <rn'»i/e, and nol yel hardened into tion and public testimonial in favor of total
minds of a majority present. Hence
abstinence principles. It is cheering to
If such language could be employed, res- meet such advocates for the reform from the
the King —"pour them into the sea
colonies, by the greatest
his all agreed. The casks were rolled pecting the
P. of the Newark, Capt. C. ol
of his age, the subse- sea, as Capt.
orator
the
evil
and
spirits
when
statesman
le sea side—"So
the Narngansett, and Capt. C. of the Kutuquent history and present condition of that soff.
Such men are not the only advocatei
that as a nainto the sea and were people, exhibits evident proof
cause, God is teaching the world bj
for
the
n a steep pia
tion they have become somewhat 'hardened
<ed in the sea."
then produced a paper containing a pledge,
which was as follows:
ADVOCATE & FIUEND.
!also
I
1
lof
Eabbaths
\
—
"
I
"\*
�1843.)
TEMPERANCE
25
ADVOCATE.
his providences, that temporal ruin and d<alli of England and used to take me with her, make the port again during the space of 48
a
of wind
are in the drunkard's bowl! The Maui tem- but I was not too young to observe that this hours, and hut for providential shift
reached
it
all.
While
thus
in
was
form's
sake
and
to
'had
never
at
merely,
up
for
keep
perance society held a meeting, Thursday, an
danger and anxiety I well remember addressappearance in the world.
April 27th. in the Chapel. The Editor esThus thrown among worldlings at a period ing a prayer, if such it could be called, to
teemed it a privilege and honor again to sub- of life wle n the heart is most easily led, it the God whom in other circumstances 1 describe his name to the plcdsre of total abstin- was not perhaps to be wondered that 1 had nied; it was something to this effect. "Oh
ence, accompanied by the King, Governor no religion, nor any sense of a higher creed God if indeed thou livrst have_ mercy on me,
danger, and forgive me if
of Maui, and a most respectable delegation than the laws ofhonour. At the age oftwen- save me from this
The contrary supposition if
101
well
stocked
with
am
j1
wrong."
I
ty-two,
England
l
from sea-faring men in port.
vanity and pride, and such principles of mor- j I am light struck even myself as impious
May the Lord impart needed strength to ality only as might carry me through the mockery and I could not finish it. God did
all whose names and characters are pledged world it not much tempted to go astray, but save me, but I tbunked him not and continued
to abstain from intoxicating drinks. The utterly valueless in the hour of tiial as the on in my evil courses
On the second of January 183(5, I sailed
cause is good, having truth for its foundation. event soon proved.
On the passage I became acquainted with on a whaling voyage in the barque Wolf.
a person of somewhat high literary attain- Capt. Evans On signing articles, at the
ments and gentlemanly manners, to whose Captain's request I signed also the pledge of
library (very extensive for shipboard) 1 had the Temperance Society, but without any
SKEPTIC RECLAIMED.
Irec access. It consisted almost exclusively letter motive lor so doing than the desire to
of works ol'the imagination, of which 1 had please the Captain, but drutikennemAa one
To THE READF.It,
few
remarks
A
will explain already drank too deeply from the poisoned jjof the few vices to which 1 bad not at any
introductory
ufa Byron, a Scott, and a Moore. |I time been addicted.
why the following letter was addressed to chalice
I now revelled in the mystical fancies of] In the course of (he first two or three
the Seamen's Chaplain, while the contents Shelley, and
finding among his works a tre- months, I was one Sabbath afternoon sitting
will c.xh-ttit satisfactory evidence that, it most atise on the doctrine of Necessity, the prin- 'mi deck reading Byron's Childe Harold.
appropriately belongs to the seamen's de- ciples of which form a most convenient cloak, The Captain spoke to me on the subject very
partment of our paper. In conversation for any practices however vile, and altogeth- kindly and expressed a desire to see me betwith the writer, the fact was incidentally er dispense with God, eternity and futurelIter occupied. Out of respect I could do no
it was
mentioned, that n perusal of the tract enti- retribution. 1 embraced them, and openly other than put the hook aside, but
advocated these doctrines, rejoicing in what ; probably done with a very ill grace. About
tled "the Dairyman's Daughter" first led I deemed the freedom I had thus acquired,..June of the same year a change was howevhis mind to serious reflection upon the sub- from the moral slavery ofthe world; audi er to take place. The boats were down after
ject of personal religion. This was another verily believe there was no length of crime whales and did not return to the ship till long
instance in which the Rev. L. Richmond's to which I would not at this time have gone,' alter dark; while waiting for them, with no
authentic narrative of Elizabeth Wallbridge, provided it might be arrayed* in the gorgeous other object than passing time 1 went into
cabin and took up a tract of
the daughter of an "Isle of Wight" dairy- trappings of romance and myself been tho the Captain's
hero ol'the tale. This you will find no dif-lI which there were always sevcrul lying about.
man, had been signally blessed; hence the lieultv in believing, when I confess (what till .The one I selected, or mere properly that
request was made that a brief sketch of tin' now I have never duo' to ■mortal ear, and ■ which God's providence led me to, for I took
most prominent events, leading to the happy now blush to write) that falling in with a the first which came to hand, was Legh Richresult above mentioned, might be committed pirate vessel during the passage, I became mond! "Dairyman's Daughter." I had read
writing. It is stated up,in good authority so vainly inflated with the ambition of iiniiat-!!about the half before the boats returned
whale dead with them. I was
t previous to the year 1828, "four mil- ing Lord Hvrou's pirate chieftain Conrad as bringing a
to agree with two ol'the seamen of the ves- very deeply impressed with what I read, and
ls of this tract were said to have been sel,
whom I induced to join with me in the after the necessary interruption occasioned
culated in nineteen different languages." enterprise, to attempt on our arrival in port by the return of the boats, and our arrangeEditor enjoyed an opportunity of (Sydney) to seize and run away with some ments for the night were over, 1 returned
ing the writer on numerous occasions and small ship such ns might suit our purpose. eagerly to the tract, nor left it again, although
God however forsook me not though I had [past midnight, till it was finished On that
making the subject of religion one of parhim, and mcrciftillv interferred on my night before 1 lay down to sleep I prayed to
forsook
ticular inquiry. The following extract is
behalf
by
throwing obstacles in the way of ithat God to whom prayer is never made in
a
letter,
from note accompanying the
the accomplishment of this infamous sche- vain. I prayed I trust in sincerity and was
have now fulfilled my promise made to me. What became of the two seamen as- heard, and from that time to this prayer has
'ou, the other evening; hut am almost sociated with me I know not, us I never never been neglected. I had no Bible -beishamed to put it into your bands (and well afterwards met wite them.
Jonging to me, for that given ire by my most
may be) for the page of my guilt is like' At this time whenever 1 had opportunity I affectionate mother when I left home hail
Ezekiel's scroll written within and without." always delighted in spreading my Neces- been long since lost, and I valued it far too
Honolulu, Nov. 2fi, 1542. sarian doctrines and treating Christianity with little ever to replace it. I found one howTo render tolerably clear the state of my contempt, but happily mv influence was not ever among my messmates which was kindly
lind at the time when, I trust, it pleased extensive, nor do 1 know that I ever succeed- lent me and I made a rule to read a portion
iod to awaken me from the sleep of sin and ed in rftaking one convert to my opinions. every morning Bnd evening. I had a book
eath in which I had till then been sunk, it About the summer of the year 1835. I ex- also ofmy own, a gift from my mother, the
'ill be necessary to revert slightly to a much perienced a merciful providence in saving "whole duty of man" which I now read for
arlier period. I was brought up as a child my life. I had been spending the Sabbath the first time though it had been some years
i the Unitarian persuasion, and after
leaving day, as was my custom ut that time, in boat- in my possession. The Captain also, much
ome went to reside in a family where re- sailing and having proceeded outside the pleased at the evident change in my manner,
gion was not, in any shape, save only that heads to sea, a sudden squall of wind drove freely lent me such works as he had; among
ie mistress of the house attended the Church us so far off the land that we were unable to them was Wilberforce's practical view, from
'
SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
•
;
IHi'he
:
,,...... • ' ,
J
Bid
i
.
�26
SEAMEN'S ERIEXD.
which I derived much benefit. After about
a mtilth I spoke with the third mite, who
made somo profession ofreligion, and together we g>t the consent ofthe other mates, oho
of them a catholic, and the other vi religion
at all, to unite with us in an application to
the Captain to establish Sunday worship
This we did by letter, and the next Sabbath
evening the Captain and Officers met and
jointly read each a chapter ofthe Bible. In
the course ofthe ensuing week one or two
ofthe crew asked permission to join with us,
and from this time forward we had always* a
regular Sabbath evening service according
to the forms of the Church of England.
While a novelty it was better attended than
afterwards. The chiefand second mate soon
fell away, and were followed by others till
about ten or twelve were all that assembled
out of a complement of thirty men, (or Sjti
men for 4 were from various islands )
The latter end of August we put into Port
Stephens to refresh the ship. Here I introduced myself to the clergyman (of the Established Church) resident at that place, and
after some conversation with him was admitted to the Communion table of that Church.
This gentleman gave me some books and
tracts when we left the harbour, and circumstances brought me about 18 months afterwards to reside at the same place and sit under his ministry for a period of three years.
Such is the story of my conversion and
though I feel and know that I am yet a long,
long way from what I ought to be, that pride
and vanity are still fearfully besetting sins;
I yet hope too that the good work has been
begun by Him who will not fail to carry it
on to perfection. My chief fear is, that Ido
not feel that warmth oflove to God and Christ
which others have described This cannot
be constitutional, for my affections are not
cold towards my earthly friends. Yet if I
seriously ask myself the question, "for what
would I give up God:" my heart instantly
spurns it and is well content to have no hope
or portion save God only, but in circumstances of trial faith is sorely beset by impatience.
But 1 hope on, and strive to cleave to God,
taking courage and comfort from the record
of his merciful dealings to others as revealed
in his word and particularly from that example of the Jewish father whose faith w»9 so
weak as to compel him to say to our Lord
"help thou mine unbelief" so I trust my feeble faith, as then, shall find acceptance, and
my culd love be quickened to a warmer glow.
Pray for me, my dear sir, I beseech you,
and though on earth we shall probably meet
no more, may God grant in his mercy that
we may meet in heaven.
Why is a
drunken sailor like
a
drunken
gootet Do you give it up. Because he is
liable to be picked. In the town of
there lived a men anxious to make the most
of the cherries—which had been employed
to give flavor to a cask of Rum; —hence
he gave them to his geese. They ate sV>
(May,
many as to become dead drunk. The owner May 11, brigantine Rosa, for Valparaiso.
supposed them dead. The feathers however May 10, ship Wales, for China.
Foreign Arrivals, since April 7, 1843.
must be saved! But when the feme* ofthe
alcohol had passed from the brain* of the April 23, brigantine Rosa, from Mazatlan.
geese—)ff walked the featherless flock I May 9, ship Wales, from .New York, via.
How many sailors have found themselves in
Callio.
like trouble—picked even to a shirt. An .May 12, barque Honolulu, from Farming's
ancient philosopher was once asked to define
Islands.
a win —ln; replied—a man is a two-legged
The following whaleships have touched at
animal without feathers. A featherless cock
was exhibited! Such a definition grants to i the outer harbor.
April 7, Win. Thompson (Am.) oil, 100 sp.
man—no renion. —Apply the answer of the I
philosopher to a drunken man, and its truth | April 7, Sand. Robertson, (Am.) oil, 600 sp.
.1 ami's
will hold. A drunken man—has lost his rea- April 8, 200 Munroe, (Am.) oil, )600sp.
W.
son—for a season. He who was created in
the imago of Gjd—voluntarily makes him- April 9, Sophie, (Bremin.)
-', iS'ye.
telfaoiefc—a menuter—which has no rea- April I 11,
Gratitude, (Am.) oil, 1,000 sp.
April
son.
April 14, Milton, (Am.) oil, 850sp- 630 W.
April 14, Ann Alexander, (Am.) oil, 100 sp.
DONATIONS.
April 14, Dartmouth, (Am.) oil, 1,070 sp.
From Lieut. Frere, for the benefit ofSea- April 20, Alexander Coffin, (Am.) oil,
men's Chapel $5,00. From Lieut. Tarlet en,
1.700 sperm.
for some charitable purpose $5,00. From April 20, Ganges, (Am.) oil, 500 sperm.
Mr. John Snook, for Temperance Cans" April 21, Harrison, (Am)
$2,00. From a Friend of Temperance and April 2.1, Peruvian, (Am.) oil, 300 sperm.
Seamen $10,00.
April 23, Magnolia, (Am.) oil, 250 sperm.
May 4, KutusufT, (Am ) oil, 500sp. 350 W.
DEATHS.
May 4 Cluis. and Henry, (Am.)
May 4, Eleanor, (Eng )
New
London, Ct. [May 14, barque Hector, (Am.) oil, 280 sp.
Mr. Edward Harris,
Ist officer of the whaleship Gov. Troup, May 17, Triton,
(Am.)
|
at Lahaina, April 20, ugid 10. Llis death May !7, Three. Brothers, (Am.)
was occasioned by a fall, down the alter May 17, Hero, (Am )
hatch-way.
May 17, Benj Rush, (Am )
April 27 at Lahaina, William Bartlett, May 18, Moiiteno.
aged 60. Seamen on board, Barque
Passengers.
Pantheon. He has left a wife and one child
In Jos. Peabody 5 Chinese for China.
who reside in Boston, Mass.
In Fame, for Col. River, Rev Mr. Leslie
On board whaleship Julian, Thomas Hardy, aged 22, and was buried at sea .*>. Lat. Mr. and Mrs. Pettygrove and child. Mr.
and .Mrs. Foster and four children. Mr.
17° E. Long 116°.
In Honolulu, April I 1, Emma Louisa, in- ami .Airs Hatch and child. Mr. Mack.
In Win Gray Mr. Riley for Boston.
fant daughter of Rev. Lowell Smith.
In Don Quixote, Mr. W m H. Davis for
May I, at Lahaina, Daniel P. Parminter,
seamen, aged 20. Native of Rutland, Vt California.
In Bolivar, for Mazatlan Messrs. A. B.
May 17, at Lahaina, Douglass tieaplK,
aged 2y. and 6m., son of Rev. Dwight Bald- Thompson, J.Thompson and S. A. Reynolds.
win, after a severe illness of three weeks Arrived.in the Wales, from U. S. Rev.
|H. T. Checver.with the dysentery.
In Honolulu, May 2, Mts. Ann Hornblower, aged 16, the wife of* W. Hornblower.
.
PORTFHONOLULU.
Departures, since Apjjl 7.
April 8, brig Lama, for Valparaiso.
April 10, brig Jos. Peabody for China.
April 15, barque Jules for Marquesas and
Valparaiso.
April 15, ship Peruvian, for cruise N. W.
April 17, ship Adele, for cruise N W.
April 17, ship Reunion, for cruise N. W.
April 19, ship York, for cruise N. W.
April 18, ship Win. Gray, for Boston.
April 18, ship Fama, for Columbia River.
May 2, barque Don Quixote, for California
May 3, ship Ajax, for cruise N. W.
May 9, brig Bolivar, for Mazatlan.
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
monthly, by Samuel C. Damox,
published
a
!m. nil,
Se.mien Chaplain.
Tin.vis. »>l,(>o per annum, in advance, single copy.
*2,U0 three copies.
t»o copios.
i.3 {'»
liic copies.
£5,00 ten copies.
Subscriptions and Donations, received by
Mr. Gilmun,. at Messrs. Ladd & Co. Mr.
E. H. Boardnian's, the Study ofthe Seamen's Chaplain, and at the Printing Office.
Rev. 1). Ba'dwin, Agent Lahaina, Muui.
Chas. Burnham, Esq. Koloa, Kauai.
More than 200 copies of each Number o|
the Advocate and Friend are distributed gra|
tuitously among seamen at Lahaina and thii
port. The publisher would most gladly in]
crease that number, if the friends of thi
cause will sustain the additional expense o
increasing the monthly issue.
