The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-15

appear in the files of the Legation.
The meaning Of this insinuation j.
obvious enough to say that there
never was any such document. / re-
ceived the invitation OF the Commit
! tee of Safety for what il was worth, as
L received other information on the
same subject. / should have requested
Captain Wiltse to have landed his
force even had not the com mittee re-
quested il.
"Blount squarely asserts that pro-
missed to aid the Committee of Safety
by force. This is emphatically and
categorically untrue. In reply to rival
parties at different times, whether
| representatives of the Queen or her
| opponents, my answer was always
the same-that the force should not
land until danger should be plainly
| imminent, and then only to protect
American life and property and to
no one did / ever hint that could, or
would, recognize any but the de facto
| Government, whether mOnarchical or
| republican, as / said in my letter to
| Secretary Gresham. L here reaffirm
| that the royalists and their opponents
had equal access to the Legation and
| to it's official head.
''The best answer to the baseIess
! charge that / promised to use force
against the Queen, is the order of Cap
| tain Wiltse to his officers and men 'to
remain passive and that no force
was used, though the Queen through
| her Ministers strongly requested ii
hours before the Provisional Govern
ment was recognized by me and all
the other diplomatic representatives
in Honolulu"
Stevens states that he had no knowl-
edge of the meeting of the Committee
of Safety at the residence of Henry
Waterhouse on January 18th, and his
first Information as TO the persons at
that meeting was obtained from
Blount's report. Regarding the ex-
pectatiOns and hopes of the Queen and
her representatives on the exciting
days of January 18th and 18th, and
the views and hopes of her opponents,
Stevens quotes the Queens letter to
him, the report of Captain Wiltse to
the Navy Department, and the order
of Captain Wiltse to Commander
Swinburne, to show that the landing
of the troops was to protect the Lega-
ton and the lives and property of
American citizens and to preserve
order.
''The copy of the call of the Com
mittee of Safety, which Blount insin-
yates / wished to conceal from him,
had been promptly forwarded to
Washington in January, and was in
the printed pamphlet of the State De-
partment documents ordered pub
lished by the Senate, a copy of which
/ supposed Blount must have brought
with him when he came to the ISL
ands.
GAS soon as this astute Commits
sioner ascertained that Neumann was
in full accord with Spreckels for Lii
uokalanis restoration to the throne,
Loo Inf NI1tr
is right down good fellow. So |
much for the conclusive evidence |
that Spreckels, Neumann and Blount |
were then, as now, rowing in the |
same boat, and closely linked in q |
conspiracy to damage the action of |
Harrison's Administration and the |
Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs !
on the question of annexation"
Stevens devoted considerable space |
to showing the disreputable char
acter of the persons furnishing the
severe on John f. Colburn, A. p.
Peterson, Charles l.. Hopkins and DR..
TrOusseau. He says:
"The testimony of hundreds of such
would not counterbalance the words
of Minister ThurstOn, President Dole
and Henry NNaterhouse among honest
men who know the respective parties.
AS 10 w llSOuJ tue QueeIfS ldNoIlte loI
many years, whom Blount attempts
to whitewash, L will not soil these
pages by giving even the notorious
facts in his regard.
GAS to my recognition of the Provis-
iOnal Government, l reaffirm what L
said in my recent letter to Secretary
Gresham. Queen Liliuokalani inaug-
urated a revolution, attempting to
destroy the constitution by revOlu-
means. From Saturday after
noon, January 18th, to January 10th,
there was no Go yernment in Homo
lulu except in the united and self
possessed attitude of the citizens, who
in the great mass meeting
Of January 18th and consummated
their efforts for law and order by the
of the Provisional Gov
on the 18th which was
acknowledged by all for
eign representatives who were fami-
liar with the circumstances of its crea-
ton. 1t was nearly fifty hours after
and her favorites
had destroyed her throne by a revolu-
tionary outbreak when the men of the
Boston landed.