Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-02-13

element OF foreign sClournsrs were,
under any method of prOmulga-
ton. beyond the reach Of ali
argument. The intention Of 50
reactionsry a change, We must deal
lcnientIy with, as the fatuous folly
of a woman and a hesdstrong
sovereign, pitiabiy blind TO the
consequences
None the less, sit was really a
magnificent speetacle," as Chief
Justice Judd has Observed. who
stood unwiliirgly by the throne
With other dignitaries. upon a
summons which n dreaded and
disapprnvei.. He. like any g ne
rons man of superior civilization.
was touched with compassion
for this brave woman, standing
though he felt her to be on the
very edge of ruin; and from his
reeollections of the occasion.
with those Of the chief royal
parsonage herself. artistic hints
might be gathered of a scene
which our modern world asso-
ciates with poetry aud the tragic
stage more than with real public
life.-the Queen, in her subli-
mated state of mind, struggling
with suppressed emotions for the
dramatic coup which she had
secretly prepared; her sidelong
warning to Marshal Wilson.
"You will have to be brave today
as she entered the blue room of
the palace after having prorogued
the legislature elsewhere, the
large procession of natives. Wis
ible from the balcony, who came
marching with banners, dressed
in their best attire. with black
coats and beaver hats, and whose
chief delegates entered; her elo-
quent opening to those about her
audlence-room in the name of
the thousands of subjects, who,
she said, had, demanded of her
government new Constitution;
her pleading suggestions to one
and another of the chief men OF
state about her to second her
expressions; and, upon the final
refusal of her ministers to sign.
her announcement to the crowd
from the royal balcony with
heartfelt sor .ow and yet queen
ly self-control, that she loved
her people and would continue
to love them, but she could not
give them today the Constitution
they wished for, but would do so
at some future time. All the
high officers of government, even
the marshal who has been SO
great scandalized, were dead
against her in this business. The
wary ministers who parted well
her appeal for their names, after
evading in the forenoon the pre-
liminarY conference which she
had eagerly invited, undertook to
control her without delay. Two
OF their number, Colburn and
Peterson, were at first to COM
municate the situation at once to
the leading reformers of the city,
assuring them that they gave the
Queens plot no co1ntenance;
they. in return, were encouraged
by these men, and by all the
great mass of Influential residents
and business men, to stand firm
and prevail. They did so. and.
if their testimony can be trusted
as it ought to be, she yielded to
them in private by the same SIT
urday night that full abandon
ment of her purpose which, to
aIlay general excitement, was
publicly announced over their
signatures and her own by fore
noon of the ensuing Monday
OF the revolutionary incidents
which now pass IN rapid sue
cession, the extensive narrative of
Mr.. B!ounts report, together
with Secretary Gresham's briefer
synopsis, have been widely given
through the press to our Amer
lean public But as if
investigators so tried, SO
able, and so honorable
as these, might not be trusted
upon their own sitting of the evi-
dence, [ have gone searchIngly
through the great mass of accom-
panying testimony for my own
satisfaction, with all of the IN
dividual counter statements which
have ppeared since Its publlca-
ton as well as our leading press
comments lying by me for COM
parison; and my only surprise Is
that candid and appropriated
mind can reach, on the essential
facts, any deduction materially
different from their own. For
this testimony is not &c pdrte in
reality. as so many have taken
for granted, but Commissioner
Blount pursued his delicate mis-
sion with rare discretion. and
with an evident determination to
reach the bottom OF the truth;
he avoided, for the independence
of his search, all insidious atren-
tions which were offered him Oh
either side: and it appears pain
fully clear that from the moment
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