Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-12-20

Hawaiian Official Addresses an Open Letter
10 the Secretary Of state.

DN q communications on tue I1dWdllan
resolution made public to-day. The
statements that reflect SO severely on
the Secretary Of State and President
Cleyelands secret emissary to Homo
lulu are contained in an open letter ad-
dressed to Mr.. Gresham by c. l.. Car
ter. who was one of the commits
sioners sent to Washington by the
provisional government. IN his let
ter MIR. Carter lays bare the
true facts of the overthrow of the mon
archy and shows how Blount white
washed his report in favor of the Queen,
and makes 1t seem evident that Mr..
Gresham has blindly worked against the
provisional government or has unhesl-
tatingly used his high position to restore
the monarchy in Hawaii regardless OF
the desires of the people and the cir
cumstances connected with the over
throw the Queen. Mr.. Carter's letter
IS as follows:
Honolulu, II. T., Nov. 80, 1S93.-To Hon.
" O. Gresham, secretary Of state, flashing
foR-SIR: With the consent of the govern
ment which / had the honor TO serve as
special commissioner TO the government OF
the United States, | have the honor to ad
dress you in reply to your dispatch 10 the
President dated October Is, containing
recommendations that the treaty of annex
alton be not re-Submitted and suggesting
the restoration of what you term legiti-
mate government of Hawaii, by which you
mean the monarchy III the person OF tx
Queen Liliuokalani. gu will pardon my
making this communication publicly, and
| beg you to attribute my action to the APP
parent Discrimination in your department TO
u full exposition Ofrhe matter bearing on our
question which has been at your disposal.
| regret that up to the time Of our latest adj
vices, my distinguished colleague, the chair
man of the special commission, Mr.. Thurs
ton, has been constrained by his present po-
sition as representative of this government
near your own from making any pubic
declarations. This fact and because after
your installation In the Department OF
State until shortly before Mr.. Thurston's
appointment as minister, | was the only
representative of Hawaii actually in Wash
ington, give me the freedom to speak and
qualify me to address you on some matters
i'll your dispatch.
Your communication to the President
contains twenty-seven paragraphs and
charges, which | can meet and which in
this, my first and probably only opportuni-
", l shall refute. l shall for convenience
take them up in successive order.
L. You aver that the opposition Of her
ministers and others induced the Queen
speedily to change her purpose OF proclaim
ing a new constitution and that she made
public announcement of the fact. The fact
IS that after a most violent alteration with
nOunced that for the present she deferred
action on the matter of new cOnstitu
ton : The evidence ObtainabIe
indicates that the proposed constitution by
It's terms was an aggression upon the con-
StitutiOnal rights OF the white residents OF
Hawaii, whether born here Of parents also
OF Hawaiian birth, as | was, or settled
and established here by long resi-
denCe. No announcement of an abso-
Lutte change of purpose was made
two AZ 1a+A on hon
advisers discovered that the popular wave OF
Indignation was sweeping toward the
throne and hoped 10 stay the ust wrath of
the people. Should not the Queens other
political crimes of that same Saturday be
considered by YOU? Was there nothing
offensive, not only to Us but to your people
in the lottery and opium bills? Nothing
characteristic in the disappearance of the
Chinese registration act? These things and
the removal of the JOneS-WilcoX cabinet
are part OF the nations charge against
her
:. The meeting in Honolulu which APP
pointed the committee on public safety on
my motion to that effect consisted of those
persons who had gathered at the call Of Her
MaieStyS cabinet and had pledged their
lives in writing in defense Of that cabinet
against the proposed aggression of the
Queen, the members OF that cabinet having
made an appeal Tor support stating that
they could not rely upon the constituted
civil and military forces, whose leaders
were pledged to support the Queen and as
aist her IN prOmulgatiI-g constitution. !"
9. The committee of public safety held ifs
first meeting Immediately after Its first APP
pOintment, the representative body of citi-
zens upon whose resolution it had been
nominated withdrawing Tor the express pur-
pose Of allowing it TO hold an Immediate
session, and the sessions continued almost
without interruption until the organization
OF the government was proclaimed on the
afternoon of Tuesday, the 18th.
f. The aliens referred to vino appointed
tie committee of public safety and from
among whom that committee was chosen
and who constituted the mass meeting on
Monday afternoon, the 18th, were, it is true,
not all Of Hawaiian birth. were not all men
who had amasSed fortunes here; but every
individual was Of undoubted Integrity and
bona tideresident of these islands, pledged
10 the country's welfare and fully mindful
Of the native abOrigines whose united in
terests and actions made them body which
might well have shaken more stable
throne.
). | have no reason to doubt the yeracity
of the statements in this paragraph; and in
addition thereto | ask YOU in Justice not
only to the living but to one of your coun-
trys distinguished dead, 10 explain that
while Mr.. stevens on the Saturday before
had consented to allow the Queens cabinet
70 use your forces as against her and those
behind her, when that cabinet violated its
pledge and Glove again TO Her Majesty and
her cause that he positively declined to al
low the committee Of public safety, which
then became a revolutionary body, any sup
port or assistance, and that that was the I'M
Outstanding Of the committee of public
safety from noon of Sunday, the 18th.
In paragraphs and Mr.. Wilson
explains that there was no other place
for the troops than Arion Hall. Re
jerring to paragraphs and 9, he says
he has no information regarding the
correspondence between the minister
Of foreign affairs and Mr.. Stevens
and his alleged evasive replies. lie
says in paragraph 9 that there was no
excitement on Monday night because
the United States troops were ashore.
He also says that Capt. Wiltze refused
armed protection to the committee OF
safety.
u. Before any recognition had come,
while | US present in the chamber in
which President Dole had established him.
self, Mr.. Pringle, one of the Junior officers
of the Boston, obtained admittance and
tated he was Mr.. Stevens aide and had