The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-19
To THE Hon. JAMES H. BLoUNT,
Diplomatic Representative of
the United States in Hawaii:

Strive, the undersigned, re-
spectfully petition and represent to
you as follows:
l. That we are Hawaiian women,
resident upon the Island of Kauai.
2. That we and our ancestors
from time immemorial have resided
in these tropic islands under the
government of our native aliis and
that we have known and now know
no other home than here.
3. That we, representing the
mothers and wives of the Hawaiian
Nation, are vitality and affectionately
interested in the government of our
country, and deem ourselves entitled
to raise our voices in protest and
prayer at the present crisis in its
affairs, to protest against what has
been done, and to pray that recent
wrongs may be speedily undone.
4. That we have seen with grief
and dismay the abolition of the
forms of government to which we,
in common with all our race, have
from the dawn of our national his
tory, been devotedly attached; and
have noted with profound sorrow
that the naval arm of the United
States, a nation which we have been
taught to love and reverence for its
justice towards and protection of
the weak and oppressed, has been
used by those in command to COM
pass the overthrow of the political
conditions heretofore existing in
Hawaii.
5. That prior to January II, 1898,
the Hawaiian nation and govern
ment were being conducted under
constitutional forms, wherein the
lives, liberty, property and religious
views of the people were fully pro-
tected; that although the Constitu-
ton then in effect was of revolution
airy origin, it having been imposed
upon the King and people by mill
tary force, in 1887, and although it
contained provisions which bore
with harshness and injustice upon
the native Hawaiians, yet the Ha-
waiians lived and were protected
under it, and had, as a nation, no
wish or intention to see it abrogated
or altered, except by constitutional
methods.
6. That on said 18th day of JAN
uary, during the reign of law and
profound peace and by means of a
revolutionary project, aided and
allotted by naval forces from the
United States cruiser Boston," then
lying in the harbor of Honolulu,
and concurred in and promoted by
His Excellency John l.. Stevens, the
United States envoy at the Hawai-
ian Court, the Hawaiian Monarchy
and Government were forcibly dis
solved, abolished and overthrown
and so-called provisional Govern
ment" erected in their stead, with
whose subsequent history you, es-
teemed sir, are no doubt familiar.
z. That it is the avowed intent OF
the said Provisional Government to
effect the incorporation of these Isl
ands into the American Union
under the phrase of the annexation
of Hawaii thereto.
8. That indications point with ir
resistable force to the belief, that il
is the intent of said Provsiona
Government to effect such annexa
alton upon terms and conditions
which will practically deprive the
native Hawaiian of rights and priv
leges heretofore possessed and ex
ercised by him of participating il
the government of his native land
and that will reduce the Hawaiian
to the condition of a serf in the lane
of his birth.
8. That the said Provisional Gov
eminent does not represent the PEG
pie of these Islands, and does moi
exist by the consent of the people
but in defiance of their wishes, anC
that in particular the native Hawai-
ians, who constitute a majority o
the national population are opposed
to the said Provisional Government
to the methods of its creation anC
administration, and its avowed pur
poses and objects.
10. Wherefore we do humbly ant
fervently pray and beseech you
honored sir, in your capacity as tn,
envoy of the great American Presi
dent and nation, to diligently in
quire and consider whether our fore
going assertions and complaints b,