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Advocate and Friend. (Extra.)
HONOLULU, OAIIU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, MAY 10, 1843.
TEMPERANCE.
AN ADDRESS
by Rev.
J. S. GREEN.
(Published by request of the Society.)
REASONS FOR TOTAL ABSTIN
dice from Intoxicating Liquors..
An
Address delivered before the Maui
Foreign Resident's and Seamen's TemLa'naina, Maui,
perance Society.
April 11, 1843.
"To (Jo.l In; thanks who pours us o.it
Cold water from tho hills.
In p-p-y-lal spun:*! md bubbling brooks,
In I ikes and sparKling nils!"
In addressing, this evening, the members
of the Maui Temperance Society, ami the
friends who have accepted our invitation to
aaacmble with us, I propose to give a brief
exposition of the reasons which have influenced us to sign the pledge of total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors; reasons which,
as I hope to show, should influence all to
unite with us in this, or similar associations;
reasons, moreover, which we shall feel at
liberty to urge in discountenancing their use
throughout our community, or whererot in
the providence ofGod we shall be called to
labor. I remark, then,
I. Oar own tafely tat have consulted, in
pledging oaraelves to total abstinence from
intoxicating liquors.
Self preservation is a law of our nature.
"Do thyself no harm," is the voice ofinstinct
n> less than an injunction in the statue hook
of heaven. Its influence is daily seen in the
shrewdness and activity ofthe brute creation
tii avoid every thing calculated to produce
pain and uneasiness. Nothing hut long abstinence, and consequent extreme hunger will
induce the horse or the ox to eat or drink to
satiety. They are, so to speak a law to
themselves. How much more emphatically
true was this of man, the Lord of this lower
creation when he came from the hand of his
Creator. Reason enthioned in his bosom,
reigned without a rival. Hence, though the
earth furnished abundantly the means of sustenance and luxury, man, it is confidently
believed, was never tempted to approach
even the limits of strict temperance. How
changed alas! his character and circumstances. Now, renson too often abdicates her
throne to a most unworthy rival. Passion
seizes the helm, spreads all her canvass, and
deaf to remonstrance and entreaty, presses
en, regardless of rocks or shoals. Hence
•he frequent shipwrecks of hopes and happiness. Around the ever yawning gulf of In-
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the creatures ofGod. A highly finished and
beautiful piece of machinery may be utterly
deranged and worthless; shall we put no
higher value upon it than upon the work of
the veriest bungler? The well built and elegantly fitted up ship may be brought into
port a mere wreck, dismasted and battered;
without rudder, anchor, compass or sail; and
though in pleading for her repair no one
would think of urging her present state, yet
her former one, as she came from tho hand
of the builder, might properly be urged. So
of man. He is, at present in ruins—tho
wreck of what he was. Still it is the wreck
ofmoral and intellectual greatness. Hence
we are furnished with a powerful appeal to
those who, by forming intemperate habits,
are debasing the image of God, to abandon
their guilty course. Even to the self-debased, filthy, ragged, creature, who is drawn
from the ditch, it would not be unsuitable to
urge, as a reason for abandoning, without
delay, his degrading course, n consideration
of the dignity of his nature. We might properly say to him, on recovering from the effects of his guilty debauch, ''Think, I pray
you, my friend, of the contempt which you
are casting upon the image of God enstamped upon your soul. Your beneficent Creator
designed you for the noblest purpose. You
bear the impress of His hand. You are
fearfully and wonderfully made. You have
Philistia'i yrccress;—our sustenance wast- a mind of great capacity, susceptible of high
ed; our strength exhausted; our good name cultivation and which will yield the richest
tarnished; and, but for the mercy of (iod< -frfrtts. Think too of your high destiny.
more than one of us, had found, ere this, a You are~bound to a state ofendless existence
drunkards grave! He frankly declare there- which will be happy or miserable according
fore, that in pledging ourselves to total absti- to the habits which you now form. \\ hv
nence, we have been influenced by n regard then labor to deface the image of God?
to our own snlety. We nre not ashamed to Why debase yourself beneath the brute creavow this. As soon would we bo ashamed ation? Why form habits which must, in the
to acknowledge that, to escape the conse- nature of the case, make you wretched?
quences of a gangrene, we bad submitted to Awake, I pray you, to a sense of your naa surgical operation.
In fact, the danger of tive dignity. Break off the habit which is
retaining a putrid limb is incomparably less daily acquiring strength and which will soon
than the clinging attachment to an intemper- be confirmed. Livo henceforth worthy of
ate habit. Our strength and wisdom arc your origin and your high destiny." Thus
weakness and folly when brought into con- might we appeal to the best feelings of hutact with a foe which has trampled down gi- man nature. Is not the appeal of great
ant forms, and well nigh extinguished the weight? Aa for ourselves, we are not ashamed to confess that we hnve been influenced
brightest intellect.
f. Again, in pledging ourselves to total by this consideration-, We glory in the aabstinence from all intoxicating liquors, we vowal that a sense of the dignity of our nawere inlluenced by a regard lo our dignity as ture furnishes us an inducement for taking
an Ike creatures of God.
the pledge of total abstinence. We fully beMen who have the humility and the wis- lieve that indulgence in intemperate habits
dom to acknowledge that in signing the will, to a greater or less degree, deface the
pledge of total abstinence, they consulted image of God stamped on oar souls. We
their own safety, may perhaps be expected therefore have pledged ourselves to abandon
to maintain silence on the subject of the dig- entirely and forever, all spirituous liquors,
nity of human nature. But it is not true and to labor to persuade our fellow men to
that a sense of present unworthiness is op- unite their efforts with ours in discount—ay
posed to u suitable feeling ofour dignity as. cinq their use.
temperance, infinitely more terrible than the
Norwegian Maelstrom, what fragments of
ruined fortunes, and battered constitutions;
of blighted intellect, and ruined reputation;
of broken vows, and crushed affections may
be seen! Yes, mortifying as is the fact, we
cannnot refuse to sec, that in spite of the
decisions of their understanding, the reprehensions of conscience, and the motives of
the most powerful character which are
brought to bear upon their minds, multitudes
do tamely yield to the passion lor strong
drink, and become cast aways. And who
are they who thus yield to the demands of a
depraved appetite? Who? men of every
character and profession. The wise and
honored no less than the ignorant and obscure; the reputedly pious no less certainly,
though less frequently, than the profane;
men whoso vocation demands the coolest
heads, and the soundest judgments; the man
gifted in the healing art; he whose calling it
is to unravel the most intricate questions of
law, or to sit in judgment on his fellow-men,
and he who stands up as God's ambassador,
no less than the day laborer, all all have been
cast down by this insatiate toe of human happiness— this tell destroyer ofwealth, and reputation; of health and comfort; of body ami
soul. Nor will wo conceal the fact, that
some of us have, like Samson, been shorn of
our locks, by the hand of this worse than
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TE3I P E „A N C
We are affected moreover, with a sense
and we
of our responsibility,
to
ourselves to abstain
pledge
dare not
refuse
wholly from all
that can intoxicate.
Were man an isolated being, less danger
Would result from the fact that he had yielded his reason to his passion. Tossed on the
stormy sea of life, without chart or compass,
his frail bark would soon be driven on the
rocks which lie concealed around him, and
would soon go down, but he would go down
alone, and be soon forgotten. Hut man is
not thus constituted. "None ofus," we are
assured by the highest authority, "livetb to
himself." All aro responsible to their Creator. The dignity which His own hands have
conferred upon His creatures, the capabilities to be and to do good, arc gifts of immense value, for which they must account.
Men are responsible also to each other.
Dolusive is the talk of having n right to do
as we please regardless of the right ofothers.
Even human luws recognize no such right.
The man who refuses to restrain his vicious
animal is held responsible for the consequences ofhis running nt large. A man may not
wantonly beat his own horse in public without censure. He may not go abroad when
some contngious disease has fastened upon
him. And may he, in tho indulgence of an
artificial and depraved appetite, put himself
into n state in which he shall be well nigh as
incapacitated for selfcontrol as a mud dog?
And claim this as his right? Nothing is
more absurd than the denial ofresponsibility. Every man is responsible for uil his
movements. So intimately nro men connected that, solemn thought! their every action may, and probably will affect some one
either for good or for evil. As parents or
children, as masters or seamen, as neighbors
and friends, we are continually exerting an
influence upon each other. So also as residents at these islands, or occasional visitors,
wo are brought into contact with an ignorant
peoplo who will be more or less influenced
by our example. Our responsibilities arc
momentous. To discharge
great,
the duties demanded by this high responsibility, a cool head, and an affectionate heart
are indispcnsible. Hut who docs not know
that to the possession of these total abstinence is a sine qua nnn. Wine bibbing,
and beer and eider guzzling, no less certainly than New England rum drinking, unfit
any man to discharge, fully and cheerfully,
tho obligations which he owes to God, to his
own family, and to his fellow men. We
therefore piedgo eternal enmity to every
thing that can intoxicate. We glory in the
net. We can no more feel ashamed of having thus pledged ourselves than we could for
refusing to carry abroad a contagious disease
to spread dismay and death among our neighbors, or than we could for refusing to turn
loose a wild beast to destroy our fellow men.
4. Finally, we have pledged ourselves,
and do pledge ourselves to abstain from all
intoxicating liquors, that we may be able to
exercise Ike power
of rebuke.
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A„\OCAT„.
(May,
The duties which men owe each other are its of intemperance. Such is the downward
reciprocal. As we are responsible for the march of the inebriate. We have then no
influence which we exert on others, they are right morally, and, but for an infatuation utin the sumo measure responsible to us. if terly unaccountable, should have no right by
we may not let loose sn angry beast to roam human laws, to touch, taste, or handle tho
at large, we may properly demand as our accursed beverage, any more than to taslo
right that our neighbor observe the same ourselves, or give to others the most poisoncaution. If we may not without rebuke go ous drugs of the apothecary. What then we
abroad among the habitations of men while a have no right to do to ourselves or to others,
contagious disease is fastened upon us; if we othcis hnve no right to do to themselves or
may not at such a time even open our win- to us. On this ground, I conceive, that we
dow towards our neighbors dwelling; if we have the plainest right, the light of self deare responsible, in such circumstances, for fence, to remonstrate against the right of any
any mischief which may follow our neglect man's tampering in any way with the drunkto give warning of the danger of approach- ard's drink—to remonstrate against the pracing our house, then are we fully authorized tice of licensing to sell, of vending or using
to expect the same circumspection to be ob- spirituous liquors. The assertion so confiserved by our fellow men in relation to our- dently made by men who license to sell, and
selves and families. And in case of a disre- who use and vend tho drunkard's beverage,
gard of these reciprocal obligations we may that they have a peifeel right to do so, is a
groundless assertion. The man who can
remonstrate and rebuke.
Now it is perfectly plain that we have no make it has loose notions of responsibility,
right, morally, either to use ourselves, or to and is a dangerous member of civil commuset before others in the way of giving or nity. What! has any man a right to use a
vending, any substance that can intoxicate. beverage which mai) and often does put himThe law of love to our neighbor imperiously self out of his own keeping, and lenders him
forbids it. The golden rule, ofdoing tooth- more dangerous than an unchained maniac?
ers what we would that they, in like circum- Has a man the right to offer to his friends,
stances should do to us, forbids it. It is do- his neighbors, or his visitors, a beverage
ing our neighbor an unspeakable, an irre- which may and often dor's go to form a habparable wrong. I cannot, on this occasion, it, which when confirmed, will cause him to
go into a labored proof of the destructive squander his estate, abuse his wife and chiltendency ofeither taking ourselves, or giv- dren, and mat/ cause him toimluie bis hands
ing to others, the smallest portion of intoxi- in their blood mid his own? Has any one
cating liquor. Nor need I do so. Volumes who claims the protection of law against the
offacta of the most affecting charncter have slightest aggression of others, who experienbeen given to the public, and arc many of ces the benefits ofcivilized society, urid the
them accessible to each of you. You arc hospitalities of neighborhood, a right to open,
nil probably eye-witnesses of the ruinous ef- by vending intoxicating drinks, a fountain
fects of tasting, and causing others to taste whence flow portriy, disease, shame, and ruthe insidious poison. The man who tastes u in! What! tho right to beggar a man of
single drop runs a fearful risk of ruining himself? a right to destroy intellect? to blight
both himself and his neighbors. He has hope? to rob society of useful labour? to
commenced a disturbing process, like one quench affection around the domestic hearth?
who casts a stone into the bosom of the a right to break heart strings? efliice the impeaceful lake, which may go on increasing age ofGod? open graves? kindle the fires ol
its mischief till the soul is polluted and lost. hell' Shame on the man who talks of the
What though the process of ruin is slow—it tight to do all these, or to do what may lead
may be, almost imperceptible? It is not the to the perpetration of these irispeaknbly horless sure. No one, by watching, sees the rid deeds! No: no man has right to do
growth of vegetation. Who does not know wrong. The i.oie will come, theLord hastthat habits of any kind arc the growth of en it, when the indignant voie< of public sentime, not the formation of a single day? Who timent shall he heard, rising above the din of
does not know, that many a man who has noise kept.up by rum-sellers, rebuking magfound a drunkard's grave, began his course istrates who presume, for the public good, to
by sipping a little wine in a social interview license men to murder each other, and thus
with a neighbor? More affecting still, who fill the land with the wailings of widows and
has not seen or heard of men who, till sedu- orphans. No magistrate, no merchant, no
ced to taste of the fatal cup, were affection- man has the shadow of right to do himself or
ate, useful, happy citizens; but who having allow others to do what may lead to conseonce tasted, have lost nil control of them- quences so unspeakably disastrous. We
selves, have gone to the worst excesses, and have therefore a perfect right to remonstrate
against the practice of using or vending the
have finally imbued their hands in
drunkard's drink. If our remonstrances arc
expiated their crime on the gallows?
unheeded, we may rebuke. Hut that we
"He that once sips, like biin who slides on ire,
(■tides smoothly down the slipimry piilhs of'vicc*,
may do this effectually, that we may have
Though conscience check lino yot these rubs soon o'er,' the judgment and the conscience of those
He slides on swiftly and looks back no more.
whom we rebuke on our side, we must take
Such is the tendency of indulgence in hab- care that they shall not be able to say, "Phy11
�1843.)
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"Thou hypocrite, first drunkard? Who takes from him his last from their ranks. They are already exulting in the fall of some who have signed tho
pledge. They would rejoice to hear that
you too had fallen. Nor would it be strange
if some of them should labor with expedients
we do renewedly pledge ourselves to abstain he who worse than robs the seamen of his worthy of him who goeth about seeking
haid earned wages by giving in exchange a whom he may devour, to entrap you in their
from all that can intoxicate.
These arc the reasons which have weigh- poisonous substance? Muy he boast of his wiles. Let me then exhort you, one and all,
ed with us, and which have influenced us to liberty who cannot resist the rum seller's to untiring vigilance, and great decision of
pledge ourselves to total abstinence. They importunity, cannot, for the life of him, "go character. He not laughed out ofyour prinarc reasons which, WO think, should influ- right on his way?" Who under the influence ciples. Dare to be called "cold water men."
ence all who hear them to unite with us in o| the maddening cup is lead to the house of (jilory in the appellation. Beware of the inthis, or similar associations; reasons more- the "strange woman," who quarreling with centives to the degrading' nnd ruinous pracover, which we shall feel ut liberty to urge all he meets, is beaten and scared; confined tice of drinking. The filthy weed which it
in discountenancing the sale and use of in- in irons; drawn from the ditch; booted at by has become so lamentably common to roll
toxicating liquors throughout our communi- the boys in the streets; avoided and despised "us u sweet morsel under the tongue," or to
ty. Let me therefore, in this place, address by all.' The poor African slave subject to coil up in one corner of the mouth, has provmyself to you who are disconnected from the irresponsible will of a depraved master; ed, 1 fully believe, in many cases, the means
temperance associations. Some of you may loaded with chains and subject to the lash, is of drunkenness. I would uffectionably and
be practicing on the principle of total absti- a freeman compared to these? Talk not of earnestly counsel you to cast it from you, esnence, while hitherto you have refused to freedom till you can control your own appe- pecially, would 1 say, cease to smoke it.
sign the pledge. We cordially invite you to tite? can keep out ofyour inoiilh a substance He men of business habits. Avoid lounging
unite with us. We ask an expression of which will steal away your brains, ruin your and idleness. The devil will be more, much
your sympathy and aid—an expression which character, and destroy your health? Talk more likely to tempt you to the grog shop if
cannot be questioned—"which shall be not of liberty till you can goby the rum sell- he finds you unemployed, than if he sees you
known and read of all men." Union is er's shop, till you can scorn all bis solicita- actively and usefully engaged. Keep aloof,
so far as may consist with the duties ofyour
strength. The concentrated counsels and tions to self indulgence!
efforta of men like minded in a great and Do any hear me who style themselvs mod- several stations, from the intemperate; espegood cause, is exceedingly desirable, Is erate drinkers, who heartily despise the cially avoid the places where liquors are sold.
