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CITIZENSHIP DEFINED

Two Letters From Secretary res ham on the Subject.

BOTH WERE SENT TO HONOLULU.

They Ilolale to tlip Two Men Convicted of

Treason Who Claimed the Protection of

the United States—A Iiii'ereiit View

Taken From That, by Cireat Itritain on

the Same Subject.

San Francisco, May 17.—Additional I advices brought from Honolulu by tlie steamer Australia, under date of May y. have an important" bearing upon the question of the U'eatment to be accorded the prisoners, convicted by conrtmarrial of treason, and of persons dcported for the same oifens^. who have J. appealed to rho government of the -United stares for protection, claiming' to be citizens of that counti\. 'J lie most notable were cfw o'" J. (.'ransiun. deported to Vancouver and

J. F. Bowler, sentenced to live yours imprisonment and out) lino. In each of these cases appeals were made ro the United S?ates ji'overnnient for protection. The action of the department. of state in behalf of these cases lias been I made known to the friends of the men here and the formal letters of Secx-etary (iresha 111 are. now beinif published as indicating the attitude the state department at Washington has assumed toward the whole question of citizenship of Americans who have become at any time attached to the Hawaiian and particular as showing an essential difference in the view of riiis subject taken by the governments of the United States •uid (ireat: Britain as revealed in the attitude of the latter in the case of Wallc?r and Rickard, alleged to be British subjects.

The correspondence is 'made up of two loiters, the lirst touching the Cnuistun case, being as follows: j)KI'A KTM K\T OK STA'I'K,

Washington, iVb. :5.

i. S. Wiilis. Ksq., .Honolulu: Sin—1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. SO of the St inst. in relation to affairs in Hawaii, and particularly in •relation to the forcible deportation on the

J:JiL inst. of three men, one of whom, Jlr. J. Cranstun. claims to be a citizen of the United Stales. 1 inclose herewith copies of certain depositions made by .Mr. Cran.stun in the lltli and lr.'tli inst. before Mr. .Peterson, til. comnieicial agent, of the United States, at incouvcr. These detiosit ions leave the question of Mr. CranBtun's nationality in doubt, and Mr.. PeterI son-has been instructed to obtain further statements from him on that subject,

Under these circumstances the department does not now instruct you to make any representation to the Hawaiian government in regard to Mr. Cranstun but it is proper to express to you, for your own guidance in similar cases should they arise, the views here entertained in regard to the course of notion taken in that case. It appears that after having been kept, ill jail for nearly a month without any charges having been made against him ho was taken under a heavy guard to a steamer and would in spite of his request to see you have been deported without having bad an opportunity then to do so, had it. not been lor the accidental but timely in tcrposit ion of the lirit ish commissioner.

You state that when you asked the attorney general i'or an explanation of the proceeding he replied that, the cabinet lia-d determined to deport the men "in the exercise of the arbitrary power conferred by martial law," as this was the only explanation he gave it is assumed that it was all he had to offer,-and he gave it without suggesting any question as to Mr. Cransttin's nationality.

If the position thus assumed be sound the very proclainat ion of martial law in Hawaii renders all foreigners there residing. including Americans, liable to arrest and deportation without cause and without any reason other than the fact that tin* executive power will sit. They may be taken from their homes and their business. they may be deprived of their liberty and banished, they may be denied the ordinary as well as the special treaty rights of residence, without offense or misconduct on their part, simply in the exercise of "'arbitrary power."

To state such a proposition is, in the opinion of tlie president, to refute it. Truly viewed—.-ays an eminent author, "martial law can only change the adininist ration of the laws, give them a rapid force, and make their penalties certain and effect ual not abrogate what was the justice of the community before. The civil courts arc in part, or fully suspended but, in reason, the new summary tribunals should govern themselves in their proceedings as far as circumstances admit, by establishing principles of justice. the same which had before been recognized in the courts." (Bishop's criminal law Section 4r) Iu view of what has been stated, your course in protesting against the position assumed by the attorney general of Hawaii is approved. 1 am, sir, your obedient servant,

W. Q. (iia siiAM.

The second letter relates to the Bowler ease and is as follows: Dkpakt.micnt of Static,

Washington, April 5.

