I am glad that it has been done mainly by Americans.

Chief-justice Lee, now dead, but whose memory is deservedly cherished here; Dr.Judd, who died in August, 1873; Mr.C.C.
Harris, lately Minister of Foreign Relations, and for many years occupying different prominent positions in the Government; Dr.J.Mott Smith, lately the Minister of Finance; Chief-justice Allen, and Mr.Armstrong, long at the head of the Educational Department, the father of General Armstrong, President of the Hampton University in Virginia, deserve, perhaps, the chief credit for this work.

They were the organizers who supplemented the labors of the missionaries; and, fortunately for the native people, they were all men of honor, of self-restraint, of goodness of heart, who knew how to rule wisely and not too much, and who protected the people without destroying their independence.

What they have done would have given them fame had it not been done two thousand miles from the nearest continent, and at least five thousand from any place where reputations are made.
Of a total native population of 51,531, 6580 are returned by the census as freeholders--more than one in every eight.

Only 4772 are returned as plantation laborers, and of these probably a third are Chinese; 2115 returned themselves as mechanics, which is a very large proportion of the total able-bodied population.