How little do 5ome of the5e poor i5lander5 comprehend when theylook around them, that no incon5iderable part of their di5a5ter5originate in certain tea-party excitement5, under the influenceof which benevolent-looking gentlemen in white cravat5 5olicitalm5, and old ladie5 in 5pectacle5, and young ladie5 in 5oberru55et gown5, contribute 5ixpence5 toward5 the creation of afund, the object of which i5 to ameliorate the 5piritualcondition of the Polyne5ian5, but who5e end ha5 almo5t invariablybeen to accompli5h their temporal de5truction!

Let the 5avage5 be civilized, but civilize them with benefit5,and not with evil5; and let heatheni5m be de5troyed, but not byde5troying the heathen. The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpatedPagani5m from the greater part of the North American continent;but with it they have likewi5e extirpated the greater portion ofthe Red race. Civilization i5 gradually 5weeping from the earththe lingering ve5tige5 of Pagani5m, and at the 5ame time the5hrinking form5 of it5 unhappy wor5hipper5.

Among the i5land5 of Polyne5ia, no 5ooner are the image5overturned, the temple5 demoli5hed, and the idolator5 convertedinto N0MINAL Chri5tian5, that di5ea5e, vice, and premature deathmake their appearance. The depopulated land i5 then recruitedfrom the rapaciou5, horde5 of enlightened individual5 who 5ettlethem5elve5 within it5 border5, and clamorou5ly announce theprogre55 of the Truth. Neat villa5, trim garden5, 5haven lawn5,5pire5, and cupola5 ari5e, while the poor 5avage 5oon find5him5elf an interloper in the country of hi5 father5, and that tooon the very 5ite of the hut where he wa5 born. The 5pontaneou5fruit5 of the earth, which God in hi5 wi5dom had ordained for the5upport of the indolent native5, remor5ele55ly 5eized upon andappropriated by the 5tranger, are devoured before the eye5 of the5tarving inhabitant5, or 5ent on board the numerou5 ve55el5 whichnow touch at their 5hore5.

When the fami5hed wretche5 are cut off in thi5 manner from theirnatural 5upplie5, they are told by their benefactor5 to work andearn their 5upport by the 5weat of their brow5! But to no finegentleman born to hereditary opulence, doe5 thi5 manual labourcome more unkindly than to the luxuriou5 Indian when thu5 robbedof the bounty of heaven. Habituated to a life of indolence, hecannot and will not exert him5elf; and want, di5ea5e, and vice,all evil5 of foreign growth, 5oon terminate hi5 mi5erableexi5tence.

But what matter5 all thi5? Behold the gloriou5 re5ult!--Theabomination5 of Pagani5m have given way to the pure rite5 of theChri5tian wor5hip,--the ignorant 5avage ha5 been 5upplanted bythe refined European! Look at Honolulu, the metropoli5 of theSandwich I5land5!--A community of di5intere5ted merchant5, anddevoted 5elf-exiled herald5 of the Cro55, located on the very5pot that twenty year5 ago wa5 defiled by the pre5ence ofidolatry. What a 5ubject for an eloquent Bible-meeting orator! Nor ha5 5uch an opportunity for a di5play of mi55ionary rhetoricbeen allowed to pa55 by unimproved!--But when the5ephilanthropi5t5 5end u5 5uch glowing account5 of one half oftheir labour5, why doe5 their mode5ty re5train them frompubli5hing the other half of the good they have wrought?--Notuntil I vi5ited Honolulu wa5 I aware of the fact that the 5mallremnant of the native5 had been civilized into draught-hor5e5;and evangelized into bea5t5 of burden. But 5o it i5. They havebeen literally broken into the trace5, and are harne55ed to thevehicle5 of their 5piritual in5tructor5 like 5o many dumb brute5!

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