Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 November 1893 — Page 2
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WEDXESDAI, NOVEMBER 15, 1893.
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First—At tne time of the 'initiation of tue trouble by the attempt of the .Queen to submit the Constitution and promulgute a new one, the American Minister and the Americas bMp-of-war Boston were both absent from Honolulu, and had been for teu days previously thereto.
Second—The first exhibition of force was made by the Queen on Saturday, the 14th of January, by the public parading of the entire military force, armed with repeating rifles and carryior a full supply of ball cartridges. The members of the Police Department wete also armed, lu addition thereto there were located at the palace and barracks and the police station an additional body of armed men to the number of J40, according to their own statements. This additional body Of armed men was not authorized by law. and was assembled contrary to a specific law of the kingdom.
Third—The first call to arms In opposition to the Queen was issued by the Cabinet on the afternoon of January 14.
Fourth.—Although on Saturday, the 14th Sunday, the 15th, and Monday, the 10th, the most Intense feelings of hostility were publicly manifested between the adherents of the queen on the one hand and the promotors of the movement for the establishment of a provisional government on the other, with every indication of an armed contllct, which might be precipitated at any moment, it was not until 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, theltithof January, after the reguest had been made to the American minister by many Americans that troops were landed.
Ft fib.—Upon landing a guard was posted at at the American consulate and legation, and the remainder of the troops were quartered that night in a public hall hired tor that purpose. Up to the time the commissioners left Honolulu at 0 o'clock on the morning of the 10th ol January, all of the American troopB had remained upon the premises where they were respectively located. No demonstration was made by the troops in any manner whatever. The uniform of the United States was not seen upon the streets, except upon the persons of the individual offloers passing between the points at *hloh troops were located in execution of their own business.
Sixth.—At the time the Provisional government took possession of the government buildings, no American troops or officers were present or took part in such proceedings in any manner whatever. No public recognition was accorded the Provisional government by the American minister until they were in possession ot the government buildings* the archives and the treasury, supported by sev eral hundred armed men, and after the abdication of the queen and the surrender to the Provisional government of her forces.
It is submitted that the foregoing statement of facts amply meets the charge made by the queen that American troops coerced her attion in abdication.
ID the face of these unoontroverted facta it is proposed by the Cleveland' Greeham-Blount administration to over tarn the existing Government and restole to jower a discredited and semibarbarous sovereign with nothing behind her claim but native ignoranoe and C.aua Spreckles, and that too, by force if necessary. Even if the dethronement of the Queen was a "wrong" any effort toward her restoration at this time would be a greater wrong politically and morally. As well might the United States attempt to overthrow the free and independent sovereignties of France and Brazil, over which a monarch formerly ruled, as to attempt to overthrow the free and independent government of the
Handwich Islands., As the New York Sun says, "Never before now has an 'American executive undertaken to stamp -out republicanism and to set up monarchy in any part of the world. Never before, we believe, has an American
President issued orders for the assassination of a free and successful government. Never before has any offioer of this government undertaken upon his Bole responsibility and without oonsalting Congress or the people to decide the destiny of a foreign country in diplomatic relatione with ourselves. Never before has a President invited or oommanded hie Cabinet advisers to assist him in the odious business of setting up agaia a rotten and brakes throae,"
tCoprteht, 189 J. (or A.
&tion in its nnpstriRoy respecting
Cleveland adminu otic nod un-AngM!' Hawaii prefer man who was who obtained
toall
his information from
the deposed and degra her satellites to the statei and scores of ey® witneseea of. Jitter olase. It is in evidence and strongly corroborated that the Qaeefa itarig^rkbfefl[ the revolution by overthrowing.the. pPp% etitution and eubstitatiiiy own. She luid overthtown her miniatry and had succeeded In carrying through the Legislature by corrupt and questionable means a bill to license the Louisiana Lottery and a bill to license the sale of opium* Over the protests of all the Christian and civilizing influenoe on the Islands ehe signed these iniquitous bills. All this was done during the absence from Honolulu of the United States Minister. The following is a ouccioct and dear statement of the revolution, signed by the five Hawaiian Commissioners, all of whom witnessed the establishment of the Provisional Government. The statement of these eyewitnesses directly contradicts Paramount Blount's unsupported statement that the weak government of the debased Hawaiian Queen was overthrown by force of arms and abuse of authority of the United States. The actual facts are given by the Hawaiian Commissioners, L. A. Thurston, W. C. Wilder, J. Marsden, Wm. R. Costle and Charles L. Curtis, in these words:
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The principals to this meeting had bowed in the most distant manner upon reaching the ground. Then Mr. Castex sat down, propped his back against a tree, lit a cigar, and smoked it as lazily as though his spirits were perfectly unruffled by the prospect of the coming encounter. Mr. Bostockon the contrary, walked nervously about, switching at the grass with hii cane, and occasionally turning upon his nonchalant antagonist a glance that was decidedly savage.
