Nuhou, Volume I, Number 5, 11 March 1873 — A DYING NATION. [ARTICLE]

A DYING NATION.

Who, that has any interest in the Hawaiian people? who,. that lias worked with them, and for thena,as we have done? wlio, that knows tlieir kind and liosi>itable natures? who, that lias been with lliem in and in lieath? who, that has trusted life in tlieir liands, in'a wildly driven boatj at the merey of a mad sea, as \ve liave? or, that has lived 111 sweet peaee, with ,our all, and all that i$ dear to us, among them alohe, away from all of our own kind, and have been happy, cherished, and protected? who, that has seen> and felt, and known, and labored with the love of this people to raise up a CJiief to be a King and savior and last īīope of a dying race? wha, we say, knowing, seeing, feeling and taking, a part in all tliis, but what must be saddened to his lieart ? s core to look over the record of death we give above? Yes, it is a record of deatlil for what is our s'exteunial census but a bulletin announcing tlie dying symptoms of a moribund people ?

And oan we stand still and -wait the uprogre&fs of: eyents" with such a record? Bhall we tarry for "an enliglxtened publie opinion" to tell us wliat to do, if we u move, at! all. M Shall we,wait for the prompting and example of tlie respeetable priest aiid levite betore we sueeor the sick man, that is in our patliwajr? Shall we spend our time in correspondehce to find out soiiietliing to do, from somjpbody, who knows no more, and wheii we know that lie knows 110 more, tliaii we do, No, indeed iio! That is not our,

plan of action. We love oiu\ fellow-man! above all tlifngB; aiul we woukl, any day,! rue>li i)ast a shlning eoin in the guiter to hel.p-a fallen t>rother. We like, however, the goōds of this world, and we have a reasonable desire for the glitteiing filthy luere that helps uB, in this artilieial state o.f.life,, to so niany needs ? and enables us to comfort those. we love; Inii we would be happy'to spend a fortune in the saving of a dying race,-—and as we have it not, as sonie have, ~we-will-spend' our time afklopinions, freely ainl without fen r or favor, to save, if we ean, t his interes< ing perishing Polynesian raee. llere is a nol>lor work now (o l»edone īhan .

a Peabody ever did, and requiriiig far less means. It is to sa've a race from extinction. To sāve the Hawaiian from the fate of tlie Guanclies, the Caribs, a-nd other utterly lost. races. By the fusion of fresh blood with the Hawaiian, by ilie equalization of. sexes, by industrial and sanitary reforms, by the stima*]ation of industry, and by every eifort that is calculated to inspire the liope of life, and the love of otFspring in the race, we may preserve and perpetuate a peope, fitted to j meet all the requirements of enlightenment | and progress; iitted.tosupplyall.the indus-] trialneeds*of tliis tropical Archipelago, that may be in perfect harmony witli the politicaL coiiditions of the adjaceht continent, and at the same time, an object of interest to all enlightened Stātes and people througliout the woiid.