Nuhou, Volume I, Number 1, 4 November 1873 — "Not Very Grateful Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

"Not Very Grateful Neighbors.

! Ie the espve&fcion of the Nēw York Weekh H*raM A I m Augubō in tpcdking of Moxico arul t-he Sandwich Island*. After oomioer,ting upon McxlCt*n ■< iugrcitltauc/" it pivccedi? to say. ; Thcn there are the Sandwich le]ands, whieh )iave heen civilized, ae far as they aie civi]ized by The man eating kanakas have, withln a ehort period been rescued from barbaristu by mieelonaries, traders and otherg, i>om the United States. |In fact, the govemment. while rwtfūnaīLj nanvc -wae rcalhj ford(/n f and made np princjpal!y of American citlzem. We have fostered, protected, Jand done mueh every way for those islands, and I the natives, —yef?, were absur(f f naugk to ncoynkt and support a sort of breeeh]ess royalty 5 a ml?erable pinehb£ck imilaiion of monarehy ; and now k I!is Majesty the King/ the ehiefs and nativee j arc united in refusing ;i the j United State* wanted and niu'nl for naval pvir- . \Vhat a farce ' What pretence and in- ! rjrati f uih. on the part c*f tlie?e kanakae T Tiie | time ie not distant when these co'neeited and \prateful «eighbor§ ics.?l be madf to kam to ■rtsi.tc! | more fche fnbf-aranr*- -nd power of the rnited | States/' . ! We have i*ulch;eu eoiuo ol' t !#e above remarks; j but commcnd the whole pavag-aph to the careful j pemeal of onr rcaders, as an ']]ustration of the | grose ignorance and arrogranr ofTen?ivc ! t!on, whieh abo«n(?6 ineertain AmeHean journali?m, when diecußeing foreign <]uestions or eountriee. Juet think o{ the mtelligoneeand iniornration of Ihe u leading Metropo]itni joumal ,% of Amenea, when lt talks of il rhe islamV* that we have refu6ed to ccde. I]ow it repeat? ?<choolboy impressions of savage South Sc*a storle6» whon it talks ot (i man eating kanakas?/" And does it not eshibit, in a Bomcwhat light, lht fatherly spirit of Ameinea, that has \is it Bays foptcred " thcse island?; when, because we will not give the island that is required in paymcnt for paet alledged gift« ; we £ « wil! be iuade to loarn to respect the forbearanee > ,% of our fo?ter parent in not taking violcntly, our Uttle vmeyard whioh he co?ete ? And yet th*t journal pvetends to eombat in vīrtut>uB, Iloman, repuWicon tlie growch of iu AmcrL\i. 1$ not £uchas-, sumptica) and preiension ae s=iown forth in the" worde of the H r ( ;M m re?pect to this Httle king- 1 dom, of the very spirit, of the most offeneive aggreFßive (\xpari?m T?ut what ean be expe.:fed' of a rude, pnr*e proud journalism } cbicf!y pus«' teined by Irish housemaid? ? and wr!tten e.p by' reekless and Tt i? in ao-1 eordance with īMean of and th- cstent I of iti? knowM#* talk of our 14 breechless royalt)V* whieh th Vi poUtLal fath</v wa.eo 4 * abaurd %1 ue to* rcoognue? - What a faree>' :nue€c M *' Whar arrogAi>eo en

thc faeh joarna!?. that elaīin to repre&ent Amen&io publie opioioh ? And phall we fall io love with eueh ignorance and brutality? Shal! we learn to fecl that out litt!e Pacifc State» thjt hae iaken well eare of ftself, and provided «-omfortable homee for a American CuiCr.y, and eent many well contented Amerīcans haek to their own land* wit!i a fjrtune thcy eould not pcrbape have gained there|; —ehal! we leam to feel, we say, that thie our llttle State, and the ample liberty and eomfort it affordrs i* a pltiful and mieerable eondition, and that we ehould rejoiee to merge it in the vaeter dpstiny of the greatrepuV ! lie: and be thankful wllen we ai e taken In hand, | even agaīnet our own' will by the aggrefc«ivc Cijeearit?m uf the ountinent. of whieh the IPra ? J is a fitting exponent?—We cannot be h:> tempted. i lf anything woiihl scrvc to ke-p u-. and tb.e peo- ; ple of thesc Archipelagoiaii and ilawaiiae, when al! other infiuencce failcd. it wou!d be tho offenBivc as?umptions o'f thi? arrogant, ignorrn* 1 ar,d V.rurp.l New York H<ra!d.