The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-03-10
A weII.Mcrited Compliment.

In the March number of the Friend
we find letter, understood TO be from the
pen of DR.. R. W. Wood, now of Boston,
but formerly of this city. 1t contains the
highest compliment which has yet been
paid to King Kalakaua, when 1t says that
in all his intercourse with the public, in his
tour through America, King Kalakaua
has always said and done the right thing
at the right time and in the right place"
Rer. S. c. Damon, Hoaolll,,-AIy DEAR
SIR-Never has President of the United
States met with more brilliant receptions
than have been accorded to King Kalakaua
during his journey from Omaha through
the principal cities to Boston.
In one respect, Kalallaua's triumph sur
passes that of any of his predecessors. All
political parties and all classes of men have
We'd with each other to pay him suitable
homage.
A becoming kngly dignity without pride,
pretense, or ostentation, has gained him
universal admiration whilst his modest,
frank and cordial bearing has won all hearts
wherever and whenever he has allowed him.
self to be presented to the public-more os-
pecially the hearts of ladies-due no doubt
TO the Kings gallantry-as alta large gath
ering Of members of the Hawaiian Club and
others, at a reception given by VIM. F.
Brigham, Esq, of Boston, where the King
saw more of the sex than at any previous
reception-he was heard to remark that he
was tired of talking with gentlemen, but
would be pleased to talk with ladies. No
corporation or body of men have appeared
more gratihed with thecordial greeting given
them by the King, than the officers and
patrons of the American Board at recep-
ton, on the same day of his arrival in this
city, at the house of Hon. Alpheus Hardy,
where His Majesty, in the fullest, sincerest
and most gracious manner, recognized his
obligations to the American Board, through
whose instrumentality his people had become
a Christian and civilized nation. But that
you may not think that our love of Hawaii
has lent the color of the rose to my state
ments, l give you the impression the Kings
visit has made upon disinterested elderly
"a friend of mine-and who,
though he has never seen the King or taken
special interest in Hawaiian Affairs, is q very
close and accurate observer of men, as he
has been of the reported conversations and
addresses of the King on divers
occasions to private andpublic bodies of men,
to such interviews, my friend
(and [ never knew him to do or say a false
thing) remarked, "He has never made
mistake. He has everywhere sowed pure
wheat and no tares'-and he continued in
substance: whenever and wherever he
has been presented or called upon for re-
cognition of the homage sought to be paid
to him, whether by Ecclesiastical, Educa-
tional, Railroad, or Manufacturing Corpo- |
rations whether by Governors and Coun- |
sells, Mayors and Aldermen, or the multi !
tudes that have greeted and cheered him at !
every railroad station, King Kalakaua has
always said and done the right thing-at
he right time and in the right place he .
mas never made a mistake"
l have myself felt surprised at this, as l
believe this to be his first visit to foreign
country and have sometimes cast an eve
behind him to see if | could discover advi-
'ois anu pIolhpters, oub HaNe never us
covered any. His own good sense and tact,
presume, have been his only advisers and
,rompters; and these appear never to have
orsaken him.
King Kalakaua's visit appears to have
'ut the people and theprees in good humor
owards himself and people, so that the dis
pprobation of constituents is less to be
cared now by members of Congress in the
natter of the Treaty than at any former
eriod; but should the treaty fail the Kings
isit viii not be lost, for it has raised HIM
elf and his people in the estimation of his
riends, and at the same time disabused the
linds of those who remember the Sand
'ich Islands only as they were in the days
{ Captain Cook.