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Title A name given to the resource Provisional Government - No Date - Proclamation (Draft of 1893.01.17 Proclamation) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Before 1893.01.17 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/4ff19e0d35622c426b3bf1f4ff61a1e3.pdf c386698dbd6fa20aa1d71ed81c73f374 PDF Text Text 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. Terms. 4 single Yet, for my share, for the very small and splendidly executed drawings, similar to 25 cts. 10 ,r 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. �2 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: K 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- (Jan, 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. , �1843.) TEMPEUAXCE ADTOCATE. 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- 3 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, �4 TfcMPfcUANCE 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 (Jan. ADYOCATfc. 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. fALMoNrC,1843. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1843) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1843.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1843.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/af14fe8b67cfe464887c4d6860c2a881.pdf a13f1582237137c2cab4be9fe9643c61 PDF Text Text 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 5 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 • • • �6 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 — • (Feb. �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- * ADVOCATE & FRIEND. _ . �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. 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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. Wright, Assistant Surgeon. Rogers, Acting I'urser. 1*. K in the belt of Orion observations and distinctly horizon, but «ed men Towns, CIIVtR, was the Dec. 7, B., difficulties lying was where R. II ex- days cloudy, p.m., No of Walke, Mercer, Brown, Reuben length, 72, appearances color, having to the S. in "James Stewart," N. John's, according ltoiitswain. found in another column. Heed dis- arc hid point Comet of several seconds. seen this Russell. ship Adele, Luhrs. supplies. LONG, Esq., J. N. arc Malek Add. ship B. Gosnold, Some ship Henri constellation of following lot. 1st. Class. T. G. IIenham. Lieutenant. of the hori- point western of following there Ist, brig but 13, bringing present- faint day, general same On the a distinct, increasing more seen. in., the following but still though p. western 30° towards on On light. 6h. 30m. from the tending much at 26, Stii.es, Clerk. Campbell, let. Lieutenant, Marines. J. t\ bright tons, February 7,1843. Cummin, Master, and D. C. N. G. very Hi, Feb. where he had heard which will be Majesty's Plenipotentiary. horizon Feb. Raymond, Carpenter. The U. S. S COMET. western since The Whaleship " compliment POTTINGER,' supposed, of zodiacal visible zon, the then was 191 barque Honolulu, Saffery. from St. " Ueedigleft, off Nan- to 7, Feb. 26, Neali.e, Anthony, Gunner. 1842. previous barque Jules, Simonet, " Frigate "Queen" evenings Feb. 18, Sailed, Midshipman. Martin, J. Two 362 tons, from ship Fama, Hoyer, Purser. I'arxkr, I'ormiik, Volunteers, J. H. THE from 125 tons, " J. C. of August, Long, California. Feb. board the Boston. Yang t/.e Kcang River, Malek Adel, brig Captain. Master. Ham.am, subjects and inter- board the Steam J. C. Ship Boston, Honorable Lord GEORGE Sanhihh, the Queen! save this 26th king, the which he peace, in 14, Feb. 18, List of Officers. S. Lord San Bias. IIahkeii villi, Mate. Mate in and China. England God Dated to beneficial of both a will, February 8,1848. from China. of Feb. Frigate, Carysfort, arrived Motley, Acting from potentiary congratulates H. M. subjects trusts U. 13, Observations Ktnii, Highest Au- time H. mean brightest part from "Boston.") 11kkh aunt. The claims the of Feb. magni- Smith, Third Lieutenant. Munhde, SurKMa. established will be acknowledged by S. and W. Tarlf.ton. First Lieutenant 1'herk, Second Lieutcnunt. that has contest results. the PAULET, which grades since Arrivals, John W. the lowest of all armsofH. M. to M. Right the opening energy, devotion and valor the the to Stars of the third board the re- from Bordeaux. purposely refrains from any detailed expression of his own sentiments as to the surpassing skill, 8° or through 10. highly satisfactory Plenipotentiary, &c, M. H. 6° rapidly preceding Feb. 10, H. B. 11. Ship Carysfort, terminating toGeorge Paulet. length, (Sketched B. this promulgating have E. be to OH PFRT ONOLULU. have to The train sun. 50° in visible on completed. intelligence, the has been sky appears and perihelion near arc taken retire to be to Comet the belt of Orion. be held until the money pay- to and the ments its from Islands of Chusan and Ku- the are forces Grand Canal, Chinhai at passed ceding the made, The (March, of the payment M. the receiv- being assent the Treaty, and Nanking been the train. $6,000,000, H. B. first since cloudy. so wards the conducted of both Governments. ed have under is Officers among the ofperfect equality terms be its Officers. or to held having or to Impe- Chinese all to their of on account or under His Emperor, ¥UIENu. Fort, by to Cum- Register the British twelve months or pay in confinement. a fine of � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1843) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1843.03 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1843.03 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ae77b8e2244d74c44a6c126ae82f4a12.pdf 79a57765b22716562bf2d7b2a15cfed1 PDF Text Text 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 ' �14 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. 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