Albert S. Willis, Ksq., Honolulu: SlK—-It appears from your No. 88 of Feb. 28 that on the ^2d of that month J. F. Howler was convicted before a military commission sitting at Honolulu for participation or complicity in the disturbance or uprising in Hawaii early in January and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for live years and pay a fine of $5,000 that he now claims protection as an American citizen, and that the Hawaiian authorities assert he is not entitled to such protection because he is a naturalized citizen of that government.

When Mr. Bowler left this country and went to Hawaii does not. appear, but on March 18, 1885, he voluntarily took an oath to support the constitution and laws of the Hawaiian Islands and bear true allegiance to the king without expressly renouncing or receiving his allegiance to the United States. Section 432 of the statute prescribing this oath (compiled laws of Hawaii, 1SS1), provides that every foreigner so naturalized shall be deemed for all purposes a native of the islands, subject only to their laws and ent itled to their protection and no longer amenable to his native sovereign while residing in the kingdom, nor entitled to resort to his native country for protection or intervention, that for every such resort he shall be subjected to the penalties annexed to rebellion, and that having been thus naturalized, he shall be on titled to all the rights ami immunities of a Hawaiian subject. 1 am informed that the supreme court

or Hawaii has held that the nil'is operar v. ro :iat ::r.:?iz admit lii111 to full citizen claimed rhat sine 1

taking of rhls he alien and hip. It is no

Bowler evei

returned to the United Slates or resided els-'wiiere than on the islands. This government has nevr held to the ilocirine of perpetual allegiance on the contrary, from its organization it has .maintained that the right to throw otf o::e's natural {illcginnee ,nd assume another is inalienable. "Expatriation." said Attorney (ieneral Iilaek in liSoii. "includes not only emigration out of one's native country, bin navmali/.a'.ion in the country adopted as a future residence."

The effect of naturalization is to place tlie adopted citizen in the same relation to till! government as native cit i/.ens or subI ject.-.. The right of the I lawaiian governn:enr with his consent ro adopt Mr.

Bowler as fully as if he had been born upon irs soil is as clear as his right to expai riate himself, lie manifested his itent ion of abandoning his American citizenship by taking the on:h to support" the const it ui ion and laws of Hawaii and bear I true allegiance to taking and so far as known he manifested no contrary intention before his arrest.

That oath is inconsistent with his alicfrlance to the United States. By taking it he obligated himself to support the government of his .adoption, even to the extent of lighting its battles in tlie event of war between it and the country of his origin. lie could not bear true allegiance to both governments at the same time.

The president: directs that yon inform Mr. Bowler he is not cut it led to the protection of the United States, that in similar cases you will be guided Ijvtlie views herein expressed and that yoif furnish the minister of foreign affairs with a copy of this instruction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant. W. Q. (ii siiAM.

REVOLUTION NEAR.

T5i Present Ifepublic Will 15e Overthrow* ami a !Monareliy Kslaljlislied.

San Francisco, May 17.—A local paper prints the following: Private letters received from Honolulu by tin steamer Australia declare that :t change of administration will soon occur there and I that tile change is advocated by no less personage than ex-Minister Thurston. The information comes from a most reliable source and can not be questioned.

According ro the loiters received, till that is preserving the present government is the fact that it possesses the arms necessary to quell another break and is exerting itself in its efforts to prevent the landing of contraband arms. It is well known that the government force numerically, are greatly in the minority, and no one, has been made to realize this more than Minister Thurston

At a recent conference between Minister Thurston and President Dole and el her members of his cabinet tlie former declared that the only hope of permanent p'eace on the islands will be realized in placing Princess Kaiulani in tlie position which the former monarchy proposed that she should some day have.

Mr. Thurston is reported to have advocated this step so strongly that President- Dole and his cabinet became alarmed and have since given the mutter many hours of consideration.

