MAMEA'S SPEECH.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 43, 27 July 1878, Page 2

MAMEA'S SPEECH.

The following summary of the speech i delivered by Mainoa at Mulinuu, on I',-i----i day last, has been handed to us by a ; party who took notes of the same:— lie began by thanking God for Irs ; safe return to bis native country. Al the first the Taimua and Empale bad agreed to send four natives to the United States; but through the while men's interference it was at last dropped. Homo time after it was again taken up, and proposed that he (Mamea) should go to the Great Chief ef America and seek for protection for Sana .a. Then occurred a great difficulty; the whiles interfered again with their lies, and put op] nsition in bis way. Eventually he left here and in forty days arrived in San Francisco, the port of California. lie was there some time and then went on to the capital by railway. (He he,,, described th,. travelling], Having arrive lat Washington on the second day, he presented bis credentials to the Chief Secretary. When be entered the house lie thanked God that be had arrived sale, and was thus enabled to look on the face of a great Government. The .Secretary shook bauds with him and offered him a seat. The .Secretary said lie had heard of his cming to sec the Government, and was very glad be had arrived, for it gave him (the Secretary; extraordinary pleasure for tho first time to look upon a native from Samoa ; he was so glad that he had come. and tho United States would do all he wanted, and lie was to come again at (lie end of a week. He (Mninea) bad then been some time in America, and often went hungry for food and for a smoke of tobacco. Ho wore for tiara dirty clothes; for ho did not, see one shilling of the one I thousand dollars they had; tho white man that went witli'liim kept it all to himself. He (Mamea) lived in a sort of cook-house [pointing to a cook-house at tho back of one of the houses] for which he paid s."i a day, instead of being in a line bouse, lie went again and again to see the Chief Secretary, and foil very

desponding at times, when ho went to tin l Chief Secretary's he vaw ouml en of people, blank and white, waiting to mo

• : k-entment [ll £ tin tan .style, and familiar to S u «ns, to the tola vai o iug ' i >ee the doctor on account of sickness.] There was agn it gathering i every day he went, waiting for theirturnto see the President. II • was told thai til -" 1" >ple bad come from all parts of the worl I tu ask th ■ President i'. r ]•<■•. etion, and t > fai Male idso with Aim riea, »hie day that 1 wcvA to tho office I. • was told that his papers were on the table, and would be i msiderei] that day. lb was very glad and happy when he heard it. He was present one day wh< n th y were talking about it, and when it was agreed among them that they woul 1 noe« pi the treaty, and that Samoa wool I be j ined to America; they all dapped their baudfor joy, and Were so gla lof it. lie wi~ now very glad iha' his journey wan successful, and what ho ha 1 com I for wis obtained. Many of (hem ok hands with him and tapped him on the arm am! said they were glad that .Sam >a bad sen me to them. On this journey there were with me tw ico ] mi ns ; • •• pai i n w.i i the Sj irit Eg I, tile ;:. ' >■■ hj spirit of evil. Sometimes the go 1 v i I a neare II • him a otln r times hj w.'.s discomforted and bunt down with he if cave of what he had to do, for they (the i- ■; ) mu .! know he ha 1 . 1 >:el to carry ; ... often tr. tlbli d him, he iva - tit xi . nl . The w eight of the . iad shook Ilis bo !y wdicn walking, when sleeping, (in fad c uid not sleep), wb a sitting down, and when r sting; taking cave of [his i i i was Ids main hj ibby till he should be a' ■' to pu to iwn b'ef r. the Chief (Pre.-iden . That load wis wliat they had sent him lo d>; to g" ..■ tectioii for Sam ■,".. t : n ■ lay they all signed their names to this paper (taking up from the tal.l • two documents and .:. iwiug th : seals. ,ve.. ,<; ■ ) To proVJ t i i nl that we have the protection of America, lo >k at '■ is i.o.ik (taking up ■< !ar -e :1a- 1 -.ok :.:id e\p ~ iug'its fre-,t t . the people) lore is the eagle ~f tiled)- . rnui .•it, - ti: out ! i us a . I this luuk is worth m '-,'" :! m th • Iw > docum ml ;■ this lie k ati alb mi iis the m ist pn ci mif all; tuoth.ri-smd d .liars w add n I bttv i-. " u- it contains the p n-t rails of th ■ !■ eipai !in-i ■>£ !i ■ in ■rnment; it is ■>. p-e-ious boh-. Alter all w, s sign. 1 ;:i-\ t ! 1 in.: that thev w ml I get a liian-,,f-nar t. take :,,.• back t . Sam■,,. Xow th.- -phi; of evil left in-. Tim fruit of my journey is this, what y m see hero today—America and we are. ;•>. This is th"' maiae (meetin- place: of the Ma!.. i':.. re ("pointing; i rh- Samoa Mag at o .

■ end, and there i< th-- American tiaga-. th- ' - Y-r end. We are united. No utll-r ilagliuttl two- we are "sisjo." I'.v what the Cubed States ha I dm- h--1 found out that the ■' ir. igners in Sam .a ■< w ;re teller., of falseh , Is; they had d - ! e-ived the people il Sam ia. He sajd ■ If they speak sane- to von, b- saucyt i ' them; if they show o!i'before V..U, show ' olftoo; do not be afraid, th-v are no- ! bolybui liars and d-eeivers. As to the ' parties lately eoine to Samoa, th.-y have come to deceive you too, to entrap vou ■ and to get money. Ho said lie iliifnof i sign his name to any loan beyond what he - liad orders from the .Male to borrow, for • eat of the money be had he brought ■ back over ~„e hundred dollars. The . only men who can have anything to do • with the Governmenl are tlio I 'onsuls—- , men appointed by their several Governments to our Mali). Many of th.- men then before hira wen- in a bad position, in disgrace, through following tin- advice of bad i'oroigne'i-s— foreigners still in Samoa. He bud i en aj pointed Taimua 1 In Mas I'tiipule, g.vernor, and judge, and ' 'e- n.-w inform -I ail pen] le thu th-y : im-: imt in -ntion again to ■ v..a i'• !':i;,b (tin " it was fori Id-len ; '.by w mid i .- lin I and 1 uiiisli d wiio mentioned it. Ho informei tli ; :■, . f : - ~ L l ,eeountry that they mii.-t n ,t go about saving anything against the treaty, and the joining of Governments—that is Samoa and America, and must not sav that America was not their protector. 'The tn-afv had been signed and accepted by thoMalo, and they must abb!.- by it. ' To-morrow they could meet and ask any questions they liked for information, hat not, to speak against the Malo. After this l/.10, the writer, read the letler of the Malo accepting tin- ratification of the treaty, mul.al.so the translation of tie- treaty in Samoan. 111 the day following (Satur lay) many wi it to Muliiiuii to ni.--t aid to a-lc Jf Mai i e. rtuin questii ::s for their own iuf nmi'hm. The Mal i declined to in ,-t. th "i , st:.:ii g ,|,i; they nuist wait till