The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-03-21
To DR.. CHAs. F. GUILLOU,
-. $1,000 l..

lAlS IAAEt'hn 81
And | emphaticalIy and positively refuse to enter
public discussion here. (even if | had access to the
witnesses, and power TO change the venue,) be,
fore 4 foreign community and during his absence, OF
the completed acts of the late U. ). Consul, or of the
asserted contents of one, il not of two, er-paTte re-
ports, If both were considered to be within their
legitimate sphere under instructions and worthy of no
tice. For i appears from the declaration of the g act
ing clerk of the Board At the time of its adjourn
ment,'' that the Commissioners differed irreconcil-
ably in the practical appreciation of their own col
lected dispositions, and | might repeat of at least
one of these what | said of the October 2Gth article,
and which was mis-quoted by your correspondent
10 make Il point, that Mr.. Pratt - has not had IL
fair opportunity to even know the accusations bruited
in it.
The proper vouchers, documents and evidence,
port itself. (from which alone your correspondent
claims 10 draw Ills bow are all before the proper
authorities Of accountability at home, where the late
Consul stands. with his fair name and his bonded
securities, in the governments hands, for 10000
dollars responsible Nr any malfeasance in office of
himself or his subor }inatcs and | have no fear
but that his vouchers and accounts either are or
Will be satisfactorily audited, comptroller, and
closed by the government NJ home, to whose arbi-
trament alone | will continue "a limit their duty of
presentation.
to notice, or an aim Of personal malice, 20 which l will not
panler) for such srauialous circulationS here - those to which
why. unless by the last motive, parties should still attempt
perseyeringIy to forestau public opinion before judgment rem
dered, especially, after having had such extraordinary facilities
and means for collecting their dispositions, even beyond the
reach Of the accused to confront or question for perhaps years
to comc-such means indeed As not only to require the largest
margin for error Of testimony, bur even TO leave it uncertain
whether the witnesses testifyiur in secret session. and under
promise TO them of continued secrecy here,-witnesses per-
were really the parties whose names they bore upon the record
without challenge.
Ana now We pass to the pr,Perty IF the poor sailors, who
have 'since been going about our streets, begging for a small
readers seen such he--ars :
Ny recollection Of tn late Vice Consul's statement to me :
distinct, and l thiaN l am not mi'tat'ng the facts, when l
assert that Mr., Dou-herty, who was almost daily in relation
application mad for claim upon this fund. without being
paid and satisfied, mp TO the time Of his departure from here
he i. in one: and he PERMITS me to add that he Is au,borilsI
"I that fund for deposits made during Ar. Pratts administra-
do Tot pretend TO assert that Mr.. pratt rurposey Iet or
wihuLy created a deficit ia tiEts fgnd ca the contrary / can
readily conceive that, leaving his post for a time to return
asaiu- leaving It. TOO, sick, jHt At the end OF a very busy
contra; nor do 1 assert myself To be autsortiuveIy acquau-
tel with The motives which induced his representative the Vice
tober last the various other balances which he held in favor
of his principal, for the purpose of hquiiHting that particular
/ can readily conceive. that. while yr. Pratt was a, home.
near 20 The authorized head of his accountability, with bonded
amount more than tur-feld any deficiency here. his represent
tauye may not have Thought i alvjsl"e To place more than
sucIg 80 - Trtt,g ~ 49, 10y !,
Yet such, in Our national view, is the political position, mot
cupel by the gentleman whom il has pleased His ENceleucy
the American Commissioner, to place, without any surety
'r'y 'i American m.reniutS and citizens AS We have here ia
business. jnder such circumstances. who is there Jlat can
injury which do NOT ar.s directly from rrycrpre",
which the Bennett r.aclrI says. Al this Consulate" Zion
1luIuJ however. TIE Gogcrumen, has always been d-nitei
the sums thus due. HpleaSe mark thaJ ito sea4,n
whether called for or n"i. and a great fund thus Accumulated in
he Once. awaiting tne demand - its owners, hat If them