The herald., 1895-02-20
4 HOME COLONEL IN HAWAII
Colonel Teed Enjoys the Freedom
of an Island
NO MARTIAL LAW FOR HIM
Briefly Tells the Inner History of an
Island Uprising
The Condition of Affairs Which Takes the
Annexation OF Hawaii to the United
States Inevitable
NO MARTIAL LAW FOR HIM

a title the thing to have, and Colonel
Freeman &. iced squared his heavy
shoulders and looked every inch sol
dier.
They treated me royalty and gave me
the freedom of the whole island some
thing which think no other stranger en-
loved while l was there, for martial law
had been declared.
Colonel Teed who is president OF the
City Council, returned on Sunday from a
four weeks absence, during which time
he visited Honolulu and the places of in
terest on the island OF Oahu, where the
seat of the Provisional Government OF
Hawaii is located
We knew before the steamer left San
Francisco, - he said, that revolution,
or at least an imitation of a revolution,
had taken place. We reached Honolulu
on the 9th OF January. That was just
twenty days after the uprising. The court
martial had been sitting ten days then.
1t had taken the other ten days to quell
the insurrection and round up the revolu-
tionists.
The martial law applied only to the
island of Oahu. No one was permitted to
be out after 9:30 at night without pass,
and passes were hard to get unless you
happened to be Colonel. l had an un-
conditional pass; but even with that IN
my pockets it used to be unpleasant to be
halted several times a night, have rifle
muzzle thrust into my face by native
who knows very little, if anything,
about firearms, and be compelled to FUN
BILE around in my pockets and get that
piece of paper out while the moonbeams
were flashing along that rifle barrel and
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blacker and larger every second.
young Preston Harrison, a son of Car
ter Harrison, was in Honolulu, and he
and l were together great deal of the
time. We were both interested in the in
surrection and the new government, and
both anxious to learn the inside facts and
history of both these things.
II can give you my notion of the future
of Hawaii and my views on the signiti-
canoe of the late insurrection. The insur-
rection was chiefly the work of five men,
Sam Nowlein, Ricard, Gulick, Major Sew
ard and the real leader, Wilcox. Wilcox
was the last one of the group to join in
the plot. He is a military man, the only
one in the crowd, and was really the
Major General.
The uprising failed for lack of organ
ization and because the Provisional Gov
ernment's police got in and struck the
first blow and paralyzed the insurrection-
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about 700 Kanakas. When the time came
for action only about $50 were on hand to
fight.
''Such well-known Royalists as Charles
Wilson, Sam Parker, Paul Neumann and
Prince David were not in the plot. There
We're however a number of the young
society men of Honolulu, like Carl Wide
man, Louis Marshal, Will Gray and 9TH
ers, sons of rich men, Royalists all of
them, not realizing the hopelessness of
their cause. The younger men were
drawn into the plot because they were
led to believe that a great revolution was
at hand that military achievement and
glory were possible for them, and perhaps
great things if the insurrectionists could
win.
They strapped on their revolvers and
went out to fight for the glory of it. Poor
boys, they are on the reef now, convicted
of rebellion against The Government and
awaiting sentence.
Wilcox formed his men in two divis-
ions. One wing he placed on the south
slope of Diamond Head, an extinct
crater The other wing was around on
the opposite side of the head on leveler
ground.
'One Sunday night as you know, the
trouble came. The Government had sta
toned tug boat out to sea and from the
forward deck shelled the hillside. The
police force marched along the road to
the docks below Diamond Head. The in
surrectionists opened fire; cash
ier of one of the Honolulu banks,
named Fisher, was Lieutenant-C Colonel of
the Government forces. Had he been
possessed of any military experience and
skill he might have easily hedged in the
two companies of Kanakas and ended the
fight in twelve hours. Instead, he re-
mained in Honolulu, which was simply
paralyzed with fear, until Wednesday
night and by then the insurrectionists
had scattered all through the islands.
Wilcox was captured at Eura. Nowlein
was found in hut not hundred feet
from the main road which the Government
forces had been travelling back and forth
for five days. 1t was five days more be-
fore the rest of the insurrectionist army
was gathered up. Most OF the Kanakas
still had their guns and ammunition un-
touched. They had carried their rifles
and cartridges without knowing how to
use them.
Now the Provisional Government has
a white elephant on its hands. All those
who participated in the uprising have
been convicted by the court marshal and
are awaiting sentence. The Provisional
Government is confronted with a great
problem. | do not believe any one will
be executed Some NAV be deported, the
ex-Queen Lilioukalani among them.
IF any are put to death it will be Ric-
ard, Guick and Seward. Nowlein and
Clark have practically turned state 5 evil
dence.
1.-The courtmartial was simply a law
yers battle, where military methods were
used. The law of the country is that ma
tives must be tried before native iures.
No native jury would have convicted the
insurrectonists and the p as knew
it. So they declared martial law and set
up the courtmartial. George Wharton, an
able young attorney, resigned from the
bench and was made a Colonel and pre-
sided at the courtmartial Young Kinney,
another able attorney, was made Judge
Advocate Paul Neumann defends the
prisoners and in each case objected to all
the proceedings on the ground that the
courtmartial in times of profound peace
is ridiculous.
Every prisoner brought before the court
martial was convicted. Four hundred are
now confined in their iais and the au-
thorities ponder as great problem as
ever presented itself to as young IA gov
ernment. There are a dozen or so of the
leading society young men OF Honolulu
confined on the reef. The papers said
they would be put to work on the public
highways pounding stone FOR twenty-five
wears, made to wear red and white suits
and eat prison fare. ! do not believe it.
There is too much sentiment against it.
'Liliuokalani is a queenly woman, an
intellectual woman and Il great woman.
They told me that OH the day when she
attempted to promulgate the new Consti-
tuition two years ago she stood in the
throne room, her royal robes enveloping
ncr stately form, and with her enemies
all about her her eyes flashing Defiance