The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-02-19
THE SACKVlLLE INCIDENT.
Eloquent Speech OF Lord Dunraven in
the House OF Lords.
Reprinted by request. ]

Reprinted by request.
In the House of Lords December
Dist the Earl of Dunraven. speaking
on the Sackville incident, said -
do not propose to go into details.
The sooner the episode is buried, to
my mind. the better, but l must ex-
press regret that the papers have not
been presented to Parliament 1
trust that this viii be done before
Parliament is prorogued. Whether
the circumstance IS correctly des-
cribed by the Prime Minister as an
episode in electioneering, whether
our minister was entirely to blame,
whether he technically or uninten-
tionally committed blunder, whe
Their the United States Government
was fully justified under any clrcum-
stances or by the peculiar circum-
stances Of the moment, are all mat
tiers beside my point, which Is, who
ever is to blame, surely it would have
been more digniied on our part and
more worthy of our position to have
taken no notice of the matter, which,
as the Prime Minister early re-
marked, is no matter affecting the
two nations. In the case of some
foreign powers, different considera
tons would affect US, but our rela-
tons with the United States are pc
cuiar. We use the word foreign
toward them because there is no
other suitable expression, but l am
loath to use the term toward the
great republic. The United States
is, automatically speaking, foreign
power, but she can never be for
eign land to us. Her citizens are
mainly men Of the same race and
lineage as ourselves, having the
same names, speaking the same
tongue, worshipping under the same
form of religion and living under
the same common law Their insti-
tutions, though differing, are very
similar in their integral respects to
our own and are founded on the
same love of liberty and law and ca
pacity for self-government. 1t is i'm
possible to look upon such a people
as foreigners, though one is obliged
to speak Of their country as a foreign
power. OF all the civilized nations
we alone can understand the United
States. and she alone can under
stand US in respect to the difficulties
inseparable from the system Of party
Any misunderstanding
arising between US would be held to
be most depl6rable 10y vast major
ity Of all thinking men on both sides
of the Atlantic l fear that speak
ing Of the circumstances as belong
ing to the history Of electioneering
may have an irritating effect upon
public opinion IN America. Be that |
as it may, it is certain that any longer
delay in filling up Lord Sackyille's
place is liable to be misunder-
stood by the American people. [
hold it to be our first duty to avoid |
the possibility of anything that may |
lead to a want of sincere friendship |
between the mother country and |
the colonies, and after that | con
slider it our second duty to avoid |
any such possibility between the
United States and ourselves. Before
long another minister will be ac-
to the Court of st. James;
all who know Mr.. Phelps personally,
and all who recognize the dignity
and courtesy with which he has dis
charged his duties, will anticipate it
with regret If we hesitate and de-
lay to accredit a minister at Wash
ington, the United States may retail
ate by delaying to aceredit minister
to US. Two great international
questions are awaiting solution
fishery and extradition-and these
We cannot hope to settle except
Under conditions of real friendship
between the two countries. There
lore l ask the Prime Minister
the Government intends to
appoint minister to succeed Lord
SacEyilla at WASHINGTON