You cannot approach them safely. We read
not the cause a good one? I)o you not earn- drunkard, who say with the poet,
estly desire that temperance principles should "To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and of those who "sleep not except they have
done some mischief," whose "sleep is taken
prevail? Will you not then, labor with us
presently ;» beaat,
Bvary inordinate cup is unblessed and away unless they cause some to fall." Such
to induce others to embrace these principles' "Oh Strang.!
the
is u devil,"
men merit the severest rebuke. But in no
Do you say that you can exert as happy and
as powerful an influence by remaining xeilh- and yet ask, what harm can there be in mod- way can you so effectually administer reonl, as by entering our ranks? For our- erate drinking? Let me affectionately en- buke, as by standing aloof from them, and
selves we claim nothing; for the cause' which quire, are you at ease while indulging your- thus showing to uil around thut, with such
If you have
we advocate, wo rhiini much; and we are selves in the use ofa beverage which is year- men you have no fellowship.
most decidedly of the opinion that this cause ly destroying thousands, and spreading luisu ro, improve it in the cultivation of your
is injured by the course which you take. wretchedness throughout the world? Are minds. Neglect not so important a part of
You cannot he ignorant of the fact that mul- you consulting your safety while you contin- yourselves. Read diligently nnd carefully
titude! of intemperate men refuse to sign the ue to sip the drunkard's drink? Dare you the best books you can find. I commend to
pledge, and they arc urging the same reason llatlcr yourselves that you shall always drink your particular attention, the writings of an
for their refusal which Jfoa urge, to wit, that moderately? Have you more strength than ancient king, renowned for his wisdom, and
they can as easily abstain without taking the multitudes, who like you began to drink who in his proverbs, has left to us uil, a rich
pledge us by taking it. Are you nut strength- moderately, but arc now utterly degraded, legacy. A greater than Solomon you mny
ening the hands of these men? Will they and tottering on the brink of the drunkard's also consult, to the highest purpose, in a
not plead your example? and if so, are you !grave? No, you are not safe. You cannot small, but too often neglected volume which
not measurably accountable lor their shame he safe where you now stand. The adver- I earnestly invite you to peruse. I would
and ruinr As friends of your species, 1 be- sary is weaving a snare for your feet. Break also recommend the Permanent Temperance
seech you come up to this good work. Will away at once, from a snare so foul so de- Documents, n volume embodying a great
you not aid us in snatching as many crea- structive. Away from the slippery rocks on amount of valuable facts, and stirring aptures of (iod—fellow immortals as possible, which you stand, lest you slide and plunge peals. You may also rccreato yourselves
from the fiery surge which is dashing and into the fiery billows below. "Look not by looking at Sargent's Temperance Tales.
thou upon the wine when it is red, when it Finally, be consistent advocates of the caus>:
breakiii!! on these shores?
i
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Others there may bo present this
giveth his color in the cup, when it nioveth of temperance which you hove publicly esevening,
who will refuse to sign the pledge, and who itself aright. At the last, it biteth like a ser- poused, and which, be assured, will ultimatewill talk of the act of pledging ones self to pent, and stingeth like an adder."
ly and gloriously triumph. Avoid the very
abstain from all intoxicating drinks as tin;
In conclusion, gentlemen of the society, appearance of evil. You may be urged to
signing away of liberty ; and they may resent let me say, that by pledging ourselves to total sip the substance misnamed wine, but which
the efforts made to induce them to unite with abstinence from intoxicating liquors, we have is little else thun colored whiskey, or New
us as an attempt to bring I hun into bondage! assumed both theoretically and practically, England rum, and which no consistent friend
How often alas, do men employ language to an attitude of opposition to many of our fel- of temperance can taste. You may be sowhich they attach no definite ideas! Liberty low citizens who still indulge in the practice licited to guzzle porter, or beer, or cider.
to be and do what? Bondage to whom, to of drinking, and some of whom seem intent You may be ill, and some affectionate friend
what? Who is the man, let me ask, who on growing rich by means which will impov- may recommend restorative cordials, and
walks erect in the conscious dignity of a be- erish their neighbors. They will, of course, may say that you deserve to die, if you will
ing made in God's image? Is it the man watch us with a sleepless vigilance, especial- not, in such circumstances, take a little of
who cuters to the depraved appetite of the ly those of us whom they regard as deserters the "good creature." Now, my friends,
sician heal thyself."
cast outjhe I.cam out of thy own eye, and shilling, and leaves his wife Riid children
then shall thou see clearly to east out the bread less? Is it he who hangs out his sign,
mote out of thy brother's eye." We have and solicits the passer by to call, ond drink
therefore solemnly pledged ourselves, and away reason, and drown conscience' Is it
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must be as deaf as an adder to all solic- one hundred forty-two thousand, four hunditations of this kind, ccine from what quarter red, and fifty-three men; one hundred and
they may. If you would be safe, and retain eight thousand/five hundred, and ninetythe standing of consistent advocates of tem- three women; and eighteen thousand, three
perance, you must let it be known, at home hundred and ninety-one children; making a
and abroad, on ship board and on shore, that grand total of two hundred sixty-nine thouyou can by no means think even of sipping sand, four hundred; and thirty-eight, who
either wine, potter, or beer; that "blow went into those fourteen houses in one
high, or blow low," to employ the language week."—Rep. on Drunk: p. 'i.
of boatswain Morgan, "not a single drop "In the year 1833, eighteen thousand, two
shall be allowed to go down your hatches." hundred, and sixty-eight men, and eleven
On-the importance of total abstinence from thousand, six hundred and twelve women,
every thing of the kind, especially to those were taken up, by the Metropolitan Police,
who have been intemperate, permit me to for being found drunk."—App. to Rep. on
close with an extract from an address deliv- Drunk., No. 5.
ered before the Temperance Societies of
According to the evidence of Colonel C.
Seneca, Waterloo, and Seneca Falls, N. Y. Rowan,
Commissioner of the New
1841, by G. I. Grovenor, Esq , one of the there would be twice this number ofPolice,
drunkmany reformed drunkards of the U. S. who ards
not taken into custody, making altowithin the few years past, have been saved
gether nearly ninety thousand cases.—Rep.
to themselves, and their country.
first on
Drunk., p. 26.
duty," he says, "is to save ourselves." He "From
tbePentonville-hilltoKing'sCross,
makes
the
tbon
following powerftil remarks
a distance of one hundred yards, there are
to his brethren, on total abstinence.
"It is our only hope; our only sheet anch- three first rate gin-palaces. On Sunday
or; and if we cut loose from that, we may as week, a gentleman took the trouble of ascerthe number, who were turned out of
well, at the same time, throw our compass taining
at the hour of closing, 1 I
overboard, and unship our rudder. Our lit- each gin-shop
From
tho Maidenhead ninetyo'clock.
tle barque, once swung from her moorings,
will soon founder, and few and fortunate in- three, including women. From the White
deed will they be, who survive tho wreck. Hart seventy-six; and, from the Bell TavLet no earthly consideration induce you to ern, one hundred and seventy-seven. Out
violate it in the least degree or in the unim- of tho two hundred and ninety-six, one
quite drunk; another hifndred
portant particular—let it be to you as a cloud hundred were the
and
stupified,
remaining ninety-six, had
by day, and as a pillar offire by night. The
whole history of temperance efforts, and uni- scarcely sufficient brains left to enable them
form experience incontestibly prove that tho to stagger home."—Watchman.
"There are (in London) 1,887 bakers;
least departure from its requisitions is, with
infinite difficulty, retraced, and generally 1,479 butchers; 940 cheesemongers; 26.0
proves fatal. Permit but the slightest indul- fishmongers; 163 poulterers; I JIB dairymen;
gence, nnd you might ns well encounter the and 1,933 grocers; moking a totul of 6,890
lion in his lair. The vitiated and depraved provision shops; and there are in London
appetite, partially allayed for want of its cus- 3,636 licensed victuallers, exclusive of beertomary sustenance, is at once aroused from shops. Thus there are seven more licensed
its lethargy, and lured by its favorite elem- victuallers, all of whom are spirit sellers
ent, returns with ten-fold voracity, and is not than there ore bakers, butchers, and fisheasily satisfied or subdued. The wretched mongers."—Rep. on Drunk , p. 4.
victi'n of his own imprudence and temerity,
writhing in agonies which no language can
Temperance Relic.
describe, and none can know but he who has
felt them, exclaims—
In the year 1758, Capt. Andrew Ward,
of Guilford, commanded a company of
"Sweet the delusive draught;.but he who tries
jou
The horried fjbi-wn, withers, sinks, nnd dies;
The dexdlv venom, stealing through the veins,
P«l*k» the neart, and maddens all the brains."
(May,
descendants, has politely deposited one of
these spoons with the Connecticut Historical Society.—Hartford Cournnt.
A saving of five pence, a-day.
At a late meeting, in Birmingham, of a
total abstinence society, the followinc
statement was made by a working coach
painter, who was called on in his turn to
speak on the subject of temperance. "He
had made a few calculations, which lie
wished to communicate, with the view of
shewing the pecuniary benefit he had derived during the four years he had been a
tetotal member. Previous to that time
he had been in the practice of spending,
on an average, in intoxicating drink, fivepence per day, or £7 12s. Id. per annum, and which in four years would
amount to £30 8s- 4d. He would now
show how this sum had been expended
during the four years ho had abstained
from all intoxicating drinks. First it had
enabled him to allow an aged father £3
ss. per annum towards rent, or in four
years, £13. Secondly, lie had entered
a benefit society, and paid one shilling
and sevenpence per week, or £4 2s. 4d.
per annum, or £16 9s. 4d, for the four
years. For this payment he secured the
following advantages: in case of his being
disabled from doing his accustomed work
by illness or accident, the society will pay
him eighteen shillings per week, until restored to health: in case of death, his widow or rightful heir is entitled to a bonus
of £9, besides half the amount paid into
the society by the deceased up to the time
of his death, with the interest due thereon. Thirdly, it left him four shillings nnd
ninepeiice per annum, or nineteen shillings for the four years, to be expended
in temperance periodicals. Ir might further be added, that when the sum of £54
had been paid into the society's funds, no
Inrther payment would be required, and
the contributor would be entitled fo all
the benefits before enumerated; medicine
nnd medical attendance were included in
the arrangement. Reader, how much
may bo done with five pence a day!
provincial soldiers in the service of Geo.
11. at the taking of Louisburg, in the island of Cape Breton. While in the serThe following statements are taken from vice he drew money in lieu of his rations
work entitled, "Intemperance the Idolatry of spirits, with which he purchased four
Britain," published jn London, 1839.
silver table spoons; one for each of his
"I adopted a plan," says Mr. Mark Moore, children. The word "Louisburg" wus n. b. May number of the Advocate and
i few months ago, in order to ascertain marked on each spoon that "his children Friend, next week.
bat number of persons went into the lead- might remember how he used his rum."
Temperance Advocate and. Seamen's
g gin-shops, in varions parts of London. These spoons were made by Mr. Ward, Friend,
mouthly, by Samuel C. Damon
1 selected fourteen houses, and have made father of Col. James Ward, of this city. Seamenpublished
s Chaplain.
'
out a tabular account of the number efmen,
Tkrms. $1,00 per annum, inadvance, single copy
descendants,
Of
all
his
there
have
(and
copies.
#1,50
two
three
£2,00
copies.
SSOt)went
women, and'children, who
into, each
nve copies.
96,00 ten copies.
house, on each day, for one week. The re- been more than one hundred) bnt one Subscriptions
received at Messra. Ladd k.
sult of the whole calculations is, that in the has been intemperate. George A. Foote, Co., Mr. E. 11. lioardman's,
the Study of the SeamenJa,
of
fourteen nouses, in one week, there were Esq., of Guilford,, one
Captain Ward's Chaplain, and at the Printing Office.
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AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Vol. I.
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS,
Jl/NE
27, 1843.
27
Temperance Advocate,
No. VI.
For the Advocate and Friend.
bring a man. These meetings soon attract- cry. Temperance Jubilees were celebrated
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE WASHINGTONIAN ed attention, through a public relation by in the groves because the churches could not
I
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT each individual of his own experience aud I contain the numbers that *AWWa»rawn togethIN THE UNITED STATES.
history. The members became indefatiga- er from their merchandise, shops, and farms,
form ofthe Temperance Reformation ble in their work of reforming druuknids, to hear those thrilling narratives of th. woes
the United Statu*, denominated the Wash- |and in less than one year their society num- of intemperance and the joys ofre-susitated
ingtoman Temperance Movement, is so re- bered more than one thousand members, the reason and self-control, from the lips of men
markable in its origin and progress, and m greater part of whom had been grossly in- who "ssake that which ihey knew and testified
mentous in its results, that it will doubtless temperate.
that thty had seen.'"
form an epoch in the annals of America, if 1 On the sth. of April 1841, the anniversary Temperance celebrations of the Fourth of
not in the history of the human race. It has of the society was celebrated by a public July made the day doubly dear to freemen,
had all the suddenness and rapidity of an processi'in. More than six thousand men as commemorative of deliverance from old
eruption from the great Hawaiian volcano; nnd youth from the various temperance so- political thraldom and recent rescue from the
but it has passed over the face of society not cieties, formed in the principal street ofBal- servitude of vice. Temperance discissions
like the lava-river to scorch and blacken, hut timore, e\e.ry society having its own banner, were held in steam boats, and the fjelormu
as a fertilizing stream through the desert and each member wearing his appropriate tion of drunkards was every whertff B abwhose path is known by verdure and flowers, |badge. "Cheered on by bands of music and sorbing theme.
and willow* by the waler-coursea.
Early us June 1841, two reformed drunkthe acclamation of thousands of spectators,
On the .71 li. of April 1810, six men of in- they marched in deep columns through the ards from Baltimore set their faces to the
temper; t •■ habits, whrle over their cups in a principal parts of the city to Mount Vernon, West, and first lifted the weapons of their
.public tavern in Baltimore, suddenly resolv- ;where, in front of the monument to the Fa- moral warfare among the manufacturing poed, self-moved, that they would drink no ther of his country, they formed in solid pulation ofPittsburg, the American Birmingmore, and signed together a pledge of total mass, and
standing uncovered but by the ham. In a short time more than ten thouabstinence from all that could intoxicate.* canopy of heaven, returned thanks to him sand in that city, and vicinity signed the.
also resolved to form a society to he who had had mercy upon the poor drunkard, pledge, including muny who were deemed
lied the Washington Temperance Society, and listened to addresses
virtue and hope. From Pittsburg
appropriate to the lost to
d at their successive meetings each to thrilling occasion."
they mode their way like a Roman General
in his* triumph, through applauding ranks of
Eager that the great Commercial Metrop- tho
"They were W. K. Mitchell, a tailor; J. T.
reformed, to Wheeling, Cincinnati,
Floss, a carpenter; David Anderson, a blnck- olis of America should share in this remark- Cleveland, and St. Louis. In the last cily
able
movement
the
benign
"smith; George Steers, a wheelwright; James
Executive there were instances of public signatures to
McCurly, a coach-maker, nnd Archibald Committee of the New York City Temper- the pledge under circumstances of melting
Campbell, a silver plater. On Friday even- ance Society invited fire of the reformed interest. In other cases the
pledge was
ing, April sth. 1810, they were at Chase's men of Baltimore to visa their City and re- signed by men actually drunk, and yet, wonTavern, Liberty-street, in the city of Balti- late their experience. Tile novelty of the derful as the phenomenon seems, the moral
more, where they were in the habit of asso- affair and the peculiar character ofthe exer- might of that social pledge, aided, we doubt
ciating tpigether after the labors of tho day. cises attracted crowds to hear them. More not, by un inlluencc from on High, has kept
A temperance sermon which was that even- than twenty successive meetings were held them from being drunk again.
ing to be preached by a clergyman of some in the largest churches, and one in the Park.
