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American Union are urged by an interest of theLr own deeper than
that of any other portion of the inhabitants of the earth-by a virtual
right of conquest, not over the freedom of their brother man ::>ythe
brutal arm of physical power, but over the mind and heart by the
celestial panoply of the gospel of peace and love."
It can not be other than a proud reflection of the American people
that the free institutions of the United St~tes gave origin and impulsive
zeal, as well as guidance, to the good men who laid these foundations
of civil government in Hawaii upon written constitutions, supported
by the oaths of those in authority and loyally sustained by those of
the people who are virtuous and intelligent. Nor can the American
people condemn the firm adhesion of those whose rights are guaranteed
by constitutional law in Hawaii to the demand that is now made for
the maintenance of its permanent integrity. If nothing but a decent
respect for our national example was in question, if there was no
question in Hawaii that concerned the people of the United States
except that of a relapse of that Government into absolute monarchy, if
there was no degradation of society involved in this falling away, no
destruction of property and liberty in contemplation, there would
still be enough in the conditions now presented there to excite the
most anxious interest of our people. Citizens of the United States with
wisdom, charity, Christian faith, and a love of constitutional government,
have patiently, laboriously, and honestly built up Hawaii into a.
civilized power under a written constitution, and tkey can justly
claim the sympathy and assistance of all civilized people in resisting
its d~struction, either to gratify a wanton lust of absolute power on
the part of the Queen, or the abuse of its authority in fostering vice
and rewarding crime. The facts of recent history present broadly and
distinctly the question between an absolute and corrupt monarchy in
Hawaii, and a government in which the rights and liberties guaranteed
by a written constitution shall be respected and preserved. The facts
do not show that the people who built up this constitutional system
and have based upon it wholesome laws and a well balanced and well
guarded plan of administration have had any desire to abrogate the
organic laws, corrupt the statute laws, or to dethrone the Queen. In
every phase of their dealings with these questions their comse has
been conservative, and the defense of their lives, liberty, andproper~y,
and the honest administration of the government has been the real
motive of their actions. They are not, therefore, to be justly classed
as conspirators against the Government. That they turn their t,houghts
toward the United States and desire annexation to this country could
not be denied without imputing to them the loss of the sentiment of
love and reverence for this Republic that is utterly unknown to our
people.
On Monday, the 16th of January, 1893, Hawaii was passing through
the severe ordeal of a trial which was conducted by the people who
arrayed themselves on the side of the Queen and those who were organized
in opposition to her revolutionary purposes. The Queen seems to
have abandoned the controversy into the hands of the people, and made
no effort to suppress the meeting of the citizens opposed to her revolutiouary
proceedings by calling out her troops to disperse the meeting
or to arrest its leaders. Both the meetings were quiet and orderly but
the meeting at the arsenal was intensely earnest, and men were hea~d to
express their opinions freely and without interruption at both meetings,
and they came to their resolutions without distmbance. WheD

these meetings dispersed, the Queen's effort to reject the constitution
of 1887 had been approved by the one meeting held on the palace
grounds and composed almost entirely of native Kanakas; the ocher
meeting had resolved to establish a provisional government, and formed
a committee to proceed with its organization. The Queen, though thus
strongly indorsed by her native-born subjects, as she calls them, did
not venture any arrests of the alleged revolutionists, but, evidently
conscious that the revolution which she had endeavored to set on foot
had failed of efficient support, she did not use her troops or the police
or any other power in the direction of asserting her roJ{tl authority.
The meeting of the people at the arsenal was followed by organization,
the arming of the citizens, the strong array of forces, and a determined
spirit of success which has materialized into an established government
that has continued to exist for more than a y(\ar, practically without
any opposition in Hawaii, and with the recognition of many great
powers, including the United States. These events show, beyond reasonable
dispute, the acceptance by the people of Hawaii of the judgment
and determination of the meeting at the arsenal that the Queen
"had abdicated, that her authority had departed, that she and her
ministers had submitted to the inevitable, and that they retained no
longer any substantial ground of hope or expectation that the Queen
, would be restored to her former office.
