New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-17
WAR SENTIMENT IN HAWAII.
RESOLVED NOT TO SUBMIT.
INTENSE FEELING AMONG THE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENTS ADHERENTS.
TWO SIGNIFICANT INSTANCES SHOWING THE DE-
TERMINATION OF THE PEoPLE-AN INvEsTI-
eating COMMISSION wANTED-wUN-
DERBERG, BLOUNT'S DIsCREDITED
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!BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBrNsl
Honolulu. Dec O. via San Francisco, Dec l6.-
The war feeling continues to run high among the
adherents Of the Provisional Government To
show how It has spread two anecdotes Will per-
haps suffice The Rev. Serene Bishop. the son
of a missionary. and until declining years came
to him an active preacher, went to a newspaper
office the day after the news of Greshams
letter was received, and said
Il have always been a man Of peace, ana
am growing old. but l can think of no better
way in which to close a long, and hope useiu
life than to die in the front rank of those who
will defend the Provisional Government against
the Royasts and their Cleveland allies.
There Is another aged man In the city VINO
went still further His name is Macdonald, and
he was a captain in the Union Army. where as
In the Mexican War. he received serious WOUNDS
4 few years ago he was injured still more by
a fall from the top of "a house. His lower limbs
are now half parayzed but his arms are sturdy,
his brain clear and his eye bright. AS soon as
the old veteran heard that the marines might
be landed to attack the Government building, ne
went there and arranged to have n stool fixed
for him behind the sandbags on the upper
balcony. Il wear the Grand Army uniform, ne
told the officers 'and l should hate to be forced
TO fire at the boys in blue But II they come l
shall be good for an even dozen OF them before
they can get me-" When the cergymen and
paraIyzed men want to defend the Government
with their lives 1t is plain what the state OF
feeling must be among the younger and more
hotblooded partisans.
While preparations have been made on all sides
to repel invasion, there Is still a general nope
that Congress will prevent an act of war on the
part OF the Executive. or that, on the appeal OF
Court will enjoin the President from the misuse
OF constitutional authority whlch an act Oh WAT
would involve.
What is specifically wanted Is a commission TO
come here and investigate the annexation pro-
posa and leave the question on the ute OF the
Provisional Government alone. that having peen
legally settled by the recognition Of that Power
By the United States and Russia. II such com
mission should desire To look into the acts OF
Minister Stevens. the resident Americans ana
patriotic Hawdlans would be happy 10 be heard
on these matters from the witness stand
Wunderberg. Mr. Bounts principal witness
has been before the Supreme Court. whose clerk
falsehood In his statements To Mr.. Bount Inc
witness made painful exhibition OF MS Iack
OF memory as 10 what he said 10 Blount ana
made no serious effort to justify his acts. lie
was thereupon dismissed from the service the
court holding that he was guilty or the charges
made. and that he had taken disloyaI . courss
out OF revenge for the failure OF the Government
to appolnt him 10 the marshalship. the radical
polIcy now being IN order the Government mas
begun TO remove the Royalist ohcials from the
nublIc service There will be a clean sweep IN
Difference 10 public opinion.