The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-30

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AUGUSTA, NE, Now 29.-Ex-Minister
Stevens answer to Commissioner
BIount on the Hawaiian affair says:
With q deep sense Of obligation to my
country and an Americans duty to do
fend an inaulted, threatened and strug-
Cling American colony, planted as
rlghteouHly and firmly on the North Pa-
ci6c isles as our pilgrim fathers estab-
lished themselves on Plymoth Rock, I
shall make answer to the as
founding misrepresentation and
untruths Of Commissioner Blounts
report Of Hawaiian affairs, q
copy Of which l first obtained with
difficulty Saturday evening, November
%. 1t is proper for me to preface my
answer by briefly alludlng to the fact
that those familiar with international
rules and proceedings and have had di-
plomatic experience, must be aatonished
that Secretary Gresham and his COM
missioner should make before the world
such O persistent effort to discredit the
recent agents OF the department they
now represent, and which was once
represented by Thomas Jefferson, Will
liam l. Marcy, William II. Seward and
James G. Blaine.
Not wishing to be severe on aneophite
in diplomacy, with little knowledge Of
tho worlds affairs outside of his own
country, sent on q very peculiar errand
amid currents entirely unknown to
him, I say no has been partly the victim
Of circumstances, having been caught
In the meshes and snares adroitly pre-
pared for him by the cunning advisors
Of the fallen Liliuokalani and by the
shrewd, sharp. long experienced British
diplomatic agent, whose aims and
hopes Blount has served 80 well,
and without the least suspicion
that he was aiding ultra Brit
ish interests even more than he
was helping the Hawaiian monarch chists
and the Just dethronement of the
queen. It is clear enough, from Mr..
Blount's manner on the day Of his arri-
val at Honolulu, as well as by letter to
the department OF state, written short
ly after, that he designed at whatever
cost to repudiate the views and action
of the recently terminated administra-
tion, and that in order to do SO he must
impugn the action of Minister Stevens
and Of the commander OF the United
States Steamship Boston.
IN THE HANDS OF THE PLoTTERs.
A total stranger, 1t was impossible
for Mr.. Blount to know how uniting
it was for him to take up his quarters
where he was certain to be surrounded
by royalists and where the supporters
OF the provisional government would be
reluctant to 60.
The hotel was kept by one who had
served as Kalakua's chamberlin, who
was one Of the principal persons in
syndicate that had cheated the Ha-
waiian government out of nearly $780,
600, a transaction which Minister Mer-
ritt had officially reported to Secretary
Bayard, and thiR man was the leading
member of firm that sought to do its
chief business with England, a thor
oughly unprincipled opponent of the
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lean predominence in the islands.
AS precautionary safeguard against
shutting out the Americans from ready
access to Commissioner Blount, a
wealthy and highly respectable widow
lady Of the American colony was ready
to grant the use OF her house to Mr.. ana
Mrs. Blount, the commissioner to pay
the same amount it would cost him to
live at the Roya!ist's hotel. This polite
offer OF an American resident to an
American commissioner did not origin
ate with the provisional government,
nor did the provisional government
have anything whatever to do with the
proposed arrangement A committee
Of three American citizens, born and
educated in the United States, men
who mad not taken part in the revo-
lutionary proceedings OF the. pre-
vious weeks, went on board the
vessel when it came into the harbor.
At the request OF the three American
gentlemen / introduced them to MIR.
Blouns His manner OF receiving their
visit repelled them, and they asked me
TO state the reasons why it would not
be pleasant to him and better for all
concerned not to go to the royalist hotel,
but to take residence on neutral ground,
where he would bo master Of his own
surroundings. As dsiicateiy as ] could
DO so, stated the offer Of committee
OF his countrymen, pointing out to him
that by accepting this proposition he
would be near the archives Of the le-
Esti0nf which he could conveniently
use, BsuIquely he refused the cour-
teouS and honestly intended offer. He
did not allow me to show to him the
customary forms of introducing him to
the foreign diplomatic officials and to
the chief public men Of Honolulu.
A SHAMELESS PERvERsIoN.
All insinuations and implications in
Mr.. BlOunt's report, that I was Gverse
tolhis access to the legations record, are
shameless perversions of facts. To
chow tho character OF tho man into
whose environment he 80 quickly
placed himself, took to him the print
cd dispatches OF Minister Merritt to
Secretary Bayard, the printed records
OF the recently adjourned legislature
containing the recorded votes for and
aSAIn1t the lottery gang, the recorded