The question whether such a state of affairs as is shown by the
undisputed facts in this case constitute an abdication and created an
interregnum was passed upon in England with more care, because of
the serious results that followed the decision, than seems to have been
bestowed upon a like controversy in any other country.
The people of Great Britain have many liberties that are firmly
established in the traditions of that country, and on many occasions
they have asserted their rights, as the basis of governmental power, with
great determination and success. In 1688, when James II was on the
throne, his severe conduct, exercised through the judiciary of the Kingdom
ari'd in other ways, and a strong adhesion to the Catholic religion,
caused the people of Great Britain to accuse him of an intention to violate
their unwritten constitution. He was a great and, powerful king,
and had accomplished very much for the glory and honor of England.
But the people of England held him to an observance of the spirit of
his oath of loyalty to the Mnstitution of that country, and, when they
became satisfied that he had made an effort to subvert it, they in their
Parliament passed upon the question of his abdication and held that
his intention and effort to violate the constitution robbed him of his
title to the crown and opened the door to the establishment of a new
dynasty. Blackstone, in speaking of these events, says:
"King James II succeeded to the throne of his ancestors, and
might have enjoyed it during the remainder of his life but for his own
infatuated eonduct which, with other concurring circumstances, brought
on the revolution in 1688.
"The true ground and principle upon which that memorable event"
proceede<4. was an entirely new case in politics, which had never
before happened in our history-:-the abdication of the reigning monarch
and the vacancy of the throne thereupon. It was not a defeasance
of the right of succession and a new limitation of the crown by
the King and both Houses of Parliament; it was the act of the nation
alone upon the conviction that there was no king in being. For, in a
full assembly of the lords and commons, met in a convention upon the

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-American Union are urged by an interest of their own deeper than
+:American Union are urged by an interest of their own deeper than that of any other portion of the inhabitants of the earth-by a virtual right of conquest, not over the freedom of their brother man by the brutal arm of physical power, but over the mind and heart by the celestial panoply of the gospel of peace and love."
 It can not be other than a proud reflection of the American people
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 dynasty. Blackstone, in speaking of these events, says:
-"King James II succeeded to the throne of his ancestors, and
+:"King James II succeeded to the throne of his ancestors, and might have enjoyed it during the remainder of his life but for his own infatuated conduct which, with other concurring circumstances, brought on the revolution in 1688.
-"The true ground and principle upon which that memorable evente
+:"The true ground and principle upon which that memorable event proceeded was an entirely new case in politics, which had never before happened in our history-the abdication of the reigning monarch and the vacancy of the throne thereupon. It was not a defeasance of the right of succession and a new limitation of the crown by the King and both Houses of Parliament; it was the act of the nation alone upon the conviction that there was no king in being. For, in a full assembly of the lords and commons, met in a convention upon the

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-{{p|374}}American Union are urged by an interest of theLr own deeper than
+{{p|374}}
 that of any other portion of the inhabitants of the earth-by a virtual
-right of conquest, not over the freedom of their brother man ::>ythe
+right of conquest, not over the freedom of their brother man by the
 brutal arm of physical power, but over the mind and heart by the
 celestial panoply of the gospel of peace and love."
 It can not be other than a proud reflection of the American people
-that the free institutions of the United St~tes gave origin and impulsive
+that the free institutions of the United States gave origin and impulsive
 zeal, as well as guidance, to the good men who laid these foundations
 of civil government in Hawaii upon written constitutions, supported
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 most anxious interest of our people. Citizens of the United States with
 wisdom, charity, Christian faith, and a love of constitutional government,
-have patiently, laboriously, and honestly built up Hawaii into a.
