Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-28
0iount's Real Purpose.

The long-expected report of the Hon
J. II. Blount on usw allan affairs has Just
been laid before me. 1t is impossible. at
short notice. to review q state document of
such importance. but justice demands that
some state ment should he made in regard
to the attitude of the provisional govern
M mt tow ard Colonel Blount. Confident of
the Justice of its cause. the provisional gov
ernmeut Afforded the commissioner every
possible facility for obtaining information,
and spared neither time nor money in fur
nishing him with full details on every
subject under investigation. While it
was supposed by the provisional gov
eminent and its friends that the hief OBJ
iact of bis mis.inn was 10 -eport upon their
offer of annexation to the L nited States, he
carefully concesled his real object. which
seems to have been to make out \ case
sgsinst their title TO govern and against the
character of n former representative of his
own government.
with the approval Of the cabinet. anil
at Mr. Blount's request. pr' pared full sn
careful state menis on the past history and
present ownership of the lands of ihs
couutry. on the constitutional history of the
govern meut, on the political eysnts Of ksl-
Akaua's reign. aud the causes that Jed to the
revolution, and an account of the unin-
ished annexation treaty of 1854. He has
prin.ed the account of the treaty of 1854
a comparative ly uuimportant matter of an
Gent history. but he's suppressed all the
other information which / furnished him,
substituting therefor the statements OF the
ROYALS, cabinet AMI sympathizers. Under
the direction OF the minister of finance
other officer. of the Hawaiian government
made elaborate and accurate reports for his
use on a variety of subjects. He never.
however, offered to have nv testimony
taken do~n in regard to the facts of the
late revolution Of which he knew that had
been an eyewitness.
The msshsds d q Prosecuting Attorney.
while do not question his honesty of
purpose. bis methods we're those of prose-
cutting attorney, and bis rsport il an as
tonishing piece Of special pleading. 1t i,
pervaded from beginning to eni with
strange hostility TO the American colony,
built up and fostered by the policy of the
United States for tho bat forty years, which
has created the civilization of these islands,
dew. Hoped their rssosr - and opened an
important Geld of commerce to the Pacific
states With their s'rug, les for decent and
honest government during the last fifteen
wears, he has no sympathy whstsssr. In his
letter of April be coni INNS aem for PAY,
ticipstinz in the AFT airs Of these isisnds. In
his view .ths ehsracsrr of the people of
these islands is and must be overwhelm-
inely Asiatic. which he probably regards ~
q sconsummaiion devously to be wished,
and he deptecsses The iiea of immigrants
from the United States beicg able to dnd
encouragement in the matter Of obtaining
homes in these i.iand.-' He ssems to think, !
~ Governor McDuiiie Of South Csrolina |
wrote Of the Texans in 1886. that having
smiErased to that country they h ii forf-i,eSi !
an claim to fraternsl reg.rs !. and that 'hav ,.
ing left land of freedom for land of
dssposism with their eyes open, they de-
served their fate
THE people Of the Uoited States, how
ever. did not take this viss of the csse of |
the TEXANS, NOR will they be Indifferent to |
The fate Of their countryn,er in Hawaii. On
H. uhole Colonel Blount's report gives The |
impeeesiea that h had % completely pre-
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