Nuhou, Volume I, Number 21, 24 March 1874 — The Hearts of the People [ARTICLE]

The Hearts of the People

Are tlie best defense of a King. And ihe ]oud rmgirig |u.nanimous. hurrah coming frorn the t)aroats shoul;l be his mostd.ulcet music n ' We.|neard such music when Lunalilo was chospn ; —such a shout that shook the heavens ,and calculated to inspir% the heart of a so as to make him ahero as well as " every ineli a-King.* But after a iime, when King Lunalilh sailed a\vay for Hawaii, annd the silence of a curiousr.gazing throng, thought within ourselves that here w;as a Chief who had lost the hearts of his people. had openly spoken of his purpose to eeiie away to a foreign power, for a portio|n of his and their native so\l; and although, he withdrew this purpose, yet he never agajn recovered the confi(fcnce and afTection of his people, aud it may be surely said that Lu|ialilo died utterly unregretted by his race and natioii. We were, a<3ent advocates of t|ie cause of Lunalilo wheuhe was a candidate fpr the Throne, and vve thought him to be a'.man of some prornise, but he utterly disappoinffed every liope of his eountry, He evi<}ently tried by his subserviency to a ring of s!o-calied respectable and influential īoxeign interests to stre»gtfefn his Throne, but his weak concessions to men who wbuld xrot espouse his cause, only when victory was assured, and his utter neglect of those who has perhaps too zealous!y served him in the' days of doubt, brought upon his reign tlie curse of ingratitude, lost to him the affectioni of his people, and caused fcis decease to be:|more desired than lamented. The S.uccpjssor of Lunalilo should derive a profitable lessoa from the late inglorious reign. L King| Kalakaua has ascended the Throne with |little of the applause thathailed the accessioij .of his Predecessor, —nay, it rnust be said that liis accession. was assailed by ominous s|iouts of hosti!ity. But as Ks- - was- fairly and rightfully chosen lting, it will now bē his great g!ory to reverse the experience of Lunalilo, by so doing that, after a stormy beg?liningf he shall ultimately win the hearts of the people. This is to be done by a faithful and an honest course ; — by confiding in Hawaiian aloha, and working for Hawaiian life and and trying to do this not by weak concessions to mercenary rings, who would shqpe tlie welfare of thte country to Biiit their".interestsi but by a bold| firrp and manly course—being faithfut to the true friends of the nation and himself; and so he may hope to fill his reign wilh peaee arid rehown l>v winnlng the hearts of his people.

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Nu Gou in the CoiibtiLuuou p{ the fc Unij:ed % States. A petition of #veral huudred clergyman as"king for an i{ acknowkdgernent of Almighty God and the Chriit3cui religion/" in the Constitution, having been considered by the House Commitiee on the Judiciary ln Congre«?j they assert that ;{ Aruerica U to be the home of thc oppressed of ull the earth, whether Christians or Pagans,'that the Fathers of the Constitution fully this matter. and agreed wifh great unanirnity thnt \t was inexpedient to put anything into the Constitution or form of gQvernment whieh might be construed to be a reference to any -religious creed or doctrine, v and so the Committee dismiss the pethion. But if the more advanced statesioen 'of tiie grand Hawaiian nntion had been m power at Washington an amendment to the Constilution would have been proposed to expres> " sympathy with the great re!igjion of Christianity« n This may prove Hawaii's more advanced state in recognition 6f a"higher faw; but it may also prove t!iat sometime« here as elsewhere " fooN rush in where angels fear to tread."