The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-19

SS7, and by the act Of the people in
her will for the completed
,ouI, ol' etdt, and, in making that the
for supplying the executive
department OF the Government with
q chief.
y careful investigation has failed 10 !
show that any conspiracy now exists !
that j. directed to- the virtual dis
placement OF the Provisional Govern |
ment. The personal efforts OF the
Oueen seem TO have been directed
toward a provision for a sale and com
Portable life, free from the anxiety OF
office and ''the stress of her native
subjects Her power OF attorney 10
Paul Neumann and his mission TO the
United States indicate reliance on
the sEarts of peace rather than OF war
for indemnity for the past and secur-
ity for the future. The opinions, or
sentiments, expressed oy her IN tne
three interviews she had with MI
Willis, in which she uttered the
seyerest denunciations against the
white race in Hawaii, and declared
her willingness, if not her purpose, 10
confiscate their estates and to banlsn
or to destroy them, while they are
seeming expression of the lofty mag
nation of an offended ruler, are so
unsuited to the character OF queen
crowned by Christian and civilized
neonIe. and so out of keeping with her
character as a woman who had re-
ceived kindly recognition ana per
sonal regard from other good ana re-
fined ladies, that they shock all right
minded people in Chrls1endom. Ihe
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 a 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 intlma-
| ton of these harsh declarations OF the
| Queen, at once laid them before Con
gress, and abandoned the further eH-
ercise of his good offices to bring
about a reconciliation between her
| and those who were conducting anu
supporting the Provisional Govern
| ment.
Mr.. Willis, however, regarding MS
| instructions as continuing to require
| his intercession beyond the point
| where the President considered thal
| it should cease, held a second anu
third interview with Lilluoka-
lani. After these interviews hao
closed, the Queen being still firm II
her course, Mr.. Carter, trusted
friend, obtained her signature TO 9
pledge of amnesty, anu maue
to Mr.. Dole for the abandonment o
the Provisional Government, which
was summary refused. This CLOSED
that incident. Mr.. Willis, in VIVA
he did, obeyed what he conceived u
be his instructions, and being so dis
tant from Washington, it is matte
of regret, but not of surprise, tina
there was an apparent want of har
monv between his action in contlnu
ing his interviews with Liliuokalan
after the President had determines
that the full duty of the Government
had been performed.
The attitude OF Liliuokalani at the con
clusion of this proceeding is that OF wait
ing for a pleasant retirement from tn
cares of public life, rather than OF Wall
ing for an opportunity to bring about
| hostile collision with the people VIII
support the new order Of government
Hawaii.
In dealing with grave subject, no.
for the first time presented IN Amerlct
we must consider the conditions OF publT
sentiment as to monarchic government
and we shall derive also material hel
from the light OF English history L
| the Western Hemisphere, except as
: the colonial relation, which has becom
, | one OF mere political alliance chiefly fC
, | commercial reasons, and does not lmpl
+ i'm any notable case absolute sub]ectIo
| to imperial or royal authority, royalty n
LONGER exists. When a crown falls,
. | anv kingdom of the Western Hem
{ sphere, it is pulverized, and when
r scepter departs, IL departs forever; an
= American opinion can not sustain an
= | American ruler in the attempt to restol
+ them, no matter how virtuous and ST
/, | cere the reasons may be that seem
Justify him. There have been heathe
: TEMPLES in the older States In this hem
( sphere where the bloody orgies OF page
| Worship and sacrifice have crimsont
I history with shame; and very recent
r such temples have been erected IN ii
n United States to abuse Christianity
O the use of it's sacred name and rltua
4 When the arms of invaders, or mobs
the people, have destroyed these tel
n pies, no just indignation at the cruefti
If that may have been perpetrated IL the
e destruction could possibly justify tht
It restoration.
"a II is great blessing to this Weste
- the calamities which Blackstone d
d scribes as 'imbruing the kingdom
" England in blood and confusion" gro
J. ing out OF claims OF succession to t
- crown. In almost every reign prior
n that of the present house OF Hanover
of lives and property OF the people OF III
te ! land, amid the greatest crueltles, Ia
to been sacrificed in settling pvetensions
$ the crown &c Was these conflicts a
I'd this distress of innocent sufferers Il
l. caused the peopie. to claim through
err Judges the protection of the doctrii
V that service rendered TO the king W
held the scepter was lawful, although
ke was not rightfully in possession ot
ne crown. No greater liberty of the peo
was ever devised or granted than
he right of protection under king de J0'
of against king dc jure.
e De .fdctO governments, when tt
nd seek TO supply the gap created by an
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