Passengers on the Australia have confided tlie fact that the republic is on its last legs. Various big orgauizat ions are breaking away from President Dole and the opposing forces, Avhicii were somewhat subdued after the recent uprising by tlie show of .arms made by the government, are now becoming more bold. "An alarm is likely to be sounded any night,remarked one, passenger, "and if it is, you can expect to hear of the downfall of the republic. There is no esc,ape for it. The, people are dissatisfied, and particularly the Americans, who, if aroused, will find at their sides till the assistance they need to effect a complete change in the government. "Minister Thurston's uneasiness lias become so apparent to the opposing forces that the hitter have gained more courage. Tlie fact that Mr. Thurston favors a change is no longer a secret and when we left Honolulu it was common talk that lie was then planning to carry out to a successful end the conversion of the rexul)lic back to a monarchy."

SHIPPING WHEAT WEST.

Chicago Now Supplying Kansas and the Southwest.

Kansas City, May 17.—"Wheat sold in Kansas City yesterday at 70 cents a

The wheat supply of the southwest has become almost wholly exhausted, and crop prospects are so poor that the few who possess wheat are disposed to hold to it. There are about 300,000 bushels in Kansas City elevators, but very little of it is for sale at any price. Chicago has over 20,000,000 bushels in store, and mills all over the central, west and southwest havo been compelled to go to that city for supplies—doubtless buying back in some cases the very wheat which was shipped to Chicago from their localities last fall when wheat was cheap.

The possibility of shipping wheat from Chicago to Kansas City has been talked of for some time past. It has now become an actual occurrance, and it is a thing which never happened before since Kansas began to raise wheat for tho west.

More Witnesses Against 1 Hiraut.

San Fkanoisco, May 17.—The police are said to lia,ve found several more witnesses who will testify against Theodore Durant at his forthcoming trial in the superior court. One of these, Miss Willis, will say that some time before Blanch Lament's murder Miss Willis fsked Durant, in his capacity of church librarian, for a book from the church library. He escorted her thither, left the room a few minutes and returned entirely nude. Tho yourtg woman made her escape with difficulty. Similar conduct would explain the absence of bloodstains oil Durant's clothing alter Minnie Williams was murdered

Struck Dead.

MiddIiF.sboko, Ky., May 17.—A terrific electric and hailstorm passed over parts of Leslie and Perry counties Wednesday. Near Hyden, .James Adkins, plowing iu his field, was killed by lightning. In some places liail stones as lar^e as guinea eggs were found.

bushel, an advance of nearly :5U cents tucky neighborhood is that Lincoln had from the extreme low price reached last been a suitor for tho hand of tho lady So scarce has wheat- become in fall. the southwest, and so high have prices gotten that wheat was bought in Chicago yesterday for shipment to this city. A special rate of 13 1-^ cents a hundred weight litis been made for the purpose, and it is expected that a good deal of wheat will be brought here from Chicago.

Nancy Hanks Masses Over the Dark River.

LITTLE ABE'S DISMAL EXPERIENCE,

Thomas Lincoln's lirief Wiilowerliooil—lie

Marries Sally liush Johnston—Two Sets

of Children In the Lincoln Household.

Abe at Dorsey's School.

[From "The Life of Lincoln" by William EI. Hcriiflon and Jesse VT. Wcik. Copyright, 1883, by .Tcssr W. W't-ik. Copyright, ISO-', by D. Applet nil Co.J

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In the fall of IS US the scantily settlod region in the vicinity of Pigeon creek, where the Liucolns wero then living, suffered a visitation of that dread disease common in the west in early days and known in the vernacular of the frontier as "the milk sick. It hovered like a specter over the Pigeon crook settlement for over ten years, and its fatal visitation and inroads among the Lincolns, Hankses and Sparrows finally S drove that contingent into Illinois. To this day the medical profession havo never agreed upon any definite cause for the malady, nor have they in all their scientific wrangling determined exactly what the disease itself is.

Early in October of the year ISIS Thomas and Betsy Sparrow fell ill of tlie disease and died within a few days of each other. Thomas Lincoln performed the services of undertaker. With his wliipsaw ho cut out tho lumber and with eommendablo promptness nailed together the rudest of coffins to inclose the forms of the dead. Tho bodies were borne to a scantily cleared knoll in the midst of tho forest, and there, without ceremony, quietly let down into the grave. Meanwhile Abe's mother had also fallen a victim to the insidious disease. Her sufferings, however, were destined to bo of brief duration. With-

in a week she, too, rested from her labors. "Sho struggled on day by day, says one of the household, "a good Christian out- woman, and died on tho seventh day after she was taken sick. Abe and his sister Sarah waited on their mother and did the little jobs and errands required of them. Therowas no physician nearer than 35 miles. Tho mother knew she was going to die and called tho children to her bedside. She was very weak, and the children leaned over while sho gave I her last message. Placing her feeble hand on littlo Abe's head, she told him to be kind and good to his father and sister.

