Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-11-17
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY NOVEMBER II, 1893.

minds of the Queen, her officers and loyal
supporters.
''It is fair to say that Secretary Fosters
statements were based upon information
which he had received from Mr.. Stevens
and the special commissioners, but | am
unable to see that they were deceived. The
troops were landed, not to protect Ameri
can life and property, but to aid in over
throwing the existing government. Their
very presence implied coercive measures
againstit.
cat an early stage of the movement, if
not at the beginning, Mr.. Stevens prom
ised the annexatonists that as soon as
they obtained possession of the govern
ment building and there read proclama-
ton of the character above referred to, he
would at recognize them as a de facto gov
ernment, and support them by landing a
force from our war ship, then in the har
Dor, and he kept that promise. This as
surance was the inspiration of the move
| ment, and without it the anneXationists
would not have exposed themselves to the
consequences of failure. They relied upon
no military forces of their own, for they
had none worthy of the name. The pro-
vsional government was established by the
action of the American minister and the
presence of the troops landed from the
| Boston, and its continued existence is due
to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they
made an effort to overthrow it they would
encounter the armed forces of the United
States
Under this statement of the case Secre-
tary Gresham reaches the conclusion that
the only thing for the United States to do
is to right 1.-THE great wrong done to fee
bic but Independent state" by restoring
the monarchy.
The publication of this document pro
duced, not only surprise, but a genuine
sencation. Its date, Oct. Is. showed that
all knowledge OF the determination of the
administration had been carefully withheld
from Congress while it was in session and
that no intimation regarding it had been
allowed to leak out before the fall cleo
tions. Moreover the new minister to Ha-
wall, Mr.. Willis, had been despatched
there with instructions how to act, with
out any knowledge of this reaching either
Congress or the country at large, while
Rear Admiral Skerrett, in command of the
United States warships at Honolulu, had
been as secretly recalled to San Francisco
and Admiral Irwin had been ordered from
China to assume the command. Demo-
Gratis were as pronounced as Republicans in
condemning such tactics, and even the
mildest-mannered of the Democratic pa
pers urged that a de facto government be-
ing in existence and in undisputed control
in Hawaii there was no ground in law,
reason or justice for our government to
overthrow that de facto government and
set up the monarchy in its place-say
nothing of the spectacle presented by a re-
public like that of the United States en-
gagged in reinstating and bolstering up
weak monarchy whose vices were a shame
to its people, and with an immoral queen
at its head.
EX-Minister John l.. Stevens made a
fiery reply to Secretary Greshams report
in a signed leader in his paper, the Kenne-
bee, Me, journal, Monday. The proposed
action of the Cleveland administration
Mr.. Stevens denounces as "a public crime
OF startling import public crime of
''the same moral type as the sitting of ma
tionol life and the reform asperations of
Poland and Hungary by the imperial des-
pots, and the crushing out of the newly
formed republic of Rome by the usurped
powers of Louis Napoleon" Mr.. Stevens
! thinks Mr.. Gresham has been led to take
this course by his intense hostility to ex-
| President Harrison. Nothing better shows
the animus of his report than his state
ment that Mr.. Stevens engaged the hall for
the marines in advance of the revolution,
when, as a matter of fact, the hall where
the troops were placed was taken as last
resort, after Mr.. Stevens had tried to Sc
cure two other better places, and after the
men had stood outdoor for many weary
hours. Instead of the United States
troops being landed before the overthrow
of the monarchy, ut was so hours after
Liluokalani and her favorites hal destroy
ed her throne by revolutionary outbreak,
when the men of the Boston landed" Mr..
Stevens's answer to all inquiries, while the
revolution was in progress, was that the
| United States marines could not take
sides, but whatever de facto govern
ment might exist would have to be recog-
nized. "When did recognize it," he con
tnues, slate in the afternoon of the 18th,
the provisional government was complete
master of the situation, had full control of
the city and of the government archives,
the police station being surrounded and at
the mercy of the provisional government.
Whoever denies this has no other basis for
his denials than perjured afiidavits, hun
dreds of which were obtainable in the
81 ums of Honolulu at 81 each"
The Revised Constitution.
From the New York SUM-
ARTICLE II.