The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-01-24

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near the great fight of steps, and
natives were also gathered in large
| groups in the Government Build
ing yard and elsewhere in the
neighborhood. The Queen retired
to the Blue Room and summoned
the Ministers.
THE CABINET MENACED.
The Ministers repaired at once
to the Queen in the Blue Room.
She was seated at a table, still
dressed in the magnificent costume
of the morning, and sparkling in a
coronet of diamonds. She at once
presented them with the draft of
the new Constitution, demanded
their signatures, and declared her
intention to promulgate the same
at once. Attorney-General Peter
son and Minister of Interior Col
burn decidedly refused to do SO,
and Ministers Cornwell and Parker,
though more hesitatingly, joined
their colleagues in their refusal.
All the Cabinet now advised and
even strongly urged Her Majesty
not to violate the law, but she was
not to be dissuaded from her revo-
lutionary course. Bringing her
clenched hand down upon the
table, Queen Liliuokalani said,
Gentlemen, 1 do not wish
to hear any more advice.
| intend to promulgate this
Constitution and to do it now"
Proceeding she told the Cabinet
that unless they abandoned their
resistance at once, she would 60 out
upon the steps of the Palace and
tell the excited crowd there as
sembled that she wished to give
them new Constitution, but her
Ministers were inside the Palace
hindering her from doing it. The
Ministers remembered the riot at
the Court House, and the fate of
the unlucky representatives who
fell into the hands of the mob.
They knew what the threat meant,
and before it could be put into exc
cution they fled for their lives.
THE APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS.
From the government building,
the Ministers Immediately sent
word down town, asking the citi-
zens what support the Cabinet
could expect in its resistance to the
revolutionary movement begun by
the Queen. Leading citizens of
every political complexion hurried
together at Hon. w. O. Smiths
Office, and while their numbers
were every instant augmented by
fresh accessions, held a hurried
consultation as to the course to be
pursued. There was but one mind
among all those gathered together,
tradesmen, lawyers, mechanics,
merchants, were of one opinion A
unanimity of sentiment reigned
such as has not been witnessed
here for years, and it was agreed
without a dissenting voice that it
was the duty of every good
citizen without distinction of party
to support the law and the liber-
ties of the people, and to resist the
revolutionary encroachments of
the Queen. A message to this
effect was at once dispatched to
the Cabinet.
A NEW STRUGGLE WITH THE QUEEN.
The Ministers now revisited the
Palace again, not without the
apprehension that their persons
would be taken into custody even
if they suffered no bodily harm.
Great pressure had been brought
upon Her Majesty to induce her to
go no farther and to retrace the
revolutionary steps she had already
taken. While her troops stood
drawn up before the Palace, wait
ing for the final word of command,
the Queen hesitated and hesitated.
The conference in the Blue Room
lasted for long time while the
result trembled in the balance.
She could not be induced to give
up her unlawful project, but finally
consented with bitter reluctance to
a temporary postponement of the
premeditated coup.
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
The Queen was very angry |
woman, when at 4 P. N. Saturday |
she returned to the Throne Room |
where were assembled the Hui Ka-
laiaina with most of the native
members of the Legislature, the
Cabinet, the Governor of Oahu,
the young Princes, Chief Justice
Judd and Mr.. Justice Bickerton,
The staff, ladies of the Court, ka-
hill bearers, etc. She assembled the
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