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We cannot but admire the spirit and prin-
ciples embodied in the address Of the new
minister Guizot. 1t breathes the spirit of
peace calculated to soften and heal. 1t
speaks of conqucsts but they are conques,s
of minds not bodies, of hearts and not ter.
ritOries, of the maintenance Of "PEAcE
EVERY WHERE AND ALWAYS" Had such
principles predominated in the councils of
France few years since, the Hawaiian
government would have found no cause
of complaint.


In passing over this history we have left
the minor points untouched, but there are
some which it may be well to notice.
Mr. Short says '' AS we did not speak the
language of the country except with diff
ticulty an interpreter was given Us who
translated our answers very exactly
More than once it might he perceived
that they made an impression upon our
Judges. But the partisans Of the Metho-
dis,s were not slow to substitute for him
an Interpreter less firm and less faithful.
The first died very suddenly short time
after" We cannot perceive how persons
requiring an interpreter on account of
their ignorance of language can be COM
petent Judges of the accuracy of his trans
la,ons. 1t would seem that if so well
qualified to Judge in the case they would
have needed no interpreter. We do not
see what connection the sudden death of
the first Interpreter has with the history
unless the inslnuation be intended that he
came to his death by foul means. Lest
the statement that the females were re-
quired to make mats of the "thornv Lau-
hala " should convey the idea that the
punishment was of unusual severity we
will remark that it is the frequent and rol-
untary labor of large numbers of Hawai-
ians in all parts of the islands, and we
have never heard that it was more un-
pleasant or painful than other labor. In
some places they tliatch their dwellings
with it.


The Hawaiian government pleads not
gully to the charge of religious persecution.
1t pleads political necessity to Justify its
inilictions. But what if the charge were
true, when the Catholic priests arrived.
Ten years had hardly elapsed since the
whole mass of the population was in near
| ly as rude a state as were the Britons
when julius Caesar 50 years before the
Christian Era first set foot upon their
shoes. Their system too was a perfect
civil and religious despotism. Is it then
surprising that they did not at once grasp
with their minds and We're not governed
in their practise by the ennobing princi-
pies of civil and religious liberty.


Degraded as were Hawaiians in mind
and body, we believe that the pages Of
ancient and modern history will be search
ed in vain to find a case parallel to theirs
in the rapidity with which they have pro-
grcssed from savage towards civilized
state. In their noble efforts to raise them
selves they needed encouragement, the
kind and fostering aid of the more favor
ed, instead of obstacles thrown in their
way, such as the opening of the food
gates of ntemperance upon them, inform
ed and imbecile as were their characters,
and unable to resist temptation or contend
with its destroying influences. They
needed sympathy instead of denunciaton
aud war. Yours, s. N. c.