The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-02-04

| itysf the statute, a treaty was drawn up,
and from this you can decide who has
| been'the friend OF this country when it
needed a friend most. The treaty which
is now made public for the first time is
as follows:
We, Kamehameha Ill, by the grace
OF God OF the Hawaiian Islands, King:
BY and with the advice of our kuhina
nui and counsellors of native chiefs, find
ing our relations with France so Cypress
i've to my Kingdom, so inconsistent with
its rights as an independent State, and
so obstructive of all our endeavors to adj
minister the Government of our Islands
with equal justice with all nations and
equal independence of all foreign control,
and despairing OF equity and justice from
France, hereby proclaim as our royal will
and pleasure that all our Islands and all
our rights as sovereign over them are
from the date hereof placed under the
protection and safeguard OF the United
States OF America until some arrange
ments can be made to place our said re-
lations with France upon footing COM
patible with my rights as an lndepend-
ent sovereign under the laws OF nations
and compatible with my treaty engage
ments with other foreign nations; or, II
such arrangements be found impractl-
cable, then is our wish and pleasure that
the protection aforesaid under the United
States Of America be perpetual.
And we further proclaim rs aforesaid
that from the date of publication hereof
the flag of the United States of America
shall be hoisted above the national en-
sign on all our forts and places and yes
sells navigating with Hawaiian registers.
Done at our Palace at Honolulu
II. s. this tenth day of March, A. D.
1851 and in the twenty-sixth
year of our reign.
(Signed.) KAMEHAMEHA,
(Signed.) KEoNI ANA.
That King who signed it was the great
and enlightened Kauikeaouli, who did
more for his people than any other OF
the Hawaiian Kings, being the one who
gave the people lands. He made the
treaty relying fully on the generosity
and integrity of the United States, and
his trust was not betrayed. (Applause).
That treaty was sent to the United
States and laid there for months. The
French Admiral finally hearing some
thing of the treaty, withdrew his claim
and left the country. tLaughter). 1t
may be of interest to mention that the
Z. S. S. Vandalia so well known here,
was in the harbor at the time and rend-
cred assistance. Orders were given to
Marshal Parke and he sewed Hawaiian
and American flags together, the latter
at the top, and sent them to all the
sheriffs. He had one in the fort ready
to hoist directly the French landed.
There was the situation, the country
was coded and the deed in the hands OF
the U. S. Government. The King with
the full knowledge and consent
of the Legislature, of the chiefs
and of his Cabinet, had deliberately and
formally coded the country to the United
States, and that government had only to
sit still and do nothing in order to hold
the country. If they had done so this
would have been United States territory
to-day The American government on
learning that this had happened under
pressure and fear of the French, said it
would not be fair to take advantage of
the situation. The treaty which had
never been published, was returned, the
flag was never hoisted, and we remain
free and Independent country to-day
solely through tie generosity of the
United States of America. loud APP
plause.j The episode when the British
took possession in 1913 is well known to
all. For seven months the British flag
fioated over the islands. The King was
deposed, Ministers were out OF Office, the
records of the government show that
the entire government was carried on by
Lord George Paulet and his subordinates.
Another episode simply shows the feeling
of the U. S. government towards US.
The U. S. frigate Constitution came into
the harbor, the deposed King going on
board. The royal standard was hoisted
and a salute of q guns fired. Lord
Paulet protested, saying ''the islands are
British territory, and you are saluting
man who has no authority" The Amer
lean admiral replied, ~ have recognized
the man who is the King of the country,
and if you do not like it you can lump it,"
Laughter England nobly atoned and
has been good friend to us ever since.
Is there any question who has been our
friend in the past, and who will continue
to be our friend, first, last and all the
time? The United States has always
been friendly toward these Islands. The
Foreign Office is full of expressions of re-
gard and goodwill from that country
from the earliest records down to the
last mail A number of men in
the Opposition ranks were in the
country and participated in these
matters, but they have learned
nothing from it and have forgotten it all.
Now they have the cold impudence to
come forward and talk about giving the
United States the go-by and going to
France for protection; through our dis
trust of the intention Of the United
States. They say that Thurston, Damon
and the other damn'd missionaries are
going to sell the independence of the
that they, the patriots are the
ones who will preserve it. Wilcox and
men of his stripe, are doing more to des-
troy the independence of this country
than any other person. They are striv-
ing to produce state of anarchy and it
will not take many more of such events
Of July 30th to lose our independence,
and then who will we have to thank for |
it but the gallant leader of the OPPOSE |