The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-08

on a road near Samalangum and after
Staying five of the workers, escaped to their
mountain retreat, without any loss to them
selves"
Now we nave said that Holland is tri-
umphant; but is it a triumph for a Chris
tian nation of say three millions of people
with large opportunities for enterprise and
wealth in all quarters of the world, to sue
ceed by the exercise of her power, with the
wicked concurrence of British East India
policy, in destroying a once flourishing
state of a quarter of a million of people,
and to leave the land so desolate, that the
wild beasts come to destroy the remnant of
the people? Is it q triumph for a distin-
guished European state to crush with its
whole power and influence a petty Asiatic
state that will not consent TO foreign dom
ination The blood of Acheen mist cry
unto heaven against the Christian state of
Holland. The blood of the women and
children slain by the tigers of Sumatra
will go before the Throne of Divine Justice,
along with the blood of the martyrs de-
voured in the ancient arenas of Rome; and
Holland like Rome, will be accused and
doomed by the blood of the helpless and
the innocent. And we say still, " that the
day for the decline of Holland in the Malay
Archipelago has really come, and she too
mus pass away like Portugal" This must
be so, when she is una BILE to maintain n
government in a country, except by mill
tary butchery.
This subject, the fate of Acheen will
awaken a little attention in the minds of
many of our readers when we state that MIR.
Moreno, who was with us in 1850, was at
one time in the service of the Sultan of
Acheen, and that he went to Washington
in 1870, as agent of the Sultan TO offer for
sale a small island, Pulo Way, near the
coast of Acheen to the American Govern
ment for the sum of one million dollars, to
be expended in arms to enable the Achinese
to resist the power of Holland h threat
ened. Mr.. Seward was favorable to the
purchase as a coaling station but subse-
quently the interest in San Domingo, Saint
Thomas and other foreign matters, diverted
the attention of American authorities from
the offer of the Sultan of Acheen and he
went into war unprovided and weak
handed.
The Government of Netherlands, India
has recently published, December %, 1881,
a series of kilograms in an official paper ut
Batavia, the Java Bode, in which appre-
hension of American intervention, or CO.
operation with Acheen is set forth, as.one
of the causes for precipitating the war with
that country. The editor says :-"There
cannot be the slightest doubt, but that the
Achinese after finding that England had
deserted them in the shameful way she did,
did their utmost to obtain aid and counten-
ance from America and Italy. In doing
this the Achinese Sultan was very i'll
advised and sh~ortsighted, and there can be
no doubt acted wOfully against the true in
terest of his country. Whatever encourage
ment may hav been given to him by re-
personalities of America or Italy, there
was not the slightest reason to hope that
the Government of these Powers would
embroil themselves in such a remote
region for the sake of their limited trade,
and very circumscribed interests"
The following are some of the kilograms,
from the Dutch agentat Singapore =" 18th
February, 1873, discovered intrigues of
much Importance by Achinese Envoy with
American and Italian agents whereby i'm
mediate action will probably become ne
cessary."-READ.
General Loude in command of the
Netherlands forces in Malaysia, thus tele-
graphs to the iniste of the Colonies at
the Hague:
"22nd February, 1S73-Resolved to send
four battalions to Acheen with ultimatum,
to acknowledge us as sovereign, or war.
We must receive America with fdit accom-
phi.
"3rd March, 1873-The Vice-Presiden of
Netherlands-India Council leaves Bata-
via in a couple of days with two vessels of
war for Acheen to nave us acknowledged as
sovereign or war, and thus be beforehand
with America"
Thus poor Acheen was ruined. Her Sui
tan or Kings hopes were raised that he
could get a million of dollars, or supply of
arms to enable him to defy a
European Power. His hope in the help of
America or Italy was a dream. TIL Dutch
general eager for pretext of war, and know
ing well that the American Government
had no purpose of intervening in Suma-
ira, yet urges his pretended apprehensions
of intervention upon the Achinese. He pays,
however, the penalty of his rapacious en-
croachment on a small weak state with his
life. Three important expeditions of Dutch
troops are severely handled and defeated by
the Achinese and only after repeated re-
Inducements of European troops with arms
of precision, are the Achinese finally
massacred not conquered. And Holland
is covered with everlasting infamy, and
cursed with the blood of a destroyed people.