The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-09
HER CASE Is ARGUED.
FINAL APPEARANCE or LiiUoKA-
LAM BEFORE THE COMMISSION.
Her statement Modified Argument OF
Counsel For the Accused and For
the state.


Continued
The accused has spoken fcelingly of
n charge ut bloodthirstiness on the part
of Hawaiians. | have not heard those
charges. Has any one here at these
trials charged the Hawaiian people as a
blood thirsty people? Whose long bow
was drawn when the assertion was
made: 1t is made in the shape of an
extra edition to send off on the steamer.
but here in this tribunal where all
things are to be weighed and tested
by truth and nothing else. that accu-
sation we must believe in Difference to
the lady who has put it there. she signed
without realizing what she said. 1t l.
true that the talk of wholesale decapita
ton, of forfeiture of property. and of
banlshment of wives and children has
been discussed in these unhappy two
years. but do not think any man laid
it to the Hawaiian people. nor has
any man before this Commission charged
that they are hloudthirsty people, nor
has any man thought SO. ANY
riot of any race is bloodthirsty affair,
and thing to be avoided "a thinG to be
dreaded, a thing to be crushed. But
more than that, 40 such accusation has
come to my knowledge or with my con
sent before this Commission.
Now it has been said here and truly
said by the accused, that il would have
been sad indeed il that doctrine of the
Christian missionary fathers taught to
my people by them and those who sue.
ceeded them should have fallen like the
seed in the parable on the barren
< ound." This reverence for the mis-
sionary fathers and as evinced
between the lines, to their descendants
] L.. ali Of that blood nd
lineage who have heard that announce
ment. | unfortunately not being one
either of that original stock or the des'
ccndants. can simply say that it is to be
llamented. think it is lamented by the
learned counsel or anyone undertaking
the lady's defense, that her pursuit OF
peace and diplomatic discus sion for
the period of two years has been upon
such barren ground within her
own house and under her
own roof She must have been dis
couraged We have heard of Elijah whr
after long years of service i'll an hCuo
of Encouragement announced that there
was not one in Israel who had not bowed
the knee to Banl. AS the lady sat here
and listened to the disclosures that
without her knowledge. without her
sanction and against her wishes, and
while she was in the pursuit of peace
her whole household that Thursday
night was armed to the teeth and every
mothers son of them had bowed to
Moloch She must have exclaimed
: What does it meunI Surely there is
"barren ground" If that be peace. it is
IA different kind of peace than we have
known in the past two years.
The learned counsel or the statement
announces that the appointment OF this
Cabinet and the signing of these papers
was an exercise of right in antlci
patton of "A possibility of restoration. II
Is unfortunate in conjunction with other
uniuitunate circumstances, that the
lady. after having induIged
in this innocent recreation, legi-
. innate recreation, her right
p claimed in open court by the learned
counsel should, very few days after
this uprising, have had nothing to do
with these papers, and lost all interest
= in believing these probabilities, and
since that date they have been lost 81
securely that even that lynx-eyed mar
shal of ours, who discovered bombs
: growing in flower garden, anC
rifles in rubbish pile, has not
been able to find trace of those legit
innate possibilities since. Ii they
" are legitimate, 1t Is to be hoped tha'
counsel in the discharge of his arduous
duties before the parting of the ways
shall come, will furnish her with IA new
J, set for this legitimate use, for thi'
= legitimate, possibility, which has not
been explained to an interested publlf
in any way whatever. But we have
!. the assurance, and that ought to guide
= us, that this legitimate possibility Is moi
at all connected with this uprising.
As an advance sheet of the prospectus
for the new order of things, her state
, ment does well, and it is wise 1t shoulc
: 20 forward. 1t is unfortunate that al
to her diary which recorded the visit
of the faithful who stayed by thei
fallen Queen, and evinced their conf
o. dence in her hour of trial, that sh
= should have SO sighted them, or tina
she or her attendents should have ha'
such slight disregard of them
that 1t was found necessary to burn ant
1. commit il to the ashes in the back var,
before her arrest, and before the minIon
L. of the law came down. Perhaps 1t wa
duty which un 1er the circumstance
she felt was more honored in the breac
than in the observance. Certainly tn
D. gentlemen who visited her and who ar
temporarily retired from public gaz
al have no doubt appreciate
= the act and have nothing I
say against it. but in the burning q
documents of that kind, IN the playit
and innocent performance and eNercis
- of legitimate right, is one Of thos
stumbling blocks that | submit to th
Commission and to their Judgment.
:. | submit that the undisputed fac
~ raised an irresistible presumption tn,
she knew what was going on. Tw,
thirds of that affair ripened in her ow
yard under her own roof, ana this who
It. defense, submit to the gentlemen
this commission, cannot be raised abo'
the dignity of common police cou
defense in petty larceny suit. That
St. all it amounts to. The fact that a que'
- stands on trial, makes it all the mo
amentable, but with the light of tru
upon il, it is simply that and nothii
or. more. 1t is defense that has its hon
- and finds its greatest operation upon q
criminal side of petty coul
Lamentable it is, that ii shou
O.. have been offered here. The
'oV are men here born ON the soil, who ha
lived under the monarchy and accept
il until its acceptance meant a loss
selfrespect, and although We are
st down as the enemies of that lady a
her iliustrious predecessors, / suon
there is not one of us would have =
her where she mas oeeh put louhy' ~
this Commission believe that upon n
probability, any human probability,
those men were armed that nlg
that Thursday night. the accused KIN,
nothing about il; Every probabil
points to the fact that she did knO
Even il by the selection of her OF
household we have to introduce sou
l.. one here to prove it who they now ;
-. is veritable Munchausen, that lis th
misfortune but not our fault.
,,s lady herself has testified that he in
"'' absence of Mr.. Nowlein was in cha
of her household. 1t is undenied tha
company of men were there armed
the teeth that night no other night d