The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-26
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The Hawaiian tsou.nse rrfct z4epSssser of
june 14shas following IS @, certain rus
raors respecting The negotiations ofa Treaty
of Reel socisy With the United States: Z.
Since Thursday last The runor mas been
current in town that the King IN Cabinet
Council has agreed to the negotiation o. y
Treaty Of Reciprocity with the United states
. ON the basis or q cession of Pearl Harbor.
The fact generally known that there was d
Cabinet meeting one day last week, and that
the reported subject of discussion was the
proposed Treaty of, Reciprocity. has, it may
De slirmiSed, given rise 10 the statement now
SO confidently made, that His Majesty's. adj
viscrs have agreed to make The oftef OF q
cession OF territory. We applied at the
Foreign Office. but were coIrteonsly in-
formed that the Minister was not At liberty
to make any statements IN reference to It.
The public must, therefore, form its own
conclusions as to the, truth OF the rlusoTs
alluded TO- and the most natural one under
the circumstances will be that, not being
denied. the ruHiors have & basis Of truth"
The little foot once in, the body viii follow
in good time. Let Uncle SAM acquire Pearl
Harbor, aud win be strange il he cannot
before many years acquire all that island and
all of the islands of the same group. The
Sandwich Islands would make capital
stopping.placc for the steamships running
between San Francisco and Yokahauia, and
is indeed already used rs such. Then u
would be u delightful place, for our Alaska
feilow-citizens TO visit ia the winter time,
running straight down on due line from,
the North pole, whilst in return our fellow
citizens from the islands could spend their
summers ia Alaska. A capital point, too,
for a nayy.yard is to be found ON The same
island, we believe. Then it Is not to be for
gotten that Uncle SAM, though he has the
Yosemite, and Niagara Falls, and the Natu-
ral Bridge, has no volcano. Mauna Loa will
complete his collection Of natural curiosities.
The people Of the islandscannot be better
than those Of Louisiana. And if General
GRANT could find sufficient reasons for driv-
ing their lawfully -chosen officials out Of
Office at the point Of the bayoDet, and sub.
shutting in their stead the negro PINcHBAcK
ahu l1E1ioooJ bS SAh ooAS'y wv ~
scruples as to depriving these islanders of
their little bit of King and substituting q
ruler Of bis own selection. No doubt, too,
there will be judges OH the islands, who for
q consideration will act the part of DURELL
and pronounce all these proceedings to be
according TO precedent, to law, and to the
Constitution Of the United States. In fact,
when we consider how readily General
GRANT deprived the real people of the South
of ell their rights, and how easily he found
ont tbaynegroes would work at his purposes
more faithfully and more PROMPTLY than
white men, we need not expect that he
could possibly find any difficulty either in
taking possession Of these Pacific islands by
the strong arm of force, orin raising up in
that distant locality men who would "recon-
s,ruct" them upon sound "national"
basis. Let u3 have the islands. l.'4 :