The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-07-09
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Obituary.
MoRTUus! AUrEM WITT!
ROBERT CREIGHTON WILLIE,
Obit (Politicus) Maius v, M~DCCCLXIV,'
Istat CT.

account OF them was published In full in your accom-
modating columns of 11th June. The solemnity was
performed with all the circumstance and pomp'
becoming so distinguished q person. supported on
each side with St. Georges Cross, preceded AMI fol-
lowed by three lancers on horseback, dressed in
brown shirts edged with red" There was the Rev.
Mr.. E, the imposing service, the speeches of condo
lence to the surviving friends aud beresved yeomanry,
the old woman with thirteen keikis, the :" Liturgy on
the Hawaiian Flag the sad g illumination of LAM
uli, Princeville, Emmaville- House and the Factory,'
''the Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. and praised
be the name of the Lord"
The defunct was q foe specimen of the ancient
Scotch Lairds, perfectly sound on the monarchical
goose, never learning or forgetting anything, and it
is q pity, though not at all surprising (being always
predisposed) that he went a little daft in the last
days Of his extreme old age. The lamented subject
Of my brief notice arrived at these islands some cen
tury or two ago. am not particular myself about
the time. but the curious can ascertain it to a second,
if they can read turkey tracks. by consulting the
q private wedgewood Journal" Being reported rich,
q bosom friend Of the late General Miller and a mem
Der of the Paregoric Club in London. be was received
at once into high society, as ali accomplished old
bachs ought, ~pampered and petted by the needy and
seedy, courted by Government officials and finally
elevated, much against his will, TO the Office of Min
cte d rOTtlsH eldtNOnS WHICH De n Deiu, against
legislative censures and the will of the people, to this
day; and l exl ect he intends to hold it, like a true
spirited Biiton, ill the day Of his natural death, if
that is ever going to happen. 1t is pleasant to re-
member that his advent and inseparable fix to these
islands was a great comfort TO the other members of
the London Club.
Dir. Wyllie's diplomacy 90 astonished the veteran
diplomats at the Tuilleries 49, SO says the latest Ha-
waiian historian, and he is not alone in that opinion.
l will not dwell long upon his career as Minister of
Foreign Relations ; he has done that himself with
vigor, working dag and night, Sundays besides.
obliging his clerks to do the same, for the last twenty
years, and everybody in the habitable world or
worlds, who wiH read, knows what vital importance
his labors have been in preserving the independence
of an interesting people, and what is still OF greater
importance. all that labor is fled away in triplicates
for the benefit of the next generation, if there is to be
one. The gods forefend that fire should ever get
among those archives.
will only say that Mr.. WIS foreign policy has
been admirably adapted to our limited exchequer.
We being a great nation of sixty thousand souls, be-
sides the ghosts, and without a single vessel owned
by native subjects going foreign. he has appointed
Consuls in about every port in the world, and what
is more. he corresponds with every one of them reg
ularly, and has had the wisdom to publish it too for
NV WV PNOPS NAPNHSN
He has also had the foresight to persuade reluctant
legislatures to appropriate means sufficient to induce
a personal friend of his in London to accept the ardu-
GUS duties of Minister near the Court of Saint James,
said duties being to correspond ANONYMOUSLY, look
after the historian, canvass for the right kind of a
Bishop, stroke or pull the lions name according as
the " Sovereignty was ~ be transferred here, Uutre
manche or outre mer. The value of Mr.. VS. diplo-
matte services will be gratefully remembered when l
mention the fact that his gentle passage de plume
with the Franco HibernIan Consul cost Us, accord
ing to his own reckoning, two hundred thousand dol
lars-it being a personal affair entirely. merely a
low shamrock nod at the blazing thistle of our be-
loved Laird-we. the tax payers. felt honored in hav-
ing the privilege Of paying for the smash, and sorry
the fun could not be repeated.
Mr.. w. is a sound christian philosopher, and has
always gone upon the righteous principle that the
laborer is worthy of his hire and has received,
without choking. some eighty thousand dollars of the
peoples money for services as Pub. Fun&, and was
very poorly paid at that if complaints about "uu-
grateful people - towards him are true, AMI | have no
doubt but that they are. The $50 900 ftr services.
the 5000 600 for the Dillon smash, ting $500 or
$500, 600 extra for IT, military, and the{somewhtt
less than a million for ofheF ,s7iJan
ties, house hire for storing archives, toItgn feP<sS2
sentatives, reciprocity agents., and publishing the ina
termiuable protocols and appendices, mike us all
proud of the people and Government that IAN endure
such things. One weeps to reflect that thIAmericanis
feDelllOn IS likely 10 Ttbiuh III d'O - ANottuV
and against fiLibusters. which are our bay, and for =
ever destroy all pretext hereafter for ask 81 an ap-
preparation to repel them with military i&rce. for ii
is too well known that the Northern States Hill never
tolerate anything of the sort, and the En- e, can Pow
ers do all their own fllibustering. SO it would be
madness TO talk of organizing n military power here
to repel them. To the everlasting honor # Mr.. w.,
be it said, that he is consistent, a copperhead from
force OF circumstances. and for the honor of the King
and divine rights generally. he has not opposed the
North because be hated republican institutions or
nN-.- rod, hnt NTH = cola r,n- n
obtaining a yearly appropriation of $50 or $4,000
for the maintenance of an army OF 80 or 40 soldiers,
not for use. but rnament and palaver, in order to
keep up the honor and dignity of the Crown. 1t is
notifying 10 think that hence!orth we are to be re-
duced to a second rate military power.
The late dignitary hates our Constitution with q
perfect hatred, as is his "inalienable right and for
the very good reason that a King, far back in the
history of this nation, commissioned a republican in
stead of himself to represent the Royal will at the
incubation of that oUum mGgnum Of our liberties.
He has borne that mortal ahront ever since with the
great heart of a great martyr, and with no earthly
sop except a stinted salary and the privilege to write.
He has written, talked, IceH lreI, and Tough against
the Constitution as If it was his ell genius, and true
TO his great and childlike nature, never once dreamed
it was treason. Alas it was no use, the American
missionaries and American people, with their g equal
rights notions, were here first, and taught the ma
tives to read, write and cipher, procured for them
civil privileges from the tyrannous chiefs. taught
them some other things and among them, 90 divine
right, :" the tricks and hunkyisDso of European royal
ty, that all political power emanated really from the
governed, and in fact, during the course of Al years,
plane of political liberty, teaching them so diligently
and in such manner that they are now far more
knowing in regard to their civil rights and liberties
than the yeomanry and paySans of the powerfulest
monarchies of Europe. 1t is delicious to remember
that when a prince or potentate of Europe says boo,
Euro-a tra~hlao anl Storta all 90 shau 0,n mi