The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-12-21
STEVENS CRITICISM.
The Bz-Minister Sharply Arraigns
the Chief Magistrate.
ALLEGED UsURPATION OF POWER

The Presidents Action IN the Hawaiian
Anair, the Dcposod Minister Declares,
Was More Hostile to Liberty Than the
Acts Of George III.
AUGUSTA, Ne, Dec. Elk Minister
Stevens makes the following reply to
President Cleveland's message and his
criticisms of Mr. Stevens official conduct:
Human government in its best form
sometimes fails to secure all the just OBJ
jects for which it, has been created. No
one who has studied the doiugs of the
remarkable body of men who formulated
the constitution of the United States has
failed to observe what care aud effort
were exercised to create an executive power
which would not be abused for purposes
of usurpatiou and tyranny. The extra
ordinary use of power by George III had
caused the American colonies TO revolt
and to establish a new government in the
interests of civil liberty and the people
In creating the office of president it was
impossible to provide against all contin
gencies of usurpation by that officer. The
provision for impeachment was the best
safeguard that the trainers of the consti-
tuition could institute.
"Only once in our political history has
a majority Of the congress of the United
States sOlemnly resolved in favor of inn
peaching the occupant of the executive
chair. Probably it was well that the eff
fort to remove Andrew johnson from his
Office was arrested just on the brink of
succ ess. The great reluctance of the con-
servative men of the country to remove
the chief executive for abuse of power
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 as
possible concealing his arbitrary design
from the American congress and the
American people.
President Cleveland's Usurpation.
"Look at the historical facts dispassion-
ately, and no one will deny that the lines
of usurpation and injustice on which
President Cleveland and the secretary of
state have acted since the 9TH of March
last, coupled with the eXparte star cham
Der course of Commissioner Blouut rela-
tive to the accepted testimony of Liliuo-
kalani's fallen and corrupt ministers, are
more sweeping and more hostile to Anglo
Saxon liberty than the acts of George III
and the Lord North ministry, which drove
the American colonies to successful re-
volt. There is nothing in American his
tory more shameful in its scope of ty-
ranny and injustice than the attempt of
President Cleveland and Secretary of
State Gresham to crush out liberty and
American interests in Hawaii by the
threat to restore the extinct Hawaiian
monarchy by force of arms or by diplo-
matte chicanery and pressure, if possible,
than the use of ball and bayonet.
L., &. .4N
extensively published in the United
States, showed conclusively, as did Min
lister ThurstOn, and as other thoroughly
responsible witnesses have shown, that
the allegati ions in that report against the
official conduct of Captain Wiltse and my
self are grossly untrue, are in manifest
Rntagonism to all the reasonable proba-
bilities and logic of the situation in Homo
lulu in January last President Cleye-
lands grossly untrue and shamefully un-
just allegation against myself and the
naval commander rests entirely on the
statements of the four notorOusly corrupt
ministers of the fallen queen, of Wilson,
the Tahitian half breed and immoral ia
vorite, and other thoroughly discredited
testimony. will not go over the couclu-
sively overwhelming testimony of all rep
resentative men of the American colony,
Persons of the highest character for intel
ligence and integrity who know and wit
messed the events when the Hawaiian
monarchy fell, contradict expressly the
secretly collected testimony of Commits
BiOner BlOunt.