Hawaiian Annexation

'Some of the gentlemen who take the ground that it is aliens qnly that ask for a Hawaiian Republic under American protection forget that accordingtotheir arguments it was aliens only who set up the great republic. If the same principie was applied in the United States as they wish to have applied in Havyaii, Sitting Buil or ManAfraid-of-His-Shadow, would be the only rightf ui mier, and the nations of Europe would be justiüed in helping to place one of them on the throne. It is not for citizens of the United States to criticize the conduct of "aliens" in usurping the rights of a native population. In this country the natives are not even votéis. The proposition of Secretary of State G-resham to practically assist in restoring Liluokalini tq her throne will not strike a responsive chord in many American breasts." - Washtenaw Times, Nov. 11, '93. Editor Argus: The above aggregagation of words appearing in a colurna headed "Wit and Humor," or "Sparks of Nonsense," would be incongruity; but when it is known that it occupies a place in the editorials, the case is quite different. From the day of the first issue of the Times, the self-confident manner of speech with which leaders of thought in the United States and elsewhere have been criticized and the assumption of omniscience manifested by the editor in calling attention to what "Mr. Gladstone seems to forget;" and "Mr. Depew overlooks" and in assuring the people that "Congress has at last adopted the plan suggested by the Times some days ago," has been quite unbecoming a country newspaper: but the lines quoted above are too ludicrous to be allowed to pass unnoticed. The editór would have his readers believe that the founders of the American colonies and the United States of America were aliens, and that for that reason, we their progeny are estopped to deprécate the conduct of aliens in Hawaii in "usurping the rights of a native population." The American colonies were founded upon hitherto ungoverned territory; the uncivilized natives were conciliated or subdued as the necessities or organized government seemed to require; the result was conquest of a savage race. And it is doubtful whether any reader of the Times will see the slightest resemblance between this case and the attempt b a self-appointed committee of public safety, so oalled, consisting of thirteen men, five of whom owe allegiance to the United States of America, living in a distant island of the sea, having the opportunity of a momentary discontent among the people, and being assured of the concurrence and assistance of the merican minister and the United States navy to overthrow the estabished constitutional government of iawaii, which, so far as any legal expression of the popular will has een had, is perfectiy satisfactory to he government, and, by an array of naval forces, to overawe the Queen nd force her to yield for a time her cepter, and then, with no authority whatever, except the desire of a proisional government, whose very ame indicates its lack of power to )arter away the nation, to post away n haste and offer freely as a gift to i the United States, the whole kingdora of Hawaii, imploring the Chief Executive, in the name of a mar. tyred people for whom it pretends to speak, to annex and protect the territory. Yet the Times would have us believe that the caces are identical. Let the editor descend from the lofty eminence of his cosmopolitan wisdom and statesmanship and teil us of matters nearer home and more certainly within his reach.