The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-06-21
BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONIAL.

BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONIAL.
Illuminated Address from Hawaiian
Patriotic League to Mr.. Nord-
hoff.
Next to the handsome gold headed
sented by the Hawaiian Women's
Patriotic League to Mr.. Charles
Nordhoff, the Herald correspondent
has reason to treasure as the chief
souvenir of his second visit to these
islands an address presented to him
by the Hawaiian Patriotic League
on board of the Australia just be-
fore departure. 1t is gorgeously
executed in illuminated engrossing
by Hawaiian youth, w. f. Kaae,
the wealth of color being expended
in such taste as to avoid all tawdri-
ness. Surmounting the text is an
artistic design of the American eagle
grasping the crossed stats carrying
the American and Hawaiian flags.
The address is enclosed in a 30in.x
22in. frame of oxydized silver fur
nished by the Pacific Hardware Co.
Its text is as follows:
To CHAs. NoRpHoFF, ESQ, Correspon-
dent of the New York Herald.
Sir The Hawaiian Patriotic
League desire to take this method to
express their deep appreciation of
the friendly attitude of yourself and
of the great paper which you repre-
sent, towards the Hawaiian people.
Moreover, we desire to extend to you
our sympathies and friendship, in
view of the wanton threats and abu-
sive conduct of the hireling press of
this town, and of the demagogue
adherents of the revolutionary gov
ernment against your honored self.
Your letters to the Herald have
been fearless and truthful expose
of the great injustice that has been
committed against the Hawaiian
Queen and People, and all your
statements have touched upon the
unpleasant truth so close as to cause
the parties exposed to vince. Even
your statements concerning the
Lottery affair are not so far wrong
if at alias can be proved by the
true petitions themselves and the
affidavits of those who solicited
signatures.
You came out to Honolulu many
years before, and found happy
community and hospitable people.
You came again to find a condition
of chaos and unrest caused by fill
clustering policy of clique, inspired
by morbid greed for power and
the spoils of office, which had been
denied them by majority of the
People at the polls. But we trust
you will not charge the inhospitality
towards you of your present visit,
to the Hawaiians. Your acumen
will be sufficient to discover the
class and character of the aliens
whose selfshness and vanity have
overturned once orderly and
happy land and bred bitterness in
the community.
The Hawaiians still boast of their
oldtime hospitality and of their in
comparable regard for law and Or
der. Though our countrymen are
fairly thrown out of Office to make
room for alien adventures and the
public funds are being consumed by
an alien soldiery living in luxury
and paid an extraordinary salary of
$40 per month for useless services,
still we, the Hawaiians, submit
patiently to the rule of the Pro-
visional Government while the ap-
peal of our Queen to the United
States Of America is sub judice.
Hoping that no idle and vulgar
threats will deter you from continu-
ing your noble campaign for truth
and justice, and that our cause, the
preservation of the Independence OF
Hawaii and the restoration of he1
legitimate ruler Queen Liliuokalani
will continue to be favored by youl
sympathies, and hoping to be able
before long to tender you better
proofs of Hawaiian hospitality, we
are instructed by the Hawaiian Patri
otic League to beg you to accept
the assurances of respect and friend.
ship of the Hawaiian Nation towards
yourself, and also our admiration oi
the enterprising and inhuentia!
paper you have the honor to repre-
sent here. JOHN A. CUMMINs,
Honorary President
JOSEPH NAwAHI, o.
President
j. E. Bush,
Vice-President
JAS. X. KAULIA,
Secretary
Besides the address the League
presented Mr.. Nordhoff with group
photograph of their representative
committee, Mr.. John A. Cummins
imposing presentiment occupying
the middle position.
Floating Bottom Up.
Another derelict has been sighted