To both she said, 'Be good to ono another, expressing a hopo that they might live, as they had been taught by her, to lovo their kindred and worship God." Amid tho miserable surroundings of a homo in tho wilderness Nancy Hanks passed across tho dark river. Though of lowly birth, tho victim of poverty and hard usage, sho takes a place in history as the mother of a son who liberated a raco of men. At her sido stands another mother whoso Son performed a similar service for till mankind 1,S00 years before.

After the death of their mother little Abo and his sister Sarah began a dreary life—indeed one more cheerless and less inviting seldom falls to tho lot of any child. In a log cabin without a floor, scantily protected from tho severities of tho weather, deprived of the comfort of a mother's love, they passed through a winter the most dismal either ono ever experienced.

A flatter, of ?'a't Courtship.

Thomas Lincoln's widowerhood was brief. He had scarcely mourned tho death of his first wife a year until ho reappeared in Kentucky at Elizabethtown in search of another. His admiration had centered for a second time on Sally Bush, the widow of Daniel Johnston, the jailer of Hardin county, who had died .several years before of a disease know.* rs tho "cold plague." Tho tradition still kept alive in tho Ken-

before his marriago to Nancy Hanks, but that she had rejected him for tho hand of tho more fortunate Johnston. However that may havo been, it is certain that ho began his campaign in earnest this time and after a brief siego won her heart. "Ho mado a very short courtship, wrote Samuel Haycraft to mo in a letter on Dec. 7, 1800. "Ho came to see her on tho 1st of December, 1819, and in a straightforward manner told her that they had known each other from childhood. 'Miss Johnston,' said he, 'I havo no wife and you no husband. I came a purpose to marry you. I knowod you from a gal, and you knowod mo from a boy. I've no time to lose, and if you're willin let it be done straight off.' She replied that sho could not marry him right off, as sho had some little debts which she wantod to pay first. He replied, 'Give mo a list of them.' He got the list and paid them that ovoning. Next morning I issued the licenso, and they were married within CO yards of my house."

In tho eyes of hor spouse sho could not be regardod as a poor widow. She was tho owner of a goodly stock of furniture and household goods, bringing with her among other things a walnut bureau valued at $50. What effect tho new family, their collection of furniture, cooking utensils and comfortablo bedding, must have had on tho astonished and motherless pair who from the door of Thomas Lincoln's forlorn cabin watched the well filled wagon as it caino creaking through tho woods can better be imagined than described.

Surely Sarah and Abo, as tho stores of supplies wero rolled in through tho doorless doorways, must havo believed that a golden fnturo awaited them. The presence and smilo of a motherly face in tho cheerless cabin radiated sunshine into every negloctod corner. If tho Lincoln mansion did not in ovory respect correspond to tho representations mado by its owner to tho now Mrs. Lincoln before marriago, the latter gave no expression of disappointment or even sur-

prise. With true v,'on:: ::ly courage and zeal she set resolutely to work to make right that which seemed wrong. Her husband was made to put a floor in the cabin, as well as to supply doors and windows. The cracks between the logs wero plastered up. A clothespress filled the space between tlie chimney jam and the wall, and the mat of corn husks and loaves on which tho children had slept gave way to tho comfortable luxuriance of a feather bed. She washed the two orphans and fitted them out in clothes taken from the stores of her own. Tho work of renovation in and around the cabin continued until even Thomas Lincoln himself, under the general stimulus of the new wife's presence, caught tho inspiration and developed signs of intense activity. The at. vent of Sarah Bush was certainly a red letter day for the Lineolns. Site was not only industrious and thrifty, bu% geutl"^ affectionate, and her newly adopted children, for the first time perhaps, realized the benign influence of a mother's love. Of young Abo sho was especially fond, and we have her testimony that her kindness and care for him wero warmly and bountifully returned.