Virginia, Kcntuckey, North and South
ll'itoriety, became the subject ofconversation. The sympathies and hopes of tho miserable Carolina, even Alabama and Louisiana were
It was resolved that four of their number drunkard were at once enlisted, and a large visited by
different delegates from the corps
should go and hear it, and report its charac- number cune forward and signed the pledge. of the reformed, with unlooked-for success
ter. On their return they scanned its mer- These, like their brethren in Baltimore, at
in reclaiming the intemperate. In many
its, when one of their number remarked, that once actively engaged in the neformp.tion of towns of the west news
of the Movement in
drunkards,
nnd
formed
a Washington Socie- Baltimore and the
all, temperance was a good thing."
printed
speeches of John
"Oh," said the landlord, "they're all a par- ty for New York, which wtth affiliated socie- Hawkins and others, preceding
the arrival
cel ofhypocrites." "O yes," replied anoth- ties in different parts ofthe city, now num- of any
in the bohope
enkindled
delegate,
between
er, "I'll be bound it is for your interest to bers
five and six thousand temper- soms of the
and induced the siintemperate,
cry them down any how." From this alter- ate freemen that were before the wretched multaneous formation of numerous
Washingcation proceeded the resolution to formamong slaves of strong drinks.
ton Temperance Societies at divers and rethemselves a temperance society, to be callFrom New York tlie reformed drunkards mote points.
ed the Washington Society; a pledge was of Baltimore proceeded to Boston; where the
In the course of this movement tip to May
written and signed; and from want of speak- simple affecting tale of personal experience 184a, it was estimated li-oni re ports transmiters, each one agreed to relate his own his- and resurrection, as it were, from the grave ted to the
N. Y. Temperance Union, that
of drunkenness, produced the same wonder- 50,000 of the common drunkards and thrico
tory "
Pledoe. "We whose names are annexed, ful results.
that number ofcommon tipplers, had become
•desirous of forming a society for our mutual The enthusiastic impulse in behalf dT the sober
men.
and
benefit,
to guard against a pernicious drunkard ran through New fc/wgland like fire
Through the peculiar discipline of Wsshpractice which is injurions to oar health, in her autumnal woods. Deputations of re- ingtoniiins, by which each man enters into
•landing, and families, do pledge ourselves formed inebriates passed from town to towiiy
'-obligation to be his brothajMHUtper, violaas gentlemen, that we will not drink any every wlierc swelling their ranks with sub- tions of
the
and atPuVn to habile of inspirituous or malt liquors." Fifth Annual jects who hud been thought by themselves, temperance,pledge
mre unexpectedly rare. It was
Tern.
1812.
Union,,
Rej». Am.
aud regarded by their friends as past recov- predicted that _ifof lbe_ wouhi nebtra Mac
SThat
-,
.
,
,,
,
tiey
•
'
.
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T_M*_UAXC_ A_\OCATE.
the dog to his vomit. But the result has
shown that benevolence in her most daring
and desperate efforts need not despair.
Hardly can a Washingtonian in America
yield to temptation and fall, before he is surrounded by his brethren, raised up again and
watched over till sober, and hedged about by
moral and social restraints that keep him in
moat cases from Ailing again.
Such is a rapid birds-eye view of the
Washingtonian movement in the United
States, lis sound has gone out through all
the earth, its report unto the. ends ofthe world.
The Hawaiian Islands are feeling its benign
influence, and Washingtonians are gathering on ship and shore.
Soon may there be none found here "that
putteth a stumbling block in his brother's
way or giveth his neighbour drink."
11. T. C.
ADVOCATE & FRIEND.
Honolulu, June 27, is 13.
WHALESHIPPARKER, WRECKED ON OCEAN
ISLAND, September 24. 1842.
(J
JNE,
island, in Lat. 28° „' N. and 178° 30* W. JJoseph Dunbar, 2d., boat steerer, N. Bedwhich I suppose to be Ocean Island, is about
ford, but native of Lanai, Sand. Islands.
three miles in circumference. It is compos- JR. F. Quiun, ship-keeper, Newburgh, N.Y.
ed of broken coral and shells, and is cover- •Levi Pottle, carpenter, Boston, Mass,
ed, near the shore, with low bushes. In the fjohn Ervin, seaman, Philadelphia, Perm.
season it abounds with sea-birds, and at times jSeth Humphrey, seaman, Boston, Mass.
there is a considerable number ofhair-seals JO. Hemmenwsy, sea., Framingham, Mass.
There is always un abundance offish and a JHenry Williams, seaman, Augusta, Me.
, N. Y.
great variety. The highest part ofthe island jWillium Cronk, seaman,
is not more than 10 feet above the level of jGcorge Noyes, seaman, Boston, Mass.
, N. Y.
the sea. The only fresh water is what drains JWilliam Russcl, seaman,
through the sand after the heavy rains. JNathan Brown, seaman, Suco, Me.
From the specimens of dead shells lying fM. Pease, boat steerer, Cape dc Verd Is.
about the beach, there appears to be a great fPeter Brock, boat steerer, Society Islands.
variety of shells."
tFrancis Tiercers, seaman, Pico, Aeore Is.
The above description of Ocean Island is tJoseph Smith, seaman, Pico, Azore Is.
taken from the July Number ofthe Hawaii- tMunuel Noel, seaman *Carbo, Azore Is.
an Spectator, for 1838, and was originally JJoe and JDick, seaman, Paita, Peru.
written by Capt. John Richard Brown, com- jF. Woodman, blacksmith, Buckston, Me.
manding the English Whuleship Gledstanes. JF. Anderson, steward, Wilmington, Del.
This ship was wrecked on the reef of the tDavid Perrigrine, Cook, Wilmington, Del.
same island, July 9, 1837, about midnight. •Stephen Lowe, cabin boy, Auburn, N. Y.
"Only one man was lost; he jumped overThe raft floated on a level with the surboard, intoxicated." The island and reef face ofthe wuter; but after 8 days and 7
were surveyed by Capt. B. and the results nights, of incessant labor-and intense sufferofhis survey may be seen by referring to a ing from hunger and thirst, they succeeded
map, which accomponies the above-mentioned work. The reef is not laid down upon
The ship Parker, New Bedford, Captain the charts in common use.
Prince Sherman, sailed August 26, 1839, But to return—at half past 2 o'clock on
bound for the Pacific Ocean, to obtain a car- the morning ofthe24th—a sea dashed through
go of sperm oil, with orders to cruise 25 mos. the cabin windows ofthe Parker, and immefor sperm, but if unable to procure 2000 bbls. diately she struck the reef about 8 miles N.
in that time to proceed to the N. W. for N. W. from the centre of Ocean Island. In
right whale. She was fitted for a voyage of three quarters of an hour she was an entire
40 mos., and manned with a crew of-J8 men, wreck At the time she had on board 2,000
besides the captain. Nothing worthy of barrels sperm oil, and 1,000 R. W. The
special notice occurred, until December 14, crew were unable to save sufficient clothes to
1311, when Capt. Sherman, was lost under cover them, or any provisions except 1 peck
t ie following circumstances. His boat hav- of beans and 15 or 20 lbs of salt meat, picki ig been made fast to one of a large school ed up after the vessel went to pieces. No
of sperm whale was capsized and stove. He water was saved. Before the vessel was
was thrown out either by the line "unship- deserted, her masts were cut away, upon
ping from the chocks" or the stroke of a which and some floating spars, 22 of the
whale's flukes, which were seen by the crews ship's company succeeded in crossing the
ofthe other boats, frequently to pass over reef. Immediately after the vessel struck
the boat's bows. At that critical moment a the mate and two men lowered a boat, which
large number of whales were seen around was stove against the vessel. On the boat's
the boat. The unfortunate captain, however wreck, however, they were drifted by the
clung for a short time to the shattered boat, current about three miles to the south, when
but before aid could arrive, he sunk to rise meeting a counter current, they were carrino more. Long. 113° W. &. Lat. 00° 40' N. ed near the reef, but only ono of the men
Mr. George W. Smith, Ist. officer suc- was able to join his companions who had
ceeded to the command, a man in every res- constructed a raft from the wreck ofthe illpect qualified fir the station, giving on all fated Parker. The island bore about East.
occasions entire satisfaction In April 1842, A strong current setting to the S. and W.
the ship visited Luhuirin, Maui, to recruit, obliged them to moor tho raft in 2 or 3 fathand proceeded from thence to the N. \V. oms water. Sad indeed was tiie prospect to
agreeably to instructions, intending in the those struggling for their lives and clinging
fall to return to the Sandwich Islands. On to the raft—while four of their ship-mates
the 23d. of September, it commenced blow- hud found a watery grave.
ing with squalls and rain from N. to N. E.
The f dlowing are their hames.
T > vurds evening shortened sail, and at 6 11. Keller, Ist. mate, S. Dartmouth, Mass.
o'clock and 30m., the ship was "lying to" William Sutton, seamen, Boston Mass.
under close reefed top-sails and fore-sail. Antonio, seamen, Pnita, Peru.
The weather continuing unfavorable they John I.inter, seamen, Dorsetshire, Eng.
furled fore-top-soil and fore-sail and set mainNames ofthe survivors.
trv-sad. At 4 o'clock the same day Ocean «G. W. Smith, Capt New Bedford, Mass.
Island boreS. by E. 17 miles distant. "The *G. Smith, 2d. nit. St, cooper, N. Port, R. I.
,
in reaching the island. When they landed
their condition was most pitiable. Nearly
the entire distance from the spot where the
raft was built, to the island, they were obliged on account of currents, to warp—by repeated swimming with a line, and making it
fast to the bottom, then hauling up. Having reached the island, they were actively
engaged in making necessary preparations
for a residence, until some friendly vessel
should take them off. They found some remains ofthe wrecked Gledstanes, which served for firewood and building materials. One
solitary dog, was the only living representative of civilized life, which had been left by
the crew of the Gledstanes. He had lost his
domestic habits, and after some weeks was
caught. Being in good condition, his flesh
afforded some variety to a constant diet upon
sea-fowl and seals. It was estimated that
they killed rising of 7,000 sea-fowls, and
about 60 seals. From the old wreck of the
Parker they obtained some pieces of copper
which were manufactured into cooking utensils. They sent oft" 120 sea-fowls, with tallied pieces of wood attached to them, hoping
some one might be caught, which would in
hicroglypic language relate the situation of
the crew of the. Parker. Thus month after
month passed away. Every morning nnd
evening the captain was accustomed in his
tent to conduct religious services and on
Sabbath morning a bethel flag was hoisted
when all of the inhabitants of Ocean Island
assembled for the worship of Almighty God.
Fortunately two bibles were saved. (The
Editor has been presented with one of them.)
One service was held upon fhe Sabbath
which usually consisted of prayer and read*Now on board James Stewart.
fNow on board Nassau.
+* Tnc'
care Am. Consul, Honolulu.
�TEMPEUANCE
ADVOCATE.
29
1843.)
"No! The ship
has arrived within
"At sea, May 3d. 1843, North Pacific
ing ofthe Scriptures with such sacred hymns
as the memories of the worshippers could Ocean, latitude 13° N. longitude 145° W." a month from a voyage of three and a halt
recall.
A Pledge. We the undersigned do years, having performed it successfully withAfter more than six months had thus been hereby pledge ourselves that we will ab- out any spirituous liquors as a drink. All
spent, April 16th the man on the "look out" stain from all intoxicating drinks ; —such the men returned, except three, that left on
discovered a sail standing for the island. as brandy, gin, rum, wine and cider; that account of ill health. There has been one
uniform expression of satisfaction by every
They made signals which were seen on board we
will discountenance their use in all man on board. I was never interested in n
the vessel, but owing to the lightness ofthe
winds, she was carried to the south of the things; that we*believe them to be injuri- ship whose voyage in every respect gavo
island. On the following morning, April ous to all persons, except by trie prescrip- better evidences of the advuntuges derived
17th., she was again discovered standing for tion of a physician; that when we return from entire abstinence. So far as my expethe island. About 10 A. M. their situation to the United States, it is our object to rience has extended, the welfare ofthe voywas made known on board the vessel, which join the Washington Temperance Socie- age depends, in the first place, on getting
proved to be the James Stewart, St. Johns ty. And we the undersigned do pledge good men, who can appreciate good treatment, and then be careful to apply such treatN. B. The captain received on board, Capt
we are detected violating ment; and in the outfit oi the ship, provide
Smith, the carpenter, the cooper and cabin- ourselves that if
boy. Twenty were left upon the island, who any of the said rules in this pledge we good provisions, groceries, Stc. and enough
were generously supplied with 20 lbs. of shall forfeit ten dollars, to be apptopriated of them. Having such an outfit, no sufferbread, and 20 lbs beef, each, besides 1 brl. for the benefit of the Seamen's Friend ing may be feared from the absence of spirituous liquors.
of salt, and cotton cloth sufficient for each Society.
"Hot water can easily be obtained atanv
one a shirt, and numerous minor articles of
Names. James M. Ritchie, Orange Co. time; and when the men are wet and cold,
essential benefit. The Capt. of the James New York: John Bush,
David
Scotland:
having a sufficiency of ginger and molasses
Stewart, pledged his word, that at the end
John Wilson, -\- his on board, a heating beverage can be proviofthe cruise he would return for them. On Batchelor, England:
mark, England: George Case, United States: ded incomparably better, on all accounts,
the 2d. of May, a second sail was discover- John
Serrano, Spain: Joseph Hazzard-f- his than any mixture ofardent spirits. When a
ed, which proved to be the Whaleship, Nas- mark, color,d Baltimore
Md.: Thomas Col- ship goes into port, the captain should be
sau, New Bedford, Capt. Weeks. On
his
Baltimore
Md.: Peter Bun- careful to refresh his men with what is comlins,-)mark,
learning their situation, he immediately orhis
Islands. ■
mark,
Sandwich
ker,-)fortable, as every thing depends on a liberal
dered his boats ashore, to bring ofT every
of
this
have
society
provision
The
members
for that purpose.
clothing
surely
them
with
person. He supplied
and provisions in abundance. Every ac- laid aside national prejudices, in mutually "If men are treated well and fed well, they
commodation which the Nassau could afford pledging to abstain from all intoxicating will never feel the want of intoxicating drinks.
The idea that a voyage cannot be prosecuted
was placed ut their disposal. Seven of the drinks. "Haul away, and keep
hauling, successfully, without the use of what
may,
number enlisted on board the Nassau to peris
form the voyage; while the remaining 13 my boys." The present no time for dis- without hyperbole, be termed a liquid poison, is too absurd to be tolerated for a mowere landed at this Port, under the protec- couragement.
ment. And owners who still advocate its
tion ofthe American Consulate.
From Sailor's Magazine, April, 1542. use on the ground of expediency, must have
The conduct of Capt. Weeks wos such as
to excite feelings of heart felt gratitude in TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF TEMPERANCE ON lost sight ofthe very great sacrifices to which
SHIPBOARD.
the former practice of using it subjected
the bosoms of those who experienced his
The Executive Committee ofthe American them, and to which every owner must, in a
kindness. The Editor has been particularly
requested in a public manner to express their Seamen's Friend Society, encouraged by the lesser or greater degree, he subject, who
success ofthe cause of Temperance among still continues to furnish it."
thanks to him.
