Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-12-21


ing is months, and until the election OF a
new legis ature
In this belief i left Honolulu in the
u. >. ;. Boston, Jan. 4, on "A trip 10 Hilo,
$50 miles from Honolulu, the first time
for many months when had deemed IL
safe 10 leave Honolulu. In the 10 days Of
our absence from the legation i had
known no more of whGt had been trans
piring In Honolulu than though had
been at that time i'm Washington.
What Was Done In Ten Days.
When Captain Wiltse and myself I'm the
Boston arrived In the harbor of Honolulu
In the forenoon of Jan. Il was COM
pletely taken by surprise at what the
queen, the palace associates, and the lot
terry gang had accomplished in 10 days.
The remonstrances of the chamber of COM
merce, of the numerous petitions OF some
of the best people of the island, both
whites and natives, and the earnest plead
fngs of those who had previously adhered
TO the monarchy had been defiantly disre-
garded.
/ found the city in great excitement.
The surging irresistible tide of revolution
was then obvious To all persons not will
fully blind.
on the Boston, without stopping to change
dress, with the English minister / has
tened to get access to the queen and to try
by friendly advice to arrest the revolution.
It was too late; the mobs of royal re-
tainers We're already gathering to the
palace to aid the queen TO carry out her
plan of overturning the constitution.
What took place at the palace that after
noon of Jan. IA ended the Hawaiian mon
archy forever.
Aid Was Refused.
Though was nearly without sleep for
e6 hours during those exciting events, and
on the afternoon of the 18th was very i'll,
held my brain sufficiently at command
to refuse the solicited use Of force to re-
store the queen To the throne, which she
had recklessly lost three days before, and
to recognize the provisional government
when IL had become master of the situa-
ton, the self-possession of the citizens,
who had chosen the committee of safety,
being the only governing force in Homo
lulu that had lasted from the afternoon
of Jan. II To the afternoon of Jan IL
Why did the queens representatives
call at the United States legation on
the 18th and ask the aid Of the United
peopeo iOiNt w ouPI'plb ntNtT
was more preposterOus assumption than
this assertion of the president, that the
queen, Jan. IL, had ample force to sustain
her, and to enable her to carry on the gov
ernment. This studiously maintained
assumption of the president is based on
the testimony of the notoriously corrupt
representatives of the rings that sur
rounded I4iliuokalani that the Hawaiian
monarchy was overturned by United
States forces, and was and is put forth
for the sole purpose of bringing
discredit on the preceding administration
at Washington, and on the action of the
foreign relations committee of the United
States senate in favor of annexation.
No Restoration.
II remains to be seen If the American
congress and the American people will
approve the conspiracy to make war on
the provisional government at Hawaii,
and use the military forces Of the United
States, or the diplomatic pressure of
the United States for the restoration
OF a semi-barbarous queen in wanton de
fiance of the best American opinions and
antecedents, and by an excessive use of
executive power against an American
colony more positive and inexcusable
than that which George III and his min
listers sought TO impose on the American
colonies that formed the government OF
the United States. JOHN l.. STEVENS.