The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-02

Board have, therefore, forborne to press the pro-
ject, and have taken Mr.. Carriers advice, to await
u more favorable opportunity" How was this :
The British Government was ready at once TO seho
Mr.. Wodehouse to India in order to facilitate
matters, according to one statement, ana were
favorable to our having these Indians according TO
a subsequent statement of Mr.. Carter but the
famine in Understanding to the Ministers report
presented insurmountable obstacles and more
over, " the Board (of Immigration) have taken
Mr.. Carter's advice to await q more favorable OPP
portunity."
Shortly after Mr.. Carter's return, his presence
was required before the Legislative Assembly
then in session. Government opposed the resolu-
ton. The Assembly insisted. Ministers iaid tne
resolution before one or more Judges OF the
Snnreme Cont. and asked for advice. The next
day the Foreign Minister. Mr.. B. A. Peirce, notiRed
the Assembly that be had received a communiea-
ton from the King, which His Majesty desired
should be laid before it. By that letter the Ming
was made to declare that the resolution was uu-
precedented in tenor. and that the Assembly, IN
passing it, had assumed an authority which ne
should not permit it to exercise. This insulting
language, amounting almost, IL not quite, loa
threat. occurred twice in that exquisite letter.
Whose teaching was this Was it the work Of
g such unprincipled men as Moreno?" Was IL not
a fitting Introduction to what has taken place
during the last six weeks Ia thorough practical
lesson in ruling regardless Of the Constitution
bestowed by his specially trusted advisers on the
Sovereign ? Was it an Intentional Indictment to a
collision between him aud the. Assembly / can
not say. If it were. it happily tailed. When the
letter was called Tor by the late Assembly it was not
to be found. nor u copy either. Why suppress it?
1t is not generally the case that State documents
OF the Grst Importance are destroyed by their
authors.
When, in the early part of last year, ON the
arrival of q gentleman (Mr. Hornt) who afforded
much valuable information on the subject OF East
Indians, 1, perfectly unconscious of the means en-
ployed in London to prevent their introduction.
and relying implicitly on the good faith of the
statement that Ministers awaited only "a more
favorable opportunity - to introduce them, when
1. / say, Judging that that favorable opportunity
had arrived, proposed TO memorabilia the King to
make another attempt to introduce those people,
Judge my ~surprize at finding nearly all the forces
OF Government arrayed against me-the Chief and
First Associate Judges of the Supreme Court, the
Minister of the Interior and the Ambassador,
brothers-in-law of the latter. and the Minister OF
Finance, John M. Kapena, whose signature was
to the report, all opposed me by every
means in their power. OF course they prevailed
and at the meeting Of the Legislative Assembly, a
few months ago. the Minister of the Interior pro-
Tossing to give an account of his correspondence
with planters. merchants aud Others on this sub
iect. mentioned some twelve names of agents,
emitting some forty or more planters on the sixty
two plantations. and a petition signed by more
than one hundred and twenty of the merchants
and shopkeepers of Honolulu.
Has the royal scholar proved apt 20 bis teach
ingS Does he not do them credit Rather pre-
cocious. perhapsi He has certainly OF late gone
farther than was intended, and in a different direc-
ton but, in my judgment, all the arbitrary acts
that have lately taken place may be traced back
as a consequence of that letter, and similar uncon-
proceedings for years past r@t 80
The Gazette favors the idea. and shows the neces-
sity of conforming to the Constitution 1t says
I'VE say that it is only by rigidly conforming to
the spirit of the Constitution that Hawaiian indie
pendence and welfare can be secured. Will the
editor say whether the sending Of the letter above
mentioned from the Sovereign to the Legislature
was Constitutional or not 2 He can hardly forget
the circumstance. Does he know that, advocating.
nay, enforcing as he does in his writings the doc
trine of conforming rigidly to the Constitution. one
" u AShbtCAGSh III hO" uRHSA 1880 P01ASAS
declared that g there are times when the Consti-
tuition sinks into insignifcance." What does the
Gazette say to that How will it reconcile such
discordance OF principle Can it?
/ agree with the Gazette that it is most desirable
there should be can end once and forever of any
idea of personal rule" / go further, and say not
only OF personal rule, but of the rule of fraud and
conspiracy rule in which the Constitution OF
tho land ,s uftorlv disroWardad hv tina rnlars-a
the interests of the many to the schemes
OF the few-a rule careless of the wrongs it in
ficts on the people in the reckless prosecution OF
its own sinister designs-a rule madly aiming ut
the triumph OF evil over eternal justice. 1850
In order to secure this most desirable end; in
our intervention affairs by representatives OF great
Powers of the world having already taken place;
as a member of the Privy Council of three success
sive Kings, and of the House of Mobiles for the Hast
six years, sworn to faithfully support the Consti-
tuition, 1 ofaciously offer my advice to King
Kalakaua to make an autographs appeal to the
head of each of the powerful and benevolent
countries whose representatives have interviewed
to continue their Intervention to the extent of caus-
ing a searching international examination into Ha-
waiiau affairs, and devising measures to save him
self and his country from the dangers threatening
them.
This letter is but a sketch hastily written. requir-
ing much 6lling in, perhaps containing some mac
but in writing it 1 have been buoyed by
the hope that it may be instrumental in checking
some evil, and promoting some good.
~ t.W GODFREY RHODES.
Honolulu. September 80. 1880.
MI. carter's letter to King Kalakaua, October 8, 1877.
I Mr.. Carriers Report 70 Mr.. =: 4: PIERCE, Hawaiian
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