The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-16
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

SOME INTERESTING "REMINISCENCES RE-
GARDING THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, BY
LONG RESIDENT OF THAT COUNTRY.
Through the kindness of Miss S. L.
P. of our town, we are PERMITTED to
publish a part of a private letter of very
great interest at this time, from Doctor
j. NJ. Whitney, dated Honolulu, Janu-
ary 4th, 1894.
DR.. Whitney is dentist by profession.
born in Marlboro, Vt, is descended
from an old stock of that name, long and
favorably known in the southern part of
our State, graduated at Oberlin, Ohio
studied medicine and dentistry four
years IN Phi ladelpha, after which he
emigrated to the Islands about 1869.
He soon became identified with the
country and its people ard permanently
established himself in business there.
He has prospered financially and be-
come one of the leading citizens of Hon.
olulu, and now claims that country to
be his by adoption.
We deem it fortunate that we can lay
before our readers statement of the un
happy condition of things, as they have,
and do now, to some extent, exist upon
the Islands, from one whose means of
knowing the facts whereof he speaks,
have been ample, and whose statements
will be taken as true, and without ques-
ton, by all who know DR.. j. NJ. Whit
ney.
This letter was not written for publ
cation, and we only take from it so much
as relates to the controversy between
our government and the Provisional
government of the Islands.
After the common salutation between
correspondents, the doctor goes on to
say: 1--WE have been under such heavy
state of excitement for so long a time
that we hardly know anything but War;
| War!
Before the Alameda came IN bringing
| the news of the demand of Congress to
Cleveland to hands off, l, with hundreds
of other patriots, who had pledged their
lives to the maintenance of the Provis-
ional government, expected every hour
to be called upon to face our only foe,
the United States naval forces, forced
reluctantly upon us by Cleveland.
every swift passing horse and rider
that passed my Office window, or rapidly
driven carriage, or prolonged whistle of
the steam engine, might be the herald
of the movement of our foe, and my in
struments would drop, and | would
stand ready to go with all speed to my
assigned place in defense of my govern
ment.
"Had they landed, it would have been
one of the most dreadful carriages know
in modern times. as every one who
would have opposed them was a sworn
patriot, and would have fought as only
patriots can when they feel that their
country is of more value than their lives
as it not astounding that all this is
because weloved our fatherland and de-
sired that its flag should be ours?
You must be sure to read Mr.. Thurs
toms protest, and above ALL President
Dole's reply to the demands of Cleve
land through his minister, Willis, that
this government should step down AID
out
THE only possible way which Amer
lea can cleanse itself of the infamy that
must hereafter attach itself to its di-
plomacy, is by impeaching Cleveland,
who has made American diplomacy
stencil in the nostrils of every govern
ment on earth except England, and it
would be IN that, did it not wish to gain
possession of us. Yours affectionately,
~. NJ. WHITNEY"