The fore-going particulars in reference to seamen ofthe merchant service, and desiring From an extensive Shipping House in this city, w. y.
the loss ofthe Parker, and the subsequent to obtain such facts as may be authentic and
About thirteen years since, we ceased to
history ofthe crew are drawn up from the calculated to strengthen the appeal made to furnished our ships with ardent spirits, durwritten and verbal narratives of those who Congress by a large number-ofour most res- ing which time, not one of them have been
were the actors. The Editor however is pectable fellow citizens, to abolish the "spir- allowed to use it, either in the cabin or foreunder particular indebtedness for a statement it ration" in the Navy ofthe United States castle. We find that discipline is more easiof facts, to Mr. Richard F. Quinn, the ship- —have proposed to ship owners and masters ly preserved, in consequence, on b< ard; tho
various questions on this subject, among men are more contented; there is less diskeeper.
which are the following, viz.:
position to quarrel; and fewer lawsuits. And
Ques. "Do you think you ever derived in some instances, young men have been
any advantage from furnishing Ardent Spir- saved from probable ruin. In several in"TOTAL ABSTINENCE ROUND THE WORLD." its to your crews?"
stances sailors have expressed their gratitude
It is thus answered by a highly respecta- to the owners; nnd one young man called
When the materials for the last Number
in Nantucket.
upon them, stating with tears in his eyes,
ofthe Advocate and Friend, were placed in ble ownernever!
but quite the reverse. I
"No,
the printer's hands, the Editor feared some have been interested in voyages which have "that he was sent away by his friends—who
were respectable—as a lost man; that he had
time might elapse, before he could report the been materially injured by the use of it. 1 now been absent more than a year; had been
existence of a Temperance Society on board give them instead an increased supply of su- on shore in several foreign ports: had been
another ship. The News however was cheer- gar, molasses, tea, and coffee."
in this port some time since his return; felt
ing from the Barque Hector, which touched Ques. "In stormy weather, when tea and now that he was secure from temptation, and
coffee cannot be prepared for the men, and that he could look his friends in the face
at the outer harbor of this port during the
their exertions are great, and the different again; and was now in a fair way to become
last month.
watches go off duty cold and wet to their a useful member of society." Such cases
The following is a copy of the pledge to berths without ardent spirits, have you ever are not unusual.
which a part of the crew had signed their found any ill effects to arise, either to health,
"The following is un account of one ofthe
names.
or habits of strict subordination?"
early experiments made; and we would add,
SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
�(June,
SEAMEN'S ERIEK_.
30
that it was found on the return of the ship, very soon received medical and surgical aid in any British port. The vessel is at Horsno deductions were to be made from the wa- from Dr. Wood and surgeon of H. M. Ship leydown, a little below the Tower, and is inCnrysfort. He was then removed, on shore tended immediately to return to New Engges
"The ship Cicero sailed from this port in and has since been rapidly recovering. Se- land."
April, 1830, on u voyage ofeighteen months, rious fears ure entertained that he may never
DONATIONS.
with a crew consisting of twelve persons, in- recover the use of the muscles on the left
Clark, Master of the
Win.
From
Capt.
writes
side
of
his
head
the
circumstances
atAll
under
cluding officers. The cnptain
From Mr. Wm.
Miceno,
$10,00.
Barque
dute Bth Jan.—'My crew have behaved un- tending this melancholly affair, tend to show i
Wilbur,
mute ofthe Miceno. $'i,OO. From
act,
ond
that
it
was
a
cool
and
on
premeditated
well
witiiout
although
j
commonly
liquor;
Midshipman Snnford, commanding the Althey have been onshore at every port on] the part olsthc steward. The only, possible] bert,
$5,00. From a sailor, for a sailor $1,00.
this coast that I have visited, not a man of reason which the Capt. is able to assign for
H. Sea, Esq. $10,00.
From
the
base
and
wicked
conduct
ofthe
steward
with
liquor,
them all has been disguised
nor has there been any grumbling or discon- is that he refused to allow hun to go on shore
DEATHS.
He also the day before leaving Maui. Capt. Magee
tent on board on that account
obtained an experienced officer from the Am.
forwards the following agreement:
At I.nhaina, May 29, of consumption,
"We, the undersigned officers, nnd seamen Whaleship Zabina, to tai<e his own place. Smith Harris, aged 17 years. He was disofthe ship Cicero, do hereby agrtefrand bind
charged May 2tith. from the Whaleship L.
BLOODY AFFRAY AT SEA.
ourselves that we will abstain from the use
C. Richmond, Luce, Master. His friends
The
Am.
Whaleship
Nassau,
Captain
of spirituous liquors of all kinds, dining this
reside in Providence, R. 1.
arrived
this
Port
28th.
May
Weeks,
at
and
our present voyage, and to the end of the from her was
Paul Gray, committed suicide, by hanging,
upon the Consul's
at the Kupjlish Hospital, May 31, aged 65
voyage; and we further agree, that should hands, Lutherdischarged
Fox,
seaman,
a
native
of
yenrs.
lle was a native of St. Dominique,
any-of us break this bond of agreement by Rcnselucrville, Albany Co,
N. Y. This West Indies.
drinking spirituous liquors of any kind, in man is charged with taking the
life of the;
In Honolulu, June 23, Sarah Eliza, inany form, at any time, or at any place, dur- mate ofthe Nassau, on the 12th. of April.
ing this our present voyage, We will forfeit
fant
daughter of Air. and Mrs. Chamberlain.
It
man's
watch
the
mate
below,
being the
and pay to the American Seamen's Friend
but iie refusing, the
ordered
on
him
deck,
Society the sum of five dollars for each audi mate, alter consulting with tho Capt.
started
OF HONOLULU.
every breach of this our snid bond—which for the forecastle to bring him up.
soon-'
No
sum we request the owners ofthe said ship er had he advanced
t'gMNfa ArrivaJs, since May 20, 1843.
part of the way down, I
to deduct from our wages at the end of the
than he received a blow which nearly sever- May 23, sell. Albert, Sanford, 26 days from
and
to
the
same
over
to
the ed off his leg above the knee. From which
voyage,
pay
JMazatlan.
agent ofthe said Society. We have been
wound he died in a few hours. FoX will be May 28, Nassau, Weeks.
led to enter into this agreement from the fact taken the U. S.
to
accompanied by two wit- June 2, ship Canada, Tophnm, Nanlucket.
of having abstained from the use of spirituwhich shall be June 7, ship Acushnet, Pease, Fairhaven.
the
first
opportunity
by
nesses,
ous liquors for the space ol'f.ur months, and j
by an Am. man of war. When a June 10, Barque Micuuo, Clark, 231 tons,
find ourselves much improved in health of afforded
trial shall take place before a jury of his
"15 days from San Bias.
body and of mind, and so God help us in this
a full investigation will no
countryman,
Departures, since .May 20.
our resolution.
doubt be made.
May 30, Montano, Coon, 550 sp. 16 mos.
* "Ship Cicero, Cullao Bay, Sept. 19.
June 1, II. M. S Carysfort, to ciuise about
p Signed i—Win. Seeger, Charles JacobCapt. Richmond who left the Barque,
tlie islands.
son,. Samuel Rppsett, Israel Lawton, John America, in the early part of May, nt this
June 1, Canada.
French, Geoige Wilson, William L. Wilof severe sickness, is June 8, Acushnet.
eocks, Isaac Memlt, James !•'. Muloue, Port, in consequencerecover.
Juno 20, Miceno, for Valparaiso.
now in a fair way to
'
I
Ransom Benjamin, Luther R. Lints, Sumucl
Spey'good.
Capt Sanders, who left the Triten, at
illness, is now in HoAN ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE MASTER OF S Muni, on account of
an
state of health.
improved
in
nolulu,
WHALESHIP
THEAM.
MAINE.
This ship left at LnlHiina, Maui, April
Flag in Great Britian.
25th., about IJ o'clock in the evening of that First American
•day, the steward entered Capt. Magee's The first American flag that was displayStateroom and attempted tp> tuke his life, as ed in Great Britain, was hoisted on boaid of
he lay asleep. Two severe blows were in- the ship Bedford, Capt. Mooers, of Nanflicted upon the left side ofthe Cnpt.'shcad. tucket. She arrived in the Downs Feb. 3,
with a hatchet. Springing from his berth, he 1783, passed Gravesend tlre4lh, and was re•called for the steward, whom he observed, ported at the Custom House on the sth. A
retreating to the deck. The 2d. unite, then London journal of 1789, states that "she was
officer of the pdeek, was informed by the stew- not allowed regular entry, until some conard that the Captain wished to see him, but sultation had taken place between the comas he was passing down the companion-way, missioners of the customs and the lords of
council, on account ofthe many acts ofParliament yet in force against the rebels in
America She is loaded with 487 butts of
whale oil, is American buik, manned wholly
the rebel colby American seamen,
island
of Nantucket
to
the
belongs
the
uors.
mid
ovcrbouid. On the following morning
•lap appeared off Honolulu HarbiM', having in Massachusetts. This is the first vessel
aw»i*Ud-the signal ofd4stress. Cuj>t. Mageo which display ed the thirteen rebellious stripes
steward fired
nt him a pistol londed with
large shot. The 2d, mate then snw the steward jump into the waist boat, and since that
tune he has not been heard from. The only
supposition is that he must have cast himself
the
PORT
.
Tort of l.abaina, Matii.
Amount of shipping, spring season, 181.1.
100 Whuloliips belonging to U. States.
2
Havre F.
"
""
St J. N. P.
2
"
L. Eng.
1
"
"N
I
B. Bel.
"
Total amount, of Tonnage Am. S 35,210.
Property " $.',520^0.
"
"
,
number of Stamen
"
N. B. Only one ship has sailed uponTtT?
"
.
.
Sabbath, and that was, in consequence <.f
having lost one anchor and part ol the chain,
the weather being unfavorable.
1
B!5B-L
Temperance Advocate and
I
■■>
BcunCDI
Fiicnd, published monthly, by Samckl C. I)a».(.s,
Seamen i Chaplain.
Tfrm*. jj'l.OO per annum, m advance,single copy,
£2,00 three copies.
<j;3,Cf
#1,00 two copies.
five copies.
i 5;00 ten copies.
Subscriptions and Donations, received, \ J
Mr. Gilrnan, at Messrs. l.adil & Co., Mr.
E. II Poardniati's, the Study of the 5x;amen's Chaplain.
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Temperance Advocate,
AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Vol. I.
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, JULY 27, 18-13.
31
No VII.
But, now, ifinstead of running this wretchin your cheek, a firm and a nimble step, a
regular pulse, and a body altogether free ed course, you really desire to do good and
from disease, and suddenly desire to become avoid evil, to live in favour with (Jod and
DRINKING,
GIN
weakly and pale, and to move algng like a man, to be. hopeful through time, and happy
By Old Huhphreys, in or near London, Eng.
tottering old man, and to have a feverish in eternity; with every faculty ofyour body,
Listem ! listen ! for one hour's attentive poise, and to be afflicted with half a dozen soul, and spirit, cry aloud to the Strong lor
hearing is better than two hours thoughtless complaints at the same time, you cannot do strength to resist Jemptation, and for grace
talking.
better than listen to me. You may go the so to influence your heart, that you may
What would the gin-drinker say, if, in wrong way to work about the matter, you NEVER LEARN TO DRINK OIN !
passing along the street, he were to lie sud- may lose time, but I will tell you how you Reader, upon land or sea, nrt thou
denly dragged into a dirty, close, disagreea- may be sure to succeed, with great dispatch
given to rum-drinking 1 Substitute ruin,
ble hole; to have his mouth forced open and
learn to drink gin '■
a poison poured therein, so strong as to de11'you have a comfortable and peaceful brandy or wine in the place of gin, and
prive him not only of the 1 use of Ins limbs, home, a cheerful tire-side, a good bed, a
the foregoing remarks a second readbut of his reason; and afterwards to be left I joint of meat to put in the pot, with a tiitle
Art thou now a temperate man, or
ing.
to all the dangers of accidents, robbery, and, ofmoney beforehand towards paying your
ill-usage? No doubt he would bitterly com- rent, and have resolved to get rid of all a temperance man, beware of the intoxiplain of such an outrage, and yet he acts in these good things together, there ate many cating cup! Never learn to drink gin, or
this cfutrageous manner against himself every ways of doing it, but the easiest way is toj brandy, or
nny other intoxicating drink.
time he visits a gin-shop, and drinks to ex- /( art) In drink gin .'
Total
abstinence
from all intoxicating
suit
clothes
for
If you have a tidy
cess. If other men used'tlie gin-drinker as
of
ill as he uses himself, they would be sent to Sunday; if your wife is able to dress as com- drinks, as a beverage, is the safest, cheapthe tread-mill, at least, for their pains.
foitably as her neighbours; if your children' est and best preventive against the evils
What would the gin-drinker say, if in his have good stutF frocks, or strong jackets and
absence from home, some scoundrel were to dowsers; and you have any inclination to of intemperance. Ed.
rob his house of furniture, food, and com sec how different you would all look if you
forts, leaving his wife and children destitute were drest in rags, you may easily gratify
TOTAL ABSTINENCE
and afflicted .' Why, he would cry aloud lot your cuiiosity, you have nothing more to do
Town, New Holland.
Hobart
justice against the man who had rubbed him than to learn In drink gin.
Tidings of the progtess of'Total Abstinof his propety. And yet, he is feting the
If your credit is good; if you owe nothing
ence
principles are brought by nearly every
part of this thief himself, for by habitual gin- to any one; if you have friends who are willcoming from a foreign land. The
vessel,
he
and
Ins
assist
and
to
stand
you in your plans,
drinking robs himself
family con- ing to
by you in your difficulties; and you wish to friends of the cause are "up and doing" in
tinually.
What would the gin-drinker say to the run into debt, to ruin your credit for ever, Hobart Town, N.- 11. The First Annual
man who made it his business to go from one and to be left without a single friend in the Report the Hobart Town Total Absiinem■<•
of
place to another, blasting his reputation, world, all this may be done at once, if you
Society, for 1843, has be en received. It afand spreading the report that he was idle, learn to drink gin !
wasteful, disorderly, riotous, a brauler, anil
If you have slept well; if your mind has fords us pleasure to publish—the pledge and
a drunkard.' No doubt he would be tilled been at peace; if your prospects have been extracts from the Report.
with rage against such a libeller, and yet. cheerful; if you have valued your Bible; if The signature to, and maintenance of, the
he goes about himself, and proclaims all you have taken pleasure in religious ser- following Pledge constitute a person a Memthis, and ten times more, by gin-drinking, vices, and at length feel a hankering after ber of this Society.
every day of bis life. These things are bad a change; if you choose your slumbers to be
Pledge.
"We, the undersigned, do
enoirfffi, but the gin-drinker is not satisfied broken, your mind to be disturbed, your exin voing even evils by halves. It is not pectations to be clouded, your Bible to be agree that we will not use intoxicating
enough to render himself and those around despised, end religion to become ajest, then liquors as a beverage, nor traffic in them :
to drink gin !
that we will not provide them as an artihin/miserable in this world, but he is iu- Unrn
the
who
have
jhfstrious in blotting out all hope of happiare
world
in
there
those
If
cle of entertainment, or for persons in our
ness in the world which is to come. There been dear to you; if you have loved to add employment, and that, in all suitable
are many ways to misery, but gin-drinking to their happiness; if you huve desired their ways, we will discountenance their use
is one of the nearest.
eternal welfare, and now resolve to love throughout the community."
If you happen to be an honest and diligent them no longer, but to wring their heartWith feelings of most heartfelt gratitude
workman, with plenty of work to do; if you strings with afflictien, and to leave them unto
to
God do this Committee present to the
pass
master,
uninstr'ueted,
of
and
the
defended
and
through
your
possess the respect
good-will ofyour fellow workmen, and have poverty, wretchedness, and crime, to de- public their First Annual Kepoit.
The objects contemplated by this Society
taken a fancy into your head, all at once, to struction, learn to di ink gin !