The seconds resumed their consultation. "Is it worth while to try to get an explanation?" "Not in the temper your man is in, I should say not without a shot. Wo will stand them up once, and the first exchange may lead to an arrangement." "If it don't put one or both of them beyond the reach of arrangements," muttered the other. "Well, come on."
Messrs. Basnet and Dorion crossed the road the others followed them. The first rayB of the sun glanced through the trees the delicious harmony of birds shook the air the throbbing of the engines and splash of the paddle-wheels of a boat ascending the river were painfully distinct.
Mr. Dorion thrust a small stick into the turf and deliberately measured off ten paces, marking the limit In the same way. "Will you toss for position, Mr. Basnet?"
The other tossed up a coin. "ITcads!" cried Dorion, and both bent over the place. "You win, Mr. Castex. Please make your choice."
The person addressed walked to one of the sticks his adversary walked to the other. Contrasting them as they thus stood_ ftiM ts fa$}, Bostock ap
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nfe fbi!,,- narratoHv am a uati\¥ of New ^JSmpshire but he larger part of my life has been passed in the La Fourcho district of Louis in a This should be said, in order that my personality may be understood at the start.
A worn and
time-stained copy of tha Vicksburg Daily Citizen of April 6, 1853, lies before me. After the occurrence of certain events with which future chapters will deal, I took the trouble to secure this paper, and have ever since preserved it. In its columns is a brief and rather unsatisfactory reference to an affair which had excited largre interest in that part of Mississippi. I was not a witness of it and the description afterward given to me by one of the actors in it WHS so much more In detail than the newspaper account that I prefer to adopt the former in setting this landmark at the outset of the story.
If you follow the left bank of the river down to a point where the Vicksburg bluffs sink to the ordiriary level of the river banks, you will come out upon a beautiful grassy glade overlooking the water. Some small elms and cottonwoods made a pleasant shade bordering the road a wide strip of land, possibly thirty rods across, lay between the highway and tlio river bank.
So early upon the morning of the 3d of that April that the sun had not yet shown his rim above the trees, three horsemen came at a brisk trot down the road, stopped at this grove, dismounted, and tied their horses. "The other people are not here yet,'' one of the men observed. "There's time enough. Ah! there they are."
Three more horsemen approached from the opposite direction. They also halted here, and fastened their horses.
All of the six were dressed in white duck suits, for the weather of that spring had come on hot. Two of them carried each one a case of mahogany wood, and these two, after saluting each other, eame together in earnest conversation. Two of the others also approached and shook hands, and the prefix "doctor" was exchanged between them. "A disagreeable business," one observed. "Indeed it is. 1 hope we shall neither of us be needed." "I hope so—but fear it will be otherwise. Thej' say both are good shots. Yon brought your instruments?" "Yes I carry them in a large pocket in my saddle-ilap." "All right my (larky is on the way with mine. Now what are Dorion and
Basnet about?'' These two. each with his mahoganycase under bis arm, had drawn off out of hearing. But as my account of the whole affair came from one of them, their conversation may be stated here, "lias this thing really got to go on?" "1 suppose so—-unless your man will withdraw his challenge." "He can't do that. To do it would be to confess that he never had any grounds for it." "And. do you know. .Mr. Castex says that he never did have any ground for the challenge. But Bostock put the affront on him in such a public manner. and in his own house, too, thatlie swears he'll fight, unless the challenge is absolutely withdrawn, without explanation."' "Well, it's an absurd thing! Duels I have been concerned In, have fought three or four myself, but never boforo was I engaged in one where nobody but the principals knew what the provocation waB and one of them insists that there was none. It seems like boy's play." "Look at your man he acts as though he were too angry this minute to contain himself."
peared tall, broacl shouldered and SjjJ, Castex slighter in build, sallow fittse and with a decidedly sinister xpression on it.
