St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
AN ADDRESS TO GRESHAM.
HAwAHzN COMMISSIONER caRTER
TELLS HIS S707Y.
DEFENSE OF MS GOVERNMENT.
He Eulogizes Ex.Minister Stevens
and Denies In Detail the State
ments Made by Commissioners
Blount and the Secretary of
State-A Fervent Appeal for
the Provisional Government.

ments Made by Commissioners
Blount and the Secretary of
State-A Fervent Appeal for
the Provisional Government.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. blowing
is an open letter On the Hawaiian ques-
ton to Secretary Gresham by ex-Com-
missioner Charles l.. Carter, who visited
the United States shortly after the rev
oatiQn in the interests of the provisional
government:
Honolulu, II. L., Nov. 80. 1870
Hun. w. @. Gresham, Secretary OF
State. Washington-Sir:- With the
consent of the government which | had
the honor to serve as special commits
sioner to the government of the United
States i have the honor to address you
in reply to your dispatch to the presi-
dent dated Oct. Is, containing recon-
mendations that the treaty OF annexa-
tion be not resubmitted, and suggesting
the restoration of what you term a
legitimate government of Hawaii, by
which you mean the monarchy, in the
person of ex-Queen Liliuokalani. You
cation publicly, and l beg you to at
tribute my action to the apparent disin-
elination in your department to full
exposition of the matter bearing on our
question which has been at our dis
pesal.
/ regret that up to the time of our
latest advices by my distinguished col
league. the chairman of the special
commission. Mr.. Thurston has been
constrained by his present position as
representative OF this government near
your own from making any public
declarations. This fact, and because
after your installation in the depart
ment of state until shortly before Mr..
Thurston's appointment as minister, |
was the only representative of Hawaii
actually in Washington, give me the
freedom to speak, and qualify me
TO ADDRESS YOU
on some of the matters in your dispatch.
Your communication to the president
contains twenty-seven paragraphs, and
charges, which l can meet, and which,
In this, my first and probably only op-
portunity, 1 shall refute. l shall tor
convenience take them in successive
order:
Paragraph One = You aver therein
that tine opposition of her ministers and
Others induced the queen speedily to
change her purpose of proclaimlng
new constitution, and that she made
public announcement of the fact. The
fact is that after most violent alterca-
ton with her ministry. the eX-queen an
nounced that for the present she de-
ferred action on the question of new
constitution. 1t was pretended that she
wished to take the action as a cOnSe-
quence of petition to that effect by
her native subjects.
Credible persons present in the throne
room during almost the whole of that
Saturday afternoon state that the hum
BILE petitioners waited with their unread
petition up to the time that the queen
made her declaration of poStponement,
and that she had not read the document
which has since disappeared. The evil
dence obtainable shows that the pro-
posed constitution, by its terms, was an
aggression upon the constitutional
rights of the white residents of Hawaii.
whether born here of parents OF Ha-
waiian birth, as was, or settled and
established here by long residence. No
announcement of an absolute change of
purpose was made until Monday, two
days later, when her advisers discOy-
cred that the popular wave of lndigna
ton was sweeping towards the throne,
and hoped to stay the just 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
acteriStic 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. For my own part, can
never forget or forgive the spectacle of
the deciding vote in favor of the lottery
bill-a member who up to that date was
pledged against the measure, too drunk
TO hold up his head, with wreath of
flowers about his neck, said at the time
to have been placed there by the eX-
queen at the moment of his promise to
support her plans, after having been
piled by her with intoxicating liquors,
voting unSteadily in favor of indefinite
postponement, until corrected by his
neighborS, because he had promised to
vote yea, and was not in fit condition to
follow the course of legislation action.
Her offenSeS cannot be brushed aside in
paragraph, nor recited in one.
Paragraph Two-The meeting in Hon
olula which appointed the committee
on public safety, on my motion to that
effect, consisted of those persons who
had gathered at the call of her majeSty'S
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 hav-
ing made an appeal for support, stating
that they could not rely upon the con-
Stituted civil and military forces, whose
leaders were pledged to support the
queen and assist her i'll promulgatlng a
new constitution. That committee was
appointed less than fifteen minutes
after John f. Colburn,
THE QUEENS MINISTER
of the interior, had concluded an adj
dress to to the meeting by saying:
"Gentlemen: We recognize that as
cabinet we have absolutely no support:
if you will stand by US we Will stand by
| you," and for sthe express purpose of
assisting that cabinet in protecting the
public against the regular military and
police, who were recognized as opposed
TO the peaceable and orderly element of
| the community.
Paragraph Three-The committee of
public safety held its first meeting i'm
| mediately after its appointmentthe rep
resentative body of citizens upon whose
resolution III ndQ Dcel nominated Will
| drawing for the express purpose of
allowing it to hold an immediate ses-
sion, and the sessions continued almost
without interruption until the organiza-
ton OF the provisional government was
proclaimed on the afternoon of Tuesday,
| the nth.
Paragraph Four-The aliens referred
to who appointed the committee of
! public safety, and from among whom
that committee was chosen, and who
| constituted them at meeting of Monday
afternoon, the 10th, were, it is true, not
all of Hawaiian birth; were not ali men
who had amassed fortunes here; but
| every individual was of undoubted in
| tegrity, and bona fide resident of these
islands, pledged to the country's well
fare and fully mindful of the native
| aborigines, whose united interests and
actions made them body which might
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