If, in short, you mean to make yourself are, the suppression of intemperance, and
get rid ofyour industry and your honesty,
to lose tbe respect of your master, and the completely miserable; to look backwards the removal of that great cause of the vice,
good opinion of your shop-mates, 1 will telL with remorse, and forwards with fear; to live the drinking usages of Society. Our motto
you how you may manage the matter in a in terror, and to die in despair; there is no is "Peace on earth, good-will toward men."
liquor* as a
very little time, and with very little trouble surer way of doing it in the whole world The habitual use ofalcoholic
than that of resolutely determining to learn beverage is the chief cause ofintemperance,
—learn to drink gin !
and total abstinence from them is the only
If you have a strong constitution, a colour to drink gin !
TEMPERANCE.
—
>
I
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TEIYEHAXCEADVOCATE.
(J IXT,
.ground ofsafety. But it is not enough for to acknowledge the efforts of some Roman PLEDGES OF THE HONGKONG
'us to obtain the signature of the drunkard to Catholic brethren to introduce into this counTEMPERANCE UNION.
a pledge of total abstinence.; we must do all try the pledge of Father Matthew,—a man
Inm ill n.n, July 'J, J 842.
we can to secure him from'falling again: he well deserving the regard which millions of
I. PLEDGE.
should not only refrain from tasting himself, Catholics and Protestants cherish for him.
We agree to abstain from the use of Inbut he should not present in entertainment Hut aow we have to speak of Hobart Town,
that which has been his bitterest curse and and the progress ofthe total abstinence cause toxicating Liquors, and from the Traffic in
greatest temptation. And those who love jin this place. The Committee, in present- them as a leverage; agreeing also, neither
their fellow-men should cleanse their hands ling such a report, gratefully acknowledge to provide them as Articles ofEntertainment,
ofall participation in the system of making [their success, though, at the same time, their nor for persons in our employment; and that,
drunkards. How know we that the glass of hearts often quail at the deep-rooted preju- in all suitable ways, we will discontinue their
wine we present to our friend may not be the dice against which they contend, and the use throughout the community.
11. PLEDGE.
exciting cause of his intemperance! Total feebleness of those who have thus to carry
Abstinence Societies labour not merely to the sword into the camp of the enemy.
We agree to abstain from all kinds of Arreform the drunkard, bnt to prevent others The origin of our Society was as follows: dent spirits as 'a Beverage; agreeing also,
trotn becoming drunkards, by inducing the —Several friends ofmankind hud long be- not to traffic in them, nor to provide them as
moderate drinkers to abstain.
wailed the drunkenness which prevailed to articles of entertainment, nor for persons in
Intoxicating liquors have been declared so alarming an extent in this colony, and la- our employment.; and, although the moderate
by the testimony of hundreds of millions in mented the inefficiency ofthe old moderation use ofWines and Beer is not prohibited, yet,
all ages to be unnecessary to men. Millions, temperance society to remedy the evil. as the specific design of the Society is to
also, of those who had formerly made use of Nothing was done, however, until the arriv- promote Temperance in every form, excess
now express their ability to perform al of some teetotal friends from the Mother-j la these necessarily excludes from Memberliour better without them than with them, country. One and another were appealed ship.
ot only has heahh been improved by ab- to on behalf of the true temperance princiProverbs 20: 1; 23: 29", 30.
nence from these liquors, which have been ples. A few, who dared to be singular lor
This is to certify that
became a
dared poisonous by hundreds of the most the good of their fellows, and also under- Member of the Hong Kong Temperance
talented physicians of the day, but the com- stood and followed the christian duty ot*self- Union on
the of
184 by signing
forts of this life have been increased, the denial, determined to establish a total abstin- Pledge No.
means of happiness multiplied, the powers of ence society. They did so on the 3rd of
mind set free and strengthened, the tone of January last. At their first public meeting
[- morals elevated, aad, more thanall, the soul in the Friends' Meeting House, five or six
rendered more capable of listening to the persons only assembled, and, therefore, no
\oice of that Word ofLife who bled for man. business could be entered upon.' TIICH<
Honolulu, July 27, IMS.
To what land can we point in which these friends were not dismayed; they went on
CHRISTIAN UNION.
liquors have been introduced that would not through good report and through evil report,
In the Seamen's department of our paper
be benefitted by total abstinence from themr and happy is this committee now to announce,
And positive proof have we of the truth of that above 200 persons may be regarded as will be found the noble, christian and antithis. Ireland has now shaken off her chains, consistent "members of the society
sectarian salutation of the Directors of the
and domestic peace and happiness now reign
It is gratifying for ifs to notice the influ- British and Foreign Sailors' Society, to
in that land of terror, "misery, and want. ence of the total abstinence cause, in the American Christians, and the cordial
resBritain echoes to the notes of joy fur dcliv- fact that several in this town and in the counthe tyranny of strong drink; for try are acting upon tlie practice of the So- ponse of the American Seamen's Friend Sothere have learned, that
ciety: and, though not numbered with us, ciety. It is a source of, heartfelt joy, that
ould he free, himself must strUtt tiro blow!** their testimony is for us.
the feeling which prompts such Innguage is
ica has resolved to rid herself of the
Many persons have been opposed to us on not spent with the breath which utters it.
basing and enthralling slavery,—lhe account of our" views being', to their eyes, Those societies are now endeavoring to supStrong drink. The Christian King unscriptural. It is scarcely woitb while
of Ashantee, and several other, so called, arguing upon this subject, when we look to port Chaplains in foreign ports, visited by
barbarous chiefs, have prohibited, under se- the christian men who are with us If we the Seamen of both nations. Cooperation
vere penalties, the introduction ofany intoxi- wore acting in opposition to the Bible, bow of this kind is moving in a region ofchristian
cating liquors into their dominions; thus ex- is if that so many thousands of devoted and benevolence far above, sectarian jealousies,
hibiting a sincere regard for the physical, religious men and women are teetotallersr party animosities and national prejudices.
moral, and religious welfare of their people. Let it, however, be homo in mind, that we Such Union is a happy omen for the
welfare
The Southren Hemisphere has well respond- consider the wine blessed in scripture as a
ed to' the deep -voice of the North. The blessing; but this was the pine juice of the of seamen, and the prosperity of Christ's
Cape of Good Hope can muster her host of grape, not the maddening, deleterious mix- kingdom. If harmonious concert ofdiffercnt
friends of intemperance. In New South ture now known under the name of wine. nations and various sects hi one field of
Wales 6,000 have set their faces against the The wines of scripture are as different from christian benevolence, may exist, its
general
deadly cup. Port Philip, Adelaide, and our wines as the publican of scripture differs influence must be most
in
breaking
happy
our
day.
last, not least, New Zealand, are now reap- from the liquor-selling publican of
# The principles of total abstinence down those separating walls which now so
ing the benefits of total abstinence. Our
*
*
own laud, the lovely Tasmania, can show have received such encouraging support in unhappily divide the church of Christ. We
her hundreds who pant for the freedom of this Isle of the South, that soon we may see not why different portions of the army,
their fellows from the oppression of drinking hope to see intemperance banislied from our commanded by Jesus Christ the captuin of
usages. At Launccston 700 rank under the shores.
salvation might not carry banners with difbanner of teetotalism; whilst at Longford,
Then who that has a bosom glowing with
ferent
mottos (Episcopal, Presbyterian,
Perth, &.c, are men to be found who are love toward his fellow-man, would not join
Methodist) provided the ground
Baptist,
cause,
as
it
now
despised
•anxious to promote the work of thjV great in this delightful
moral reformation. And most happy are we may be, that he may be gladdened in the work ofeach banner .was -dyed ted in the
bright and happy future.
iem,
'
Hfrom
ADVOCATE & FRIEND.
�1843.)
TEMPEWANCE
AD\O€ATE.
33
—
As soon as'frem In faith, where we in hope have kneeled,
our Telegraphic station a Cape Horn ship is And to our Father tell our fear;
dimly distinguished in the horizon, the ban- Our Father! Thou! thy children hear.
ner of the United States streams from our
Flag Staff, announcing the fact to the inhab- We've looked, from the horizon's dip,
itants of the town. You may imagine the To see the slender mast ascend,
emotions which that sight
to many Till—spars and sails—our gallant ship
Was all revealed, a blessed friend!
dwellings. Some whose husbands have been
absent from three to four years, hope that it We've watched at early coming day;
is the signal of their return. Others who We've watched at twilight's fading ray.
have heaid no tidings from the absent for
many months, hope for intelligence, and And many a longing eye has sought
know not whether they are to hear tidings of The signal on our sentry staff",
prosperity or woe. Soon, by telegraphic And listening ears have almost caught
Across the waves the joyous laugh
signal, the name of the ship is .announced.
And when the wife, who has been praying Which to oblivion gives his pain,
for her absent partner for wenWf years, and Who sees his native shores again.
Missionary
instruction has heard no tidings from nun for many
Yankee ingenuity,
months, waits in anxious suspense hour alter Thy will be done!—though here we moot
and Hawaiian* industry Combined. hour, uncertain whether she is again to sec
In doubt and tears and broken prayer,
It is now four years since Mrs. Lowell the face and hear the voice of her beloved And lay at Woman's Mercy-seat
or lo receive the intelligence that Our sighs and sadness, hope and care.
Smith, at the suggestion of Mr Milo Calkin, companion,
widow and her children orphans. O thou who round us fnldest powor,
she
is
a
instructed u native woman to make the firs! The outer door opens. The footsteps of a Shield him in peril's awful hour!
sugar bag. Since that time not less than man are heard in the entry. Is it her hus6i,000 bags have been made and sold for band, or some one to announce to her that ENGLAND AND AMERICA HAVE
PLEDGED HANDS TO ACT IN
$0,500 (or 10 cents each.) A very hand- her husband is dead—perhaps that he found
a crave in the ocean, or on a heathen shore
CONCERT IN THE SAILOR'S
some sum for native female industry! It is
more than a year ago?
CAUSE.
but justice to remark, that most of this labor
I could fill manysheets with incidents of "England and America have pledged
has-been performed by females connected the most affecting nature which have occur- hands to act in concert in the sailor's cause.
with the Rev. L. Smith's Society, in Hono- red since 1 have been upon this island. At And whether England or America do the
lulu. During the first year the females con- our monthly concert of prayer for seamen work, it matters not, only that the sailor is
tributed about $400, towards the erection of which is regularly observed, we not unfre- saved, and God is glorified. The Commitquently have six hundred persons present—
their house of worship. The natives, in oth- our large lecture room crowded to overflow- tee kuow nothing of nation or sect in this
hallowed cause. They embrace all nations
er parts ofthe Islands are now following the ing. I have occasionally invited those ladies
and all parties; and whether in this race of
example of the members of Mr. Smith's con- of our congregation whose husbands follow christian benevolence the goal is reached by
the seas, to meet at my house for a social re- England or America—by churchman or disgregation.
N. B. The quantity of bags required for ligious interview. At our last meeting there senter—by Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Inthe Koloa Plantation for the current year were seventy present.
dependent, Wesleyan, Moravian, or Baptist,
My object in making this statement is to they will not withhold their laurel from the
will exceed fifteen thousand.
solicit of you the favor to furnish us with a wreath which may encircle the favouioti
few verses to sing at one of these meetings. brow."
I turn over the various hymn books in vain
"Such is the language of the Directors'of
for any thing which meets the occasion, ll the British and Foreign Sailor's Society;
Nantucket, July 0, 1812. you can find time to express a few of your such the sentiment with which they send us
Rev. William B. Tappari. Dear Sir,
thoughts and emotions upon this subject in their greetings."
There are in my church and congregation verse, you will contribute to the enjoyment
"The Executive Committee oftlie Amerimany females whose husbands spend most of those who need sympathy, and greatly ob- can Seamen's Friend Society reiterate a senof their time at sea. From the ''lookout" lige your very sincere friend and brother in timent so eminently christian, both as the
John S. C. Abbott.
upon our houses we see a noble ship leave the Gospel,
principle and pledge of our single and conour bar and disappear in the distant horizon, O Saviour! Thou ! the hope and Stay
certed action in the sailor's cause, and ag
knowing that from three to four years must Of those on land that pilgrims be,
worthy of becoming the golden currency <if
elapse ere that ship can return from its long O Omnipresent! who nlway
the christian world."
and arduous voyp.ge. It must pass through
Art with the Sailor far at sea,
"Why?—when the great object of all
the burning hent of the tropics, encounter Round us, in mercy, fold thy power;
christians should be the publication of gospel
the storms and icebergs of '-The Cape," Keep him in peril's awful hour.
truth for the salvation ofmen, and churches.
cruise among the coral reefs of the Pacific,
the mere agencies in effecting it—.why should
and its officers and crew must attack in fear- While on the pinions ofthe morn
any say, 1 am of Paul, or of Apolloa, or
ful conflict those leviathans of the deep, who He flies to north or southren zone,
Cephas, and spend all their energies in fencby one sweep of the tail can toss a bout with Cleaves Indian seas, or, round the Horn,
ing and defending their own little garden.;
nts whole crew fifteen or'twenty feet into the
Seekslatitudes and lands unknown,
Away with narrow views, and selfish efforts
air. It is upon such enterprises that many Let him, beneath thy present eye,
in a work which has God for jts patron, and
f\
wives and motlters in my parish, see their Feel that be cannot from Thee fly.
salvation for its end."
husbands depart. It not unfrequently hap"If .u bigotted selfishness must exist, let it
pens that eighteen months pass while not one And (eel (that he is safe whom Thou
he in the deepest ravine ofthe darkest mounword is heard from the absent husband and
Dost cover with protecting shield;
tain, and not on the shore or surface of the
father who is facing those dangers in the drs- We feel it, know it and we bow,
I jjreat and wide sea."—l4th Rep. A S. F*.
"blood of the lamb—slain virtually from the
foundation ofthe world, but really on the
summit of Mt. Calvary. Why should not
all genuine christians be heartily united in
every work ofchristian benevolence?—They
have been redeemed by the same blood, and
are bound for the same heaven. So far as
our acquaintance extends among christian
seamen,—our testimony is unqualified,—that
they meet not as sectarians, but as christians;
—not as churchmen, Presbyterians, Conbut
gregationlists, Baptists, or
as members of that body, of which Christ
is the head.
tant solitudes ofthe Ocean.
SEAMEN'S FREIEND.
—
—
—
�34
(July,
SfcAMfcN'S YRUNB.
Midshipman.
J. Wiliv,
G. Y. Dehmtobj,
C. W ADOEI.L,
W.G. Temple,
ENGLISH MILITARY FORCE IN
CHINA.
From a letter, dated Hong Kong, China,
September 1, 1842. The following is an
R. M. McAhaww,
J.
Boatswain.
"
"
"
Muwho,
extract,
1). James, Gunner.
"For the persecution of this the third camI>. Mample, Carpenter.
J. Heckle, Sailmaker.
paign of the war, the English have now on
1. 8. Wright, Purser's Clerk.
»
the Chinese confines an immense-naval and
land force, the naval being the largest ever
A card!
before assembled in Asia, by any power iv The following individuals resident in Hothe world. There are about sixty well equiphave subscribed the sums against
ped ships of war, with fifteen war steamers, nolulu,
besides nearly one hundred armed Trans- their respective names to defray the incidenport ships. As to the land force, there is a tal expenses attending the Seamen's Chapformidable army of about fourteen thousand laincy in this Port, (hiring the current year.
fighting men, with Sappers and Miners, Roy- (Ringing boil, lighting Chapel, keeping
al and Madras Artillery, and a troop ofHorse. buildings
fe repair, Sic.)
The Commander-in-chiefof all the land forfcCo.,
Ladd
$30,00. R. W. Wood, $'20,
is
Lieut.
General
ces
Sir Hugh Gough;
Major General Lord Saltoun is second in 00. Peirce & Brewer, $30,00. J. N. Colcommand. The naval Commander-in-chief cord, $10,00. J. 0. Carter, $5,00. G. D.
H.
is vice Admiral Sir William Parker, Flag Gilman, $10,00. Eli Jones, $-.',OO. E. 00.
