The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-11-09
An Open Letter TO tho Minister OF the Inte-
rior aud Board OF Health OF Honolulu.
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Hawaiian I-Innd--
SRs II do not willingly publish to the civilized
world the private grievances 1 and my family suffered
under your despotic rules, but l wish TO warn my
eountrymen who may hereafter visit the little speck
Of Gods Earth which you inhabit, in respect 10 the
character You bear, should they have the misfortune
TO fall into your hands
II is well known that when I landed at Honolulu
from the steamer Lsho, one Of my children was sick
with the measles. Il is also well known that l readi-
" assentei TO remove to my place designated by You
on the island, and that l was willing to pay, every
day, al necessary expenses TIL the danger was passed..
Your agent, in obedience to Your instructions, as he
informed me, furnished me with quarters out OF town,
assuring me that 1 should be subject To no expense,
excepting for what | wished to purchase, and at the
same time invited the adult members of my family,
including my child who had had the measles, to go
Irhsre and rrhsa tcs pleass4, urging Us to ride with
him, and giving Us entire freedom. This Invitation
We accepted, risi;iHg a; his request the public insti-
tutions and other places Of interest for two days.
On the morning of the third day l received \ letter
from this same agent, written by authority Of the
Board Of Health () forbidiing me to leave the pre-
misses | occupied, accompanied by threats in care Of
violation. This restriction. De it remembered, you
placed upon my liberty. before any physieian had
come near Us 10 ascertain what the danger was, or
whether there vas any danger. In addition you EN-
ployel a herd Of your minions on the premises, and
kept themselves doing little or nothing, and in Your
letter Of restriction to me, informed me that 1 should
be expected to bear all these expenses myself.
after you had informed me that l should be subject
TO no expense, only as before named.
And what reasons did your agent assign for these
restrictions. The plea that the measles were fatal to
~. So. r. IL - rr..r anns--ran.- Tal
you even suspected any danger, why did you not for
bid US to go among the people at Jfrsi? Why give
US an opportunity by iarita. ion to infect The inhabs-
iaats, and after having assist ed US for two whole days
in spreading this fatal malady, in doing all the evil
in our power. why THEN Gid you restrict US:
Had You really believed, as you pretended, that we
carried about our persons the seed or death, the neg
lect on your part to instruct your agent to restrict
our liberty from The first was = criAiR0I neglect,
and, had death ensued a. a result of such neglect,
you would have been a~djudged by the community a.
guilty OF crime, if not Of murder. But your suisse
quent conduct proves one Of two things either that
you dill not believe any danger existed, or, If you did
50 believe, that you are guilty of a monstrous outrage
on the Hawaiian people because, during no day
that you kept US isolated, as YOU claimed, was ANY
officer placed AZ the gate Of the premises, nor were
children, from the ages of four to fourteen
years, prevented by You from coming within the
enclosure, and playing with my boy who had the
measles, although 1 notified, first, your agent,
then the Marshal, and thirdly, your own physician
Of the fact. By this neglect Of yours you have both
violated your oath Of office and the statutes of your
government.
But the fact is you kaeLc rery reH that the danger
slight. if indeel any at all existed. The weather
WAS cool when We landed, and you felt more vigorous
Than usual for the exercise of your brief authority,
and you fondly supposed, doubtless because the sub
Of your petty despotism did not come on shore
With kid gloves and quizzing glass and gildel cane,
md q silver trumpet to sound his own fame, that ne
would not, therefore, take full notes of every step
which your crooked feet have trU1den and set forth to
he world abroad how much diplomacy you could dis
,lay on one poor innocent child sick with the measles .
will not nauseaie the public taste b. stating how
many meetings you called, and how many times you
efused the request made by some Of the best citizens
f Honolulu, (including your own physician and
thers, who said the danger had all passed. that 1 be
.ernitted to have my liberty so as to attend to other
Important business and provide for my family, and
I offered to give bonds in the sum Of Sj0o,
if permitted TO have my freedom, l would not
cturn to my family till you should permit me @
ow You refused to yield even then until General
NTH, the American Consul, nobly offered to become
esponsible for my good conduct, although he had
seen me.
But, my official sirs, your previous caution in this
castles case, may have warranted all this delay; and,
borrower, | am assured that DIR. HiLebrand, being
quack in metaphysics as well as in physic, had,
: a mos; profound analysis, based on the occult and
principles which control the tri;ura-
On Of the indiyisible essence of the senri-material
by whose agency the germinal principle
~incipient disease Is supposed to be implanted, de-
rmined exactly how much of the rims Of measles
e father of {. child which had nearly recovered from
EN-, could communicate to people on the public
rect; and also, that DR.. Hutchinson, a more practical
had arrived at the conclusion, that said virus,
communicated, would carry off more Hawaiian
males than one hundred men-Of-vars men, such as
once pursued over to IIilo with his pop-gun feet.
But, gentlemen, after you hei released me with
e spOniaic and orscular injunction that l " must l
{ re-safeI the said premises until ordered so 10 do
allow me to ask you in all sincerity and with
2 kindest feelings in the world, why you showed 20
lch Partially. During my expatriation you did
ow q great many Of the good people Of Honolulu :
90 there, for which l am very grateful. But,
ntlemen, that family belongs to me as much as to
ybody, and l wouldn't injure a hair of their heads, /
d if you do not believe that 1 IN sincere in these
,larations, 20 to California and ask Governor Low.
please remember, hereafter in your
atment Of strangers who come here with the best
intentions and willing to obey all your laws, that
l~sistency in your reception Of them is a jewel in
" character. The only sin 1 ever committed '
ainst your government, IS the sin Of having mes
: in my family. But l won't do 80 any more. Did
thought ever enter your minds, gentlemen, q
opose, You know what thought and mind mean)
Il there does exist a kind OF universal law Of hui
which has reared its majestic form high above
written codes, regulating and controlling their
ninistration, and, when stern necessity requires,
ivering over to derision and scorn the execrable