The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-15
lCo"tinucd from the other sjdc.)

Irdllon was that OF President Pierce
and his Secretary of State. William
L.. Marcy, gave utterance to siulila,
views IN his customary vigorous Ian
guaSe. Declaring that the United
states did not intend to attempt tn,
exercise OF any exclusive contro
over the Sandwich Islands. he added
that we also resolved that no othe,
power or state shall exact any DO.
litlcal or commercial privileges from
them which we are not permitted tC
enjoy, far less to establish any pro
tectorate over them. The inter.
course between our Pacific ports and
the ports of the distant East is des-
tined, perhaps, to be upon as large a
scale as that which we now enjoy
with all the world, and the vessels
engaged III that trade must ever re-
sort to the Sandwich Islands for
fuel and other supplies, as has ever
been the case with our whale ships
IN their outward and inward VOYAGES.
1T is consequently Indispensable to
our welfare that the policy which
governs them should be liberal and
that it should continue free from
control of any third country"
Inls was the way in which the
matter was left up to the beginning
OF the civil war, and since that event
the same policy has been pursued.
Under Gen. Grants Administration,
Secretary Fish declared that 'the
position of the Sandwich Islands as
an outpost fronting and command
ing the whole of our possessions on
the Pacific Ocean gives to the future
OF those islands peculiar interest
IN the Government and people of
the United States. 1t is very clear
that this Government cannot be ex-
pected to assent to their transfer
from their present control TO that of
any powerful maritime or CONNER
clal nation. Such transfer to a mari
time power would threaten military
surveillance in the Pacific similar to
that which Bermuda has afforded in
the Atlantic The latter has been
to from necessity. mas
much as it was congenital with cur
Government, but we desire no addi-
tlonal similar outposts in the hands
OF those who may at any future time
use them to our disadvantage" Sec
rotary Blaine put the same point
clearly, during his first term as Sec
rotary OF State: THE history of our
European relations for fifty years
shows the jealous concern with which
the United States has guarded its
control of the coast from foreign in
reference, and this without extern
sion OF territorial possession beyond
the mainland. 1t has always been
It's aim to preserve the friendly neu-
trality OF the adjacent States and
nsular possessions. It's attitude to-
ward Cuba is in point. The position
81 the Hawaiian Islands in the
Of our Pacific coast and
her intimate commercial and poll
.lcal relations with us, lead this
Government to watch with grave IN
crest, and to regard unfayorably,
my movement, negotiation, or dis
'usslon aiming to transfer them in
any eventuality whatever to another
power.
The summing up of all this array
ii testimony is that our Government
$ committed against any policy of
these islands, but is also
against allowing them to
BASS under the control of any other
latlon. No doubt it is largely be-
,,allse OF this generous policy that
American influence is strong in the
stands. The United States NAV
properly be regarded as the virtual
defender OF Hawaii against absorp
ION by any European power.