Nuhou, Volume I, Number 8, 23 December 1873 — The Proof of Hostility to Foreigners [ARTICLE]

The Proof of Hostility to Foreigners

(>r " nau'eū nl' racc/* whieh thc Ministcrial Or-1 mMuee.i -a-e : lst—David Mato's prpp')<cdj !eso>ution oi' bani!shmcnt. 2d—Tlie Hilencing of; Mr, J . P* O'i'een at Kaumukapili Church; 3d— | Thc 4i animo8ity of a few natives " at Wailuku. In 111e iirgt, instance, a young inan proposccl a rcsolntinn at a public meeking, that a certain gentlcinan who publicly discussed thc tnirrender of the country should be bamslied. No attention j tcas pa.hl to the re$olution. lx\ some other inde-j pendent eountrj r perhaps tar anel featherB woukl | bc applied immediately, instead of a litt!c mild,! talk about banighmcnt. Ih the sccond instance, fchc Kcv. Mr.. Green called a di8tinguished chief at a public mceting a nahesa or snake, and\/br ihal an<f not because he vms jofugner y was he silenced. The third instance of ;t animosity " ae \vas when some planters of Maui and their friende lormed certain , kind of politica! association witli the view to promoto the eeeeion of Pearl JIarbor, and beld a meeting at AYailuku to induce natives to coneent to the eeaeion ; bufc who energetically refu6ed to cooperate in the proposed alienalion of a part of the coantry. So mueh for the in8tanceb cited of u hostility to foreigners ; ?1 —-but one has ? t>eeh~omitted,: —one ihat took plaee at the celebration of £S Restoraeion Day '' by the Young Iīawaii Aesociation 011 ihe 31st of July last, at Keoneula (fcec Nūhou, Aug. 5.) On that oceasioii tlie son of a pioneer, ,the Prophet of Pearl [Iarbor, and Minieterial l!igleman was tliere; and he \vantcd to provc to iiis native brethren that it was more blessed to give away their country than to keep it. But thc swart soni? of thc islcs could not, or woiild not see this; and so they pnt a gag on their brothcr, suying: he is of Esau and "the soil aud shon!d he one of us; but lo !.vhis ; voicc is that of r.!ic whue, ]mckstcring, dickering Jaeob ; and so rhey stopped lus foreign gnb. And lo, this is a'ooui ali of thc foreign animosity īhat we cver he<ml of; and we think with our Brothcr that thc tkuth regarding thc?e threatB should bc placcd on rccord.'' And we think moreover that thc lctter of Gol. Kalakaua was eminently judiciou6 in ca!Iing at- : tention to tbe false, unfbunded cry of ccrtain alarmist{?.