If this be all, it should not trouble us long.

Germany has shown she can be generous; it now remains for her only to forget a natural but certainly ill-grounded prejudice, and allow to him, who was sole king before the plenipotentiaries assembled, and who would be sole king to-morrow if the Berlin Act could be rescinded, a fitting share of rule.

The future of Samoa should lie thus in the hands of a single man, on whom the eyes of Europe are already fixed.

Great concerns press on his attention; the Samoan group, in his view, is but as a grain of dust; and the country where he reigns has bled on too many august scenes of victory to remember for ever a blundering skirmish in the plantation of Vailele.

It is to him--to the sovereign of the wise Stuebel and the loyal Brandeis,--that I make my appeal.
_May_ 25, 1892.
FOOTNOTES {1} Brother and successor of Theodor.
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