The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-03-11

his party was in readiness l retired
and heard nothing more about the up
rising until the morning following"
i have no right TO disclose any Sc
crets given in trust TO me. If goaded
by their wrongs. | could no longer
hold them in check with reason; if
they were now. by one accord, deter
mined 10 break away, and endeayor,
by bold stroke. 10 win back their ma
tionality. why should I prohibit the
outburst of patriotism. 1 told them,
that if the mass of the native people
chose TO rise. and try 10 throw off the
yoke, l would say nothing against
it, but I could not approve of mere
rioting."
All this time, the patriotic natives
'goaded by their wrongs" refused to
put up "one cent for the good of the
cause, and as the gold prospector says,
left it 10 the poor and good Queen ito
jackass the whole outfit" She does
not tell US, who furnished the money
10 pay for the guns brought by the
Walbridge, but it is pretty we'll known
who did, and it was net the natives
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even the gin consumed at Diamond
Head by Major General Wilcox's le-
gions, was net furnished by native
patriots.
The Queen says little about the be-
ginning of the insurrection near Dia-
mond Head. but she takes care to
throw q malicious slur upon the friends
OF Charles L. Carer, by intimating
that he died from malpractice. We do
not believe that she had implicit con-
fidence, in the success of the insur-
rection- Her diary. and other evil
dences, show that she believed up to
the last that President Cleveland
would restore her 10 the Throne She
would have preferred that method, in
preference TO an Instruction. She
may have reached the conclusion, that
Che Instruction would succeed, be-
cause she would know that a failure
OF it would involve her deeply. She
had at the time of the overthrow, an
abiding faith in the cowardice of the
missionaries. One of her old friends,
Who spoke TO her the day before the
overthrow took place, said: Il am a
white man, and l know what white
men can do. You must leave them
alone" She turned on him and ex-
claimed you toe missionary?
They never fight" She and her native
friends shared this opinion. We once
asked Captain Nowlein what he ex-
pecJed the Citizens Guard would do,
if he and his forces had entered the
city OF Honolulu, on January 9th,
1895. He replied they would run away,
and hide. Did you believe it2" we
asked. Yes, our white friends said
they would run away, as soon as we
got in town The Queen believed it,
and We will give her the credit of be-
lieying that no blood would flow
Poor women, she did not understand
the superior races.
VII.
She enters into some details about
her Imprisonment and abdication. She
says that when the instrument of abdi-
cation was presented TO her, not the
least opportunity was given to me to
confer with any one" And. unless 1
did the viii of my jailors what Mr..
Neumann had threatened would be
performed. and six prominent citizens
(her friends) be Immediately put to
death 1 so regarded it then, and
still believe murder was the aterna-
tive
She knows that this statement is a
malicious falsehood. She had her
friend in Mr.. Sam. Parker who advised
her fully. The Attorney-General clearly
and deliberately told her, that the
signing of the document would not
relieve her in the slightest from re-
| spOnsibility. Knowing the character
Of the woman, the Government was
not swift 70 receive it, and most reput-
able witnesses attested 10 her volun-
tary act.
Now comes an incident which dis
| closes the utter unreliability of her
statements. Having said that she was
forced 10 sign her abdieation 1--WE have
exactly quoted her language. She
| then presents the paper which she read
/ in her defense when on trial before
! me Court Martial. II says:
I was not inundated into abdicat-
ing but followed the counsel Of able anC
generous friends and well wishers, who
/ advised me that such an act would
restore peace and good viii among
my people, vitalize the progress and
prosperity of the Islands, and induce
he actual Government TO deal leni-
emily" etc
On page 275 Of the book, she says she
| abdicated to save men from being kill.
I ed, and the title of the chapter /:
Forced Abdication." On page 2S3
! she says il was an entirely voluntary
art The utter unreliability of he1
statements is clearly manifest.
She displays much hatred towards
Mr.. C. B. Wilson. She calls him a dis.
ppointment to her. 4 brave man. full
Of pluck, and man who kept his WORD
with the Government, a man who