The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-03-20

the punishment or death of the white
population seems not 10 be permitted tC
excuse the action of the people in dis
placing her, if they had not captured
her small force of policemen and sol
dlers before the American minister
had recognized the Provisional Gov
eminent.
LiliuOkalani did not seem to take
this narrow view of the revolution she
had inaugurated.
The Punishment or death of tie
white people and the confiscation OF
their estates was the final decree re-
corded in the Queens heart and
mind, as she freely stated to Minister
Willis, and until this cruel work had
been accomplished she held that her
policy of revolution would be fail
ure. There is some ground for hope
that these were not her sincere pur-
poses or wishes but that in giving ex-
preston to them she was ''playing a
part" AS opposed to such purposes,
or to a Queen who could imagine
them in the presence of the constitu-
tional protection given to the rights
and liberties of the people throughout
this hemisphere, Americans should
not hesitate in the support of gov
eminent de tactO, set up to oppose
! her, because she had not made a
formal surrender of place where a
! few soldiers and policemen had been
stationed, who were powerless to hold
it against the people then under arms.
1t was an act of mercy TO her and her
| retainers that they were not forced
| into the commission of acts of VIC
lence. An interregnum existed in
\ the executive Government of Hawaii,
which was caused by the effort of the
| Queen TO destroy the constitution of
| 1887, and by the act of the people in
accepting her will for the completed
coup a. etGt, and, in making that the
occasion for supplying the executive
department of the Government with
| a chief.
A careful investigation has failed to
show that any conspiracy now exists
that is directed to the virtual dis
placement of the Provisional Govern
ment. The personal efforts of the
Queen seem to have been directed
toward a provision for safe and COM
Portable life, free from the anxiety of
office and 1.-THE stress of her native
subjects" Her power of attorney to
Paul Neumann and his mission to the
United States indicate a reliance on
the "arts of peace" rather than of war
for indemnity for the past and secur-
ity for the future. The opinions, or
sentiments, expressed by her in the
three interviews she had with Mr..
Willis, in which she uttered the
severest denunciations against the
wi 70 il II
her willingness, if not her purpose, to
cOntiscate their estates and to Danish
or TO destroy them, while they are a
seeming expression of the lofty indig-
nation of an offended ruler, are so
unsuited to the character of queen
crowned by a Christian and civilized
people, and so out of keeping with her
character as woman who had re-
ceived kindly recognition and per-
sOnal regard from other good and re-
fined ladies, that they shock all right
minded people in ChristendOm. The !
Government OF the United States |
should willingly forbear to regard |
these utterances as her official eX-
preston of such designs upon the |
lives and liberties Of those whom she |
would find in her power, upon her |
restoration to the throne, and accept |
them as means adopted by her to con-
vince Mr.. Willis that her restoration
to the throne was impossible, and was
not in accordance with her wishes.
The President, on the first imtima-
ton of these harsh declarations of the
Queen, at once laid them before Con-
gress, and abandoned the further eX-
ercise of his good offices to bring
about a reconciliation between her
and those who were conducting and
supporting the Provisional Govern
ment.
Mr.. Willis, however, regarding his
instructions as continuing to require
his intercessiOn beyond the point
where the President considered that
it should cease, held a second and
third interview with Liliuoka-
lani. After these interviews had
closed, the Queen being still firm in
her course, Mr.. Carter, a trusted
friend, obtained her signature to a
pledge of amnesty, and made
hat the basis of his proposition
TO Mr.. Dole for the abandonment of
he Provisional Government, which
vas summarily refused. This closed
hat incident. Mr.. Willis, in what
lie did, obeyed what he conceived to
De his instructions, and being so dis
ant from Washington, it is a matter
If regret, but not of surprise, that !
here was an apparent want of har-
nony between his action in continu- {
ng his interviews with Liliuokalani {
Ifter the President had determined I
hat the full duty of the Government I
lad been performed. l
The attitude OF Lilinokalani at the con-
fusion of this proceeding is that of wait c
ne for a pleasant retirement from the I
ares OF public life, rather than of wait a
ng for an opportunity to bring about a S
hostile collision with the people who c
Import the new order Of government in /
hawaii. q
in dealing with a grave subject, now t
Or the first time presented in America, [
re must consider the conditions of public 9
eminent as to monarchic government, I
nd We shall derive also material help d
rom the light Of English history. In c
he Western Hemisphere, except as to t
he colonial relation, which has become e
ne OF mere political alliance chiefly for t
commercial reasons, and does not imply s