Nuhou, Volume I, Number 16, 18 April 1873 — Our Respects [ARTICLE]

Our Respects

|To the publisher of |iie Hawaiian GazeiU. We noiiee several llttle |matters in jour issue of ihe 16th, whieh relate personallj to the publislier of this paper. Thej ate apparentlj written hj dif!ferenfc pens; but we hold you alone as responahle f |and we will mt notice the popr sneaks who nny |stand behind your baek. - • ! You anewer our ehalleuge to tell what j u I know eoneerning a n)atter # to whieh jou ;aUuded, by asking questions, and bj |Out a varietj of 6iariderous insinuations. This k iquite charāeterietiej as jou are well known m this as 4 £i perslstent and a 44 pig headed M (we quote wonls of jour friende) who eannoi he persuaded to aekno\\ ihis errore, or gee tf3e evil of his wajs; but we |shall trj to persuade jou; and if we oinnot gefc ;convietion into joiir head one waj f we niaj ;some other. Our temporarj epnneetion with the Hqrmon <x>mmunitj fbr a pol|tieal objeet, of whieh we ehaii jgive a hktorj at eonvenienee is well kaown , |and was never deni|ed. "We eame here to |earrj jOut a sehemo of emigratton ; and in thk eonneejtion met of ilomon' native6 at Waijluku; and other poinU, and had various |With them, whieh wore satisfaetorilj fuliill;eu 011 |Our part. | A\e coiKk>eeud to saj so mueh m ang\yer to certain questLons; but we do not intend iljr one imoment to plaee ouifself on the witness stapd io |6uit jour humor or eonvenienee. Xou hine and insinuate, but make a single eharge, ana prove it. Tbe inei|iuations whieh jou pemiu |Coneerning an nng." and a v mid |Ocean paxadiBe/* jou biow rcfer u a matrer |Whieh waa iullj aipwcre<l iu your owu pttper. |But jou eoneortevl mueh with ūk swiudier. who eheaU\l thie eommuuuj out o i about $800; tlu\t otlier <?\viudler thc silk man who defrauoed the Goverumeut out oi' a pieee of laud, and lhat poor iraud Perkitis, spongod on our Ee|ieYolent soeieties } werv. * all of tlus 11 ring/ % |that it would make ene tuu<k lbom jour of £jmpathy jou jliave had $ome v.\uuplieitj \s iūx their I &Uull we noliee iunueudoes of your owu inveudou t or of the jou? We eexUiulj degrade ourselves, and at the same tuue negkvt uuporUvt\t duties whieu we owe to kiuU , whleh |ras uiken <uch a live:j luiore6t in our liulo paper. | We have proven jou, where iu this puper, either grosdj defiei<nu u\ memoij» or eapabje of a deli!vrate fakek\\l \ou u irit. īonu

what prevalent ia this commūnity ? anel we had you for one in our miiKl when we wrote our articlp on slander. We have heard you Blander in the j mosfc reckless manner thc most distinguished per- ■ eona iu this Eingdom. We have long felt that j we v/ere attacked hy mean, cowardly, eecret j elander; but we eoukl never put our finger on a j man or a positive statement; and we ean hardly do so yet. But we have some little ehanee at you, and w r e rejoice at it; that is a ehanee to have sifted and ventilated the elanderous Btories that you aud your esjpeeial clique have busily mingled \vith your cant and your prayers. Put*your hints into distinct ehape, and prove all your assertions; bceauge if you do not, we will hold you to a Btern aceount v