+have patiently, laboriously, and honestly built up Hawaii into a
-civilized power under a written constitution, and tkey can justly
+civilized power under a written constitution, and they can justly
 claim the sympathy and assistance of all civilized people in resisting
-its d~struction, either to gratify a wanton lust of absolute power on
+its destruction, either to gratify a wanton lust of absolute power on
 the part of the Queen, or the abuse of its authority in fostering vice
 and rewarding crime. The facts of recent history present broadly and
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 guarded plan of administration have had any desire to abrogate the
 organic laws, corrupt the statute laws, or to dethrone the Queen. In
-every phase of their dealings with these questions their comse has
+every phase of their dealings with these questions their course has
-been conservative, and the defense of their lives, liberty, andproper~y,
+been conservative, and the defense of their lives, liberty, and property,
 and the honest administration of the government has been the real
 motive of their actions. They are not, therefore, to be justly classed
-as conspirators against the Government. That they turn their t,houghts
+as conspirators against the Government. That they turn their thoughts
 toward the United States and desire annexation to this country could
 not be denied without imputing to them the loss of the sentiment of
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 proceedings by calling out her troops to disperse the meeting
 or to arrest its leaders. Both the meetings were quiet and orderly but
-the meeting at the arsenal was intensely earnest, and men were hea~d to
+the meeting at the arsenal was intensely earnest, and men were heard to
 express their opinions freely and without interruption at both meetings,
-and they came to their resolutions without distmbance. WheD
+and they came to their resolutions without disturbance. When
-{{p|375}}these meetings dispersed, the Queen's effort to reject the constitution
+{{p|375}}
 of 1887 had been approved by the one meeting held on the palace
-grounds and composed almost entirely of native Kanakas; the ocher
+grounds and composed almost entirely of native Kanakas; the other
 meeting had resolved to establish a provisional government, and formed
 a committee to proceed with its organization. The Queen, though thus
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 conscious that the revolution which she had endeavored to set on foot
 had failed of efficient support, she did not use her troops or the police
-or any other power in the direction of asserting her roJ{tl authority.
+or any other power in the direction of asserting her royal authority.
 The meeting of the people at the arsenal was followed by organization,
 the arming of the citizens, the strong array of forces, and a determined
 spirit of success which has materialized into an established government
-that has continued to exist for more than a y(\ar, practically without
+that has continued to exist for more than a year, practically without
 any opposition in Hawaii, and with the recognition of many great
 powers, including the United States. These events show, beyond reasonable
 dispute, the acceptance by the people of Hawaii of the judgment
 and determination of the meeting at the arsenal that the Queen
-"had abdicated, that her authority had departed, that she and her
+had abdicated, that her authority had departed, that she and her
 ministers had submitted to the inevitable, and that they retained no
 longer any substantial ground of hope or expectation that the Queen
-, would be restored to her former office.
+would be restored to her former office.
 The question whether such a state of affairs as is shown by the
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 great determination and success. In 1688, when James II was on the
 throne, his severe conduct, exercised through the judiciary of the Kingdom
-ari'd in other ways, and a strong adhesion to the Catholic religion,
+and in other ways, and a strong adhesion to the Catholic religion,
 caused the people of Great Britain to accuse him of an intention to violate
-their unwritten constitution. He was a great and, powerful king,
+their unwritten constitution. He was a great and powerful king,
 and had accomplished very much for the glory and honor of England.
 But the people of England held him to an observance of the spirit of
-his oath of loyalty to the Mnstitution of that country, and, when they
+his oath of loyalty to the constitution of that country, and, when they
 became satisfied that he had made an effort to subvert it, they in their
 Parliament passed upon the question of his abdication and held that
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 "King James II succeeded to the throne of his ancestors, and
 might have enjoyed it during the remainder of his life but for his own
-infatuated eonduct which, with other concurring circumstances, brought
+infatuated conduct which, with other concurring circumstances, brought
 on the revolution in 1688.
-"The true ground and principle upon which that memorable event"
+"The true ground and principle upon which that memorable evente
-proceede<4. was an entirely new case in politics, which had never
+proceeded was an entirely new case in politics, which had never
-before happened in our history-:-the abdication of the reigning monarch
+before happened in our history-the abdication of the reigning monarch
 and the vacancy of the throne thereupon. It was not a defeasance
 of the right of succession and a new limitation of the crown by