Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-09-25

and Hawaiian in particular and have gone
for precedents and illustrations to the
records Of Great Britain, France and the
United States. We are in no sense "en-
deavoring to enlist sympathy for fallen
Ministry" or stating that the Hawaiian
Sovereign has violated the letter of the Con-
stitution. This constitution Lex" informs
us, is written, complete, we'll defined and
leaves nothing to the imagination"
Granted, but does this complete, well de-
fined, unimaginative document, leave no
latitude or liberty of action to those APP
pointed to carry it out? The difference be-
tween chalk and cheese may be very apt
and original comparison, but the connec-
ton between the letter and the spirit Of a
law may be severed, and II so, then wrong
fully. Public opinion, again, differ from
these two, Just as a Judge differs from the
pleaders on either side The Sovereign in
"his difficulty and apprehended danger"
we are told, dismissed "his Ministry and
appointed new one, in both cases acting
within his clearly defined constitutional
prerogative." Granted again, but whence
the difficulty? Whence the apprehension
1t is not the facts Of dismssals and appoint
ments that we have all along been referring
to, but the time and the mode. The Mott
Smith Ministry and the Wilder Ministry
Ito give them name) were dismissed with
in few days, in each case, OF their having
received vote Of confidence, or defeating
vote Of want of confidence, i'm the Legisla-
ture and within few hours, of an oral as
nf HI 1t,ill
the Royal lips Will LEX" kindly fur.
nish us with precedents to suit these cases
Now we come to the complaints against the
illustrations of our arguments, wherein we
were supposing other chief magistrates sent
for non-qualitied or unsuitable persons to
put into responsible positions. Purposcly,
we want for field for illustrations OF our
arguments, SO far, that we did not suppose
that any one, least of all an apologst of the
Ministry under discussion, would delber-
ately pick up their illustrations and care
fully fix them, as caps on the heads of those
whom he obviously thinks they best fit
| Save me from my friends! these unfor-
tunate Ministers might we'll exclaim. We
know of scarce any instance in which a
writer, called on to bless his friends did, so
completely, the reverse, unless it be our ac-
quaintance of the Pue Aind, who declared
His Elk. Moreno martyrized' and then
gibbetted his colleagues AS malefactors. !"
We lay claim to a place amongst those
who are deeply interested in good govern
ment, but how about a defender of receut
| transactions, who speaks of the "evil that
has hitherto predominated?"
"The writer in the Express shows a
want of knowledge" of the English Ian
| guage when he calls d passing imaginary
parallel about the President of the French
| Republic making an undesirable appoint
ment "diah'ibe." AS to the appointment
of Richards, Armstrong, and Bingham
"this Editor" is not unaware, and val.
ued correspondent has relieved us, from the
necessity of explaining the complete disimi
larity of those cases, and these which we
were last week discussing
Our article rebels says Lex, good word
which is favorte with the Express, MS q
noun, as verb, the accent now ON this
syllable, now on that, the word has beer
flung at us over and over again; so be it, il
will be interpreted not in accordance with
the canons of the Express but with those
of upright public opinion, and common
sense, "a vast difference 1t has been left
to " Lex" to imagine that anyone suppose
that IL man can possess in good qualities be
cause he is of this, that, or the other pro
fession.
we never suggested Sucn an idea; II doe
not require very deep knowledge of Ha
waiian history to know that DR.. Judd wa
a doctor, or DR.. Hutchison another, or ever
that Mr. Wyllie had practised as physic
ian. Such knowledge is not monopolizet
by Lex, but he is welcome to the sol
possession of the unreasonable deduction
he attempts to saddle on us. Lex mus
be Ignorant on all laws, Hawaiian or other
if he thinks that there ever yet was any law
enacted, whether in the shape of Consti
tuition or u Statute, which does not nee,
definition in Courts of law, which delive
their decision from time to time, so as t.
meet the varying and never ceasing vicissi
tudes of human affairs.
Lex, surely the most unhappy partisan
that party was ever loaded with, des
cribes the Sovereign as wisely and patriot
cally shaking the Kingdom to its centr
in his convulsive efforts to escape from mis-
government! we are glad it did not fall t,
our lot to use such language.