Nuhou, Volume II, Number 2, 18 July 1873 — That Petition [ARTICLE]

That Petition

j Wis started about fbur |months ago» The editor |of the Gaz€lte publishe}l a letter 011 the subject> ; and he suggested tbat t|ie King, a Minister and n_ ! certain lady go to Wat>|h!ngton to lobby a Treaty jof |ieciprocity. A Priv|y Couneilīor and a difctinIguiBhed merehant iookj part in modifying the iterhns of the eeheme. T|je Chamber of €ommerce ' padsed reeolutioTiB with ja view to gefc inlormatiou J frotu the Ministor of Aflaire» whieh he ! refirred to the Amer!ejin Mini6terj whieh !ie rcij ferikKi to the Amerieati Secretary of Siafce, and i he Baid would haVe to be refuircd tu tbc ! Aniei-iean Benate (br ai|ything definite, or de6ira- ! blel At the eame time|a petitioa was eireulated 4 around town, wiih a to worry ū\eMimetcid } 1 bedauße it Was feJt that |they were simply walclng { to turn up, and cll& mi know how |to do, or wouM not do anything. The primary j idek was a pressure on ihe 3linisfcers. I.c receivei | soise Bigner« and was fl>rgofcten; but by axid by we heard that copies of the petition f whieh had becti prliited at the offiee, had been setit to the other islands»and now, after a iapse of ncarly |fbuv months &inco its initiatiou, the a2»re^ate i OO <5 ! petitionB appear, and are published aa a doeumetit ,j that had apparently originated in some painfLl ī crisis; and was a sponi{itt€ous and present espret>«ion of the fbreign, and of some poriion of the j native eommunity of idlajids. Of eourse we do not olyect to reeiprGeity, is a free maTket in Ameriea ; but we objeet to tse Pearl Harbor, " only salvation ! ' eessionist« t making it appear that thig ]3etition is a reeent thīng, I and had reference to th€ir seheme. Some of the j sigbers no doubt eontemplated the eession; but a |lar£e portion we did not; and mueh tle j largest portion of ihe eountry will not janything of tho kind. i j