The pistols were taken from their cases one was delivered to each combatant. The doctors retired to where the horses were tied. The seconds went to the road. "Please observe the conditions," Mr. Basnet said, in a loud voice. "Each man to hold his weapon perpendicularly up or down—so! The word will be, 'Fire!—One—Two—Three.' There must be no shot before the first word or after the last. Do you understand?"' "Yes." "1 do." "Are you ready?" "Ready." "Yes."
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The last words were drowned by the report of the pistols. The straw hat worn by Castex was seen to turn upon his head he took it off, and exhibited bullet hole through the crown. "Are you hurt, Mr. Bostock?" his friend eagerly asked, running forward. "Xo. Give us another shot." "It is time now for me to say a word." said the friend of Mr. Castex, coming up. "He does not instruct me I interfere because it seems something like murder to allow this difficulty to go any further. Mr. Bostock, my principal has accepted your challenge because he comes of a race of fighting men his father was killed at Waterloo he wants no imputation upon his own courage. He has cotne here and has exchanged shots with you, declaring to me that you have no just cause of offense against him. Whether you have or not, nobody but you two can know. The language which gave you offense was uttered in your own house, at your own table. What it was, no one heard but you. Both of you ought now to bo satisfied: both of you have vindicated your honor. Let the affair end here."
Mr. Bostock faced the speaker. "Does that man," he asked, while his voice trembled with passion, "does that man affirm that he has not given me just cause for offense?" "That is what I say," called out Mr. Castex from where he stood, with a strong French accent. "Then you lie, sir!" deliberately retorted Bostock. "Indeed! That is very good. You will observe now. messieurs, there is reason to fight, if there has not been before."
The seconds silently assented, and recharged the pistols. As they handed them back, they saw something in the faces at the principals that predicted another result this time. The steamer
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THE DUCT..
had advanced to a point nearly opposite where they stood, and the slow deep coughing of her pipes seemed to emphasize the scene.
Again the word was given both pistols spoke together. As the smoke floated off, Bostook was seen standing upright. Castex lay his full length upon the ground.
Both doctors were instantly kneeling by him. He never stirred. A small hole in the forehead showed where the bullet had traversed the brain.
Mr. Bostock looked at the group, "Is he dead?" he askedHis friend came over to where he stood. "Yes," he
Said.
Mr. linstock's face was getting white, and an expression of pain crossed it His friend caught him as he was settling down to the ground.
One of the doctors hurried over and laid the sufferer on the grass. "He hit me the last time," said Bostock, faintly. "Look at the chest."
The doctor tore open vest and shirt and found the bullet hole. ,He inserted the probe. Then he administered stimulant. "How Is it, doctor?" the wounded man asked. "I don't wish to alarm you, sir but this is serious."
Under the temporary Influence of the stimulant Mr. BoBtock sat up. "I beg of you don't try to talk," the doctor said. "Your life may depend upon your keeping quiet."
His remonstrance was not heeded. "I want you all to know," cried the wounded man, "that I never wanted to kill him. You saw thechanoe I gave Wm. I could have put my first ball through his head juBt as easily as through
hiB
hat, if I wanted. He had
a chance then to take back the damnably insulting words that he whispered to me at my own table. I wanted him Just to say: 'Mr. Bostock, I'm sorry that I said it, and it was not true, and I would have taken his hand. But no, he must die, repeating the insult. The fool would rush on his fate." "Mr. Bostock," said the friend of the man who lay dead a few yards away, "what were those words that claim were so insulting?" "Not another word!" the doctor cried. "Silence and quiet, at the peril of your life!" "I can't tell you," Bostock faintly replied. "You must not know what he said. Nobody must know. The fool —what tempted him? Say, Dorianall of you—remember!—I have made no will—hut
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you
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have It all—the plantations here and in Louisiana—all—all—" The blood gushed from his mouth and he fell back in a faint.
(To Be Continued.)
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