The Hawiian Infamy

The following is an extract from the address of Hou. Chas. H. Aldrich before the Michigan club, at its recent banquet : "VVhat could be expected from such a beginning? They have made the word 'diplomacy' equivalent to the word 'ambuscade.' Where in the history of civilized nations was a representative accredited to another power, whose chief execntive was addressed as 'M y great and good brother,' and was to be stabbed to death as the credentials were presented and the pretended embrace of f riendship was given ? "Brutus declaration of love for Caesar, as a justiflcation for slayinsc him, would never have rung through the pages of literature as the statement of a patriot, if its real purpose had been to tender a dissolute queen the imperial crown which Caesar had put aside. "But the infamy of the Hawaiian policy did not end here. There lies in a marty's grave in that far island in the Pacific, a man edueated in yonder University of yours, and who there imbibed those principies of liberty which inspire patriota and lead them, if need be, to sacrific all - even life itself - upon the altars of human freedom. And there mourns beside his grave a fair daughter of Michigan, bis wife, who 'weepetb sore in the uight, and lier tearff are on her cheeks, and like Rachel refnses to be comforted.' "Who is thero who believes that inBurrectíon luid been possible in Hawaii iL the government at Washington liad been true to onr country, our traditions, and onr young and struggling sister republic of the Pacific Ocean ? Let the blood of Charles L. Carter and the tears of bis stricken wife rest upon this policy of infamy ! Had not the people registered their swift rebnke, we wonld have had cause to niouru these degenaiatc days."