The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-21
STEVENS CRITICISM.
The EI- Minister Sharply Arraigns
the Chief Magistrates
ALLEGED UsURPATIoN OF POWER.

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Tho Presidents Action In the Hawaiian
Afn,ir, the Deposed Minister Declares,
Was More Hostile to Liberty Than the
Acts of George III.
AUGUSTA, Me, Dec. Ex-Minister
Stevens makes the following reply to
President Cleveland's message and his
criticisms of Mr.. Stevens Official conduct;
Human government In it's best form
sometimes fails TO secure all the Just OBJ
jects for which 1t has been created. No
one who has studied the doings of the
remarkable body of men who formulated
the constitution of the United States has
failed to observe what care and effort
were exercised to create IN executive power
which would not he abused for purposes
of usurpatlon and tyranny. The extra
ordinary use of power by George III had
caused the American colonies to revolt
and to establish new government In the
interests of civil liberty and the people
In creating the Office of president 1t was
impossible to provide against all contin
gencies OF usurpation by that officer. The
provision for impeachment was the best
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tuition could institute.
"Only once in our political history has
q majority OF the congress OF the United
States solemnly resolved in favor of i'm
peaching the occupant Of the executive
chair. Probably it was well that the et
fort to remove Andrew johnson from his
office was arrested just on the brink o.
surc ess. The great reluctance of the con
L.. nf tru tn
the chief executive for abuse Of powel
seems to have encouraged President Cleve
land TO resort to the extraordinary meas
ure of overturning the provisional gov
ernment of Hawaii, while as much n,
possible concealing his arbitrary desigl
from the American congress and thu
American people.
President Cieveinnd's Usurpation.
Look at the historical facts dispassion
ately, and no one will deny that the line
of usurpation and injustice on whicl
President Cleveland and the secretary o
state have acted since the nth Of Marcl
last, coupled with the exparte star cham
Der course of Commissioner Blount rela
I tive to the accepted testimony of Liliuo
kalani's fallen and corrupt ministers, ar
more sweeping and more hostile to Anglo
Saxon liberty than the acts of George II
and the Lord North ministry, which droy
the American colonies to successful re
volt. There is nothing in American his
tory more shameful in its scope of ty
rauuy and injustice than the attempt o
President Cleveland and Secretary O
State Gresham to crush out liberty an
American interests in Hawaii by tn
threat to restore the extinct Hawaiia
monarchy by force of arms or by diplc
matte chicanery and pressure, if possible
than the use of ball and bayonet.
IN my answer to Mr.. Blount's report
! extensively published in the Unite
/ States, ! showed conclusively, as did Mil
lister ThurEton, and as other thorough
responsible witnesses have shown. thu
the alleKat ions in that report against tn
official conduct Of Captain Wiltse and my
self ARE grossly untrue, are in mauife'
antagonism to all the reasonable prob,
bilities and logic Of the situation in Hon,
lulu in January last President Cley'
land q grossly untrue and shamefully VI
I just allegation against myself and th
naval commander rests entirely on til
statements of the four notorieusly CORFU
ministers Of the fallen queen, of Wilson
the Tahitian half breed and immoral (;
vorite and other thoroughly discredirc
testimony. / will not go over the concl,
sively overwhelming testimony of all re-
resentative men of the American colon,
Persons Of the highest character for int
ligence and integrity, who know and wi
messed the events when the Hnwaiia
monarchy fell, contradict expressly IL
secretly collected testimony of Commi
soner Blount.
Hts Denials Reiterated.
j II only epeat here what has been ampl
verified again and again that neither /
|, force, or by threat of force, or by an
action Of mine, was the fall of the MOI
J archy precipitated. From the hour c
which entered on my duties | maintaine
the determination to call on the nav
i. commander for aid only in the event thu
American life and property were in dal
ger.
) "If President Cleveland sees fit to max
point against my official conduct thu
! months before the events of last Januar
had advocated annexation. he delibe
ately aud purposely conceals that what
, said in my dispatch in November, 1870
a was n confidential statement to the d
partment OF state Of the true conditic
; Of affairs in Hawaii, report of fac
IL which ny Int esthOllsuou rufus ahu pEH
II tice of diplomacy was In duty bound
make known to my government. AT In
date my opinions were SO privately he
that both in Honolulu and California
) was believed that the American minist
81 was averse to annexation"
The balance OF Mr.. Stevens reply is
= voted to a rehearsal Of the events leadir
e to the revolution, as already publishe
and the subsequent landing Of the troop
/ He concludes as follows:
fl There was never more prepostero
, assumption than this assertion of Il
: president, that the queen, on Jan. II, hi
s ample force to sustain her and TO enab
her to carry on the government. That Il
: Hawaiian monarchy was overturned
e United States force was and IS put for
for the sole purpose of bringing disored
on the preceding administration at Was
ington and on the action of the foreie
relations committee Of the United Stat
senate in favor Of annexation. ltremai
r to be seen if the American congress Al
American people will approve the co
Rpiracy to make war the provision
government at Hawaii, and use militia
forces OF the United States or the dip
matte pressure of the United States
the restoration of a semi bar barous que
In wanton defiance of the best Americi
opinions and antecedents. y
Resumed on Fall Tirae.
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