The herald., 1893-11-30


them ia the event,of their arrest by the
al, horities, to which he gave his
aren't.
eIt ia enough to say there is no SEM
HINGE OF truth in this assertion OF
Blount. made by him without his ever
having limited tito me, or made any in
ouiry OF me ON the subject. He thus
civea the signature of his endorsement
to charge I never even heard of until
found it in Blount's printed report.
He Gays my response to the call OF
the committee of safety to land men
from the Boston does not appear In the
filea cf the legation. The meaning OF
thieinsinuatIon is obvious; 1t is enough
TO say there never was any sucn uocu-
ment. | received Information OF the
committee OF safety for what 1t was
worth, as l received other information
on the same subject. ] should have re-
ouested Captain Wiltse to have landed
lis force, even had not the committee
requested it.
'.Blount squarely ASSERTS that prom
iced to aid the committee of safety by
force. This is emphaticslly and cate
gorically untrue. In reply to radical
psrtiee at different times, whether rep
reaentatives of the queen or her oppo-
nents, my answer was always the same,
that q forcs should not land until danger
should be plainly imminent, snd then
only to protect American life and prop
erty, and to no ono did l ever hint that
l could or would recognize any but the
de facto government, whether mon
archial or republican. As | said in my
letter to Secretary Gresham, here re-
affirm that the royalists and their op-
ponents had equal accessto the legation
and 10 ,ts official head. The best an
swer to the blameless charge that l
promised to use the force against the
queen is the order from Captain Wiltse
to the officers and inen to remain pas
sive, and that no force wtae used, though
the queen, though her ministers,
strongly requested it hours before the
provisional government'was recognized
by me and all the other diplomatic rep
resentatives in Honolulu"
Stevens states that he had no knowl-
edge of the meeting of the committee OF
safety at the residence of Henry Water
house, January 10th. and hie first in
formation as to the persons at that
meeting was obtained from Blounts
report.
Regarding the expectations and hopes
the exciting days of January 14th and
18th, and the views and hopes of her
opponents, Stevens quotes the queens
letter to him, the report of Captain
Wiltse to the navy department and the
order OF Captain Wiltse to Commander
Swinburn, to show that the landing OF
troops was to protect the legation and
the lives and property OF American cit
izens and preserve order.
Stevens then continues: "a copy of
the call of the committee OF safety
which Blount insinuates | wished to
conceal from him had been promptly
forwarded to Washington in January.
and was in printed pamphlet Of the
state department documents, ordered
published by the senate, copy OF
which, suppose, Blount must have
brought with him when he came to the
islands.
''As soon as this astute commissioner
sscertained that Neumann WAS in full |
accord with Spreckes and Bount for
Liliuokalani's restoration to the throne,
Blount Immediately learned that Neu-
mann was a right down good fellow
So much for the conclusive evidence
that Spreckels, Neumann and Blount
we're then, as now. rowing the same
boat and closely linked in conspiracy
to damage the action OF Harrison's 8 ad-
ministration and the senate committee
on foreign affairs on the question of an
nexation."
Stevens devotes considerable space to
showing the disreputablel character of
pereons furnirhing affidavits to Blount,
being especially severe on John 4. Col
bourne, A. p. Peterson, Charles T. Hop
L nx- IL stax
testimony OF hundreds OF sach would
not counterbalance the words OF Minis
ter Thurston, President Dole and Henry
Waterhouse, among honest men who |
know the respective parties. As to Will |
son, the queens favorite for many years,
whom Blount attempts to whitewash. | !
will not eoil theEe pages by giving even
the glorious fat ts in his regard.
'As 10 my recognition of the provis-
ional government, reGtfirm what | said I
In my recent letter to Secretary Gres- !
ham. Queen Liliuokalani inaugurated |
the revolution by attempting TO destroy |
the constitution by revolutionary means. I
From Saturday afternoon, January 14th, I
to January l6,h, there WAS no govern /
msnt III Honolulu except in the united |
and seli-possessed attitude of the citi- /
zsns, VINO assembled in the greet masa !
meeting of January 10Th snd consum-
mated efforts for law and order by the
establishment Of provisional govern
ment on the 17th, which Was promptly |
acknowledged by all the foreign repre-
ssntatives who were familiar with th6 |
circumstances OF its creation. 1t was
nearly 50 hours after Liliuokalanl and |
her iavorites bad destroyed her throne
by revolutionary outbreak when the
men of the Boston landed.
tSisnedj john J.. STEyNNs.
"Augueta. Me-, Nov. 80, 1895"