Ship ConWallis, 74, second in command. Boardman, $15,00. M. Calkin. $10,
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Flag Gamaliel Drew, $2,00. F. W. Thompson,
$5,00. Paly &Co.,
Ship, Blenhiem, 74. The entire expense of $.1,00. F. Johnson,
the whole British Expedition now in China $ITrTjrjr. H. Skinner, $5,00. Mrt. ColSi II
is upwards of five hundred thousand dollars cord, $5,00. John Munn, £,5,00. E.
G.
A
Grimes,
Judd,
$10,00.
P.
$10,00.
per month."
Friend, $10,00. Chiefs' School', $10,00.
Johnstone, $5,00. R. G. Davis $ 1,00.
Her B. M. Ship Hazard, arrived in this A.
John O. Dominis, $5,00. Julius Dtidoit,
Port July 2d
The following is a list of $5,00. O. P. Ricker, $1,00. Hannah
Officers.
Holmes, $3,00. John Voss, $2,00. G 11.
Bush,' $2,00. William Baker Jr., $5,00.
C. BELL, Esq., Commander.
David Robertson, First Lieutenant.
1. H. Wright, $2,00.
F. E. Rose, Second Lieutenant.
P. S. The Seamen's Chaplain has sugPurser.
Hakbies,
W. A.
J.
Master.
Parkrr,
Chabi.es
gested to some of the above subscribers, the
John T. Veitch, Acting Surgeon.
of appointing a committee, from
propriety
Robert H. Monbray, Mate.
the
attendants upon public worship,
among
• David Spain, Midshipman.
Johe Mai km,
which should oversee the incidental expendi"
Jasper W. Parrott, Vol. Ist. Class.
tures; in as much as it has not been thought
Hknrv Kelly, Clerk.
advisable
to pursue that course, at the end
H. W. Warrington, Clerk.
of the year, he will render an account of the
Charles Clarke, Boatswain.
William Ladd, Carpenter.
manner in which the above amount has been
arrived
expended.
The U. S. Frigute, Constellation,
A CARD.
this
sailed
Port,
6,
from
July
having
in
July 6, 1843.
Lahaina,~Maui,
Amoy, in China, May 2-d.
The subscriber takes pleasure in acknowlThe following is a list of Officers.
edging the receipt of $173,00 contributed by
L. KEARNEY", Commodore.
officers and others within a fewmasters,
Henry Pinkney, Lieutenant.
months
at Lahaina, for sustaining the
past
Theo. Bailey,
"
of
the gospel at the Seamen's
preaching
11. ll.Rhodes,
"
also the receipt of $5<i,00 from inChapel;
M. G. L. Claiborne,
"
dividuals at Honolulu for the same purpose.
J. L. Parker.
JohnG. Reynolds,
of Marines
May the great Master of Assemblies grant
"
Stephen Rapaljk, Fleet Surgeon.
His blessing upon every attempt to preach
N. Wilson, Purser.
and to hear the gospel.
I
No. of the Ad. and Friend, will be publish-
ed a detailed account of the expenses attending the erection of the Seamen's Chapel at
that Port. Ed.
DONATIONS.
A Seaman, U. S. S. Constellation, $5,00
for some charitable purpose. From
67 cents for the temperance cause.
DEATHS.
At sen, Mr. XV. Lack*, 2d. Officer, Candace, killed liy a whale, June 19th. 1843, in
N. L. 55? W.,»L. U8°.
PORT OF HONOLULU.
Foreign Arrivals, since June 27, 1N1;I.
July 1, brig Maryland, Norton, from Mazatlan.
July 2, H. M. S. Hazard, Bell, from So-
ciety Islands.
July 7, U. S. S. Constellation, Kearny,
from Amoy, China.
July 18, ship Candacc, Reed, N. London,
10 mos 550 W. 50 sperm.
July 22, ship Zubina, Sleight, New York,
23 mos. 2000 W. 100 sperm.
July 23, brig Delaware, Penhallow, from
Tahiti.
July 21, Barque Newburyport,lanvrin Troin
Callao.
July 26, H. M. S. Dublin, Admiral Thomas.
Departures, since June 27.
July 5, brig Maryland, for China.
Vessels in Port, July 22.
11. B. M. S. Carysfort, and Hazard.
Ship, Candace.
Ship Z.ihina.
Brig Delaware.
Barque JN'ewburyport.
Port of Lahaina, Maui.
July 9, James Munroe, Cushman, Fairhaven, 31 mos. 1600 sp. HOO
W., (1200 W. this, season.)
Homeward bound.
July 17, Barth.Gnsnold, Russell, Falmouth,
42 mos. 1650 sperm, 600 W.
Homeward bound.
Pasrengers.
Dr. Clymcr, arrived in the Maryland
from Mazatlan. He will remain to awnit
the arrival of the U. S. Sloop of War, Cyanne.
Mr. Wm. S. Holden, Mr. Sam. Roberts,
the wife of Capt. Penhallow, and, Mrs. Sullivan, on board the Brig Delaware from
Boston, U. S. America.
N. Collins, Acting Master.
LORRIN ANDREWS, Poa. Chap.
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
T. 11. Perry, Prof, of Mathematics.
Friend, published monthly, by Samuel C. Damoh,
N. B. As neither the American Seamen's Seamen
Butler Maury, Commodore's Secretary.
s Chaplain.
J. W. B. Greenhqw, Assistant Surgeon.
Friend Society or any other foreign society Terms. »1,(IU per annum, in advance, single enpv.
John Mathews, Midshipman.
two copies.
i?2,00 three copies.
g3,(»
thought best tp make appropriations for $1,80
5r3,00 ten copies.
five copies.
J.C.Beaumont,
Lahaina,
at
preaching
of
English
support
James Wilcoison,
Subscriptions and Donations, received, b»
"
X L Hesdesios,
it is a source of heartfelt joy that FofWlgn Mr. Oilman, at Messrs. Ladd &. Co., Mr.
"
EarlEnolish,
"
Residents and seafaring men have so man- E. H. Boardman's, and the Study of the
John Walcutt,
"
fully undertaken the work. In a subsequent .Seamen's Chaplain.
11. G. Blake,
»
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Advocate and Friend. (JExtra.)
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, JULY 31, 1843.
35
More than nil do I believe myself to be ents, enter this my most solemn Protest
Society Islands.
authorised to state that it is the determi- against the acts, especially those above reTo the principal British Residents,] nation of the Queen of England to pre- cited, of the said Commissioners, which
of Tahiti Indepen- have not the signature and approbation of
serve the
and all other British Subjects in
ilie Islands of Tahiti and Mo-
re a.
.'
sovereignty
me, the said Deputy, as will
dent anil Free.
I have the honnr to be, Gentlemen, yoqrf with every fully upon reference to the
l'onsi(lc::i:i.iii.
:.-:;.-;,l J. TOUT NICOLS,
.1 ivy ]
appear more
Records of
said Commission.
"And I do hereby most solemnly Protest against the said Itight Hon. Lord
It has become mv <lnt.y to ac-J
George Paulct and Lieut. Frcre, Comquaint the subjects of 11. II M-. now remissioners aforesaid, and all others whom
siding in the dominions of the Quean of
it may concern, holding them responsible
KNOW ALL MEN,
Tahiti that I have received instructions
for their violation of the solemn Compact
to cause them to seek for whatever jus- That according to private instructions or Treaty entered into on the 25th day
tice they may require, from the officers of given 'o oar Deputy, he on the lOih of February, 1848.
their own sovereign in this island or
o( May issued a Protest on our behalf Honolulu, (> >!-i,. Sandwich Islands. May 10,1543.
(i. P. JUKI), Deputyfor the A'iiif"
through the established courts of law of in the following words:
not
are
they
the Queen Potnare, nmlftliat
"Whereas, the undersigned was by On the next day our Deputy withdrew
to attend any summons, as jurors, not to.
from the British Commission by the foldated Feb. 27, 1843, aphold themselves subject to any regulations Commission
lowing document, acting in our place
pointed Deputy for his Mail sty Kami-:haor jurisdiction of any SORT from tiie
and
stead.
111 , to the British Commission for
French authorities, temporarily establish- weha
the undersigned Deputy for
Islands,
"Whereas,
the
the
Sandwich
Government of
ed h%c tinder the style of a Provisional
the
Provisional
Cession
un- the King X vmeiiameha 111., did on the
under
thereof
Government, nor from any Officer of
to Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, 10th day of May hist, enter his Protest
Franca he his rank or station whatever it Queen
of the United Kingdoms of Great against Certain Acts of the British Com"may, until the decision of the Queen of
missioners for the Government of the
Britain
and
Ireland ;
England regarding Tahiti is known.
Sandwich Islands;
of
whereas,
"And
the
prosecution
in
Although determined in the rigid fulfil"And whereas, the undersigned hns
ment of the orders that I have received to business by the Commissioners, many acts been
verbally informed this day, by the
have
been
and
consummated
afpassed
enforce this regulation, should it unhappilit. Hon. Lord George Patdet and Lieut.
the
of
Foreigners,
interests
resident
fecting
ly become necessary; yet I shall conone of the laws as made at the
tinue to do my best to preserve a good on these Islands, and acts which virtually Frerc, that
recent Council of.the King and Chiefs,
the
bona
fide
of
the
abrogate
obligations
understanding with the Officers of the
'A Law for the Licensing of Public
French Navy stationed here, and sincere- Government existing at the period of the viz.,
Auctioneers,' shall notgojnto operation';
the
;
Provisional
Cession
to
which
acts
trust
to
ly
that nothing will arise
disturb
"And whereas, it now appearing evithe harmony which has heretofore sub- said Ivami;iiam;:iia 111., did refuse assent
me
his
to the undersigned'that the terms
through
Deputy
;
dent
sisted between the subjects of our res"And whereas, by an order issued of the Compact or Treaty entered into on
pective nations.
I deem it proper that I should here ob- April 27, 1843, to the Acting Governor the 25th of February, 1843, will not in
serve to you that I feel quite assured that of Oahu, and by subsequent orders, dated future be respected by the British CommEngland seeks not—deshuci eot—to May 8, 1843, issued to all the Governors ission ;
"Therefore, Be it known to all men,
maintain in any shape a i'aiiamoi:nt influ- of these Sandwich Islands, the Commisence in these Islands, but while she rup-i sioners, to wit, the Rt. Hon. Lord George that I.the said Deputy, Do by these Presudiates such an intention and declares, as Paulct,Captain of H. B. M. Ship Carys- ents, Resign my seat in the said Commisshe has so repeatedly done, in reply toj fort. and Lieut. John Frero, R. N.. did sion, thereby withdrawing the said King
the several solicitations of the successive virtually abrogate one of the existing laws Kameiiameiia HI., from all future responSovereigns of Tahiti lo become its per-j of these Islands, by forbidding the impris- sibilities in the acts of the said Commismanual Protector, that although she will onment of persons found guilty of fornica- sion.
nt Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Maud*, nt tlie
not assume any preponderating power tion, except in certain cases, not specified Done
Orlice of the British Comtni*Bi«n for the government of the Sandwich Islands, this 11th day of
over its Government; yet. Great Britain in the laws, as will appear more fully upon
May, A. D., 1843.
i», I am equally assured, determined that reference to said orders, violating thereby
<i. P. JUDD, Deputy for tie King."
undajf
the
solemn
entered
int6
greatcompact
nation
a
»o other
shall possess
er influence or authority in these states the Provisional Cession.
We therefore publicly make known
'tow, therefore, Be it known to fnl that we Kameiiameha 111., the King, fulthan that, which from her long and intimate connexion with them, she claims as men, that I, the said Deputy for the taid ly approve fnd acknowledge the Protest
ber natural right to exercise.
King Kamehamf.ha 111., do by these 1 res- and withdrawal of our Deputy as our
Vindictive, in Punned >
11. I!. M. S.Talu.i,
[0
Juno £J, 1843. J
llaruo.-,
GsNTLEXEN,
i
(•■
•
Commodore.
Sandwich Islands.
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TEMYEUJYXCE ADVOCATE.
(J
ILY,
own, and declare that we will no more sit cm; as well as in the act of tlie aforesaid]I to offer upon the abrogation of the law
with the British Commissioners, or be res- King iini Premier acceding thereto under*]I against fornication by the British Cominisponsible for any acts of theirs which i«p\ protect or otherwise, to affect the inter- |sioneis fur the Government of the Sandwich
encroach on the rights of foreigners.
ests bubre cited: Now therefore be it Islands
The
comtiinnicntion was written
I solemnly Protest against by the following
The Rt. Hon. Lord George Paulet and!
Editor in the early pint of June und
J
his Lieutenant John Frere, having enlisted [every act and measure in the premises; intended lor the June- No. of this paper; its
soldiers under the title of"the Queen's! and do Daclare that from, and after the publication was deferred lor this, among othRegiment," maintaining them as a stand-1jdate of sailt cession until the termination er reasons, it was hoped that the same Pow-12 army out of funds appropriated by us of the pending negotiations between His er which abrogated the Law would restore
lor the payment of otir just debts, which Majesty's envoys and the Government of it again to its proper place, when the disasexpense vie consider quite uncalled for Her Britannic ylajcsty, I bold HisMajes-Jtrous consequences should exhibit their spin ainnce, which at the present time arc fearand useless; they having enforced their ty Kameliamehk ill., and Captain Lord fully
apparent. I would still
remark,
demand for the payment of lite money by George Paulet
foi any and ev- |by way of introduction, thatfarther
ia preaching
a threat of deposing item his trust an Of- ery act, by which a citizen of the I ailed the gospel upon the
j
Sabbath, convet sins
res-j with seamen, conducting this monthly sheet,
lii.-er of the Treasury, although contrary! States, resident asXnfoiesaid,
to the orders of the King and Premier to! trained in bis jus; aVI
us will us iv all my Intercourse with society,
him, made known to the British Commis- ,ami privileges, or \\.i:<> may suffer im on- my aim has been to take ground above the
sioners;
vcuieuce or tosses, or be forced lo 11 ! mil region of village gossip, party politics, secpeculiarity band national prejudices.
By these oppressions, by the trial of na- I(o any additional charges on imports or tinian
.As I occupied the sacred <l< si; upon the sabj
offences
liie
'other
ordxactioit6
tcin
tives for alledged
narevenue matters,
against
hath, ii has been a source of heartfelt joy
tive government, cases which come not Igard to ti.e administration, of any muni- that there was one spot where the members
properly under their cognizance, and by cipal laws whatever, enacted by the | of all sects and parlies, occasionally at hast,
josty, met lor the worsliifjj of Our Common Father,
thi.ir violating tin.- laws, which, by the![ "Commission" consisting ofHi
Treaty, were to have been held sacred King Kamehameha [11., or his Deputy ol —Almighty God.
until we hear from England; we are op- the aforesaid Islands, und Ibe Right lion. In taking the position, which 1 most sia'. In live duty calls tnc to defend, I
pressed and injured, and feel confidi nt Lord George Paulet, Duncak F«i
would ml Knowingly give publicity to a senliiat all good men will sympathize wilh us iMackay, Esq and Lieut. Frere, 11.
Given i i.-': i,.\ |i md, on board the U. 8 ■ ,- on- timent, or statement, which shall not myn
in our present state of dis Iress and -now
justice be found in accordance withthe pla
.i
.--.-.
we Protest in the face of all men, against
ly d.ici
precepts of the Bible, and the character
all such proceedings both toward:; wiirI \\\ RK.NOfi Xl M'.&i.'- I
ofthe gospel. It has ever hoc
a-minister
:C
sclves, and foreigners, ; ! ;<-cts of other in (.'.;../ ./.,.<• VS.
hnv aim'to treat public'and official men wit
Mli,-it respi ii and deference which belong
t rovernmants, on the part of the lit. Hon.
their rank, station and office. Thus 1 ha\
Lord George Paulet, Captain of i!. ]>. M.
■'
lo Irent tl oso gentlemen, in their n
aimed
Ship Ctrysfort, and his Lit' ant John
VI i and otiiciul station who have been insth
Frere, R. N.. and lake then i.-1.l to vvitIsl i.-i the abn Ration ofthis law, and ■
J cuoititc, July :;;..
Itusi that they have broken faith \ iti
mv kuov ledge extends they have rec
">'uw,
;.
ksia*,
Sandwii! !■!
d ;':c li cling.
