Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 147, 11 March 1891 — Au Outrage and an Injustice. [ARTICLE]

Au Outrage and an Injustice.

Mueh has been said bv interostod pe<iple, part;cularly by tho ehildm» of the Aii)<?ric;m mJssionaries. for rh« nndue fēēling of animofeity engendonHl āgainst: them, througii articles \vritton and penm-dj by and othvr Hawaiinns. whith \\w n:itive peopfe have toward.<

! This to a gr(kit extent 5s very tn <\ jand we liave never attempted to deny the fact," but have ahva;:s given a reason for our coaduct fbr the criticisms wbich we hav« befen ; obliged to make upon the action »f that cla6s of our population. We have never alluded to the pnvafre. action of any «ne of thein, unie£s it iē when their past and preseiiit 1 action as a body is brought in|o question, with reference to mattefs, public, and in this respect, we haye j endeavored to be ißopartial, uging i their conduct *nly eomccrns the go*d ©f society. Wheiiever they, or any one ōf then!i, plaeoel theraselves. as they often do, in a posi tion to be criticised, We hold that their condjjct are subjeit to the just criticism «f the Press, raore particularly their ®fficial acts* a»d also in their capicity as livinjg examples of a doctrine claimed tjo beabove reproach, and whieh been heralded for over , seventy vears to the cost of ever} T tliing temporal to the poor kanaka, and of no evident gain to hiaa spiritually. — Under the above heading nur attention has b<K?n calied by a letter, writt«n frona Hamakua. Hawaii, ca!ling our notice to the fact that a Hawaiian was murdered under the notice, and almost under probosis of the deputy Sheriff of Hamakua, R. A, Lyman, (note the name,) sometime in Jamiary ]ast. A coroner's jury was empannelled, and a unauimous verdict rendered by them, that the man's death was due to wounds infiicted bv some sharp instrument in the hands of eoine person or perso , ns unknown. Th« facts were as follows * 1 The native was under the inAuenee of liquor, and becoming turbulent 'at soi«e fnends house, a white man, said to be a Mr. H , undertook to cbastise the man away from the premises, but found he was too mueh for him to handle siugl}v Several others were called 111 to help, and even turally the nian was secureJy tied an«l placed in the hands of a poliee. He was then lea<( and dragged by a black man who was mounted on horse back. foilowed bv a wnite haoie (-said to be the same one jwho understood to drive him away from the woman'e preraises). We are j informed, that the raan was fbund so utt«rly disabled from wounds inflicted on him on the public highway, by a person well known, that he was left all night under a tree and found the next morning undistinguishable from blood and raud in a coniatose state, and from the effects of whieh treatment he died two davs after. This matter has l>een known to the Deputy Sheriff of Hamakua, R. A. Lvma», and though a verdict |of d#>ath by some persoa or persons i was declared by a Coroiier's jurv, | nnd the parties implicated in the j murder. cannot help being knowu |te I)eputy Sherifl It. A. *Lvman, !still both he and Sheriff E. | Hitchccck have done nothing to jbring the culprits to justice. I theseandother legitimate reasons we !feel we are justly cntitled to eall | the attenti(in of the authttritieß and | t»f the puUie m general tb what is I very Hpparent as culpab!e and hviifol iK»gligence in the dißcharjie ;of dutv. llell wns rakcd np to <»iscover the umrdcrers of tbe ! Jsipanes.e in thc s:nuc district ulkmU a y» 4 ;tr np:, b»it this c«sc is on!v th:īt of fiU<s kanak;i. Si> «>f coi\,it tuake all thc a>'!Vre;ie* > in