The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-06-07

S1E:-with reference to intimations in your
recently published letters, that there are those
connected with the p l. d S. Co., who wanted to go
or get their friends 10 60 either to Washington
OF into any Cabinet here allow to say, that you
are wholly in error. You use harsh expressions
towards the Trustees Of that company which /
think are not justified by the facts, whatever may
be your feeling towards any of them personally.
will not handy words with you, but / am quite
confident that, if you had been disembarrassed of
official place during the fortnight before your
resignati on, you would have found yourself heart
ily in accord with the views of the Trustees. You
say that nothing was 10 be done about the Treaty,
until next December, and you intimate that the
Trustees were infatuated with the idea that some
thing must be done at once and that on them
rested the responsibility of doing it. You infer
that in their folly and infatuation, they made
some stupendous mistake which they now seek to
cover up by blaming you for inaction about the
Treaty. II is true that those who make mistakes
are not fond of admitting them; but am not
aware of any mistake having been made in this
matter, either doing you injustice, or by precipi
tating. you think was done, your retirement
and Mr.. GibsOn's entry into office. Neither your
self nor the country could have received benent
from the heated session which was before YOU
In resigning, you did precisely what one ought TO
have done under the circumstances, but / sin
cerely regret that you should assign the grounds
you have assigned for SO doing. The Trustees, as
far as / know, have not thought that anything
was TO be done about the Treaty in Washington
before December; but they hoped 10 sec both
ministerial and legislative expression Of willing
ness to modify the Treaty so as 10 make II more
acceptable to the people of the United States and
thereby to secure, if possible its continuance. II
YOU infer that such notifications were meant to
include any gratuItous or uniustifable conces-
sons. cession of territory, or anything which any
sensible man, whether of Hawaiian, British or
American origin, could not fully approve, you
have no basis, of which | know, for such infer
ence.
You must know that at the lsst your Ministry had
no cohesive force. / do not believe that you, any
more than the community, approved all the
expenditures of public money made in the last
two years. When attacks against your Ministry
went on, you could not expect the sense of this
community to support you IN those outlays espe-
cially when you, for some strange reason, began
TO express distrust of the motives of those who
gladly would have strengthened your hand in i'm
migration and Treaty matters. The only effect
of trying TO sustain your Ministry would have
been not to prevent its downfall, but to lend sane
tion 10 more Objectionable uses Of public money
by its successors
influence here A small State, whether it likes it
OF not and it usually likes and seeks after it, is
always liable TO have some one of such influences
preponderate over the Others On the question
whether that influence here should be British,
German or American, ! do not suppose that in
your usual calm mood you entertain any doubt,
but l think your present feeling is due TO your
notion that some persons have tried to accom-
plish selfish personal ambitions, and at your
expense. Time, / trust, will serve to dispel your
present impressions and find you the enthu-
siastiC cO-worker for the public benefit which you
we're used to be.
| have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
ALFRED S. HARTwELL.
Honolulu, June >, 1882.