The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-08

second message.
Your fifth inquiry is as to the time
and contents of your communications
which were ambiguous" L have emu
merated them in my reply to your first
inquiry. The ambiguity consists IN the
reiterated statement that you proposed
to do some act and carry out certain in
structions, which all the surrounding
circumstances indicated were inimical
to this Government, without stating
what that act was or what those instruc-
tons were, and while presenting and
speaking assurances of friendship and
amity, without the consent of this Gov
eminent negotiating with its enemies for
its subversion, and declining to state
what your intentions were.
Such utteranceS and actions were so
inconsistent one with the other-with in
ternational rules of comfy and the past
relations and international policy of the
two Governments, as to be not only ann
biguous, but incomprehensible TO this
Government.
Your sixth inquiry is as TO when,
where and TO whom YOU declared that
you intended to do some act when the
proper time arrived. The reply TO yOur
first inquiry covers this also.
Your seventh inquiry is to the time
and manner when the Government has
sought the assurance that force would
not be used. The answer is contained
in my reply to your first inquiry.
You finally ask my careful consider
alton" of the following statement. con-
tanned III my letter.
Your action has unto: tunately aroused
the passions of all parties and made 1t
probable that disturbances may be Great
ed at any moment and say that you
refuse to believe that upon re-examina-
ton you 81 will feel at liberty to affix
your my official signature to such an
extraordinary declaration"
In reply | beg to state that / have
resided in this country for nearly fifty
six years and had intimate personal
knowledge of the conditions prevailing
during the riot of 1874 and the revolu-
tons of 1887. 1889 and 1898, and with all
deliberation L state OF my own knowl-
edge that during such periods there has
never been a time when the country has
been subjected to such strain and excite
ment as during the eight days following
the arrival of the Corwin. The business
of the entire community was practically
suspended and its time and energy devO-
ted to an exciting and absorbing consid
Grafton of the political situation and to
military preparation to meet unknown
contingencies. which state of things has
since been fortunately allayed by advlces
from America furnished in reports of the
Presidents special Hawaiian message to
Congress and his instructions to your
Excellency, information which made
satisfactory and favorable response to
the inquiry of my letter to you of Decem-
Der 9th.
/ also state with equal de1beratlOn
that such condition was produced and
maintained by reason of your action and
declaration and the actions and declara-
tons of your Government and the cir
cumstances and uncertainties attendant
thereupon as detailed in my letter of
Dec. 22nd and herein.
I make the statement in no spirit of
unfriendliness to you or your Government,
but as an historical fact which, if not
already known to you, should III the IN
terests of both countries be made known
to you.
In conclusion L beg to refer to the
statement in your communication OF
Jan. LIST, wherein you state that 1t is
source Of sincere and profound regret
that my letter ''brings for the first time
the official information that the warllke
preparations described by you were
caused by and intended for the diplo
matte and military representatives Of the
United States"
In reply l would say that such regret
on your part at receiving such inform
alton cannot exceed the sincerity and
profoundness of my own regret that
such a condition should exist.
Such regret on my part is only equalled
by inability to understand how 1t has
come about that a government and
community which is to-day more closely
connected with the United States by ties
of commerce, friendship and blood, than
any other lying beyond the borders,
which values your friendship above that
of all. other nations, which fully admits
and appreciates the many and deep OBJ
legations which it is under to your Gov
eminent and people; which has done you
and your country no wrong, has been
forced into a position where in defense
of their very right to exist, they have
been obliged to take up arms to meet
the possible hostility of that country
whose flag they revere and whose prin-
ciples of liberty they love.
/ cannot but believe that it has arisen
through a misunderstanding of facts on
the part of your Government, and
mutual misrepresentation of motives and
intentions which may, / sincerely hope,
at an early day be cleared away.
Allow me, in closing, to thank you, Mr..
Minister. for your frequent expressions
of personal regard and for the evident
sincerity OF purpose displayed by you
under recent trying circumstances, and
to assure you OF my deep appreciation
thereof.
[ have the honor to assure you that,
with highest consideration, l am
Your Excellency's obedient servant,
SANFORD B. DOLE,
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