The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-06

spending the evening with us.
SANDWICH ISLAND ROYALTY.
Ny friend Olivier Pain and accepted the queer
invitation, well thinking that we were going
TO enjoy ourselves prodigiously at the ex.
pense OF this Canak King, who undoubtedly,
would stupefy our republicanism by his Oriental
despotism, his ignorance and his funny theories
on divine right. Fancy how great was our aston
ishment, and, must say, our humiliation, when
we heard from those very royal lips, that the saw
ages who eighty years ago murdered with arrows
Captain Cook, enjoy to-day Parliament elected by
universal suffrage and renewable every two
years in order that the representatives OF
the nation may be constantly in close
accord with puolic opinion; that those savages
were compelled to gratuitous and obligatory in
struction; thar fathers whose children were
wholly uneducated In reading and writing were
punished with prison and fine; that royalty was
elective, and not hereditary, and did not leave to
the Sovereign any otner power than that OF coun-
!. terslgning and prOmulgatlng the laws voted by
the national Parliament; that the municipal
councillors were nominated by the citizens,
aud, finally, that in the whole country there
were about twenty public schools against one
church. Thus the guarantees and liberties we
claim from all our governments, which they al
ways promise to grant us, but never give and
sometimes compel us 10 take are the very liber-
cussion or control by the negroes Of the Pacific
Islands. We call them cannibals, while autocracy
devours ourselves We send them miss onares while
1t is they who ought to send us political leaders,
The King OF the Sandwich Islands had hardly
spoken to me for quarter OF an hour on his gov
ornamental views when believed 1t was my duty
to interrupt him. "Sr," said "your confidence
to me cannot have any bad results for Your Maj
esty; but beware Of ever going to Versailles ana
giving expression TO such opinions, for you would
be sure to be Immediately
ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO EXILE
in fortress by all the courts martial, which are
the finest ornament OF our present government
Never, effect, was there situation susceptible of
comparison with ours. When we claim for France
the rights cOnsecrated among ali the peoples OF
the universe, and which Tor the soul of nation
what food Is for the stomach of man, then
they call rs Jewellers. and we are accused of
aiming at pulling down everything. Pulling
down what9 We. who have nothingl To
our anxieties solicitations and propagandas they
object only this word, as hollow as it is long-con.
sentative! Let them grant US, once for ali, as 10
the natives OF the Sandwich Islands, the liberty
writing, Of talking, OF electlng our municipal
counsellors, OF dying without priest and OF en-
joying existence without king, and you will see
whether or not we shall preserve 1t. But, at the
present time, Of what can we be conservatives,
since we are refused everything After the
revolution OF 1870, just when the capital was on
the point OF being invested, the people, eternally
accused oil being ignorant by the very ones who
systematically refuse to them the possibility OF
learning-the people were the true conserva-
tives, for they would keep ntacu France, which so
many Others reputed Unborn conservatives were
ready to deliver to her foreign enemy. Who
knows it, who was enabled to know 1t, better than
| nr Gar,tnt
taken out Of my prison by the people,
who brought me to the Hotel de Vile, where
! consented to become member Of the govern.
ment on the condition alone that this government
should defend Paris? The famous truce OF parties
of which the Versailiist monarchists believe them
selves the real inventors-had not inaugurated it
long before them, when proposed for our power
the denomination. which was unanimously agreed,
| GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCEP
was ready to make every sacrihce. had said
! from the first day to General Trochu :-"PrOmise
! to defend Paris energetically and my side
promise to sustain you to the last-even against
popular rising" Wen, win you know In what
manner has been fulfilled the prymise In which
! l candidly confided tor while The month
or September had not elapsed yet when M. Jules
Favre opened secret negotiations with M. de BIS
marck at Ferreres. Secretly, is the proper word,
because l nave TO tell you q lact which
SOUNDS LIKE FABLE
Ny colleagues OF the National Defence cOncocted
to deceive ME not only as 70 the purpose OF NJ
Jules Favre's journey, but even as to that journey
4 itself. Not seeing him III the evening at the usual
council Of tue government inquired about the
motive OF his absence. They answered that he was
sick, but that he would come the next morning to
attend the council. The next morning remarked
again the absence Of our Minister for Foreign
/ Affairs and asked the same question, wnlcn
provoked the same answer from my colleagues.
l ought to confess that lell so completely
the dupe OF that cunning trick that sent my SER
want to the Ministry in order to get news from the
SICK Minister 1t was only on the evening Of that
day, when heard NJ. Jules Favre himself deliver
ing a narrative o! his trip to Ferrieres, that
learned the thing which was the subject OF every
conversation in Paris but which !, member of
the government was the only ignorant
of-vz., that M. Jules Favres alleged sickness was
simply an
ASTOUNDING CAPITULATIoN.
Thus they were preparing to deliver up Paris,
not consulting me, not even informing me Of their
! intention, and when Disguised with the boasting
proclamation OF which the authors did not believe
q word, retired IRON a government OF defence
whose members defended only their portfolios.
they brought the accusation OF treachery against
! me- whom they had constantly betrayed.
1t IS this double dealing, those becose
proclamations continually belied by the facts
those broken promises, those deceived hopes
which drove Paris to new revolution. The reac.
tonists attempt to justify the most arbitrary
measures with that phrase which has no sense
1.-THE FRENCH ARE UNGovERNABLE."
/ They are ungovernable only because they have
mad to contend successfully with Louis XVIII,
Charles X, Louis Philippe and Napoleon ILL.,, ana
because the sound politicians Of Versailles pretend
TO impose upon them, to-day, Henri ", the
Comte de Paris Napoleon w., or MacMahon to
govern them. But 1t always was the destiny Of
republicans (and so it will be till the day of defn
tive triumph) to be illuminated Whatever we
may do, bad faith is watching us In order to adul.
/ terate our best intentions. After the Commune
the whole of the detective Catholicism urged that
should be burned alive as an atheist, because my