The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-30

untrue In reply to rival parties at
different times, whether representa-
tiyes Of the queen or opponents, my
answer was always the same-that the
| force should not land until danger
| should be plainly imminent and they
were entirely to protect American life
and property.
AS / said in my letter to Secretary
Gresham, l here re-affirm, that the
| royalists and their opponents had
equal access to the legation and to its
official head The best answer to the
5aseless charge that [ promised to use
force against the queen is the order
Of Captain Wiltse to his officers and
men To remain passive and that no
force was to be used, though the
queen, through her ministers, strongly
requested it, hours before the pro-
| by me, and all other diplomatic
representatives in Honolulu
| Stevens states he had no knowledge
| Of a meeting of the committee of
safety at the residence of Henry
Waterhouse on January Is, and his
first information as to the persons at
| the meeting was obtained from
Blount's report. Regarding the expec-
tations 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 Swim
burne to show that the landing of the
troops was to protect the legation and
the lives and property of American
citizens and preserve order.
"A copy of the call of the committee
of safety. which Blount insinuates 1
wished to conceal from him, had been
promptly forwarded to Washington in
January, and was in the printed
| pamphlets of the state department
documents ordered published by the
| Senate, q copy of which | suppose
| Blount must have brought with him,
when he came to the islands. AS
sioner ascertained that Neuman was
in full accord with Spreckels and
Blount for Liluokalanis restoration to
the throne at once, Blount immedia-
tely learned that Neumann was a
right down good fellow. So much
! for the conclusive evidence that
Spreckels, Neuman and Blount were
then, as now, rowing in the same boat
and closely linked in the conspiracy
to damage the action of Harrison s
administration and the Senate COM
mittee of foreign affairs on the ques-
ton of annexation
Stevens devotes considerable space
to showing the disreputable character
of the persons furnishing the aff1da-
Wits TO Blount, being especially severe
on John F. Coleburn, A. P. Peterson,
Charles L. Hopkins and DR.. Frosseau.
He says: 1.-THE testimony Of hundreds
such would not counterbalance the
words of Minister Thurston, President
Dole and Henry Waterhouse, among
the honest men who know the respec-
tive parties. AS to Wilson, the queen S
favorite for many years, whom Blount
attempts to whitewash, / will not soil
these pages by giving even notorious
facts in MS regard.
LAS to my recognition of the provis-
ional government, 1 reaffirm what ]
said in my recent letter to Secretary
Gresham that Queen Liluokalani in
augurated the revolution in attempt
ling to destroy the constitution by rev.
dictionary means From Saturday,
Jan. II, to Jan. 10, there was no gov
eminent in Honolulu except in the
united and self-possessed attitude of
the citizens who assembled in a great
mass meeting on Jan. 16 and consum-
mated their efforts for law and order
by the establishment of the provision
al government on the 18th, which was
promptly acknowledged by all foreign
Representatives who were familiar with
| the circumstances of its creation.
''It was nearly fifty hours after Lii
uokalani and her favoriteS had deS-
troyed her throne by the revolutionary
outbreak when the men of the Boston
were landed.
JOHN L. STEVENS,
Augusta, Me. 4"