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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: deposed for a piece of solemn and offensive trickery, and the man
selected to replace him was his sole partner and accomplice in the
act. For so strange a choice, good ground must have existed; but
it remains conjectural: some supposing Mataafa scratched as too
independent; others that Tamasese had indeed betrayed Laupepa, and
his new advancement was the price of his treachery.
So these two chiefs began to change places like the scales of a
balance, one down, the other up. Tamasese raised his flag (Jan.
28th, 1886) in Leulumoenga, chief place of his own province of
Aana, usurped the style of king, and began to collect and arm a
force. Weber, by the admission of Stuebel, was in the market
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