The two sets of ch'.dren in tho Lincoln household—to their credit bo it said—lived together in perfect accord. Abe was in his tenth year, and his stepmother, awake to the importance of an education, made a way for him to attend school. To her ho seemed full of promise, and although not so quick of coinprehension as other boys, yet she believed in encouraging his every effort. Ho had had a few weeks of schooling under liiney and Hazel in Kentucky, but it is hardly probable that he could read, lie certainly could not write.

Hazel Dorsey was Abo's first teacher in Indiana. He held forth a mile and a half from tho Lincoln farm. The schoolhouse was built of round logs and was just high enough for a man to stand erect under tho loft. Tho floor was of split logs, or what wero called puncheons. Tlie chimney was made of poles and clay, atid the windows, wero mado by cutting out parts of two logs, placing pieces of split boards a proper. distance .apart, and over the aperture thus formed pasting pieces of greased paper to admit light.

Abraham at School.

"He was always at school early, writes Grigsby, "and attended to his studies. He was always at the head of his class and passed us rapidly in lus studies. He lost no time at home, and when lie was not at work was at his, books. lie kept up his studies on Sunday and carried his books with him to work so that he might read when ho rested from labor.''

Now and then, the family exchequer running low, it would be found necessary for the young rail splitter to stop school and either work with his father on the farm or render like service 'for tho neighbors. These periods of work occurred so often and continued so long that all his school days added together would not make si year iu the aggregate. When ho attended school, his sister usually accompanied him. "Sally was a quick minded young woman, "is the testimony of a schoolmate. Sho was more industrious than Abo in my opinion. I can hear hor good humored laugh now. Like her brother, she could greet you kindly and put you at ease. Sho

was really an intelligent woman. At Dorsey's school Abe was 10 years old. At tlie next one, Andrew Crawford's, ho was about 14, and at Swuney's he was in his seventeenth year. Tho last school required a walk of over four miles, and on account of tho distance his attendance was not only irregular, but brief. Schoolmaster Crawfoid introduced a new feature in his school, and wo can imagine its effect on his pupils, whose training had beei^imited to the social requirements of the backwoods settlement. It was instruction in manners. One scholar was required to go outside and re-enter the room as a lady or gentleman would enter a drawing room or parlor. Another scholar would receive tho first party at the door and escort him or her about the room, making polite introductions to each person in tho room. How the gaunt and clumsy Abe went through with this performance we shall probably never know. If his awkward movements gave rise to tiny amusemeut, his schoolmates never revealed it.

He was now over (i feet high and was growing at a tremendous rate, for lie added two inches more before the closo of his seventeenth year, thus reaching tho limit of his stature. Ho weighed in tho region of 100 pounds, was wiry, vigorous and strong. His feet and hands were large, arms and legs long and in striking contrast with his slender trunk and small head. "His skin was shriveled and yellow, declares ono of the girls who attended Crawford's school. "His shoes, when ho had any, were low. Ho woro buckskin breeches, linsey wool soy shirt and a cap made of tho skin of a squirrel or coon. His breeches were baggy and lacked by soveral inches meeting the tops of his shoes, thereby exposing his shinbono—sharp, bluo and narrow.

In ono branch of school learning bo was a groat success—that was spelling. We are indebted to Kato Roby, a protty miss of 15, for an incident which illustrates aliko his proficiency in orthography and his natural inclination to help another out of tho mire. The word "defied" had been given out by Schoolmaster Crawford, but had been misspelled several times when it came Miss Roby'® turn. "Abe stood on the opposite sido of tho room, related Miss Roby to me in 1805, "and was watching mo. I began d-o-f, and then I stopped, hesitating whether to proceed with an *i' or a 'y,' Looking up, I beheld Abo, with a gritt covering his face and pointing with his index finger to his oyo. I took tho hint, spelled the word with an 'i,' and it Went through all right."

He Taught Charity.

"God cares and humanity cares," Lincoln said, reflecting on tho attitude of clergymen toward slavery, "and if I hey do not they surely havo not road their Bible."