The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-22

,rorins ,As, daring our week Of fear he setusy ssA
no pnwsr 10 enforce Bis demands ane vss nsins M
s,l~.. In, hoJiSs menace tsrriff TIRE Gorernnsht
tn,o e.,npnspes Orr eonso.aiion shat he gave ne
the opportunity TO prove our nanhood By refusing"
The dispatches sent TO Congress on Sat
urlay enable us 10 complete this picture OF
the week oi terror in Hawaii. Reporting to
Secretary GRESHAM on Dec. &c. Mr.. WILLIS
explains that the delay in the departure OF
tie Corwln from Honolulu was caused by
the failure OF the Provisional Government
10 deliver it's answer TO the Presidents
decision" On the same day our Minister to
Hawaii, accredited TO n friendly Govern
ment which is by our own Government duly
and fully recognized, addressed to one OF
the late Ministers Of LTL1UoHALANI an
official communication In which Mr.. WILLIE
begs that private person 10 inform her
Majesty the Queen that he. WILLIS. has
notified the Provisional Government that
the President Of the United States had
reached the decision that she had been ille-
gally deprived OF her authority as tho con-
stltutional sovereign OF the Hawaiian ISL
ands. and that they were expected to
promptly relinquish to the Queen her con-
stitutional authority"
Mr. WILLIS officially recognizes as the con-
stitutional sovereign Of Hawaii person
whose pretensions are hostile TO the exist
ence Of the actual Government TO which
Mr.. WILLIS is accredited. and addresses
that person as her Majesty the Queen"
did not contain his last reference to 1.-The
Presidents decision" that the Provisional
Government must cease to exist.
As recently as January 8. Mr.. WILLIS
writes to Washington that he has acknowl-
edged the receipt of the Hawaiian Govern
ment's response to the decision OF the
President" meaning thereby the manly.
dignitied. and unanswerable letter In which
President DoLE and his colleagues declined
to abide by 1.-THE Presidents decision" and
inquired by what authority Dir. GROVER
CLEVELAND assumed to make or to publish
such decision.
So this was the situation in Honolulu long
after Mr.. CLEVELAND had petulantly turned
over the whole affair to Congress. Tho
people OF Hawaii were trembling for their
lives and homes. not knowing at what hour
the bayonets and bullets Of the United
States might be turned upon them to en-
force "the Presidents decision" the
Provisional Government. recently COM
manded in Mr.. CLEvELAND's name to sur
render its authority to LILIUoKALANI. was
in entire ignorance whether Mr.. WILLIS
| intended to call the troops ashore to enforce
1.-THE Presidents decision:" Mr.. WILLIS.
on his part. was talking right and left about
that decision" while carefully refraining
| from saying one word to indicate that his
instructions did not contemplate the en-
| forcement Of the decision with cold steel and
| gunpowder, and was actually in diplomatic
| correspondence with the enemies Of the
Government to which he was accredited by
| the Government Of the United States.
Under these circumstances, unprece-
denied in the whole history OF tho world.
President DOLE wrote to Mr.. WILLIS ask
| ing TO be informed whether the latter held
| instructions to enforce Mr.. CLEvELASD's
decision with the use OF arms in any
event: and pointing out the disastrous eff
feet Of Mr.. WILLIS ambiguous utterances
and uncertain attitude. upon the public
peace and security.
This letter OF President DoLE's Is the
document which Mr. WILLS forwards TO
| Washington with the remark that In his
opinion 1t reflected very unjustly upon
the President. whose agent 1 was" This
| Is the document which Mr. CLEvELAND,with
O whine and q whimper. turns over to Con-
! gress as most extraordinary letter"
| This is the document upon which the few
remaining cuckoos In the Senate and House
and among the newspapers of the land.
are trying 20 base national grievance
against the Provisional Government. as il
President DOLE had insulted President
CLEVELAND. and through President CLEyE-
LAND the whole American people!
Such is tho ignoble and ridiculous end OF
the policy OF infamy. The man who upon
his own responsibility undertook with un-
paralleled arrogance and perfidy to destroy
the Hawaiian Government. and vino now
finds himself defeated. outmatched, and hu-
inflated by an adversary strong only In its
consciousness Of right, comes back to Con-
gress to complain that he personally Is not
treated with respect by that little Power!
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