The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-11-08

Pretending a great sympathy for Mr.. Morrison, the cores
pendent, under the above signature, in the Commercial Of the
Ilth, whose motive in writing such an article plainly is not
sympathy for Morrison, but a dastardly attempt to impress
your readers with the idea that Mr.. }. T.. Parker and mysel,
are the principals in an extensive conspiracy to manufacture
land boundaries on Hawaii, has, in my opinion, rather injured
Morrison and his cause, and l trust You will allow me space in
your columns, not only to defend Morrison, whose Urn friend L
have been for the las; five years, but 10 say a word for my self
An honorable mans impression, on reading the account
which he gives Of MOrrison's sale to Parker, would be that
Morrison must have been a great seounlrel, a knaye, as well as
a fool, to deliberately sell to Mr.. Parker a tract Of land which
he did not know or think belo ,ged TO him, Civ Mr.. Parker "A
JaTars But a. the writer in his attempt to say one word for
Morrison and half i dozen against Mr.. Parker. who holds a
land that he perhaps wants, ("ho SHOWS anu agtlIst myself
W ~ ,a IN in wbirb a,tymn 1--WE the lie to zach other
one wun.i take away Morrison's good name in the opinion Of
any honorable man, and the other Is n hypocritical appeal to
the public to take it back. l will not reply TO the long tissue
Of what ne calls facts. but will merely state what | can prove.
In Morrison's defense l can prove gt,hnasn ! snow ina, /,
Morrison PTertous to that time dd n9t knItc ts eA.ehto i
Paauhau) that he did kHOC from the old people who went up
to show the boundaries in the mountain before he had an idea
OF selling to Mr.. Parker, where the main boundaries Of Paau-
hau were. From the position in which Morrison and l stood on
the top nf Puunohu hill, the eye can follow all the main bound
aries Of Paauhau on the mountain side, which lies like a map
before one; said boundaries are so prominent and so connect
eli, viewed from that point, that a child Oh ten years could not
Those boundaries Morrison shovel and pointed out to Mr..
Parker, (Sho had known for a great many years that Paauhau
extended somewhere in that direction) when he sold hma ~ me
land Of PGan1dn dboUe a tne THn"nig dHe east from a
tap Of Puunohu hiH. Those same boundaries pointed out by
since surveyed by myself and Mr.. Wiltse, the government
surveyor. 1, firstly, not having a proper instrument to survey
by magnetic courses and stone monuments intending, when L
got "a proper instrument. to measure the angles aud distances
which has since been done 10y Mr.. Wits.
The writer's imputation upon MIR. "htSe, who had nothing
the malice which dictated the whole communication. The
recommended to me at the time by the Rev. Mr.. Lyons.thc
government land agent. He, on the part Of government made
inquiries throughout Iamakua and Waimea, and satisfied him
self that they were the real kamaainas Of the mountain. From
the opportunity which l had while with them, L was satisfied
that they knew every crook and Granny Of the mountain. 1
myself at the time / made the survey saw all the old people
that 1 could hear knew anything about it. The old bird-catch,
eis and canoe-buiilers l found to be the real kanaainas, aud
they unanimously called Iauupaa and Kanakaonae, kamaainas
who knew. and that what they said was right. Some Of them
who were in Waimea at the time l completed the survey. testif-
ell on oath before Judge Wight, that the survey which l had
male Of the ancient boundaries of Paaulau was a correct one;
Rev. L. Lyons, government Land Agent at the time, testified
that he knew these men to be kamaainas. and reliable ones,
Here would say in relation to the improbabirty of 4 surveyor
making a mistake when he surveyed parts OF Paauhau as
government land, that those parcels sold by government to
Mr.. Parker and John Thomas, are ON the dividing line between
49, 80, ,fs Island ybere rriva,- Lands have been surveyed
AMI sold az government lands in fact the land adjoining
Paaulau, the " moku.' must be a private land belonging to tina
King, Ut is not in the maheIo book yet government has sold
Ia the United States, where the land survey Isl system
regulated perhaps better than in any other part Of the globe,
mistakes have been made by government. surveyors, and gov
ernment has made them good:
great writer codly asserts) with one side Of a story. bad the
have had. had those parties interested in bringing that side Of
the matter only before him, acted honorably and declared their
would have escaped this ridiculous defense OF his friend q
lean only account for the motive which could produce such
"A communication, by attributingi it to some person who is perhaps
interested in having Mr.. Psrker's land taken from him. No
hrhminIeI man would write such an article, nor would
any one unless prompted by some maliciously selfish reason,
Parker. Mr.. Parker has land that does not belong to him, or
il he thinks Mr. Parker and myself are guilty ol a great Iaha
fraud, let him proceed m a manly am open manner nt mn
prove it by legal investigation, and not under the cloak Of sym
ftcts' and which AT The best can be only hrarsays. and by mean
Insinu-tions against men whose names l hatter myself, though
the Honolulu public. IT," Liberty or Death should put his orn
name with them a their accuser. john :. Low.
K4Wafhar- tEt. 10Th. lNtO.