Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VIII, Number 7, 13 Pepeluali 1869 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

The Hawaiian Coolie Trader, the Bare Maunaloa.

T)/C IWk "Maunalea" has i>:en T>Ucd t>wt t«y *:;c Hawanan Government for a enihe among the vorious £roups of Ihe South Pac«r.-, tnr t?■;«? purpcsc cf obtainmg eoo'.iea for -crTice '>ur .-ugmr p!antatJons. Our wxi Joor Dcightor, Mr. Damon, in

th'j •• l r.cr».l 'of nionth, pronounces his ; ne i.e.ion the hark, and Uds the entcrpr» s e Go!j--;«?ed. U'e ean neither say ' r J h nor join with him ;n w -hm:* the enterpri:ve juccess. ' Our viewsk in rec,i\rd to the injustice, and h.id policy. of tbe eoolie system, (or systein o; j«ndtd !ai.«or, :f the latterterm is preferTed,) h»vc :n the p-*st !>een 50 fully expre?«ed, as not t > rvquire that they t>e enlered upon at I'n:;th to-'i;ty. Hut as this new phase of the ru.jjoui i.* UinL' inagurated, we will, not ieavc any to .suppose that we silent apj rova!. < lt maf.ers !:!t'e or nothin:r whether the s K»c a native of the Pacific or a native o; ehina : We !>e!ieve that the systera of ' (K)l)c iaU.ir w:;i ruin ony country thatadopts \ it; a n«i that il the resources of our country, j «• rol any country, cannot developed but; \<y the <'on:inuarico of this system, that they j h-id hr*;cr remain undevcloped.

Frec<lo!U t intciligence, mornlity« anei rcli-| nre lhe found«tions of national no lesa | ih.in in<lividuni prosperity nnd happiness. | That t!.e systern of lnhor whieh this expedi-: Uon j- iutendtd to fo.-ter, tends to proniote, j or boi!d up no friend of man hns ever j claimed. | That t!K* n;itives ot the verdant isiands of; th<* Souiti I\icit'u: will any of them leave \ their hoine*, thtir mit>sionaries, and theirj ch:f Js to -iiip for a tcrm of three or five years | scrvice in j>, 'ant.it ion i:an?s upon these islands, s we very min h doubt. That by the shang-| pri.a\vs, l»y whieh many of our ! Chitie>c population were brought hither, more i Jal-orrr? may be obtained, we think quite'i That nny of ihe Knc:li.sh mission-i ari'> «ii the South i'aeiiie, —the truest friends | oi the iMaiulers, —will ndvisetheir parishoners! to leave their (|uict homcs, nnd gospel privi-! tocmmigrate to t\ country of diflerent; c!iinate and languoge, for the special benefits | <•1 thc I igher Christianity and more refiningj «iviiization of our plantation drili, we arci >iow to t>elievc. \Ye shail be sorry not only for the cvils that will resuh to our own eommunity from \hc nr.nuus sy>iem, but for the ef!ect upon j tiie name, and high chamcter, thnt Ha-| \v;«n Jia> hitherto borne throughout the Pa-1 eili'", to h.-jve tln> -Maunaloa" return witli' ;\ oompany of >outh seo islanders, who must| iurvit»l'ly be sadly disappointed nt the i i.hange, when callcd to face the stern and to « them untried reijuisitions of plantntion life. The e\pcdifion ean only result in evil, or ]'rove an uttcr failure. We regret this wnste <•; our piiM;c trensure.