Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 48, 27 February 1894 Edition 02 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We ilo not li-.ld 07irst iTe. res{xm>ible for the opinions or the uUerances of our c;>rrespondents.] Editob HuLOMI A: I h:»ve read your article on Rev. S. E. Bishop’s s!auderons re[iort to Hon. J. H. Blount and l must eonf; ss that I fully agree with Dr. Jobnson that * slander is the revc-nge of a coward aud dissiron!ation hi» defonse.’’ Swift says, “the worthiest people are the most iujured by slander, as we usua!ly find that to be the best fruit whieh the birds have been picking at.

Have we Hawaiians ever said or nttered one word of abnse against our opponents in auy of the statemeuts tnade by us to Mr. Blount? Have we raked up the history of the past? Have we said onght against the dead? for sootb Kot —we have deeraed it beneatb uur dignity to do so. and have always considered it conteraptible in any mau, and moro so if he be a preacber of the gospel, to defame and injure tlie reputation of lns fellow men. aud especially when he reviles tbe dead. \\ e Royalists “could a tale unfold whose lightest word. wouli harrow up tny soul, freeze thy yonng blood, make thy two eyes like stavs, start from their spberes, thy knnttod and combined locks to part aud eaeh particular hair to stand on end like quills upou the fret fal ])orcnpiue. ’ But we have fought the fight and battled iu an n honorable maunor ever believing *that abuse is no aigament. ' Yoixo Hawaiiak.