The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-09-17

alarm by a majority Of their fellow-resi-
dents Of foreign extraction in Honolulu.
AS TO their success with the chiefs and the
more intelligent among the natives, even
Mr.. O'Meara is careful To say very little.
He tells us indeed, after speaking Of the We
hement opposition to ii Of Lot Paki, that
other chiefs and mobiles favored it, But
he only ventures to name two of these, and
after the bold manner in which he claims
Mr.. Wylie a. an ardent advocate of the
scheme. we may take leave to doubt the
accuracy of his memory in regard to Ne
halekea and HAWAI-. They never succeed
ed and never could IA succeeded in per-
suading the chiefs and people that it was q
desirable thing to sell their birthright in
the independence OF Hawaii, and if he
treaty had really been signed as Mr.. O'Meor
would have Us believe il nearly was, it
could only have gone into operation 10y the
aid ofan overshadowing force. the pro-
ject ever got beyond the stage Of negOtia-
tion-that m one among the natives,
beyond the old King himself, was heartily
prepared TO accept the proposed treaty We
DO not believe neither do we believe that
the Government of the United States was
ever an actual party to the negotiation, or
that the President and his advisers had
ever seriously considered the idea of pay
ing life annuities to the value of 100000
for the sake of anneXing this little territory.
What this writer speaks Of as the intended
signature of a treaty could but have been
the final assent, by the King, TO a PROPOSE
tion to be made in his name, which no
Government of the United States would
ever have ventured to submit to Congress
! for acceptance.
Mr.. O'Meara's qualifications as a truthful
historian may be gauged by the falsity of
the account of the death of Kamehameha
Ill, with which he concludes his little
narrative. The story of the old King dying
in consequence of drinking a foot-bath of
brandy is a vulgar pothouse invention,
utterly false, and devoid of the smallest
particle of foundation. But why break
this fly upon the wheel ?" What concerns
us most in connection with his article is
the question What instigated him TO
write it Its publication, if not actually
~instigated by the little clique who still
banker after the absurd project of annex
ing these islands TO the United States, and
who nave disseminated the wild story
about the design of Kalakaua to sell his
kingdom to the Chinese, has certainly been
Occasioned by the circulation of this and
other stupid fables. If they can raise q
feeling of uneasiness in America, and dis
credit the King with his WI people and
with his European allies, they fancy that
their cherished project may be accom-
plished. This margarine article is but of a
piece with the newspaper squibs that have
been so freely circulated of late. What
view the writer himself had in preparing Ii
is not difficult to discover. His closing
words, already quoted, are significant as tc
the tendency of his wishes. We, and the
great majority of his subjects, however, are
not in fear as to what answer the future
career of King Kalakaua, as the Constitu.
tional monarch of Hawaii, will give. to the
question" What will he do with hi.
kingdom ?"