Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 69, 8 December 1893 — Stevens and the Report of Blount. [ARTICLE]

Stevens and the Report of Blount.

Siuce tbe publication of Blount’s report on the Hawaiian revolution, it is ilitlionlt to see how honest meu ean longer difter abont the merits of the transactiou. Evidence taken uader oath from the verv leaders of the eonspiracv, and the uaeu now at the head of the governments. shows that Steveus was in collusion with the Conspirators during a considerablo time prior to any step for tho overthrow of the Coustitutional Crovcrnraent; thatonly on the assnrance of Stevens, that ha wouhl support them with with Americau troops, wouhl those same men take oflice uuder the Provisional Government. Ouo of the pnneipal witnesses agaiust Stevens is, Stevens himself. against his declaration, time and agaiu reiterated, that he did not recoguize the provisional goverumout until after it had beeu proclairaed aud established, is his own written statement : “HoxoLCLr, Jan. 17, 1893.— About 4 p.m. of this date the noto on file from the four rainisters of the deposed queen inquir ing if I had recognized the provisional governmeut, eame to my hauds while I was lying sick on the eoueh. Not far from 5 p.m. —I did not think to look at the watch—1 addressed a short note to the Hon. Samuel Parker. Hon. William H. Cornwell, Hou. John F. Colburn and Hon. A. P. Peterson —no longer regarding them as raiuisters —informiug them that I had recognized the provisional government. John L. Stevexs, United States Minister.” While it appears from the above that Stevens recognized the P. G. before 5 o’eloek. and that the troops were landed before that time. It was not uutil after 7 o eloek cf the same evening, the Station House surrenderd and then onlv becanse, the k Queen wasunwillingto precipitate blood shed. This record made up by Stevens and his fellow conspirators also that the Qaeen distinctly agreed to give away temDorariIy only, under stress cf force used by Steveos and wiih the explicit pledge by Dole and his colleagues in the ct>nspiracy, ihal sha ehouid appeal to \\ ushington for redros?. It will be remembered that Stevens, with curious iack of logic, 30ught to defend the revo’.ution by insininating that the Queen had immoral relatiou to a man in her government. Even if tbis were true, the Onited States Governmeut is not engaged in moml reforms thongh its diplomatic serv;ce, but it appears on ample eviden<oe that this cowardly and vile mode of »creening, his own crime was as

base!ess as Stever.-’ other fa’.s* h xxi. Steven= must be credited with the fouIe»t performance thai has ever tainted American diplomacy. He is shown bv his own hand to have been willfully untruthfal to his eovernmenl as weli as treacheroi:= to the government to whieh he was accredited. The hrst principies of practicable amity atn«>ng e vernments. is that a rr?ni«ter ahaii be truthful to his own aml failhful j to that to whieh he is accredited. In n«> other way. would it be pcssible f«r orderiy and peaeehle. or even fea9ibleinteriialional rektions to ex «t. l»oth these primary obligations Stevens violated. The whole story of Hawaii is one of abase • m nt for the American people; of ; Iawles-:iess. pr«»moted, abetted and consumated in the name of the Amenean peopie. The Fresident of the United Stat*s bas deserved well of his {ellow countrymen by seeking to right ihe wrong.