Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-01-05
Mr.. S. 3. Oolf's BRIEF.
Some Further Light on the
State Document.

fsee Star oil Yesterday OtuefNlSc
known as President Dole's reply
to Minister Willis request. on
behalf OF the L. S. Government,
for the Provisional Government
to resign their functions IN
favor of Her Majesty and the
Constitutional Government of
Hawaii. contains some remarkable
statements which lead rs to the
brief that the reports as to its
reputed authors illness have
more foundation than the usual
run of Honolulu rumors. We
shall iskip the usual hifulatin,
and the appeals to garbled and
misleading excerpts from docu-
ments said to contain the Z. s.
Government policy in regard to
these Islands.
We simply content ourselves
with quoting Mr.. Doles author
tiles in his own language and
then quoting what they say in
their own language. Mr.. Dole
says:
This conviction is emphasized
by the favorable expression of
American statesmen over a long
period in favor of annexation,
conspicuous among whom are the
names of w. l.. Marcy, William
Fl. Seward, Hamilton Fish and
James G. Blaine, all former sec
retaries of state, and especially so
by the action of your last adj
ministration in negotiating
treaty of annexation with these
government and sending it to the
Senate with view to its ratifi-
cation.
Here is what they say:
To go back as far as 1912,
that great expounder of the con-
stitution, Daniel Webster, thus
defined the U. S. policy with
regard to these Islands.
The United States, therefore,
are more interested in the fate of
the islands and of their govern
ment than any other nation can
be, and this consideration Undue
es the president to be quite will
ing to declare the sense of the
government of the United States
that the government of the Sand
wich Islands ought to be respect
ed; that no power ought either to
take possession of the islands as
conquest or for the purpose of
colonization, and that no power
ought to seek for any exclusive
rights or preferences with it in
matters of commerce.
In 1850 John NJ. Clayton,
minister to France, in speaking
of the encroachments of the
French government, wrote thus
of these Islands"
I'VE do not ourselves court
sovereignty over them. We would
be content that they should
remain under their present
rulers, who, we believe, are dis
posed to be just and impartial in
their dealings with all nations.
1t was not long after this when
Mr.. Webster took occasion to
repeat the same declaration. He
said"
The government of the United
States was the first to acknow-
ledge the national existance of
the Hawaiian government. 1t
has in no case interfered with it
for the purpose of opposing the
course of its own independent
conduct, and it still desires to
see the nationality of the Hawai-
ian government maintain its /
independent administration of |
public affairs. But, while thus
indisposed to exercise any sin /
lister influence over the eounsels |
OF Hawaii. or to overawe the /
proceedings of It's government bv /
the actual application of superior
military force. il expects to ses
that powerful nations act in the /
same spirit. :
The declaration Of Mr.. Web
ster was repeated by VIM. L.
Nancy. that most distinguished |
secretary of state under z President
Pierce, when he SAID in his
reference to these islands:
While we 40 not intend 10
attempt the exercise of any ex-
elusive control over them, we are
resolved that no other power on
state shall exact any political or
commercial privileges from them
which We are are not permitted
30 enjoy. far less establish anv
professionals over them.
Even DIR. Blaine. as late IS the
Gloss Of the pear 1891. wrote:
Il gshs United States govern
nsnsl has declined. Asn 1t the