The sun., 1893-12-14
TIE RIGHTSOF FREE HAWAII.
nn. clErER's CoNCLUsITE REPLY TO
sREsHlM,s CHARGES.

Facts Perverted and Truth suppressed-
CorciusIvs Proof thst Our Msrires Dis
Nothi.e 20 Assist n the Overthrow OF
the oueen-whNe the Eevoiution we. IN
Progress the Aid or Asr-irsi yIit.e was
Twice Astsd, ard RE Twies Refused to
Lir = Ftneer-Admirsi Jrwiu TeieErnphs
thst the rrovisiouni Government Ifss
1000 Ns- Under Arms, ssd that the Fat
see Il Prepared for Dee, ce-Minister OF
Fin.nee Jose- Says thai RIount Refused
10 Hear Apy Evidence t',nt Cinshed with
His Preier.nces-Ois nud Youne In the Eel.
| s.ds OTsripe Their service. ss FIghters
San Francisco, Dec. 13.-Hers Il an open
letter on the Hawaiian question to Secretary
Gresham By ex-Com m iss Toner Charles l. Car
ter who visited the United States shortly after
the revolution in the interests OF the Provis-
ional Government
HONOLULU. Nov. 30. 1893
rom BO-. " Q. Gresham. SscraarY Of Sgt Wa,Ans,o.
SIR: With the consent Of the Government
| which I had the honor to serve as special
| Com missio or to the Govern ent Of the United
States, l have the honor to address you in
| reply to your despatch to the President. dated
| Oct. 18, containing recommendations that the
| treaty OF annexation be not resubmitted. and
| suggesting the restoration OF what you term
1
| which you mean the monarchy in tho person
| OF x-Queen LiliuokalAni.
| You will pardon my making this communi-
| cation publicly. and beg Jou to attribute my
action to the apparent disinciination OF your
! department to a full exposition OF the m after
| bearing ON your question which has been at
| your disposal
Il regret that up to tho time OF our latest ad-
| vices my distinguished colleague. tho Chair
man OF tho Special Commission. Mr.. Thurston.
has been constrained by his present position
as representative OF this Government near
your own from making any public declara-
tions. This fact. and because nfter your In
stnllatlon in tho Department Of State. until
shortly before Mr. Thurston's appointment as
Minister, was tho only representative Of Ha-
wall actually In Washington. give me freedom
to speak, and qualify me to address you on
some Of the matters in your despatch.
Your communication to the President con-
tains twenty seven paragraphs and thirty |
charges. which can meet and which IN this. |
my first and probably only opportunity. I shall |
reiute. shall. for convenience. take them up |
in successive order
Paragraph 1-You aver therein that the op-
position to her Majesty induced tho Queen |
speedily to change her purpose OF proca ming |
n new Constitution and that she made public |
announcement Of the fact. The fact is that
after most violent alteration with her Min
istry the Queen publicly announced that for
the present she deferred action on the IN latter
OF a new Constitution. 1t was pretended that
she wished to take the action as a con sequence
OF petition to that effect by her native bjects
Creditable persons present In the throne room
during almost the whole OF that Saturday
afternoon state that the humble petitioners
waited with their unread petition up to tho
time that the Queen made her declaration OF
postponement and she had not read tho docu-
ment. which has since disappeared.
Tho evidence obtanable indicates that the
proposed Constitution by its terms was an ag-
Gression upon the constitutional rights OF tho
white residents OF Hawaii, whether born here
OF parents also Of Hawaiian birth or settled
and established here by long residence. No
announcement OF an absolute change OF pur-
pose was made until Monday. two days later,
when her advisers discovered that the popular
wave Of Indignation was sweeping toward the
throne. and hoped to stay the Just wrath OF the
people
Should not the Queens other political
crimes OF that same Saturday DO considered by
your Was there lnothing offensive. not only
to us. but to your people in the Lottery ard
Opium bills? Nothing characteristic In the
OF the Chinese Registration
act? These thinCs 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 de-
Gliding vote OF the Lottery bill-a member who
UP to this date was pledged against tho meas
ure, too drunl to hold up his hand during tho
debate. with a wreath OF flowers about his
neck. said at that time to have been placed
there by the e1-cueen at the moment Of his
promise to support her plans. otter having
been piled by her with Intoxicating drinks |
voting unsteadiiy In favor OF indefinite post
ponoment until corrected by his reighbors
because he had promised to vote yes and
was not in ut condition to follow the course OF
legislative action. Her offences cannot be
brushed aside in a paragraph. nor recited In
one.
Paragraph 2-The meeting In Honolulu
which appointed the Com mittee o, Public Safe
ty. on my motion to that eiIecI. consisted OF
those persons who had gathered at tho call OF I
her Mniesty's Cabinet and had pledged their t
lives In writing in the defence OF that Cabinet
against the proposed aggression of the Queen. :
the memtc crS of that Cabinet having made an i
a ppeal for support, stating that they could not
rely upon the constituted civil and military 4
Iorces. whose leaders were pledged to support |
Tho Queen aud assist her In promulgating a =
new Constitution. That committee was an :
olburn, the queens Minister OF the Interior !;
had concluded an address to meeting by say c
. entlemen. We recognize that as a Cabi- \
net, We have absolutely no support. II you
he express purpose OF assisting that Ca6inet :
n protecting the public against the regular y
military and police. who were recognized as \
opposed 70 the psaceable and orderly element n
~ the community ri
Paragraph 3-The COMMITTEES OF Public ~
'afety held its first meeting Immediately after e
q appointment, the representative body Of II
tlzens upon whose resolution IL had hRsn q,
dominated withdrawing for the express pur- N
'ose OF allowing II to hold an immediate sss- III
lon, ana the sessions continued almost with u
tut Interruption until the organization OF the
,rovlsional Goyernment was proclaimed on b
he afternoon OF Tuesday the nth. ol
Paragraph +-Ihe aliens referred TO- Who | o
the Committee OF Public Safety. aud n
rom among whom that com mttes was chosen. i;
lni who constituted the mass meeting OF Mon | al
lnY afternoon the 18th were IL is true notall ! N,
y Hawaiian birth; were not all men who had ri
n .mAsseu 81, fortunes here but every individual m
vas or undoubtei integrity and a bona fide ! :,
esiheht oi these islands. pledged to the coun- A,
Ss,wrllare aud inlly mindful OF the native n
horlglnes, whose united interest and actions
hhde iheln hody which might well have &C
hRken more stable throne. SE
. laragTaph al have no reasnn TO doubt ~.
no NeIhcity OI the stAtements in this Lana =