Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-13
WILL RESIST OVERTHROW.

The Provisional Government at
 Hawaii Intends to Maintain Its
 Power Even at the Force of
 Arms-Minister Willis is Pledged
 to Take No Action-At the Meeting
 of the Annexationists Resolutions
 to Support the PrOvisiO Onal Govern-
 ment Were Adopted - Secretary
 Gresham's Infamies Referred to.
 VANCOUVER, B. O., Doc. 12.-A Homo lulu correspondent writing December 4, says:
 At the unanimous and urgent demand of the American citizens the provisional government has decided to resist the ut most extremity any attempt to overthrow them. Leading citizens generally have announced their intention to be foremost in the def"nce. Twelve hundred volun- teer rifemen are ready at call with large Maxim and Gatling batteries. Minister Willis is pledged to the government to take no action before the return of the Alameda, December 21. His instructions are still concealed.
 The snnexationists held a mass me stipg on November 25. Probably 1000 persons were at the meeting. F. M. Hatch, vice president of the provisional government, made the opening speech. He appealed to congress against the executive and held that Secretary Gresham does not know in- ternational law. He clsimed that the pro- visional government had never submitted its right to exist to the United States. w. R. Csstle, one of the annexation commis- sioners, made an argument to prove the authority of mass meetings. He quoted recent American opinions that the revolu tion of 1776 was the work of the minority. Hawaii, he said, was surely trending toward the goal of unity with the mother country. "Can Secretary Gresham stop the onward progress of Hawsiil' he shouted.
 MT. Castle admitted that President Cleve- land and MT. Gresham were trying to exe- cute justice and do what Is right, but he said the enemies of annexation had stuffed their ears with lies. The speaker claimed that the people of the United States were against the presidents policy. MT. Castle charged MT. Blount with twice inviting the supporters of the queen to revolt against the provisional government. MT. Castle moved the following resolutions which were agreed to:
 Resolved, That We have read with sur prise and regret the resolution of the sec retary of state to the United States to re- store ths monarchy lately existing in Ha- waii.
 Resolved, That we condemn the assump tion of the secretary that the right of the provisional government to exist was ter minated by his refusal to resubmit to the senate the treaty of union pending be- tween the two countries, and also his as- sumption that the provisional government at that very time submitted the question of its continued existence to the srbitra- ment of the president or any other power. Resolved, That we will support to the best of our ability the provisional govern ernment to resist any attack upon it which may be made contrary to the ussges of ! nations.
 A. F. Judd, chief justice, said he loved this country, to which his father had de- voted his life. Had the queen taken the | advice of the justices she would not be l where she is now. The chief justice said MT. Blount had interviewed him when in Honolulu, but never asked him If the rev olution had been accomplished by the aid ! of Minister Stevens. He believed that the mass meeting on the 18th settled the ques- tion, and the government having lasted 6 year had right to exist.
 He spoke of the infauies of Gresham and advocated compelling Cleveland to submit to the will of the people. This last was to be done by resisting the progress of Amer ican troops without firing on them.
 P. O. Jones said Cleveland should have rounded his policy by ordering that all four members of the ex-council of the pro
 visional government should be shot. Ht referred to the story that Cleveland wor his election to the presidency by thre'
 'R's"-Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.
 The American league is now an estab | A4I C.. .k oho khn xNxy
 ernment. It Is secret organization. It
 objects are to bear true allegiance to tn,
 United States, to advance the latter's In
 terestr, and to aid to protect the member
 of the organization. Eligibility to mem
 bership Is based on citizenship of th
 United States. The league is strongly il
 favor of annexation.
 A petition signed by the leading Ameri
 cans of Honolulu was presented to Minis
 ter Willis on December 9. After settinl
 forth that the petitioners are citizens of th 1 United States and have made their real
 dences and have acquired property in th islands, and reciting the events which le'
 up to the revolution of January last, tn
 petition concludes with statement that treatment of annexation was negotiate
 with the provisional government in behsl
 of the United States, and no public notic has been given to the undersigned of an part of the United States to break o diplomatic relations with the provisiont
 government, or to do any acts of war C hostility to the said government; that D
 such acts of war or hostility can be dor
 without endangering the lives and propert
 of the signers.
 ! President Dole stated on November { | that the government had received tu { bona fde offers of armed assistance fro |: the Pacific coast. One was for service he, of 1000 men, and the other for service
 4,000 men. The Bulletin of December