The record-union., 1893-11-30

LAS | said in my letter to Secretary
Gresham, here affirm that the Royalists
and their opponents had equal access to
the legation and to its official head. The
best answer TO the blameless charge that
l promised to use force against the Queen
is the order of Captain WiItZe to his off
GERS and men TO remain passive,' and
that no force was used, though the Queen,
through her ministers, strongly request
ed it hours before the Provisional Gov
ernment was recognized by me and all
other diplomatic representatives in Hon
olulu."
Stevens states that he had no knowl-
edge Of the meeting of the Committee OF
Safety at the residence of Henry Water
house on January 10th, and his first in
formation as to the persons at that meet
ing was obtained from Blount's report.
Regarding the expectations and hopes OF
the Queen and her representatives on the
exciting days OF January 18th and 18th,
and the views and hopes of her oppo-
nents, Stevens quotes the Queens letter
10 him, the report of Captain Nlltze TO
the Navy Department, and the order of
Captain Wiltze to Commander Swim
burne to show that the landing of troops
was to protect the legation and lives and
property OF American citizens and pre-
serve order.
"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 the printed pamphlet Of State
Department documents ordered pub
ished by the Senate, copy of which l
suppose Blount must have brought with
him when ne came to the Islands.
''AS soon as this astute Commissioner
ascertained that Neumann was in full
accord with Spreckels and Blount for
Liliuokalani's restoration to the throne, at
once BlOunt immediately learned that
Neumann was "a right down good fellow
SO much for conclusive evidence that
Spreckels, Neumann and Blount were
then, as now, rowing the same boat, and
closely linked in a conspiracy to damage
the action of Harrison's administration
and the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs on the question Of annexation"
Stevens devOteS considerable space to
showing the disreputaDle character of the
persons furnishing atlidayits to Blount,
being especially severe on John +. Cole
bourne, A. Peterson, Charles L. Hopkins
and DR.. Frosseau. He says the testi-
mony of hundreds of such would not
counterbalance the words of Minister
ThurstOn, President Dole and Henry
WaterhOuse, among honest men who
know the respective parties. LAS TO
Wilson, the Queens favorite for many
years, whom BIount attempts to white
wash, 1 will not soil these pages by giving
even the notorious facts in his regard.
LAS to my recognition Of the Provis-
ional Government, L re-atlirm what l
said in my recent letter to Secretary
Gresham. Queen Liliuokalani inaug-
urated the revolution by attempting 10
destroy the Constitution by revolution
ary means. From Saturday afternoon,
January I4th to January 10th there was
no Government in Honolulu, except in
the united and self-pOssessed attitude OF
the citizens, who assem- bIed in a great
mass meeting on January 10th, and con-
summated efforts for law and order by
the establishment of Provisional Gov
ernment on the 18th, which was promptly
acknowledged by all foreign representa-
! tives who were familiar with the circum-
stances of its creation. 1t was nearly
fifty hours after Liliuokalani and her
favorites had destroyed her throne by a
revolutionary outbreak, when the men
OF the Boston landed.
JOHN L. STEVENS,
Augusta, Me-, Nov. %, 1898"