The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-30

Marine. aud Sailors Did Not Contributs
to Her Overthrow-Biounts BAD Mas
ners and Lack OF Courte-y-HIs susdea
Discovery that Neumnnn we. Worthy
CItizen-IIis BaseIes- sIur- aud In-ipu.-
lions Against MIR. stevens-Resi Chsr-
scter of HI. witnesses-HI- Unn,ir a.a
una mericnn Methods and Cancellations,
AUGUSTA. Me-. Nov. 2a.--Ex- Minister Stevens
gave out to night this reply to Commissioner
Blounts report to Secretary Gresham on
Hawaiian affairs:
A dcep sense OF obligation to my country
and an Americans duty to defend an insulted.
threatened. and struggling American colony.
planted as rghteously aud firmly on the North
Pacific isles as our Pilgrim Fathers established
themselves on plymouth Rock, demand that 7
shall make an answer to the astounding mis-
representations and untruths OF Commits
sioner Blounts report on Hawaiian affairs, q
copy OF which l first obtained with difn-
Guilty. on Saturday evening Now %. 1t 10
proper for me to preface my answer By
briefly abiding to tho fact that those familiar
with international rules and proceedings. and
have had diplomatic experience, must be as
tonished that Secretary Gresham and his
Com m issioner should make before the world
such persistent effort to discredit the recent
agents OF the department they now represent,
and which WAS once represented by Thomas
Jefferson. William l.. Marcy. William II. Sow
ard and James q. Blaine. Tho general adop-
ton OF such policy by our Department Of
Foreign Affairs could not fail to weaken great
ly our influence with foreign countries In any
future effort, and servo to make tho American
diplomatic service contem ptibe In the eyes Of
the world.
Not only is the course Of Gresham and Blount
extrem ely un- American In its form and spirit,
but II is also in direct opposition to the civil
lzinR and Christianizing influence on the Hs-
waiian Islands. while II Is playing into British
hands. in direct opposition to the efforts Of the
American Board Of Missions and to the Amer
ican Government for more than sixty years. In
all OF which period there has been q uniform.
continuous. and patriotic American policy.
may also make q preliminary remark regard
ing the repeatedly assorted opinion of those
who have assaulted my official action. that
was prepared for and stimulated to It by the
accomplished and thoroughly American
statesman who occupied the Department OF
State IN st OF the period Of President Harri-
sons Administration. 1t Is sufficient to say
that this expressed surmise is utterly withous
foundation. What l know and state on this
point accords with what ex-Secretary Tracy
has recently asserted in that regard. Still more.
i may properly add that the lines Of Official
duty as followed by myself and Capt. Wiltss
and the course OF the Administration and OF
the Senate Committee OF Foreign Relations. In
the critical Hawaiian days OF January and
February last were exactly on the lines
marked out by Secretary Marcy In 1854 and
by Secretary Bayard In his despatch to Minis
ter Merrill. July II. 1887. Maroy's instruc-
lions and draft OF treaty provided for annexa-
ton. Bayard's instructions Of 1887 held the
United States Minister and naval commander
ut Honolulu responsible for the protection Of
American life aud property and the "Dreservs-
ton OF public order"
So much as a necessary Introduction to my
consideration OF Blounts report Not wishing
to be severe on a neophyte In diplomacy. with
little knowledge Of the worlds affairs outside
OF his own country. sent on very peculiar
errand amid currents and quicksands entirely
unknown to him, no has been partly the victim
OF circumstances. having been caught In the
meshos and snares adroitly prepared for him
by the cunning advisers OF the fallen Llllu-
okalani and by the shrewd. sharp. long -expe-
rienced British diplomatic agent whose aims
and hopes Blount has served so we'll and with-
out the least suspicion that he was aiding
u!tra-British interests even more than he was
helping tho Hawaiian monarchists and the
justly dethroned Queen. 1t is clear enough.
from Blouut's manner on the day OF his arrival
at Honolulu. as we'll as by his letter to the De-
partment OF state written shortly after that
he designed at whatever cost. to repudiats
tho views and action OF the recently termi-
mated Administration. and that In order TO do SO
he must impugn the action OF Minister Stevens
and OF the commander OF the United States
ship Boston. A total stranger. 1t was impossi-
bic for Mr.. Bount to know how uniting 10
was for him to take up his quarters whore he
was certain to be surrounded by royallsts. and
where the supporters Ct tho Provisional Cow
would Ia n 20 Thu hOtAl
was kept by one who had served as KalakRuA's
Chant erlain. who was one OF tho principal
persons in a syndicate that had cheated
tho Hawaiian Government out OF near
Is 100000. a transaction which Minister
Merrill had officially reported 10 Secretary
Bayard. and this man was the leading member
OF firm that sought to do its chief business
with England, a thoroughly unprincipled op-
pOuent OF the Provisional Government and Of
American performance In the Islands lie
employed as his active assistant In managing
the hotel highly educated EnglishmAn OF
disreputabls character. who had written In the
Hawaiian British newspaper. under anony-
nous 81 gnature articles abusive ut the United
states and grossly fasiiying our Governments
treatment Of tho Indians. This mau had had
Il most unsayOry record while residing In the
United States. and has been bitter Assailant
OF American officials in American newspapers
has Written whatever she aud her immoral
fayorlte. Wilson. have asked him 10 write.
Eesiing at that hotel Mr.. Bount was under
the constant espionage OF the palace AdVsn-
tursss As precautionary safeguard AGAINST
thus shutting out the Americans from ready
access 10 Commissioner BIOunt. wealthy and
a highly respectable widow lady OF the Amen-
can colony was ready ~ grant the use Of her
house 20 Mr. and Mrs- BlOunt, the Commits
siOner to pAy the same amount 1t would sOst
him to live Ut the royalist hotel This private
house was situated near tho United states Lee
gation. In the quarter 1.-THE city where annex
atiVnists and royAlsts could have unobstruot-
ed access TO tho Commissioner. and where be
could conveniently avail himself OF the LsgA-
tion records. This polite offsT Of an American
residence 10 an American Commissioners did
not originate with the Provisional Govern
meat. nor did the Provisional Government
have anything whatever to do with the pro-
posed arrangement. A committee OF three
American citizens. born and educated In the
United states. the supsFiors Of Mr.. BIount Ia