I
~l.\\ 1
HFAS OME
RELIC
Uy me, (Signed,)
I
'i'hc
rs of ibis paper have nlrea<
padi
■'.•,nod,) KKH. v. CUOIH, .ii The f Mowing article was in [lie pri ter's been made acquainted with the vuriotVi d
vends and partly in type, Im lore the joyful until in I'the Officers ol the Carysfurt, ii
ciuilin tfinseof ilu- gentlemen, epnnectei
report was circulated that Admiral 'i'u
[I
had assured King Kanteharnolia, I , that widi the ifriti h Ci amission.
JN,HGEDF.
KAMEHITAKO.SISLANDS.
!'i !iir< the readers in- oilier parts of tl
his rightful d< minions should be restored.
world v. ill be able, to see tbc full force nil
In the name and on behalf of the people of
The immoralities and iniquitous practices relevancy of many of the flowing remark
the United Slates of America and their
which
have been made subjects of com-, u will be ni c< gsarj to recur to the history of
Government, which the undersigned has!
llie honor to represent, and in order lo ex-1'plaint, in the following communication, it is, the past. It is a fact public, notorious "and
plain clearly for the inform:!ion of nil con-:I confidently believed, will be checked un- iof long standing that many seafaring men
and other visitors from civilized lands when
earned; is issued, A PROTEST.
der the judicious, wise and liberal administouched ai tbc various groups ol Islands
Whereas a provisional cession of the! tration of His Excellency Kekuauaoa,' Gov- they
Pacific Ocecn, have indidged in the
in
the
Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands was made ernor of Oaiiu.
most unrestrained manner, their licentious
by His Majesty Knmehnmeha liF Kin-/.,
passions. This has been a subject of regret
and Kekauluolii Premier thereof, unto TO THE FRIENDS OF VIRTUE aud complaint, certainly ever sii#e the days
the IlonorablsAsjcnrge Paulet. Commandof Cook, ,'vido, "Biitannia" London EdiAND SEAMEN.
tion, 11131.) So unrestrained and disastrous
::jtr Her Britannic Majesty's Ship Carys"Homo sum, lunnani nil a me aliciiuni
sailors, has been this intercourse, that the
i irt.(to wif)on the twenty fifth day of Feb- puto." "I am a man, |amij think nothing I toowaers
of some whalcshipa have utterly forruary, eighteen hundred and forty three;! concerning mankind foreign from my own
bidden tbc masters of their vrssels'touchiii"
—and whereas, the United States' inter- ocitaeiii " This noble sentiment ofTerence, at certain Ports. Some
years since,- Onlm
ind those of tlieir citizens resident ft Roman poet, 1 would make my mutton was such ait
it is a liecticrrt.octhe aforesaid Hawaiian Islands are tliis*commu mention.
~i
curanee for shipping articles to contain a stip■ly involved in a seizure <A His MaI would address a few words to the render, ulation that no lewd women shall be allowed
/ esf's Government under the circumstan- as iatroductory to the remarks which I have on hoard. As civilisation and chiistianitv ad-
JknowiAthat
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TEM?£UANCE
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ADVOCATE.
shall be fined for each or any of these strained licentiousness. Houses to sell wines
what shall be done to elevate and purity this crimes, fifty dollurs, or shall be put to hard and spirituous liquors, are under certain.
State of public morals. Here a public sen-] Ilabor for the term of one year. Such shall clicks and prohibitions; but upon the pimp*
of the biothcl there are no retiinetit wis wanting to shield the virtue of Ihe the punisliuieuit for all person who proHawaiian females, such as existed in Eng- Imote criminal intercourse between the sexes. strictions— no tabus They may pursue
their calling without rebuke from the Public
10, 11, 19, p. 149.
land and the United States. Here was a
Chap. xxiv.
Authorities. Boat loads of lewd women have
people passing from barbarism to civilisation
—from heathenism to Christianity; yet to a
The above law continued in force until been seen going and returning from vessels
; which have recently touched at this 11 arbor for
most shameful extent had the female portion Knnna, then Acting
of Oahu, re-! supplies. The law is
prostrate the arm of
of the community been made the unfortunate ceived the following Governor
official communication
the officers of justice perpsryluted—
justice
victims of lustful passions by persons coming j from
j
the British Commission.
mitted to witness iniquity, but forbidden to
from foreign and christian countries. Many
arrest the guilty offenders. The most disBriti
-ion for the Co*«m-)
years since, this subject came before the Office of the
ol
il OT, 18-ia.
5 gusting sci acs are to be seen at noon-day in
King, Chiefs and considerate portion ot this
ofits having reach- the sheets of Honolulu, and around certain
people. What shall be done to save this na- edS;n,—la consequence
tion f What snail he done to prohibit tbej< the ears of the i'.i'iiisli Commissioners,l places of resort. Report of this state of
authority that women con- things has drawn hilher scores and hundreds
wicked intercourse ofnatives, and resident ;from undoubted
Fort
for fornication have been ofsimple-minded and unwary females from
fined
the
in
to
limits
as
as
seamen
foreigners, well confine
let
the s!. ets, and on board! the. other Islands. Landsmen as well as
in
out,
at
night
of decency, not to speak of morality and refor the purafSM ofrais- si amen have taken advantage of this
in
whaleships
haibor,
source
of
which
hope
)
The
only
ligioii?
li;i by tardier for-: state of public morals. The fall season for
the
amounts
of
their
ing
d*-]
was
but
I
legislation, mild
seemed to open,
am
directed
to
I
nicMtion,
inform you that whalcships is rapidly advancing, and for the
titled, and to make fornication as well as j
or
of
Commissioner!
no
male
welfare 01 seamen it is hoped n lief may come
adultery, a criminal offence before courts of by orderis tothe
be imprisoned for the above from same quaitcr. If, however, flic laws
nila
JM lice. Various enactments were from time,ie unless commuted m liie open streets are allowed to remain as they now are"; what
to li<na, passed by the King and Chiefs.
or public thoroughfares; but all cases ftfrape scenes may not this crmununity be called to
i'lir following is a portion r>f an enaclir. nl and adultery n;e to be punished its hitherto witness, when a few 'months more shall pees
.vllich passed the Council of Chicls, at 1 ahai- when complained ol'bv the | artiesconcerned BWaj 1 "Fo* it they do these things in the
1 am, Sir, Your Obt. Servant,
,: Irce, what shall be done in the dry V"
■a, on the 89th. of May, 18-41, and received
Sea,
the
Premier
when
Secretary.
11.
of
and
the signature
King
i note, however, for one moment at the
.n assigned for the abrogation of this
it became a law of the land.
Kaxoa, Acting Governor, Honolulu.
law. (The right to abrogate the law docs
10. |fa man take to himself a harlot] As the
of this paper, 1 li:.v•■ not belong to my concern.) Certain lewd
and commit whoredom with her,that man shall kmost scrupulous)^avoided any. connection women escaped from tho Fort, under cover
pay five d ills S, and the woman shall he tnk< n with the political movement going forward in of darkness for base purposes. Why of
to the house of correction, for the term of: regard to the- Sandwich Islands Government. j punish the armed ll iititicls guawling the
tour months, and shall be put to hard labor There i:i,
bowevc r, a mw ul as «i II as puliti- walls and gates? This was the custom in
there, as are all the women of that house. cal view to be taken of this subject.
This Id Rome. This is the practice in England,
The man also, if he do not pay his tine, shall action of the Commissioners as I conceive [France and the United States. Upon the
be put to hard labor for four mouths, or be
same principle the Commissioners might prohas touched upon a point most
(logged twenty lashes, lint ii'the woman be ncctcd with the respectability ofvitally%en-j
this Port, ceed to abrogate the law making theft a
tlio soliciting party, and present herself as a the cause of morality, a:.d the interests qf criminal ofienjaL Dining the last winter
prostitute, she shall in that ease pay- it fins religion. They have <--.. rstepped tl-.e limits, abouts 10, wtAVlolcn from my In use. There
often dollars, after which she shall fre taken of party politics, and invaded the domain was every cneumsla'.ilial reason for the beto the house of corrccti >u for four mouths'
of the moralist, and to a certain extant en- lief that the crime was committed by a conand be made to labor as is the custom with trenched iip;ui the sacred precincts of re- vict belonging to the Fort, other pi;
all the otWer women of that house. If she:,ligion. On that ground I choose to meet have been sufferers to a much greater
do not pay the ten dollars fine, she shall then
amount, in a similar n aimer, why not abolthe su'ject, and express mv sentiments
remain in the house of collection for tiie not as the politician, tit ihe advocate of ish tin- law making theft a criminal ofTonci .'
term of eight rhonths.
Ever since il was publicly known that the
moral and religious truth, the friend of sealaw
was abrogated, J have attentively con5) 11. If a parent give up his child to ]men and lover sTmankind.
sidered the matter and t specially that i might
of
the
The
circumstances
peculiar
the
child
shall
whoredom or prostitution,
put the most favorable construction upon it.
then escape and hot he lined, but the parent ! population, most unquestionably calh d for The conclusion to which my mind has arrivor
a
similar
shall pay a line of fifty dollars, and one half the passage of the foregoing
ed is this, that the Commissioners could not
of the money sail be paid to the child whom'law. During the period that this law was in have made the subject one of serious consithey.
he
hole,
its
force,
influence
.must
upon
he prostituted, and that parent shall more-P
deration.
bver he flogged thirty stripes. This edict acknowledged tj ba«a. been most salutary.
They must, as I think" have been to a cersix
months
to
its
abroprevious
During
tiie
a
which applies to parent giving up his child,
that
tain
extent ignorant of the real state of things
in
proporassert,
am
bold
to
the same tffio shall apply to a husband who Igation, I
this
the native population; othttwisohow
among
to
the
number
of
seamen
visiting
tion
his
wife.
And
he
do
not
the
if
gives up
pay
abrogate a law, opening wide tl c
and
moralicould
purity
they
Port,
a
for
higher
regard
fine, ho shall he put to hard labor for the
this
side
of impurity und licentiousness?
flood-gal(-s
did
not
exist
Port
Cape
in any
ty
teim of one year.
Horn or the Cape of Good Hope. Since The abrogators of this law may satisfactorily
12. Furthermore, whoever acts the part the force of the law has been restrained, Un- answer for the course which they pursued to
of a pimp in procuring either females or title has changed— the current flows in an the British Admiralty, and the reigning powmales, and whoever panders for prostitutes opfhsite diretfljon. Residents in Honolulu ers in England, they must also answer to
nl whoremongers and whoever in any way i can testify that a different state of things is an insulted community—to insulted female
acts the pait of a pander, or is accessory to fearfully rife! The influence of grog shops virtue among their own countrywomen, as
whoredjJa, or attempts to make profit from''in their baleful effects falls far short of unre- well as to the virtuous females of other coun-
vanced at these Islands—the question arose:iit
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(July,
TEMPEUA XCE ADVOCATE.
tries; above all, they must answer at the bar
this community is as unexpected as
THE RESTORATION.
of God, for this, among the other acts of
joyful.
July
This day,
THIRTY FIRST,
their lives. By "a public enactment, as
The Kino- is to receive n full resCommissioners for tin- Government <>bAji< ONE THOUSAND EIOUT HUNDRED AND
Sandwich Islands they have let loose all wlio FORTV-THRKK, will hereafter be toration of his rights, privileges and
are liocntious among seamen and landsmen,
ant! dominions. This morning, a
to riot unrestrained and unchecked among referred to, as memorable in the
history of the Sandwich Islands public recognition of this restoraunmarried Hawaiian females.
This is a subject of ik*.trifling moment i Government. The existence of this tion will Like place. At 10 o'clock,
—virtue weeps—morality suffers—religion
has often been threat- a. si., His Majesty Iv.vmkiiamf.iia
mourns.—l would hazard the remark that [Government
it
has
been most signally 111., will appear upon the plain
the feeble notes to which I am able to give jened, but
lo
but
a
faint
echo
It
is
easy to trace the East of the town. His standard will
[/reserved.
Utterance, will prove
those thunder peals which v. ill issue from the superintending Providence of God he unfurled under a general salute;
press in England and America, when a corwhich heing finished, the National
rect report of the abrogation of this law shall in every stage of its advancement.
Flag
will be displayed oh both Forts,
.Mar.',
persons
months
since
ache heard on the other side of the world.
IfI have made in this communication any quainted with its condition were and be saluted by H. B. M. Ships
erronious statements, I shall be ready lo fully aware that a most important with "21 'guns cue!-, which will be
publish their refutation when the proof shall
It was answered from the Forts. At one
be exhibited. For the sentiments herein crisis w«s approaching.
advanced the subscriber is alone responsible. seen that if the nation continued in- o'clock, public religions services
"Mine eye affecteth.mine heart" "1 believ- dependent fuvorable influences must will be held in the Stone Church.
ed and therefore have I spoken "
be exerted on the other side of the At three o'clock, 11 is Majesty will
SAMUEL C. DAMON,
world. While (he most amicable embark to visit Richard Thomas,
m Stamen's Chaplain.
1!,,' White, 11. B.
were going forward, an Rear Admirql
negotiations
Honolulu, .July 21, 13i-3.
of
English Man of War anchors in M. Ship Dublin.
this harbor. Immediate hostile acIf reports arc true, there will
was
unless
the
be
other salutes and exhibitions
threatened
tion
'Government yielded to certain de- of public joy! No doubt many
mands. Tlio.se having been acced- hearty wishes and fervent prayed to, others more exorbitant were ers will be uttered for the prosK IOMHSFAPEJB.RN,UCTYM2O5ABtLEh1843.
forth coming. The King finding perity of the King, and the welfare
are you, Chiefs, people himself involved in difficulties, of the Government. To the latest
and commons from my ancestor, which were not of his own making, generation may a lineal and worthy
and people from foreign lands!
under a reservation most reluctant- successor of 11is Majesty KaMEßA"Hear ye! I make known to you ly made a Provisional Cession of his meha 111., sit upon the throne of
that I am in perplexity by reason of dominions to the Queen ofEngland. his ancestors. All genuine lovers
difficulties into which Shave been He signed the treaty of cession of the Sandwich Islands .Governbrought vvilhout cause; therefore, I while bathed in tears. At 3 ment, here and throughout the
have given away the life of our land, o'ejock, P. M. Feb. 25, 1843, the world, will cherish in grateful rechear ye! But my rule over you, National Flag was taken down, ollection the memory of ReWr Admy people, and your privileges will while that of England was raised. miral THOMAS' timely interfershall we forget the day. To ance and nobit: deeds in behalf of a
continue, for I have nope that the j
life of the land will be restored the native population and a majori- feeble, but well disposed people,
ty of the Foreign Residents of all na- who are struggling timid many hinwhen my conduct is justified."
tions, it was a day of sadness. They drances to preserve their National
The King was compelled lo make knew not as their eyes would ever Independence.
a Provisional Cession of his domin- again behold the Flag of Kamehaions to a foreign power, by reason of meha HI., waving over his rightful
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
difficulties, into which he bad been, dominions. Whoever shall write Friend,
ii.imiliiy, by
Oamoi-.,
the
i t'hipliin
period Brmninnpunlmbed
brought without cause so far as an accurate history of
T«RMS. irt.OO per annum, ill .-rlviinro,Binglc copy.
two copies.
$2,U0 three copies.
concerned his own conduct, hence which has since elapsed must draw £1,50
£8,00
.V.5,00 ten cop i >.
live cojui-s.
some dark shades to the picture.
he gave away the life of his land.
and
Donations, :eceived by
The arrival of H. M. S. Dublin, Subscriptions
at .Messrs. 1 suld &. Co., jVlr.
As His Majesty's conduct has been and the negotiations which have Mr. Gilman,
K. 11. Uonrdinan, and at the Study of the
justified the life of the land is restor- taken place between the Admiral Seamen's
Chaplain.
ed by th« noble and magnanimous and the King, present affairs in a Rev. 1). Ka'dwin, Agent t.tihaina; Mail.
conduct of Rear Admiral Thomas. different aspect, which to most in Charles Burtihaiii, Esq., Koloa, Kauai,
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