Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-03

and all the other Cabinet Ministers, men,
bers of the House of Mobiles and Priyy
Council, foreign Ministers and Consuls,
representative business men, interested and
disinterested in plantations, clergymen,
lawyers, doctors, editors, and everybody,
discloses the fact that they are equally un-
informed, and not few insisted that if
anything like slavery did exist they them
selves were the slaves, and proceeded to
demonstrate the fact by that line of argu.
ment followed by San Francisco editors
who aspire to the upper realms OF litera-
ture as historians of the Sandwich Islands,
falling back upon their fancy for their facts.
THE UNFATHoMABLE IGNORANCE
OF facts disclosed in the statement that no
attempt has been made to defend our
slavery system" except by one paper,
edited by brother of one of the royal
household of Kalakaua, and the malicious
inference drawn therefrom, are beyond
comprt hension. In the first place, mo such
brother has any interest in any paper
in the kingdom secondly, none OF the
royal family nor any of their relations have
anything to do with the ownership or man
agement OF any paper, native or foreign ;
and thirdly, not one paper, but every pa.
per in the kingdom, native and foreign, IT.
respective of political leanings and fac
tional contentious, denies the whole story
from beginning to end, as one 5egotten in
contemplate ignorance and misanthrophy.
The bungling description of sort of
legerdemain attributed to planters whereby,
in paying laborers' taxes to the Govern
ment, planters pay the money to them.
selves, ID as bad English as it is wide
of the truth, disclosing another instance
of density of ignorance of Hawaiian affairs,
as well as q viciousness of motive. A mo-
ment's thought will convince any reasoning
intelligence that a planter is short.
sighted ninny who does not take an in
terest in his laborers, and in point of fact
every planter does take an interest in his
men, and is almost il not altogether as So
is of his own. The "revolver," "whip, -
terrorizing, " " manning. " :" killing, etc.,
are not found any nearer these islands than
is the corner Of Kearny and Bush streets,
San Francisco, which, in round numbers,
is 1900 miles away. The sympathies OF
our government and community are all
thrown
ON THE SIDE OF THE LABoRER.
Men in many cases prefer to go bare
footed and lightly clad. If this be twisted
into point against the planter, then by
parity of reasoning the Russian man-of-war
fleets Admiral was guilty OF like cruelty,
for his sailors went about Honolulu with
bare feet, and only sufficient clothing to
cover their nakedness. Natives seldom
wear anything upon their feet, and those
who do wear shoes take them off when it
rains, if they be not too much worn. In
like manner they formerly went naked
in rainy weather, and put on their fine
clothes when the sun shone. The sub
joined letter, which appeared in the Satur-
day Press, was written by A. Unna, Dan
ish Consul on Mani, in answer to San
Francisco journalists inquiries. The can.
mons referred TO were brought here by the
bark w. G. Murray, recently from San
Francisco. In order to explode gunpowder,
natives resorted to charging anvil holes
Herewith on the occasion of Mrs. Dominis
(Regent) visit to plantations, on recent
tour of the islands. MIR. Unna's hands
will have something less awkward and
dangerous to handle: a lr,
HAMA PLANTATION, November IL, 1881.
Will Carson, Esq--Dear Sir: have just received
your letter OF the Sth inst and such OF laugh
ter burst out around me when read it that wish
you had heard How is it possible that people liv
| ing in this niaeteenth century can believe the
Chronicles outrageous accounts Of slavery in the
! Sandwich Islands? have been sugar planter fol
the last twenty years, living here surrounded bi
| natives, and employing them contract la
borers, together with Cinnamon, South Sc;
Islanders and others. I never carried
loaded pistol always sleep will
| open windows and doors (without keys to loci
! them. ANY person might walk into my sleeping
room during the night and dep TT again, unmo
Tested. When have occasion to travel TO Honolulu
or elsewhere my wife occupies our house alone, with
| only servants at distance, should untoward cir
cumstances render aid necessary. My safe never
hiss been broken open, nor attempts made to break
| it am much safer here than in the best hotels in
San Francisco. If you want to live among good PEG
| pie and have kind neighbors, you will find them
among the natives here. If you have sugar mill
in out-of-the-way part Of the country, you can
not afford to knock off whenever your people take
fancy to attend some feast otherwise leave you
without warning therefore, it is found nee.
essary to have contract labor, and when you con.
| slider that saYages from the Gilbert Islands arc
! not on pr with citizens OF the United States
you will easily the necessity Of having different
| laws for different people. Ii the Chronicle has
slavery on the brain, it is at liberty to publish the
fact. Certainly there is nothing that warrants the
name OF slavery on the Sandwich Islands. There
are more crushing slaveries the opposite side Of
the pend-I mean the big monopolies, the enslay-
ing rule of the dollar, for instance-than ex
| listed these islands. The slave-driyor's whip
never was seen here. We never have known what
it is to sell people, you did only few years ago
in the United States We have raised 90 mig
gers ior sale. Let white man lay his hand on a
native, and within twenty-four hours he Will be
fined and Imprisoned. / have no time to write
more: my slaves are waiting for me. l might
fill feos wing that this is happy and free coun-
try and that the people here heartily sick OF the
mock philanthropy poured out in the Chronicle and
other dirty sheets. 1 bought in Frisco two cannon
fire salutes joyful occasions. They should be
filed with grape and fired at the Ebelous sheea
Yours truly, A. UNNA.
THE PARENTHETICAL PORTION
Was omitted by the Press because its ed
itor thought it invited burglary, forgetting
that everybody in the district knows how
implicitly Mr.. Unna relies upon the integ-
rity and good will of his neighbors and
servants. To be sure, some San Francisco
sharp might drop down. Let him try.
Should he ever get back, he would only
add 10 the squad of Hawaii's traducers.
The residents of Burlington, Vt, stand
as high morally as any New England town