It could not harry or burn or slay, it in no way resembled the admirable machine which Liholiho destroyed.

It was an Established Church without an Establishment; all the people were Dissenters.
Long before that, the kingship had itself become but a name, a show.

At an early day the missionaries had turned it into something very much like a republic; and here lately the business whites have turned it into something exactly like it.
In Captain Cook's time (1778), the native population of the islands was estimated at 400,000; in 1836 at something short of 200,000, in 1866 at 50,000; it is to-day, per census, 25,000.

All intelligent people praise Kamehameha I.and Liholiho for conferring upon their people the great boon of civilization.

I would do it myself, but my intelligence is out of repair, now, from over-work.
When I was in the islands nearly a generation ago, I was acquainted with a young American couple who had among their belongings an attractive little son of the age of seven--attractive but not practicably companionable with me, because he knew no English.