The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-12-19
LILIUOKALANI'S SELF-INDIGTMENT.

| QeuI MeSSdSe dUOuG Law dA4, dlN
the reception of it by Congress, We
are favored with another documen'
wherewith to occupy our minds
1t is the fallen queens own state
ment to Mr.. Blount, as published in
the fourth instalment of his report
She therein SO badly incriminates
herself, that the great wonder is
how, after getting it, the Commits.
sioner could see any occasion for
further inquiry into the rights and
wrongs of the revolution.
This unhappy woman has re-
hearsed her own actions with a
curious aaiUete and seeming uncon-
seriousness of the colossal Grimm
atty of her deeds. She apparently
had no clear idea that she was her.
self creating a revolution by radi-
cally altering the form of govern
ment. She seems to be conscious
of no culpability except perhaps
very venial imprudence and pre-
cipitation. The truth is, that Lii
uokalani is through and through
essentially a Polynesian heather,
with a snowy veneer of civiliz-
alton. Her child life, while
highly favored by civilizing and en-
tightening influences, was from in
fancy greatly exposed to the pene-
trating influences of the parental
household, which were deeply and
darby heather. Her ethical and
political ideas were all fundament-
ally shaped by those heather infu-
ences acting upon the congenial
nature inherited from heather an
cestors. 1t is as such that she is
really to be estimated and judged
in both her private and her public
life, and not by the standards and
probabilities governing our esti-
mates of the conduct of Europeans.
Take this woman's avowal that
in the latter part of last
year she entered into a secret con-
spiraey with certain whites and ma
tives to abrogate the Constitution
and promulgate new one after the
only organization which could &C.
lively resist-the Legislature-had
been prorogued. A Constitution
had no sacredness in her semi
heather eyes, although she had
sworn to maintain it. It possessed
no value to her, although it was the
covenant made in 1887, by which
The powerful foreigners agreed to
continue weak native sovereignty |
in consideration Of having an infu-
entail voice in public affairs. The |
only thing sacred or valuable in her
view was the provocative of mon
archy to make its own will SUI
oreme.
The strange thing is that this
avowed conspiracy to destroy the
rational covenant and make poll
'ical fellowship impossible for
natives and foreigners, receives no
from Blount and
Gresham. Any conspiracy of
queen is allowable. 1t is Stevens
conspiracy that alone is heinous.
de conspired, Blount proves, with
hese fllibuster "aliens" who
would not put up with the queens
innocent freak of a new constitu-
ion. Stevens alone is the great
:riminal, and his accomplices were
hose aliens, Thurston and Carter
nd Dole and Smith, all born here
nd the parents of some of them
'orn here also.
Liliuokalani describes most in
ocently her process of preparing
.er precious constitution. The
all for it, she tells Mr.. Blount,
anne from the natives in all parts
f the country. They wanted the
'reigners to be deprived of power,
nd to have Hawaiian Government
holly in the hands of Hawaiians,
Though whites did all the bust ]
ess and paid most of the taxes. I
o as it was purely Hawaiian j
fair this native monarch takes
lie concocion of a new constitu-