THE HAWAIIAN AND EMBROGLIO DIFFICULTY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) San Francisco, January 13.

The cable has doubtless informed you that the press, people, and politicians of this country have, so far as one can judge from published statements, indignantly repudiated the policy sought to be carried out by Cleveland in respect to the Hawaiian Provisional Government. The adjectives hurled at the President do honour to the inventive faculty if not to the decencies of our remnants of humanity. His impeachment is freely talked about, his intolerent egotism ridiculed, and his contemptuous disregard for the press sneered and jibed at. It is proclaimed, with an air that brooks no contradiction, that President Cleveland in acting as he is accused of acting has violated the Constitution, and, worst of all, by his attempt to reinstate Liliuokalani upon the throne, made the United States an object of laughter to the outside world. Sympathy with the anticipated resistance of the Dale Government is plainly declared, offers of men and money to help him freely made, and the wish that the marines of the United States may get a thrashing should they be called upon to act boastfully heralded. " This attempt to overthrow a young republic and replace it with a monarchy represented by a debauched, fab old woman is tho most infamous," &c, &c, &c. Such is the well nigli universal feeling here. I have read press opinions from New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, and the country papers, and all are filled with the same lamentable wail of Cleveland's crime and our national disgrace. The question, then, seems to me to be : Is this outcry justified or justifiable ? aud I answer my query with another : What are the facts ? Briefly, as follow : — The President, after a perusal of the evidence submitted, came to the conclusion that a great wrong had, through the connivance and active parbicipation of this country's representatives, been inflicted upon a friendly Power. Her throne had been overthrown, her palace seized, her authority rendered null, and her enemies established in possession solely through the fact that United States bayonets were behind them. Cleveland thereupon decided to do what honourable dip n in private life are in the habit of doing— viz., re-il ress t lie wrong in the mosb pleasant manner pcwible. He haß asked the Provisional Govt rnment to reti r e, and that the Queen be restored ; she, in her turn, granting a full amnesty to and for each and every person and act of b?r predecessors.,. .This is the kernel of tLc matter. Ut its honour and justice I feel assured. Of its wisdom J -am uncertain, or rather fairly certain that it is unwise — that is politically. Tie Democratic party is likely to come to an almighty smash through it— coming as it does on the long"delayed tariff, and the truckling to the antiChinese element, and our present dire commercial disasters. The position taken by the public is pretty well stated in the following opinion from the Republican minority on the Committee of Foreign Affairs :—: — "There is no question here before us on annexation, no issue as to the propriety of Minister Stevens's action, for as to that we know only one side, prepared by an agent hostile to the Administration of which Stevens formed a part. There is no ground of debate now as to whether the present Hawaiian Government was rightly or wrongly established nearly 12 months ago. The issue is directly before the House whether to approve and commend the course of the present Administration as disclosed by itself." In the last clause is found the history of the entire rumpus. It does not, I think, say much for the honour or morality of the objectors, as, in plain speech, it means : "We do nob care a button how the present Hawaiian Government got there ; all we know is that we are not going to help to kick them out " ; which betrays an utter incapacity for attaining to the lofty standpoint of President Cleveland. However, the opponents of the Administration are in a big majority, and as they are convinced the world is with them they mean to go ahead. So far as impeachment proceedings are concerned, I do not think they will come to anything. Their advocates take the position that Cleveland having, through Willie, ordered the Provisional Government to retire has been guilty of an act of war, and, therefore, usurped powers vested by the Constitution solely in Congress. On the* other hand, it is held that " the restoration of the Queen by the United States forces will be purely an Executive act, which does not fall within the scope of Congressional control. The wrong-doing belong* solely to the Executive. Minister Stevens having dethroned the Queen, President Cleveland restores her purely by Executive authority with which Congress cannot interfere. The Provisional Government was created by Stevens, and with the rectification of his act it ceases to exist. The force used will not be war upon any really existing Government, and hence does not need to be authorised by Congres. 0 ." But there is no fear that the Queen will be restored. The cry that this great Republic is not out to prop up rotten monarchies will carry the day, and the further absurd cry that the United States must not wage war against a " Republic" — an oligarchy if ever there was one — will go down with the crowd. Willis, it is reported, has received instructions not to use force, and the Administration will hand the business over to Congress. Meanwhile I take my stand with the minority. I believe the dethronement of Liliuokalani was a wrong done her by this country, and that the annexation fad is sheer madness, and certain to land the nation into a sea of troubles ; and I believe with one or two newspapers, and one or two politicians, and one or two citizens, that when the history of this question comes to be written, when the passions of the hour aud the craze of the day are paßt, when men weigh and ponder and record just judgments, — I believe then that the name of Grover Cleveland will be vindicated, that his honour and probity will be freed from partizan stain, and that the man who dared to right a wrong will be regarded by his fellow countrymen with a respect and reverence equalled by Washington's— and Washington's alone,