The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-16
Answer to Mrs. Pratt.

beg you will kindly grant me a
place in your valued paper for these
few lines which | feel in duty bound
to write in answer to the article Of
your Thursdays issue, signed by
Elizabeth Kekaaniau Laanui Pratt.
Having always heard her spoken
Of as superior person, | feel sur
prised at the resentful spirit she dis
plays throughout her article to par
ties quite out of the question, and
which does not vindicate her cause.
Professor Alexander's words quot
ed from his Brief. History do not
imply what age Mr.. Rives was when
he arrived in Hawaii, as man of
any age could have been twelve
years on the islands" when he en-
barked on board of L'Aigle! And
good critics of various creeds have
acknowledged the professor to be
careful, truthful writer in his Brief
History, thus exonorating him Of
any "bigoted rancor" towards sim
gle individual. Moreover, there are
records in the official archives of
this country that establish the his
tory of Mr.. Rives, which no mis-
sionary can change, and Mrs. Pratt
can read at any time for herself.
Then comes the first slur l have
ever known to be made upon the
well-known and highly-respected
name of the Rev. Mr.. Ellis, in a
paragraph full of the bitterest
charges against a body of faithful
old missionaries here, whose names
are revered by Royalist and Annex
ationist, whose loyalty to this coun-
try was sealed by devoted act,
going against the policy of their
own countrymen, for the sake of the
people they SO truly loved, as re-
corded in the Professors History,
and to whose faith Mrs. Pratt has
SO long been considered consistent
adherent.
The character and mission of Mr..
Ellis here and elsewhere have been
"known and read of all men," so
that the term of Smuggling himself
into hostile camp" falls short Of
touching near his person. And writ
ten, authentic accounts of Mr.. Ellis
prove him to have been a true Eng
lish gentleman of culture and refine
ment, and quite as polished and
educated as Mr.. Rives; and quota
tions from his valued works and
praises of him by American, French
and English writer's, would do honor
even to the successful rival, Rives,"
while nowhere can it be found that
"Mr Ellis and his party have ever
since found a kind of consolation in
traducing" him. And it is quite
probable that the names of those
missionaries will shine upon the
pages of Hawaiian History as long
as that of Mr.. Rives.
Mrs. Pratt will do we'll to read
over Arago's account of her grand
father, which is in good English
print at the Library, and of which
have extracts before me now.
The open-hearted manner in
which the American Missionaries in
vited Mr.. Ellis and some Tahitian
teachers to come into their field of
labor, is among the most pleasing
features of the history of the Pro-
testant mission here, and harmony
pervaded throughout their labors.
And we must admit that the in
tolerance or persecution of the
Roman Catholics by the Protestants
here, so much referred to of late,
have been very mild compared with
those of the mother church to her
'heretic children" in France, Italy,
Spain, Portugal, South America and
elsewhere, at that same Deriod and
until much later. While only very
gradually does the sectarian wall
that severed creeds and denomina,
tions, begin to crumble away, be,
cause the "leaven" is leavening "the
whole lump" FROM a FRIEND.
The success of Mrs. Annie Nj
Beam, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania
in the treatment of diarrhuea in hel
childran will un6o,,ht adv ba Of in