Message from the President of the United States in Answer to the Senate Resolution of February 16, 1894, and Transmitting Copies of Additional Dispatches, and Exhibits Thereto, Relating to Hawii. Read, Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Ordered to be Printed to the SenateU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - 33 páginas |
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17th of January action allay American League annexation answer apprehension arrival asked assurance attitude Attorney-General band Blount called Capt celebration citizens Cleveland communication of December Company concerning constitution Corwin crowd Damon December 18 December 27 deroyalized diplomatic dispatches drill ernment executive building existing extracts facts feel fireworks force further Glade Gresham's letter Grover Cleveland Hartwell Hawaii Hawaiian Government Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian minister Honolulu honor Hopper hostile inquiry instructions intention interview January 18 Kamehameha III King land lanterns LEGATION letter of December liberty Lieut Liliuokalani mass meeting ment minister at Washington Minister Willis misapprehension Miss monarchy November 14 November 29 Palace Square parade paragraph Portuguese present President Dole President's Provisional Government Rear-Admiral Irwin received reception referred reply representatives respectfully Richard street Royalists salute Secretary Gresham Senate sent speakers Star statement submit Thurston tion to-day troops unfriendly Union watchfulness and large words
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Página 22 - Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate government ? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice.
Página 4 - The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its...
Página 21 - Smith, and submitted to me their credentials, accompanied by a statement of events leading up to, and connected with, the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government. At a second conference on the same day the Commissioners submitted to the undersigned the proposition of the Provisional Government, containing the terms upon which that Government desired the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
Página 24 - Upon the facts developed it seemed to me the only honorable course for our Government to pursue was to undo the wrong that had been done by those representing us and to restore as far as practicable the status existing at the time of our forcible intervention.
Página 25 - ... have been, officially or. otherwise, connected with the Provisional Government, depriving them of no right or privilege which they enjoyed before the so-called revolution. All obligations created by the Provisional Government in due course of administration should be assumed.
Página 25 - And now, Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Provisional Government, with a deep and solemn sense of the gravity of the situation, and with the earnest hope that your answer will be inspired by that high patriotism which forgets all self-interest, in the name and by the authority of the United States of America I submit to you the question, ' Are you willing to abide by the decision of the President?
Página 26 - in consequence of your attitude, the enemies of the Government, believing in your intentions to restore the monarchy by force, have become emboldened." etc. ; and, second, that by reason of my inability to ascertain whether your Government proposed to use force in support of its policy of restoration, I was obliged to act as though it did so intend: as a result of which this Government has been obliged to increase its forces, and has been, and now is, subjected to the necessity of increased watchfulness...
Página 22 - ... promise. This assurance was the inspiration of the movement, and without it the annexationists would not have exposed themselves to the consequences of failure. They relied upon no military force of their own, for they had none worthy of the name. The Provisional Government was established by the action of the American minister and the presence of the troops landed from the Boston, and its continued existence is due to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they made an effort to overthrow it, they...
Página 22 - Boston, and its continued existence is due to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they made an effort to overthrow it, they would encounter the armed forces of the United States. The earnest appeals to the American minister for military protection by the officers of...
Página 3 - Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit...