Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 197, 28 August 1894 — CORRESPONOENCE. [ARTICLE]

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CORRESPONOENCE.

[\VeSo aot faoid oar«elrn iwpoiwa»!» fot tbr opniMHU or tfae ollane». of car 3 eanw>oB.tnt!.l 1 € Editoh Holoxca; I V At the prese*nt junctore it v mar oot be inopportune to c rec te a b’t of Aruerican hia-i!, ; 1 ton' published in “ The IlluiU j rated 4merican ” of Feb. 4th. t 1893, under the heading, “The c enme of ’76. the Hepublics j only shame,” of whieh we copy t as f<»ilo\vs: 1 1 Tune and conditions not'{ known t»the philo» >pher have changed the meaning of tlie umxiiu. *‘0f the dead speak no eviL n lo tlie interest «f societv the familv, the state, it •* • | is aii imperative duty for the pub)icst t • set f<»rth such facts * and appreciations of them as will enahle mankind to judge men who have acted conspic- * ious part5 in the conduct ofthei ( g'»veriiiuent. It is thereforej* mcumbent in dealing with, Ruthtrf«»rd B. Hayes to say ] that he knowing1y consented 1 to act an odius ptirt at a trying * time in the hist<>rv of the re- 1 puhlie. He had been as »ldier; 1 he had perf.»rmed the duties * ass’2ned him with fidelitv, if “ ā n«»t with mārked ab lity. He ’ , I h id served the State with s >brietv and <j<»od sense as an Exe- 1 | cut ve. In 1876 he \vas. by «ne ; of th<>se curl«»us c;tprices. whieh ( seem t > rule polit.c d conven- 5 tions, cltossn over such eminent men as Bl line, C«mkling, Mor- I tm, Logan, Sherman, Br ston. I «s thecmdidate of his party 1 for the Pres.dency. He was defeated by more than a quarter of a mlllion v«»tes at the polls and a acore «»r t\vo. in the elect«»ral college. He squarely owned his defeat, and seetned t > b >w t«» the uneq iivocil verdict. But a New Y«*rk newspaper —inspired by a love of the sensationaI. if not a bascr mot.ve-boldly disputed the returns, ins’diouslysuggested rascality, and, totheamazement of the country, found ! countenance and C(Kiperation in the vehement support of the leadingpirty managers. The elaim was so raonstrous, the nscility s> open that the man chieflv concerned —Presidentelect T>lden—pa!d no heed to the s\v.ft’y e >nccrted eouspir.icv. Gradually the plot took the cons stency of a party jx»Iicy. Many journals that had advocated Hayes held al«*of, even pr.)tested balf-hear-t.*d’y; bat, aided by an adiuinistration, leaning rather to partythan law just:ce, the and ,) will of the people was made to seem in doubt Corrupt eleetion boards in Florida, Louis- , iana ai>d S »uth Carolina \vere br»bed to change the returus, and through the instrumentiLty of a partisan bench of Judges, Hayes was given tbe seat t > whieh Tildeu had heen elected. Henee Rutherford B. Hhvcs must live in the annuals | t»f the Republic as a warning, as a e mspicaou8 instance of the moral precept whieh wams . J us that great station ean be .! t k) de ir!y b.»ught; that stolen j honor w no honor; that frajid , not only taints aU it t«uches, i but is a lastmg legacy f«»r the . shame aud confusi«>n of the inuoceot ' m I H.«yes was in «11 relatk»ns of life au upright man an exemplary e t zea, bat his consent to h«»ld tbe Pres*d«jncy through a fraud, the must iguoble re- | cord m h’.story rendera «11 these qu«i.t es hateful, f«.»r they seetn s mere eloak t> monumenUl wrougdoing. Hia sln did not 1 g» « d*y. «n hour, unpuoished. I I The party th«t used him, the leaders th«t seduced him, tumI od from bim in k»thmg. The

curse th*t Byroa puts on Cain seems to bave fallen upon Hayes. The heavens did not, it is true, refuse him ligfat; the sun did not blind him. nor the earth refuse him shelter, but wbenefēr Lis name vras beard, wherever he appeared au ominous whisper condeused puhlie ;!oathing even while the proprletles exacted decent toleration. Ha\*ts punishment» it a»ay sifely be assented, will serve for many a day to eome ;to admon!sh man and parties i against such miscreancy as the traud of 1876.” X«>w, to the rnent:oned crime of 76,the republic’s only sbame another Amenean infamy has to be added, it is the most infamous act of the overthrow of a coostitutionaI monarchy of a ffiendly natmn and the estabi lishment of a raost condeoinab!e ol garchy instead of; the 1 chief acbir in this draraa was i the notorious scoundrel John i L. Stevens <*f Augusta, Me., who tried t) steal the “Hawaiian pear.” Cleveland who at first stood appalled at the abnoruiity of the criuie eoimniitedjby Stevens promisedtoright the wrong inflicted upon the Hawaiian naiion by restoring the “status quo ante”—but later on other considerations ni’ght have influenced him and as a subterfuge to evade his dutp, he offered unjust and deoradino e md.tions his res-

torat.on scheme whieh were proiuptiy rejected by the Queen of Hawaii; since he has given recognition to this oligarchy now siiling under false flag <»f “ O a republic, whieh it is not and uever will be; and bv this act he has becoiue in fact an access ry to the infamy coimuitted by Stevens of Augusta—s ach are the acts «f so-cailed Ameriean gentlemen—but what else could be expected in the line of honor and justice of a nation whose Chief-Magistrate had pronounced it already years ago as a uation of thieves and rascals? aud to be sure that gentleiuan knew his countryinen well! FrēDER1C WlLLIAM.