The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-04-21

District Judge 10 bis neighborhood, word
to the Boundary Commissioner, hint drop
ped in the Board of Immigration, a signin-
cant nod 20 the Commissioners Of Crown
Lands, and, If his opposition IS sufficiently
notorious, 8 word in the Suprerre Court,
such as we must support the Government,
| gentlemen viii soon surround him with Q
Gordon Of influences that viii bring him into
subsection, or drive him from the country.
| Unfortunately for the country they generally
I yield TO the powers that be- and if sufficiently
oadgered viii soon begin TO write for the
/ Government press. II 50, the spell is broken
favors from the Board Of Immigration are
showered upon him, District judges and the
various Commissioners see things in q differ
eni light, and sycophAncy meets with its
reward
Is there the smallest foundation for this
wholesale calumuys Some of it, of course,
is pure nonsense, as for instance: "a signif-
cant nod to the Commissioners of Crown
Lands''-since, BY the Statute, two out OF the
three Commissioners must be from the Cab
met, and therefore need not nod " 10 any
body on the subject, either significantly or
insignidcantly; and. besides, they are admin
isiering an estate which has no more TO do
with any individual planter, than his own
estate has to do with the Commissioners
Where has Boundary Commissioner yet sat
to hear and decide any case. The former
Sole Commissioner, Judge Robertson, sat
on two, in which the same Commission
ers Of Crown Lands were actual parties
to the record. How, then, does any man
presume TO write, and any paper pre-
sumo TO publish, that the Commissioners, or
any Of them, have been influenced adversely
10 any claimant, by corrupt or unworthy mo-
tives or solicitations Of any one-much less
third partiess Where is the planter who
viii say that the District Magistrate of his
district has been directed, advised, or infu-
eneed adversely TO him or his interests
What planter, or other man Of business, has
been Iitigant in the Supreme Court and has
said, or will say, or has had cause TO say, that
the judges, or any Of them, have been. or
could be, influenced in their decision BY any
iniimation that the litigant is unfriendly to a
Minister-or all Of them-with the expression
I'VE must support the Government, gentle
mensn But, fellow citizens, that paper,
which it is claimed merits and receives Your
liberal support, does not hesitate to sap your
prosperity by seeking 10 spread the idea that
justice is insecure, and even your courts are
vensl-though the contrary is pre-eminently
the fact, Years, position, s. long life of use
fulness, are no protection from the ISLANDERS
of penny-a-liner, whose sole idea is to earn
a few-a very few-dollars, by this dirty
work.
You have all heard the story of the crowd
in Dublin, when one cried out, Don't nail
that mans ears to the pump" The crowd,
being ripe for such things, took the hint,
though they had not thought Of ii before, and
the mans ears were nailed to the pump So
this good citizen proceeds on the same prin-
ciple, with hints that We have seen and heard
before, from the same and similar sources,
that domestic violence would be desirable.
Hear him, and see the eounsels which he,
as well as some Others, who may not be
spoken of, on account of the sacredness Of
their Office, and their immense ecclesiastical
elevation,) see fit TO give:
Physical demonstration is the only cor
rector of evils in an absolutism- This is not
TO be expected here. The native population
are too listless and too much under the su-
perstiiions of old, 10 appreciate the evil. The
foreigners mainly come here TO make money,
and only care for that"
The remark made about the native popu-
lation is very significant, and if they should
awake from their listlessness, one day, il
would not be surprising if it were the worse
for those who thus outrage peaceful and
unofending people
have thought it best TO address this to the
public, rather than TO the Editor Of the GA
zErrE, and hope that he viii give it an inser-
ton. PLANTER.
led. Enthusiastically il may safely be |
asserted that the calumnies commented on
by our correspondent were invented by the
author."l